last year, admin put me in three different classrooms across five classes—most teachers got their own classrooms
but i genuinely don’t think it was malice, it was a spreadsheet mistake that turned into my lived experience for a year
but i genuinely don’t think it was malice, it was a spreadsheet mistake that turned into my lived experience for a year
February 13, 2026 at 1:08 PM
last year, admin put me in three different classrooms across five classes—most teachers got their own classrooms
but i genuinely don’t think it was malice, it was a spreadsheet mistake that turned into my lived experience for a year
but i genuinely don’t think it was malice, it was a spreadsheet mistake that turned into my lived experience for a year
I keep swearing off writing and then doing it again because it’s fun
In the early months of a research project. Reading chaotically, joyfully. Scrawling ranty paragraphs, most of which will never get past my notebook. It’s the ecstatic scholastic.
Even if this phase could be compressed or automated, why would you want it to be?
Even if this phase could be compressed or automated, why would you want it to be?
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I keep swearing off writing and then doing it again because it’s fun
BOOOOOOOOKS
Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
BOOOOOOOOKS
sitting here staring at a draft on HQIM, thinking about how words still have power
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
sitting here staring at a draft on HQIM, thinking about how words still have power
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Yeah—and being just a teacher is dignified. A lot of people I know who’ve left the classroom to Have Influence do it out of a status anxiety that I wish we could persuade more people to ignore. It’s bad for the profession.
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Yeah—and being just a teacher is dignified. A lot of people I know who’ve left the classroom to Have Influence do it out of a status anxiety that I wish we could persuade more people to ignore. It’s bad for the profession.
people can be good
Obviously bad teachers exist, and it’s okay to direct them—total autonomy is a bad idea—but in 12 years I’ve learned pretty much exclusively from experienced educators.
February 13, 2026 at 12:03 AM
people can be good
an education agenda that’s just “workforce training” can’t meet the moment
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
an education agenda that’s just “workforce training” can’t meet the moment
rising illiteracy is, indeed, a crisis, but further standardization can’t be the only way forward
February 12, 2026 at 10:41 PM
rising illiteracy is, indeed, a crisis, but further standardization can’t be the only way forward
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Most sources aren’t digitized.
Sources that get digitized aren’t by that fact alone accessible or permanent.
What is digitized is itself a deliberate sample not only of the archive as a whole but also of the digitized source.
Understanding is a social process and takes shape over time and space.
Sources that get digitized aren’t by that fact alone accessible or permanent.
What is digitized is itself a deliberate sample not only of the archive as a whole but also of the digitized source.
Understanding is a social process and takes shape over time and space.
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Most sources aren’t digitized.
Sources that get digitized aren’t by that fact alone accessible or permanent.
What is digitized is itself a deliberate sample not only of the archive as a whole but also of the digitized source.
Understanding is a social process and takes shape over time and space.
Sources that get digitized aren’t by that fact alone accessible or permanent.
What is digitized is itself a deliberate sample not only of the archive as a whole but also of the digitized source.
Understanding is a social process and takes shape over time and space.
high school humanities teachers too, as they're able
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
high school humanities teachers too, as they're able
the mckinsey mindset is a disease
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
the mckinsey mindset is a disease
the thing is, there's always something new out there to create
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
the thing is, there's always something new out there to create
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@annieabrams.bsky.social "In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
@annieabrams.bsky.social "In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
there's an entire ecosystem of research and curricula all predicated on e.d. hirsch's theory and it's just been such a long, steady, patient march towards scripts
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
there's an entire ecosystem of research and curricula all predicated on e.d. hirsch's theory and it's just been such a long, steady, patient march towards scripts
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
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I endorse this message
i know everybody on bluesky is way too smart to believe
thing is, if you don't believe, tinkerbell dies
it's on all of us
thing is, if you don't believe, tinkerbell dies
it's on all of us
aspirational america is unmeasurably important
not just here, but for the world
not just here, but for the world
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
I endorse this message
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From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
February 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
www.sri.com/wp-content/u...
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The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
My Super Bowl MVP.
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
My Super Bowl MVP.
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AI in education has never been just a commercial intrusion, but a scientific field-building business centred on well-funded technical innovations and "learning science". Its apparent "success" today builds on that, by adding value-generating platform subscriptions and contractual lock-ins.
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
AI in education has never been just a commercial intrusion, but a scientific field-building business centred on well-funded technical innovations and "learning science". Its apparent "success" today builds on that, by adding value-generating platform subscriptions and contractual lock-ins.
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Hah currently writing about how a chapter leader here in NYC organized her chapter to wear “I read banned books” shirts since the principal refused to let middle school teachers teach books—conflicted with the curriculum they bought. Everything is bonkers.
February 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Hah currently writing about how a chapter leader here in NYC organized her chapter to wear “I read banned books” shirts since the principal refused to let middle school teachers teach books—conflicted with the curriculum they bought. Everything is bonkers.
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I love how defenders of the Western Tradition™️ completely omit the fact every Great Man in the Canon sneered at -- or even truly *despised* -- at least one other person on the Big Awesome List of Perfect People they were told were essential reading. As if Aristotle said, "Plato, you're 100% right!"
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I love how defenders of the Western Tradition™️ completely omit the fact every Great Man in the Canon sneered at -- or even truly *despised* -- at least one other person on the Big Awesome List of Perfect People they were told were essential reading. As if Aristotle said, "Plato, you're 100% right!"
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YA novels and snippets of books are the straw men they use for their culture war jive.
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
YA novels and snippets of books are the straw men they use for their culture war jive.
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super thoughtful, well laid out essay about reading literature in schools and progressive ed
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
super thoughtful, well laid out essay about reading literature in schools and progressive ed
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
loved this part about a character in Brave New World reading Shakespeare on his own, and how, lacking a broader context where others have also read and discussed Shakespeare, the books don’t save him
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In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
In my eighteenth year of teaching I have never yet met an occasion when it was necessary, relevant, or advantageous to describe a student's physical appearance.
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Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
thepointmag.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...