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DrAnnD

@drannd.bsky.social

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Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. (Skeets my own.)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Beginning in 1970, @ncte.org has worked with members to pass position statements and resolutions about students' right to read and the ways teachers can oppose censorship. A little summer project is going to be reading through these statements and following the paths they open up.

All Position Statements

NCTE position statements aims to support its members as they navigate changes that bring the latest thinking and research for best practices.

ncte.org

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 6h

That’s pretty! But maybe it feels too small right now? Dies that make sense?

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 6h

Love the Halloween theme!

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 6h

Current #knitting project: Portree from Georgie Nicholson. Great pattern that’s easy to memorize and has a great flow, easy to memorize.

I added a yo before the last stitch to give it enough ease along the top edge. Learned that from a Jaq Cieslak pattern. Can tell the difference.

Knitting on circular needles. A chevron lace pattern in mottled green yarn.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 9h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h

Posting with alt text

Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
Program and Grantee Support Services

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 12h

Bill Green’s framing of curriculum is feeling more urgent by the day. Teach to remember. Teach to renew.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 11h

The science of reading™️

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

I comment on every one of these sentences that I reasonably can. And in class I remind students how much I love reading those sentences where their ideas are reaching beyond their current language capacities. I don't get a lot of AI slop.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Snowmaggedon in Texas was 5 years ago, weakening so many trees. They didn't die right away. But every year since, the tree canopy in South Texas gets a little smaller as trees weakened then give into drought, another cold snap, bugs, or age.

This is a withering of science, felt for generations.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Hard agree. Highly recommend Laurie Halse Andersen’s Chains series. YA historical fiction set during the Revolution and told from the perspective of a young, enslaved African girl.

Books like this one get challenged all the time because they invite us to think beyond master narratives.

Rachel Pitkin @raepitkin.bsky.social · 1d

“Studying the contradictions of the Revolution disrupts the myth of a singular founding moment and reveals a contested process.”

Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 3d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

AI marketing idea and no one thought to stop in a meeting and say, “Hay, guys, not sure that’s a good idea”?

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

I value the student-teacher relationship. AI grading is anathema to that relationship. Having shared this statement with them, and stressed aloud how much I value the humanness in their writing, I’ve received very little AI writing.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · Jun 9

I worked on my syllabus statement and grounded it not in surveillance and suspicion, but values. A question that got traction was: ‘What do we value and how does this use of AI technologies align?’

Syllabus statement

Guidance for Large-Language Models (LLMs, genAI, “AI” interfaces that generate text) I value the student-teacher relationship as key to learning. The assessment cycle—student hands in word, instructo...

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 1d

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans.

It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it!

bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay

We're stronger TOGETHER.

#CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

The freedom to read is under attack. Let's do something about it. bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

#BannedBooksWeek

This is Anne Frank's story. It's been challenged and banned.

Fascism is all connected, so I work very hard in the lane I'm in, fighting censorship.

If you're not sure what to do, I've got lots of ideas and we'll take help. uniteagainstbookbans.org

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a column with @katywithwine.bsky.social about censorship policies being a moral trap. Adhere to the policy, harm a kid. Give kids diverse books, lose your job, be threatened. Moral injury of teachers is so real. (It’s behind a paywall in English Journal, but I’ll send it to anyone!)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

My kingdom for a Democrat who figures out how to run on education in a way that isn’t a neoliberal/economic augment.

40 million children go to public schools. They deserve our best and no politician seems willing to fight for that. (Also, that’s a lot of voters who are caregivers.)

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

They have no use for democracy and no use for a democratic education system, so ceding the framing of the purpose of public education to the party in power seems to me just as much buying into the consumer logic of a privatized education system as supporting a universal voucher program.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

Love this so much.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 3d

No.

There’s a phrase in semiotics, I think, for a sentence that scans, but doesn’t make sense. Like ‘Don’t drive dinosaurs on the wall’ is grammatically correct, but makes no sense. At least dinosaurs on the wall is kinda funny. Those words harken the end of higher ed.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 3d

Guadalupe, when you're in Austin
Nacogdoches, when you're in San Antonio

Cairo, in Illinois

Mackinac, anywhere, but especially on the island

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 3d

One more time for the people in the back: Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico which is part of the United States making him…. Wait for it…. All American. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 #badbunny

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3d

🤣 Who?!

"Performers and event details coming soon."

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA Sets 'All American Halftime Show' in Protest of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance - Variety

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Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA Sets 'All American Halftime Show' in Protest of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance — Variety

Because even music has turned into team sports, Turning Point USA has announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show in protest of the NFL's official headliner, Bad Bunny.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 3d

Right? (Check the alt text. I couldn’t resist.)