Azmazing1
@azmazing1.bsky.social
Interested in languages and literacy and other stuff
I would like to hear more about this.
Never seen ratios like he sees here (low ratios), but he goes in to the classrooms and they are not high quality, even with those luxurious ratios
February 18, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I would like to hear more about this.
Yay! SOR may well take root finally in Seattle, I’d the SEA doesn’t muck up the plan…
Little shout out about SOR, need to have teachers doing SOR not dreck whatever(yay for my reading peeps)
February 18, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Yay! SOR may well take root finally in Seattle, I’d the SEA doesn’t muck up the plan…
Yes! How is Marni Campbell pulling a 6-figure salary and we’re asking for pay to play funds?
Are school closures back on the table then? (After more talk about the 1 kid classroom) everything is on the table, and if I didn’t say that you should fire me. We are making bad decisions, ppl wanted to raise student fees, these are not ok
February 18, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Yes! How is Marni Campbell pulling a 6-figure salary and we’re asking for pay to play funds?
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I am at Block Table to see the new superintendent do a q and a with local politico Sandeep Kaushik!
February 18, 2026 at 1:33 AM
I am at Block Table to see the new superintendent do a q and a with local politico Sandeep Kaushik!
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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This is the consensus position, even among knowledge-building curriculum superfans:
- Basically every ELA curriculum is a 'needs improvement' on early writing instruction
- Everyone supplements
Unfortunately, it's also insider knowledge.
curriculuminsightproject.substack.com/p/what-about...
- Basically every ELA curriculum is a 'needs improvement' on early writing instruction
- Everyone supplements
Unfortunately, it's also insider knowledge.
curriculuminsightproject.substack.com/p/what-about...
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This is the consensus position, even among knowledge-building curriculum superfans:
- Basically every ELA curriculum is a 'needs improvement' on early writing instruction
- Everyone supplements
Unfortunately, it's also insider knowledge.
curriculuminsightproject.substack.com/p/what-about...
- Basically every ELA curriculum is a 'needs improvement' on early writing instruction
- Everyone supplements
Unfortunately, it's also insider knowledge.
curriculuminsightproject.substack.com/p/what-about...
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I know this is supposed to be raising awareness and helping… but I am not sure it is. 🙄
@wordaware.bsky.social what are your thoughts?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
@wordaware.bsky.social what are your thoughts?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent
Exclusive: Countdown lexicographer urges families to read, talk and play word games to help language development
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I know this is supposed to be raising awareness and helping… but I am not sure it is. 🙄
@wordaware.bsky.social what are your thoughts?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
@wordaware.bsky.social what are your thoughts?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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If the name on your birth certificate doesn't match the ID you currently use (passport, Driver's License, etc.) you will need to produce documented reasons why-marriage/divorce docs, legal name change, etc.). This could disenfranchise millions of married women, divorcées, adopted children, actors...
The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ
Contact Your MOC
social.demcast.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
If the name on your birth certificate doesn't match the ID you currently use (passport, Driver's License, etc.) you will need to produce documented reasons why-marriage/divorce docs, legal name change, etc.). This could disenfranchise millions of married women, divorcées, adopted children, actors...
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VICTORY! The Seattle Public Schools board just restored its standing committees (Finance, Policy, Operations). *And* Liza Rankin withdrew her wrecking amendment, after a large public outcry against it led by All Together for Seattle Schools. Thank you to everyone who wrote the board!
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
VICTORY! The Seattle Public Schools board just restored its standing committees (Finance, Policy, Operations). *And* Liza Rankin withdrew her wrecking amendment, after a large public outcry against it led by All Together for Seattle Schools. Thank you to everyone who wrote the board!
All my kids in North Seattle had ethnic studies in every class since grade 3, including math. They also took 2 ethnic studies history classes, etc. I’d love to see a curricular audit to identify areas for more focused advocacy on this
NAACP Student Council back to ask for mandatory Ethnic Studies for K-12. Points out how SPS demographics majority students of color, yet the curriculum is hella white.
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
All my kids in North Seattle had ethnic studies in every class since grade 3, including math. They also took 2 ethnic studies history classes, etc. I’d love to see a curricular audit to identify areas for more focused advocacy on this
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NEW: At a recent work session spread out over two meetings, SPS board directors learned a lot about the district's finances -- and how new Superintendent Ben Shuldiner intends to lead. Article by @janedemel.bsky.social:
Issue 17 -- School Board Budget Work Sessions
Ben Shuldiner previews a new approach for SPS budgeting: direct, honest competence.
thebulletinsea.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:34 PM
NEW: At a recent work session spread out over two meetings, SPS board directors learned a lot about the district's finances -- and how new Superintendent Ben Shuldiner intends to lead. Article by @janedemel.bsky.social:
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@awongpublic.bsky.social has a new post up. Short is, they raised the board approval threshold to $1 mil, got rid of of the finance committee, and introduced the consent agenda, and spending went wild. Email the board not to pass Rankin's defanging amendment.
www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
From the seattlepublicschools community on Reddit: Why SPS needs a Finance Committee with teeth in one graphic
Explore this post and more from the seattlepublicschools community
www.reddit.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
@awongpublic.bsky.social has a new post up. Short is, they raised the board approval threshold to $1 mil, got rid of of the finance committee, and introduced the consent agenda, and spending went wild. Email the board not to pass Rankin's defanging amendment.
www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
www.reddit.com/r/seattlepub...
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We need board committees back so that SPS can have competent, effective governance again. So we have to ensure Rankin's destructive amendment fails. Can you email the school board and speak out against this? Contact all 7 directors at once: [email protected]
February 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
We need board committees back so that SPS can have competent, effective governance again. So we have to ensure Rankin's destructive amendment fails. Can you email the school board and speak out against this? Contact all 7 directors at once: [email protected]
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This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...
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(To get a sense of how little of an outlier this is, too, this was the opening promo to that show, done by one of AEW's top stars Hangman Adam Page)
Hangman Adam Page addresses Arena México en Español (with English subtitles) | AEW Grand Slam Mexico
YouTube video by All Elite Wrestling
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
(To get a sense of how little of an outlier this is, too, this was the opening promo to that show, done by one of AEW's top stars Hangman Adam Page)
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My thoughts on the Board Meeting: Shuldiner is like a breath of fresh air: significantly less ed-speak and plain/blunt talking. The contrast was striking next to Rocky and Ted's bloviating about Professional Learning Communities and Curriculum Embedded Assessments or whatever is the new hotness.
February 5, 2026 at 4:08 AM
My thoughts on the Board Meeting: Shuldiner is like a breath of fresh air: significantly less ed-speak and plain/blunt talking. The contrast was striking next to Rocky and Ted's bloviating about Professional Learning Communities and Curriculum Embedded Assessments or whatever is the new hotness.
If you didn’t think Latin is relevant to modern education, note that Ben Shuldiner mentioned Cicero‘s Sword of Damocles at least twice tonight at the board meeting. None of the Millennials and younger in the room likely knew that reference. Please just let kids learn Latin in school if they want!
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 AM
If you didn’t think Latin is relevant to modern education, note that Ben Shuldiner mentioned Cicero‘s Sword of Damocles at least twice tonight at the board meeting. None of the Millennials and younger in the room likely knew that reference. Please just let kids learn Latin in school if they want!
It’s weird times because I agree with Rankin again!
Rankin has QUESTIONS. Wants to know realistically, with the transition, didn't expect massive changes. Asks what Ben's thinking about next year. 5-Year forecast. Getting to solvency. Better aligning resources with needs of students. Budget focused on FTE.
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
It’s weird times because I agree with Rankin again!
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SHuldiner: Our Teachers are great, but are we giving them the things they need. Was at school that had one child in a classroom, 2 adults, can't possibly be okay. At a school where classes bursting, school facilities issues. More adults than children on a whole floor. Be honest about these things.
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
SHuldiner: Our Teachers are great, but are we giving them the things they need. Was at school that had one child in a classroom, 2 adults, can't possibly be okay. At a school where classes bursting, school facilities issues. More adults than children on a whole floor. Be honest about these things.
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What comes across really clearly in the presentation about student math learning is that the SPS central office leaders, who impose top-down command-and-control orders on teachers, also have no clue whatsoever what's actually happening in the classroom. Let the teachers teach! Let them lead!
Shortly, we'll be listening in on the February 4, 2026 School Board Meeting. We will be discussing the 6th Grade Math Goal and finishing up discussion from last week's budget presentation. This will also be the first board meeting with Superintendent Shuldiner officially at the head.
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
What comes across really clearly in the presentation about student math learning is that the SPS central office leaders, who impose top-down command-and-control orders on teachers, also have no clue whatsoever what's actually happening in the classroom. Let the teachers teach! Let them lead!
OK this is rare but I agree with Rankin here
Rankin: Have Current State, Hope for future state, magic happens in the middle. Not sure what that magic is. Where are we changing our supports specifically for students who most need it. Strategies she's hearing are stay the course. Calls out Shuldiner.
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
OK this is rare but I agree with Rankin here
This is an important observation he makes: dyslexia etc. ALSO effects math, a lot!!!
Mizrahi: Recently adopted new curriculum, maybe that's slow adoption. MAth specifically, relation with literacy, kids struggling with literacy math scores go down. WIll literacy work help with math? Other ways to assess math skills that don't rely on literact?
February 5, 2026 at 1:24 AM
This is an important observation he makes: dyslexia etc. ALSO effects math, a lot!!!
Good Lord. So many revelacions in this W&A
Howard: Teachers need time to plan, unpack curriculum, PLC (?), working with partners such as UW. Teachers come into math teaching without a lot of math themselves.
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Good Lord. So many revelacions in this W&A
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GOD Ted Howard's answer to everything is coaching. How has that ACTUALLY worked before? While scores have been stagnant and are still stagnant?
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 AM
GOD Ted Howard's answer to everything is coaching. How has that ACTUALLY worked before? While scores have been stagnant and are still stagnant?
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Direct quote from Rocky: “It begs the question: What are we doing?” Maybe he will tell us one day.
Mangelsen (Student): Noticing in big difference between all students and Students Furthest from Educational Justice. Are the SBA and MAP different in what they're testing?
Rocky: Patterns show kids get caught up by end of the year, that's why marked as maintaining. Need to talk more about strategies
Rocky: Patterns show kids get caught up by end of the year, that's why marked as maintaining. Need to talk more about strategies
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Direct quote from Rocky: “It begs the question: What are we doing?” Maybe he will tell us one day.