Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?

It's not only CKLA. There are many curriculums that are shockingly similar. Trying to create a scripted curriculum that will meet the needs of all kids is a fool's errand and yet school districts will pay immense amounts for such a thing.

I wrote it in Donna Alvermann’s pop culture summer class. I was so proud of it because it was my first article!

Omg yes! I will read anything DLB writes!

Of course! I always learn so much about hope when I see how they’re thinking about the world

Yes!! And I do get that we should contend with the present, but I also believe in non-linear time, so it makes sense to try and help folks think about past, present, future as things that all impact each other

I have so many favorites lol… Legendborn, Iron Widow, Elatsoe, Sunbearer Trials, anything by Liselle Sambury!

I saw a different level of engagement that went beyond just: This isn’t equitable. There was a deep interrogation of systems and an orientation toward systemic and personal change

Love me some Fourth Wing!

And again #literacies