Mary Beth Hertz
@mbteach.bsky.social
Author and Educator focused on authentic learning experiences. Executive Director of Walkabout Education. Co-founder of Edcamp Philly and the Edcamp Foundation. "You can do more than you think you can."
I sat in Scott Arboretum today at Swarthmore College and had some thoughts.
September 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I sat in Scott Arboretum today at Swarthmore College and had some thoughts.
What is "real?" What is "human?" Who is asking for any if this? www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
Influencers created with AI are landing major sponsorship deals and lots of money for their creators
AI-built characters are raking in cash for their creators on social media
www.techradar.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What is "real?" What is "human?" Who is asking for any if this? www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
I have no words. I depend on Libby on a daily basis....
How do they manage to ruin EVERY day? Every single day I find out about something new that pisses me off
July 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have no words. I depend on Libby on a daily basis....
New post on the blog:
Self-Awareness and Human Connection
Self-Awareness and Human Connection
Self-Awareness and Human Connection
photo by Mary Beth Hertz Cultivating self-awareness allows us to see others as complete human beings, fostering deeper connections that can counteract societal division. A fascinating side effect of being an educator and parent of school age children has been a shift in how I perceive and interact with not just the families I work with, but with people in all different settings. The woman running the register at the store I’m shopping in may have kids at home who depend on her. The greeter at Walmart has his own life, goals, and hobbies, and maybe a family at home as well.
www.marybethhertz.me
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
New post on the blog:
Self-Awareness and Human Connection
Self-Awareness and Human Connection
Taking a break from social media this week. See y'all in the other side
April 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Taking a break from social media this week. See y'all in the other side
This is a wonderful description of how to address students' use of AI in a caring, productive, and open way.
“Like many teachers, I sometimes notice my unease growing as I read a piece of student work. Word by word my suspicion builds, and then all at once I understand. This is an AI–generated text and not something my student actually wrote. Now what do I do?”
Read more from @jen.litandtech.com 👇 #EduSky
Read more from @jen.litandtech.com 👇 #EduSky
When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t
Here are some ways teachers can respond when students don’t follow classroom guidelines for using AI.
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April 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is a wonderful description of how to address students' use of AI in a caring, productive, and open way.
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I don’t take for granted how many ppl make my students’ reading possible. We are still on the market for copies of Pet by Akwaeke Emezi! We’ve grown the project to every sophomore! If you 🤬 Amazon, I’m placing a Bookshop order. All 💵 = heymrsbond
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Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I don’t take for granted how many ppl make my students’ reading possible. We are still on the market for copies of Pet by Akwaeke Emezi! We’ve grown the project to every sophomore! If you 🤬 Amazon, I’m placing a Bookshop order. All 💵 = heymrsbond
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This 👇🏻
You do not do anyone any favors by interviewing Chris Rufo and not confronting him on his many specific falsehoods. People have done it! www.vox.com/23811277/chr...
Chris Rufo’s dangerous fictions
The right’s leading culture warrior has invented a leftist takeover of America to justify his very real power grabs.
www.vox.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This 👇🏻
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Hi! Need help in a BIG way. The English 2 team is freedom-dreaming and they want to teach PET by Akwaeke Emezi. We need all the copies. To end the year with this book would be a dream come true!!
Please share.
Please donate if you can.
Thank you. ❤️
Please share.
Please donate if you can.
Thank you. ❤️
www.amazon.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hi! Need help in a BIG way. The English 2 team is freedom-dreaming and they want to teach PET by Akwaeke Emezi. We need all the copies. To end the year with this book would be a dream come true!!
Please share.
Please donate if you can.
Thank you. ❤️
Please share.
Please donate if you can.
Thank you. ❤️
This is a very good book. I stumbled onto James McBride's "Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and fell in love with his writing and the amazing narration by Dominic Hoffman.
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is a very good book. I stumbled onto James McBride's "Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and fell in love with his writing and the amazing narration by Dominic Hoffman.
What a tremendous resource Bill was for the educator community. Thank you for your kindness and contributions.
April 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
What a tremendous resource Bill was for the educator community. Thank you for your kindness and contributions.
Philly represented today! Thanks for speaking truth to power @rweingarten.bsky.social and for coming over to say hi to our PFT coalition. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Philly represented today! Thanks for speaking truth to power @rweingarten.bsky.social and for coming over to say hi to our PFT coalition. #handsoff
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There’s a good chance a Hands Off! event is happening near you tomorrow. Please join us: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
April 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There’s a good chance a Hands Off! event is happening near you tomorrow. Please join us: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Please do not register for protests. I'm big mad that this is even being asked of people. You know where and when to be. Show up.
April 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Please do not register for protests. I'm big mad that this is even being asked of people. You know where and when to be. Show up.
I'm surprised my TL isn't full of this clip.... youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...
Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
YouTube video by International School History
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April 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm surprised my TL isn't full of this clip.... youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...
This is like watching Sen. Cory Booker's brain right before he falls asleep when your brain spins and revisits all the conversations you had that day and all the things you wish you had said. It's brilliant to watch and hear how brilliant that brain is.
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is like watching Sen. Cory Booker's brain right before he falls asleep when your brain spins and revisits all the conversations you had that day and all the things you wish you had said. It's brilliant to watch and hear how brilliant that brain is.
<<Yells from mountain top>>
March 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
<<Yells from mountain top>>
This reminds me of your observations @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Looks like the older generations aren't having it.
www.businessinsider.com/takeaways-te...
Looks like the older generations aren't having it.
www.businessinsider.com/takeaways-te...
I attended 2 Tesla Takedown protests in Michigan. The generation that showed up was the one I least expected.
At Tesla Takedown protests in Michigan hundreds of people gathered to voice their concerns about the new administration.
www.businessinsider.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This reminds me of your observations @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Looks like the older generations aren't having it.
www.businessinsider.com/takeaways-te...
Looks like the older generations aren't having it.
www.businessinsider.com/takeaways-te...
When the Art teacher names the flash drives for the Art room scanner.....
March 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
When the Art teacher names the flash drives for the Art room scanner.....
Wondering if you saw this @courosa.bsky.social and @shareski.ca
March 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Wondering if you saw this @courosa.bsky.social and @shareski.ca
The people saying "send it back to the states" must be the same folks saying that they can't access curriculum or have any transparency or say in curriculum in their child's school (hint: check your kid's HW, the district website, join the curriculum committee, attend board meetings....)
*Yells for the 1 millionth time*
The states already control K12 education. The federal government finacially supports all states with additional funding and support for all students because the states alone don't have enough money to function.
Hope that helps.
The states already control K12 education. The federal government finacially supports all states with additional funding and support for all students because the states alone don't have enough money to function.
Hope that helps.
March 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The people saying "send it back to the states" must be the same folks saying that they can't access curriculum or have any transparency or say in curriculum in their child's school (hint: check your kid's HW, the district website, join the curriculum committee, attend board meetings....)
My kids use ILL on a regular basis to borrow titles that our town's library doesn't have. This is a service that our LOCAL library leverages and provides and is now at the whim of a FEDERAL budget cut. These "cost saving measures" have far-reaching impacts people can't always see.
Re: new EO ✂️ the Institute for Museum + Library Services to its “statutory functions”: public libraries are mostly locally funded, but state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, etc, rely heavily on IMLS
www.infodocket.com/2025/03/15/e...
action.everylibrary.org/what_does_fe...
www.infodocket.com/2025/03/15/e...
action.everylibrary.org/what_does_fe...
March 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My kids use ILL on a regular basis to borrow titles that our town's library doesn't have. This is a service that our LOCAL library leverages and provides and is now at the whim of a FEDERAL budget cut. These "cost saving measures" have far-reaching impacts people can't always see.
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Nick Kristof travelled to South Sudan to see if people are dying because of the US' cuts to foreign aid. They are. He tells their stories.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nick Kristof travelled to South Sudan to see if people are dying because of the US' cuts to foreign aid. They are. He tells their stories.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...