Wowwwwww

Ooooh sign me up.

There’s a carryout near us that makes a killer tikka masala pizza.

Holt was a MASSIVE textbook. Adventures was large but Holt was CHONK. Collections was more streamlined. MyPerspectives is a boondogging waste because of its clanky interfaces, weird autoscoring, and consumeable books of 600+ pages

Adventures in Literature—>Glecoe Literature—>Holt Elements of Literature—> HMH Collections—> Savvas My Perspectives.

As a dept chair I have my own collection— but about writing. Idgaf about state testing, I wanna know how a new hire thinks about creativity, the process. What they say about writing tells me lots about the classroom. (If they understand writing is taught, experimented, a craft, etc)

scripted, test-aligned “literacy” curricula, even if it includes whole books, is not the same thing as a teacher who’s lit up about art

i think there are some powerful people who genuinely do not believe the distinction matters in any meaningful or scalable way

Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically

It’s up there with Dodge Ram commercial that quotes MLK’s speech about NOT chasing commercial goods or buying fancy cars like your neighbors, in the commercial about buying fancy trucks like your neighbors….

(Brought to you by “this is gonna be my hook for a class examining Lincoln’s rhetoric next month”)

Sigh. I read it. I’m fascinated by an article purportedly about the modern moment that is dominated by sources from 2010, 2007, etc.

It’s not wrong wrong about the needs for info literacy, but I think it devalues the work of books, and writing, unnecessarily.

Defend your arts