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Diana Laufenberg

@dlaufenberg.bsky.social

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Farm kid, long time teacher, exec dir of inquiryschools.org - often found frolicking in nature with the pup, Brin

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Nov 11

Pinning this to my profile:

Longtime classroom teacher in WI, KS, AZ and PA. Now leading Inquiry Schools as we work to start up and redesign learning environments that are inquiry based, project driven.

I spend most of my free time outside with my pup Brin in rural Wisco.

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 5h

That's how I found out as well... "I'm sure you already know, but... " No, no I did not already know. But, thanks!

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 3d

I feel as though I would be remiss of me to not make sure you had seen this - @thejosevilson.com from The Pudding. pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

NYC’s Urban Textscape

Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

pudding.cool

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 22d

I guess the question for me is... why didn't they just google your image and choose the one that you use professionally? How was using AI faster or better? I found it in about 3 seconds.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 23d

I spent a summer in China teaching 'American teaching methods' which were often defined by the underpinnings of democracy - I was always curious about that choice. This - this makes more sense to me - www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Russia’s Ban on I.B. Schools Deepens Its Rupture With the West

www.nytimes.com

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 23d

I'm not sure it gets more real world than this... oof. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHn...

Lithuanian schoolchildren taught to fly drones in order to strengthen defense capabilities

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 23d

I find the world building from R.F. Kuang quite distracting - just started the new one - Katabasis. The new Dan Brown book is on my list and the new Grisham because he scratches that same predictable itch. He almost always releases a book while I'm headed out west to see friends. Works out well.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 25d

"art historian ShiPu Wang felicitously characterizes as “imagery of the Other by the Other”: a counter archive of American Indian representation produced by an eccentric, educated Japanese immigrant, whose motives for relocating to Okanogan remain undetermined." #sschat

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Sep 11

Glen Mimura on the groundbreaking work of Frank S. Matsura: “ Unlike his more prestigious white male counterparts, Matsura did not impose any particular interpretive frame onto his subjects...”

How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

This story is well-worn local lore, yet still little known beyond the territories of present-day north-central Washington State. But the story bears significance well beyond the remoteness and seem…

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 26d

Get that! Another reason to live in woods. Where no one of national import likes to convene.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 26d

Doesn't this seem like a terrible idea for like 1000 reasons - first of which is why would you put ll of those people in the same place, ever. It's like a mini state of the union situation for no good reason.

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · 26d

I have yet to make it fully through this one... Because it made me cringe so much, I had to look away. www.gettingsmart.com/2025/09/18/a...

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 20

Unless the phone was free, you might have gotten swindled. I just wait until there's a deal where I pay nothing for the phone. Since I already pay too much for service, that's the deal I go for.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 15

Also, they are the politicians.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 15

oof.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is just some of the most thoughtful, reflective and grounded writing about the challenge inherent in the art and practice of teaching today. Thank you for taking the time to write for us, @mrneibauer.bsky.social. #edusky

Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · Sep 15

To be the best teacher I can, I look for ways to restore balance in my classroom, teach in ways that protest the restrictions I face, and protect my students’ humanity. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky

open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

The Redress of Teaching

What Teaching is Supposed to Do

open.substack.com

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 11

You are also probably going to be in *trouble* for using it. ;-)

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Some of these are a bit dated, but you get the gist. www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/h... www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/b...

How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture

Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.

www.nbcnews.com

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

I could totally see this working at SLAMS with Humanities/Tech/Engineering mash up - looking at the historic West Philly neighborhood. @timothymboyle.bsky.social

Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

understand child/brain development, how to spark curiosity, organize information to plan for learning and value the role of flexibility needed for a long career in ed. (and all of these things can be highlighted while also talking about edtech... which is how I teach this class, I think)

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

Mhmm. But I'm open to be surprised. I only see them once a week so it might take me some time to figure it out

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

You know me... I have many questions to ask. ;-)

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

We have had a Flock issue here in nowhere, rural WI. Guess where they put the camera? On the road through the Native American mission (it's not a reservation for interesting reasons, but it's tribal land).

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm teaching preservice teachers this semester, who are in classrooms consistently this semester. One raved about the interesting things the teacher was doing with AI... I'm curious to know more. Because... Skeptic.

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Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

No one else is available! That means it's time for the D- farmer... Roughly 40 years ago I put a tractor in the ditch (I was 10). I've never really lived that down. Always amuses me when my Dad lets me be helpful. It's a sign that he's asked everyone else first. #Dminusfarmer

Woman in a diesel truck watching a skid steer load big square bales on a gooseneck trailer. Blue skies and sunny.

Diesel truck pulling a long gooseneck 5th wheel trailer fill of large square bales.

Diana Laufenberg @dlaufenberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

My issue is more... They definitely made decisions about where to have sidewalks and where not to. I personally live in the sticks, no sidewalks here.

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