I appreciate all the great resources you send our way, Larry! Keep them coming!

That's a potent image! I neither love nor hate AI . . . but ducking behind a bush does no one any good, that's for sure.

It would be so much better to invest time in teaching students how to reason, use discernment in their use, and why and when to stay away or engage with AI tools. I think many adults are so confused about this themselves, they have trouble slowing down and just talking this through with kids.

I love that you are digging into this in your research Chanea, and I want to read more!

I start class with a poem every day, and I think your work, as I read through your other poems too, needs to be in my rotation!

I knew you would! The ideas are absolutely applicable in high school 🙂

Yea! I feel the same!

This is a perfect piece for NYT Learning Network. Invite student and teacher voices!

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Wow this is powerful! Thanks for sharing.

Yes, it's exactly what we can all strive for! Refreshing to read it so clearly laid out in longform.

Everything you're saying is the foundation of my writing on this topic! Yes!

I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)

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Sadly, no. But I'll be there in Philly. Looking forward to it!

Thank you!

7: The Giver
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart

9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.

Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.

Amazing! Glad you had a great time, and can't wait to see you next year.

Yes, that is an interesting question! Our district has at least one title per grade level like this. I do like that when I'm teaching a concept, I can refer back to an earlier example and most kids remember it, i.e. when teaching allusion: "Remember "Stay gold, Ponyboy" from eighth grade?"

It’s always such a balance between teacher preference, student choice, and those texts we ask all students in a grade to read, right?

If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔

Nice idea! And in general, English classes could use more literary levity. I use Austen and Wilde in AP Lit for this reason. Which would be your top choice of Shakespeare comedy for beginners?