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That seems like too many!

This is amazing news!!! I can’t wait to purchase!! Love you!

The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 08/01/2025 · 1h 7m

I had a wonderful conversation with two of my heroes, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, on one of my favorite podcasts. About hope, change, climate, power, stories, survival, solidarity. Warning: laughter, singing.

I don’t have a stable BOY routine, but in the first week of school in every class, secondary students should:
•read something meaningful to the subject
•write organically about themselves
•say their name aloud
•talk to their peers

These activities give data about the soft skills of any class.

Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1 Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. A nonprofit media and public life initiative.

Many of us reference @prisonculture.bsky.social's wise guidance that hope is a discipline. So one way I'm committing to that discipline is starting @onbeing.bsky.social's hope portal series with journal prompts. In case anyone else finds that useful onbeing.org/programs/kri...

Theme lately as I chat with colleagues where they tell me all the ways they hate their employer then also mention that if I was willing to move they'd bring me on immediately and I'm like, y'all hear yourselves right? Why on earth would I want to work at the place you just described?

Today's note to self: this version of my book is the worst version it will ever be. It will only get better from here. I have to write the shitty version to get to the amazing version.

“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”
Birthday of Frances Perkins, born this day in 1882

Gorgeous.

Whitney Aragaki and Kirstin Milks stand smiling in front of the NSELA signage at the annual conference in Philadelphia

#PlaceBasedScienceTeaching was so fun to present with @sayuri-neko.bsky.social at #NSELA2025 this morning! What a great community 💜Excited for #NSTA2025 and the @corwinpress.bsky.social book coming this September! 🌱

The painting "Judith Slaying Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi.

Happy International Women's Day!

May we all embody this energy today and always.

Happy birthday friend. Sending you love!

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

The more they tried to ban literacy, the harder enslaved people worked to get it.

This is what Gus Feaster (b. 1840, interviewed in 1937) remembered from his enslaved childhood in Union, South Carolina: