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Suzanne Miller

Suzanne Miller

@bitsy15.bsky.social

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Essay coach, homeschooler, advocate for numeracy and clean air, economist, bibliophile.

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Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 18h

All classrooms should build their own boxes as a STEM, civics, and health merge. #CorsiRosenthalBoxesAcrossAmerica #cleantheairweshare

Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 20h

In our short existence, The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation has issued 58 grants providing healthier indoor air to 30,000 ppl.

The Foundation aims to substantially increase these benefits to under-resourced schools over the next several months.

Please consider helping us: givebutter.com/buildabox2025

Build a Box Campaign

Help Us Bring Clean Air to More Classrooms

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 2d

A copy of my book, No Paper Today, was given away to a random caller last week during Modpo, and the recipient used to be a paperboy! Talk about #fate! #newspapers #poetry

cover of book no paper today shows young man holding broadsheet copy of the Leeds Mercury dressed in 1930s era clothing title No Paper Today author Suzanne D. Miller

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry to report that my delivery difficulties continue- there may need to be a follow-up volume. But ever the optimist, I still subscribe.

LJMcD Communications @lachlanjmcdougall.bsky.social · 3d

Get a copy of No Paper Today by Pushcart Prize nominee Suzanne D Miller! This wonderful new book filled with well honed poetry is enough to make you resubscribe to the Wall Street Journal!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNLPP3VQ

No Paper Today [Miller, Suzanne D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No Paper Today

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 4d

What a meta photo, too!

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 4d

I know, but she used them so well! There must be an alternate world where they are the eponymous Em Dash, and I may want to reside there.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 5d

Also, Dickinson didn't have AI- they're named after her, aren't they?

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 5d

Students insist that their work will be flagged
So they suffer me to read commas galore.
Nested clauses do not suffice--
I crave varied phrasing

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 5d

Profoumd irony:
I can count on
a copy of my book,

No Paper Today,
arriving on schedule-

but not my Journal

#poetry #newspapers

bookcover showing title No Paper Today Suzanne D Miller overlaid on photo from 1920s of young many holding broadsheet copy of the Leeds Mercury in suit and cap

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 7d

^ it's
I wish I could edit without deleting here.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed. Also, personal finance shouldn't be advanced placement but part of foundational #numeracy skills that prepare students for adult life, not for college. It's not advanced, its crucial.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 10d

And in a place you can be proud of! Congrats!

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 12d

I thought maybe it had prompted all the Konigsburg love. ;)

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 12d

It's called "From the Mixed-up Museum Files of Rae Armantrout"

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 12d

and I have a Litograph of it hanging on my wall.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 12d

You did see the title of my ModPo Essay 2 this year, right?

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 12d

Many authors are subpar relative to the best of Konigsburg,

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to a well-deserved trio! From WSJ:
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been awarded the Nobel Prize.. for their work explaining how innovation and what economists call “creative destruction” drive economic growth.

Note that growth comes from process, not fiat.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 13d

I think it's his cheerful enthusiasm. I am torn; I appreciate the good he has done, but his book has many ideas that would be quite harmful. We live in an environment where it has become hard to criticize ideas without being seen as criticizing people.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 13d

Because Khan Academy is a valuable resource that has helped tons of students.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 13d

In Khan's book, it's clear he believes that an AI could interact with a student as Alexander the Great, and that the only objection would be linguistic. Khan misses that Alexander, like any human, was more complex than what is known about him. Khan seems ignorant of Hayek's work on knowledge.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 14d

I love my publisher.

LJMcD Communications @lachlanjmcdougall.bsky.social · 25d

No Paper Today by Suzanne D Miller is finally here!

This witty, tightly composed, love letter to the WSJ will flip your wig, so grab a copy right now!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNLPP3VQ

No Paper Today [Miller, Suzanne D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No Paper Today

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 14d

Aw, shucks!

LJMcD Communications @lachlanjmcdougall.bsky.social · 17d

Want a tightly controlled book of poetry sparkling with razor wire wit? Well look no further than No Paper Today by Pushcart Prize nominee Suzanne D Miller! A truly terrific book, it will knock your socks off—grab a copy today!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNLPP3VQ

No Paper Today [Miller, Suzanne D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No Paper Today

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 15d

In some ways it is harder: you have to teach and scaffold the skills that lead to success down the road. Students should learn the processing, planning, and integrative-thinking skills that allow them to grapple with more challenging material later.

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 15d

Hilton Head

Suzanne Miller @bitsy15.bsky.social · 15d

Homeschoolers often bridge the gap, teaching multiple years of "college courses" to their high schoolers. AP Lit is just a stepping stone. I personally bridge the gap and would love to be part of such a conversation.