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Global Village School is a progressive, K-12 distance learning program featuring a social justice and peace-focused curriculum with individualized teacher services.

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Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · Mar 31
🌍We're Global Village School -- a women-owned, LGBTQIA+-owned, accredited private school and non-profit organization serving amazing families around the globe.🌈

Hi there! 👋😃
Color photo: Two fists side by side over a black bacground with the letters L-G-B-T-G-I-A-+ written on the fingers. Words beneath the hands read: Personalized, Holistic, Inspiring Education.
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👩🏽‍🏫For teachers of difficult history, this podcast series by the SPLC is absolutely essential:

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀
https://bit.ly/4rI0g7h
📸: Learning for Justice / SPLC

#homeschoolmom #homeschoolteacher
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Color illustration: bright, vibrantly-colored, collage-like painting. At bottom left is a woman in a green checkered dress speaking passionately. Behind her, a woman stands beside a "colored entrance" and a line of protesters hold picket signs about civil rights. To the right, a field of enslaved workers pick cotton on a sunny day. 📸: Learning for Justice / SPLC
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Call it a comeback? Engaging authentically with physical materials is having a moment!

𝗧𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴
https://bit.ly/4sZSVRH
📸: Nitashia Johnson for NPR
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Color photo: handwritten "thank you" notes of various sizes and colors affixed, presumably, to a bulletin board that's so covered it can't be seen. 📸: Nitashia Johnson for NPR
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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If you shared my post about a group of neurodivergent and BIPOC scouts needing to sell cookies somewhere besides door to door, please share this one too. There are plenty of kids suffering in Minneapolis, cookie sales will take a hit.
lgarciainmn.bsky.social LGarciaInMN @lgarciainmn.bsky.social · 2d
We'd love your boost too!
We're an all trans & immigrant troop in Mpls MN & can't safely sell like normal, due to ⓘⓒⓔ, all funds from purchases/donations going to support our hurting neighbors & community who are stuck inside to remain safe. 🍪💖
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...

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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Yes!!
Good stuff from a great person ((and another great teacher later in the article): #EduSky
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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🤔A fundamental question: how are our kids handling all of this?

𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀
https://bit.ly/4k6s5n1
📸: NBC12

#accredited #secular #homeschool
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Color photo: high school students hold signs and chant during a school walkout in protest of ICE abuses. 📸: NBC12
January 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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🐝Enshrining protection honors "the lived experience of our Indigenous peoples and the rainforest."

𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁
https://bit.ly/4bUMwkB
📸: Miryan Delgado

#animalrights
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Color photo: A smiling woman in street clothes stands with her arms outstretched amid a chaotic cloud of swarming stingless bees on a farmstead of some kind. Some trees and well-worn bits of ground can be seen in the background. 📸: Miryan Delgado
January 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Too cool!👇

#indigenoushistory #coolmaps #shapedbygeography
ctroxell.bsky.social Christina Troxell @ctroxell.bsky.social · 5d
Hands-on history in action! 🗺️4th graders dove deep into geography of Virginia’s Indigenous People. Used digital map & big floor map of Virginia to explore: “How physical environment influenced where people lived & how their languages spread?”@vgageogalliance.bsky.social #edusky
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Sharing a preview of the Aaron pages from DIGNITY — an upper MG graphic novel set in 1948 NYC, told through the alternating voices of a Jewish boy shaped by the Holocaust’s shadow and a Black girl rooted in the Great Migration. Now on submission.


#kidlit #JewishBooks #EduSky
January 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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When America met this young poet for the first time, the world was a very different place. Thank you, Amanda Gorman, for speaking up again.

#accredited #secular #homeschool #curriculum #progressive #woke #homeschooling #socialjustice #peacestudies #globalcitizen
Color image: Poem by Amanda Gorman. White text superimposed over the MInnesota flag. Text reads: "For Alex Jeffrey Pretti Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people & you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
January 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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This is exceptionally well done 👇
elementalmusings.bsky.social Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 9d
Fifth installment in bonding series for the novice. Starring the oxygen molecule, double bond, sigma, pi, explained. You may (or may not) like my simple sketch of the electron density distribution. Just trying to provide a little something to hold on to. #chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry
Oxygen - We can't live without it!
Let's meet this molecule, shall we?
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January 22, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Why choose GVS? Since 1999, Global Village School has been a place where differences are valued as essential to the human project -- let your flag fly!

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#accredited #secular #homeschool
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Color image: a hand drawn protest style sign written on a cardboard-like background. Text reads: FEAR LESS [a hand-drawn heart, peace sign, and another heart appear here] LOVE MORE In the bottom right corner a cute blobby cartoon guy gives two thumbs up. 📸: by GVS using Canva for non-profits
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Eleven months before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat down for a famous interview in which he cautioned against the sentiment that the fight for equal rights had been won.
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Black-and-white photo: MLK, viewed in profile, points mid-sentence with his right hand over a cluster of microphones while gripping a lectern with his left hand. Text over the image reads: "When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses it social perspective and programs of social uplift suffer. This is just a fact of history." -Interview w/ NBC News, May 8 1967 📸: Julian Wasser
January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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😥Hitting a mid-year homeschool wall? Burnout looming? 🧱 It’s okay to pivot!

If your curriculum isn't sparking joy (or even curiosity😱), don't force it. Sometimes the best way to save the school year is simply to change up the rhythm.

📸: Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez

#homeschoolburnout
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Color photo: A green pedestrian crosswalk button centered in a yellow metal housing attached to a thick steel pole, featuring a hand-affixed white sticker reading "Push to reset the world" and a small arrow pointing toward the button. 📸: Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez
January 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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"We each are shaped by the things around us, our parents, education and the journeys we take."

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱, 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀
https://bit.ly/4qrC88D
📸: Tara Anand/High Country News

#worldclassroom
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Color illustration: Pastel painting of a large rock formation (Independence Rock in Wyoming) in a vast desert at sunset at the intersection of two spindly waterways. The sky is filled with vibrant pink and purple clouds. 📸: Tara Anand/High Country News
January 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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What if your high school courses could help you change the world?

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
https://bit.ly/3Ftfp9Q
📸: RDNE Stock project

#accredited #secular #homeschool
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Color photo: Exterior brick wall (top 1/3 is red brick, bottom is whitewashed) with two protest signs affixed to it, beneath two windows. At dead center is a pink sign reading "Justice 4 All" in black text. Below it and to the right, a black sign says "I Want To Be Heard" in white text. 📸: RDNE Stock project
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Too cool!
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · 18d
If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
Brewster Kahle stands in front of a row of servers at the Internet Archive.
January 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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The machinery of fear only works if we stay in our own corners.

Howard Zinn reminds us that the power to suppress rights depends on our silence. When we realize that the 'threat' is a manufactured distraction, the machinery starts to break.

Solidarity is our strength. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾

#sjw
Minimalist color graphic: A black-and-white portrait of a Howard Zinn set against a black background with a quote in bold white and yellow text about civil disobedience. Text reads: “Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think. when we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.” Howard Zinn' signature is in white at bottom-right. 📸: by GVS using Canva for non-profits
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns."

𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱’𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
https://bit.ly/3NhUk5N
📸: GVS

#nojustice #nopeace
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Color graphic: Minimalist illustration of a black tree with red heart-shaped leaves against a cream-colored background. The tree is justified to the left of the image, beneath a quote (centered) in black and red text that reads: "Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -Becca Good 📸: by GVS using Canva for non-profits
January 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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If anyone else on here, moots or non-moots, uses Fedica for their social media scheduling and/or Canva for design of the same, I'd love the chance to pick your brain.

We're finding that uploaded video volume is a real crapshoot lately, and I'd love to know if that problem's unique to us.
January 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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davidmluebke.bsky.social David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 24d
Texas A&M has forbidden the teaching of Plato's "Symposium." As Corey Robin notes, there was bound to be a "showdown between, on the one hand, the right's claim to be defending the great books and the western canon and the classics, and...

#edusky

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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At GVS, students set their own goals, make their own schedules, and become the captains of their education.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 | 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟
https://bit.ly/4qGla63

#accredited #secular #homeschool #curriculum
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January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Raising critical thinkers has never been more important.🤓

#accredited #secular #homeschool #curriculum #k8curriculum #hscurriculum #progressive #woke #homeschooling #socialjustice #peacestudies #globalcitizen #distancelearning #diplomaprogram
🎥: by GVS using Canva for non-profits
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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h/t to @hkperkinson.bsky.social -- great find!
globalvillageschool.org Global Village School @globalvillageschool.org · Dec 18
"[S]chools have gotten so caught up in the points-grades-GPA game that students have lost sight of the real goal: learning. I can’t use AI to skip all the work if learning is my goal, but it’s really easy to do so if my goal is getting the highest number of points I can get on an assignment."
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December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM