Scott Greene
@scottgreene.bsky.social
Middle school U.S./South Carolina history teacher. Here for anything that can help myself and my students become better humans. Mostly follow historians and those who are history or education adjacent.
Thank you for sharing this lesson @marcusluther.bsky.social I always start the year building classroom core values, but I've never given students space to really dive into their own values. It's been great reading their cards and building my living document roster. Looking forward to a great year!
For folks starting soon + looking for opening lessons, I've got two separate ones here—both of which have been really successful in setting a welcoming, purposeful culture in our room. Feel free to use/adapt either!
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/two-differ...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/two-differ...
Two Different "Day 1" Lessons
along with video explainers for each as far as the how and why
thebrokencopier.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Thank you for sharing this lesson @marcusluther.bsky.social I always start the year building classroom core values, but I've never given students space to really dive into their own values. It's been great reading their cards and building my living document roster. Looking forward to a great year!
Smoked a couple of chickens today. I don't know which one was better. First one seasoned with Meat Church Holy Cow rub and dipped in a modified Alabama white sauce off the smoker. Second seasoned with Meat Church Hickory rub and finished with Swamp Tonic (local brand).
July 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Smoked a couple of chickens today. I don't know which one was better. First one seasoned with Meat Church Holy Cow rub and dipped in a modified Alabama white sauce off the smoker. Second seasoned with Meat Church Hickory rub and finished with Swamp Tonic (local brand).
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There are a lot of folks in education loudly arguing that we need to move faster, faster, faster.
And I can tell you, from the classroom perspective, that anyone saying this definitely has NOT been in a classroom for some time.
And I can tell you, from the classroom perspective, that anyone saying this definitely has NOT been in a classroom for some time.
July 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There are a lot of folks in education loudly arguing that we need to move faster, faster, faster.
And I can tell you, from the classroom perspective, that anyone saying this definitely has NOT been in a classroom for some time.
And I can tell you, from the classroom perspective, that anyone saying this definitely has NOT been in a classroom for some time.
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Spent the weekend catching up with HS friends I haven't seen in 25 yrs.
Trying to explain what being a public school educator was like to guys in the tech industry.
Came up w/ the analogy: it's like your kid is having a sleep-over every day for 180 days.
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#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Trying to explain what being a public school educator was like to guys in the tech industry.
Came up w/ the analogy: it's like your kid is having a sleep-over every day for 180 days.
1/
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt with #schitts creek on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt with #schitts creek on the bottom says "Hey, I like sleepovers"
media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Spent the weekend catching up with HS friends I haven't seen in 25 yrs.
Trying to explain what being a public school educator was like to guys in the tech industry.
Came up w/ the analogy: it's like your kid is having a sleep-over every day for 180 days.
1/
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Trying to explain what being a public school educator was like to guys in the tech industry.
Came up w/ the analogy: it's like your kid is having a sleep-over every day for 180 days.
1/
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Savannah Bananas at Clemson
April 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Savannah Bananas at Clemson
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Reconstruction historians to Great Depression historians:
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reconstruction historians to Great Depression historians:
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.
February 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.
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I just want to teach them to write...
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I just want to teach them to write...
Teaching this year has been HARD. This email has refilled my meter quite a bit.
I swear, former students know to hit you with one of these when you're at your lowest.
I swear, former students know to hit you with one of these when you're at your lowest.
December 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Teaching this year has been HARD. This email has refilled my meter quite a bit.
I swear, former students know to hit you with one of these when you're at your lowest.
I swear, former students know to hit you with one of these when you're at your lowest.
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Anything or anyone using terms like grit or resilience to describe our students & teachers. Stop placing responsibility on people to claw themselves out of poorly managed, harmful systems and then congratulating them with empty words because they survived.
December 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Anything or anyone using terms like grit or resilience to describe our students & teachers. Stop placing responsibility on people to claw themselves out of poorly managed, harmful systems and then congratulating them with empty words because they survived.
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As I told students this week:
Some people look to history thinking it can give you answers about the present or predict the future. It can’t!
History’s uses are more modest and requires more work from us. It won't give you the answers - but it can suggest questions to ask about the present. 🗃️
Some people look to history thinking it can give you answers about the present or predict the future. It can’t!
History’s uses are more modest and requires more work from us. It won't give you the answers - but it can suggest questions to ask about the present. 🗃️
November 8, 2024 at 5:16 PM
As I told students this week:
Some people look to history thinking it can give you answers about the present or predict the future. It can’t!
History’s uses are more modest and requires more work from us. It won't give you the answers - but it can suggest questions to ask about the present. 🗃️
Some people look to history thinking it can give you answers about the present or predict the future. It can’t!
History’s uses are more modest and requires more work from us. It won't give you the answers - but it can suggest questions to ask about the present. 🗃️