Michelle Kraft
@mnkraft.bsky.social
I spent 25 years teaching high school English and am currently an ELA Instructional Coach.
Violist, Cellist, Coffee Drinker, Crocheter, Reader
Writings & Reflections: http://www.goingslightlymad.com/
#iteachEnglish #NCTE
Violist, Cellist, Coffee Drinker, Crocheter, Reader
Writings & Reflections: http://www.goingslightlymad.com/
#iteachEnglish #NCTE
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Your annual reminder that not everyone celebrates "the holidays" in your school. You don't have to impose your version of December onto other people's children.
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Your annual reminder that not everyone celebrates "the holidays" in your school. You don't have to impose your version of December onto other people's children.
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What a world it would be . . .
Imagine if every standardized ELA test required a student to have a conversation about a book they read that year cover-to-cover and why it was it was meaningful to them.
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
What a world it would be . . .
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Quick reminder for folks: on Sunday, December 7th we'll be talking about ACT 2 of Macbeth beginning at 9am EST!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Quick reminder for folks: on Sunday, December 7th we'll be talking about ACT 2 of Macbeth beginning at 9am EST!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
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I realize the irony of me asking this and possibly not getting any response at all, but I have to try.
Those of you that were like me and used the good days of Twitter to have meaningful conversations on there to answer questions, discuss opinions, develop thoughts. Where are you doing that now?+
Those of you that were like me and used the good days of Twitter to have meaningful conversations on there to answer questions, discuss opinions, develop thoughts. Where are you doing that now?+
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I realize the irony of me asking this and possibly not getting any response at all, but I have to try.
Those of you that were like me and used the good days of Twitter to have meaningful conversations on there to answer questions, discuss opinions, develop thoughts. Where are you doing that now?+
Those of you that were like me and used the good days of Twitter to have meaningful conversations on there to answer questions, discuss opinions, develop thoughts. Where are you doing that now?+
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
This was a great way to start my Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to seeing how the discussion progresses as the day/week goes on!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
Act 1 done of #SundayMacbethChat — 4 more acts to go!
Next Sunday: Act 2 🔪
Also:
📌 I've added links to each Q on the homepage
📌 You can still reply/discuss all day
📌 Let me know about suggested Q's in advance
Have a great week everyone! 🙏
Next Sunday: Act 2 🔪
Also:
📌 I've added links to each Q on the homepage
📌 You can still reply/discuss all day
📌 Let me know about suggested Q's in advance
Have a great week everyone! 🙏
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This was a great way to start my Sunday morning. I'm looking forward to seeing how the discussion progresses as the day/week goes on!
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
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How we'll end each week (I hope):
Question Five: what's one thing OUTSIDE of Macbeth that Act 1 made you think about?
#SundayMacbethChat
(And for this and all other questions, feel free to respond throughout the day!)
Question Five: what's one thing OUTSIDE of Macbeth that Act 1 made you think about?
#SundayMacbethChat
(And for this and all other questions, feel free to respond throughout the day!)
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How we'll end each week (I hope):
Question Five: what's one thing OUTSIDE of Macbeth that Act 1 made you think about?
#SundayMacbethChat
(And for this and all other questions, feel free to respond throughout the day!)
Question Five: what's one thing OUTSIDE of Macbeth that Act 1 made you think about?
#SundayMacbethChat
(And for this and all other questions, feel free to respond throughout the day!)
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I know that themes can twist and turn and intermingle, but at the end of Act 1, where did you land for now? #SundayMacbethChat
Q4: is Act 1 more about AGENCY or AMBITION—or something else?
Q4: is Act 1 more about AGENCY or AMBITION—or something else?
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I know that themes can twist and turn and intermingle, but at the end of Act 1, where did you land for now? #SundayMacbethChat
Q4: is Act 1 more about AGENCY or AMBITION—or something else?
Q4: is Act 1 more about AGENCY or AMBITION—or something else?
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Very curious about any wonderings or walls others hit in Act 1, particularly for those re-reading... #SundayMacbethChat
So let's go there for Question 3! 🤔🤷♂️
So let's go there for Question 3! 🤔🤷♂️
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Very curious about any wonderings or walls others hit in Act 1, particularly for those re-reading... #SundayMacbethChat
So let's go there for Question 3! 🤔🤷♂️
So let's go there for Question 3! 🤔🤷♂️
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Let's open it up now with the second question for #SundayMacbethChat!
Q2: which line or moment resonates the most with you in Act 1? Why is that?
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Q2: which line or moment resonates the most with you in Act 1? Why is that?
🕵️🔎
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Let's open it up now with the second question for #SundayMacbethChat!
Q2: which line or moment resonates the most with you in Act 1? Why is that?
🕵️🔎
Q2: which line or moment resonates the most with you in Act 1? Why is that?
🕵️🔎
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And here we go: talking all things ACT 1 of Macbeth for #SundayMacbethChat
Q1: finish the sentence!
"The choice to open the entire play with the witches..." 🧙♀️🧹
Q1: finish the sentence!
"The choice to open the entire play with the witches..." 🧙♀️🧹
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And here we go: talking all things ACT 1 of Macbeth for #SundayMacbethChat
Q1: finish the sentence!
"The choice to open the entire play with the witches..." 🧙♀️🧹
Q1: finish the sentence!
"The choice to open the entire play with the witches..." 🧙♀️🧹
Time to start reading Macbeth (which I haven't read since high school)! I'm flashing back to the two Shakespeare courses I took in college. Carrying this around campus was a workout.
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Time to start reading Macbeth (which I haven't read since high school)! I'm flashing back to the two Shakespeare courses I took in college. Carrying this around campus was a workout.
#SundayMacbethChat
#SundayMacbethChat
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This time of year especially, it is critical to hold a lens of generosity as much as you can as a teacher towards those around you—kids (always) but also adults.
Start with their strengths. Your appreciations. Their potential.
(Because we need others to do that for us, too.)
Start with their strengths. Your appreciations. Their potential.
(Because we need others to do that for us, too.)
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This time of year especially, it is critical to hold a lens of generosity as much as you can as a teacher towards those around you—kids (always) but also adults.
Start with their strengths. Your appreciations. Their potential.
(Because we need others to do that for us, too.)
Start with their strengths. Your appreciations. Their potential.
(Because we need others to do that for us, too.)
Teaching in Truth: How to Stay Centered and Culturally Sustaining in a Climate of Censorship
A FREE LIVE masterclass for educators who are ready to teach with courage, integrity, and community — even when the climate makes it hard to tell the truth.
www.multiculturalclassroom.com/masterclass
A FREE LIVE masterclass for educators who are ready to teach with courage, integrity, and community — even when the climate makes it hard to tell the truth.
www.multiculturalclassroom.com/masterclass
Masterclass
www.multiculturalclassroom.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Teaching in Truth: How to Stay Centered and Culturally Sustaining in a Climate of Censorship
A FREE LIVE masterclass for educators who are ready to teach with courage, integrity, and community — even when the climate makes it hard to tell the truth.
www.multiculturalclassroom.com/masterclass
A FREE LIVE masterclass for educators who are ready to teach with courage, integrity, and community — even when the climate makes it hard to tell the truth.
www.multiculturalclassroom.com/masterclass
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
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Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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🌱All week on Moving Writers: Poetry Pauses for Hope.
It's a series of tiny lessons, easy to integrate, that get students contemplating and writing about hope.
The first poem? Emily Dickinson, of course, with a twist you may not have tried before.
#poetrypauses
movingwriters.org/2025/10/27/p...
It's a series of tiny lessons, easy to integrate, that get students contemplating and writing about hope.
The first poem? Emily Dickinson, of course, with a twist you may not have tried before.
#poetrypauses
movingwriters.org/2025/10/27/p...
Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 1
A fresh approach to Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers
movingwriters.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🌱All week on Moving Writers: Poetry Pauses for Hope.
It's a series of tiny lessons, easy to integrate, that get students contemplating and writing about hope.
The first poem? Emily Dickinson, of course, with a twist you may not have tried before.
#poetrypauses
movingwriters.org/2025/10/27/p...
It's a series of tiny lessons, easy to integrate, that get students contemplating and writing about hope.
The first poem? Emily Dickinson, of course, with a twist you may not have tried before.
#poetrypauses
movingwriters.org/2025/10/27/p...
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
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Register for this Thursday's #OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection event, featuring members of @ncte.org's Conference on English Leadership ( #CEL ).
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Register for this Thursday's #OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection event, featuring members of @ncte.org's Conference on English Leadership ( #CEL ).
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
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The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade
October 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade
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For Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to encourage fellow #Trekkies (and everyone else!) to read Black and Choctaw commentator @law-writes.bsky.social on one example of Native representation in #StarTrek.
www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...
www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...
How Star Trek: The Next Generation Took On Indigenous American Representation
A member of the Choctaw Nation parses through TNG's 'Journey's End.'
www.startrek.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to encourage fellow #Trekkies (and everyone else!) to read Black and Choctaw commentator @law-writes.bsky.social on one example of Native representation in #StarTrek.
www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...
www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...
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Using Google's Notebook LM, I explored the intersection of the BC Ministry of Education's "Considerations for Using AI Tools in K-12 Schools," the OECD's AI Literacy Framework, and UNESCO's "AI Competency Framework for Students" to create this list of ten essential AI competencies for our students.
October 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Using Google's Notebook LM, I explored the intersection of the BC Ministry of Education's "Considerations for Using AI Tools in K-12 Schools," the OECD's AI Literacy Framework, and UNESCO's "AI Competency Framework for Students" to create this list of ten essential AI competencies for our students.
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For Indigenous Peoples' Day I wanted to highlight a sampling of recent(ish) work that has really shaped my understandings and informed my practice as an ELA educator. First is Daniel Heath Justice's Why Indigenous Literatures Matter:
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/W/Why-...
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/W/Why-...
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Transforming Ideas
www.wlupress.wlu.ca
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For Indigenous Peoples' Day I wanted to highlight a sampling of recent(ish) work that has really shaped my understandings and informed my practice as an ELA educator. First is Daniel Heath Justice's Why Indigenous Literatures Matter:
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/W/Why-...
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/W/Why-...