absolutely bonkers that (a) I’ve been sort of carrying this book around for three months now and (b) there is just one month left of this slow-read journey

confession: I was today year's old when I realized how simple it is to have all your unit plans in one place with Google Doc tabs 🎵 "It's a whole new world..."🧞

Perhaps your must-read education article of the weekend: laying out how good research gets poorly understood and implemented, especially over time. Think about how many of these topics regularly devolve into unhelpful debates... ☑ SEL ☑ Productive Failure ☑ Direct Instruction ☑ Paper v. Digital

Students already have an ongoing reflection document in our class to process feedback on their formal writing—but I'm going to try adding a new tab this year: learning documentation After speaking with @angelastockman.bsky.social, I want to lean even further into capturing learning:

"Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer..." Talk about a different mindset to enter into the AI conversation with. Refreshing! (Another reason I'm very excited about a quite-different type of conference next week that I get to be a part of, too!)

"And if they start to realize that this is not a conversation—this is a probably machine putting tokens back at me—I think that is a really healthy space for them to be in." This is part of @miketaubman.bsky.social's case for why critical AI Literacy has value for students: (spoiler: I agree!)

"I know nothing about seven and sixpence." My official go-to response to any 6-7 references going forward in the classroom. Thanks Charles Dickens 🙏

“What would next year’s teacher gain by getting my grade book?” This opening framing by @mrrablin.bsky.social is a fantastic reminder that our grades are in many ways tools of communication. Worth considering, then: what are we actually communicating?

"Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?" Just have to say: reading Frankenstein in this current moment is quite an experience...

"The learning that lasts is the thing the teachers in the room came to understand on their own, through genuine curiosity and exploration." True in the classroom with students and adults alike! A great, important design approach for adult PD here from @edutopia.org (not just for science)

This is also why you HAVE to use your school email, too, in order to sign up. Doesn't matter if you can prove you're a teacher otherwise. The incentives (and studies!) are not around improving student learning, no matter how it's marketed...

Absolutely crazy that we're 600+ and 13 weeks into this Bleak House experience. @thevogelman.bsky.social and I had zero idea what would happen when we were texting about this, and now? Such a joy each Sunday to wake up to these discussions!

"Working with people is hopeful!" After a long, important conversation about all the ways we can and need to be better in our classrooms and schools, I'm really glad I asked what made @naemmanuele.bsky.social hopeful despite all the challenges in front of us. An important, hopeful reminder ❤️

"How we're giving adaptations or access or support matters more to the students in my study than the labeling of the disability itself" This entire conversation with @naemmanuele.bsky.social was full of reminders of how we can/need to be better for students. (Comes out tomorrow morning!)

One of my goals this summer? Making sure all of the most popular resources I've shared over the years with The Broken Copier could be accessed in a single place. Goal ✅ (And as always, feel free to share with anyone you think this would be helpful for!) docs.google.com/presentation...

Drafted up this new template for unit plans that, I hope, will be more friendly to share out with students/families (Will try it out with a few units this summer then share out completed version!)

A small win: I figured out to turn off all the "smart" features on Gmail, which felt more and more intrusive—including suggestions of how to more efficiently word things in my actual emails. No thank you. I'll be as excessively verbose and meandering as I feel like being.

about to be a Year 15 teacher and also a Year 1 teacher of this book (will see what happens…hopefully a happy ending? 🫣)

"The teachers suffering most are the ones who feel every day the full distance between what they know education should be and what the system requires them to do." Oh boy, this hits hard. (And accurately.)

All those teachers outsourcing feedback to AI... I really worry about the consequences:

"But then the process began to discomfit me, as I slowly realized that editing a note I did not create does not demand the same of me as writing a note." Read this article. Think about education. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

an example of why these spaces can be good? being able to post a question about resources/ideas for Frankenstein and within 24 hours getting nearly 50 responses—the generosity was genuinely overwhelming!

"Now we feel we have to be on all the time." The online education space seems very different right now than it used to be—and not necessarily for the better. What's changed for you? #EduSky

"...I don't know that there's a fulfillment there." Summer felt like a good time to step back and consider the state of the online education space, and @scandela9.bsky.social felt like the exact person to talk about this with. So that's what we did—full conversation comes out tomorrow!

"Remember this: students need you next year too" Really appreciated this "to-do list" from Matt Brady's blog post today around what can break even the best of teachers—a healthy reminder going into a new school year, I think, for many of us! (*raises hand*)

"In the AP English Language and Composition course, you will develop critical reading and writing skills through analyzing nonfiction works and crafting evidence-based arguments." Not saying every teacher who teachings AP Lang follows this! but the design is not literature-focused, I'd argue

Eleven weeks into our slow-read of Bleak House and the discussion continues to build—more discussion this week (500 pages in!) than any week prior! Here are a few of the many gems so far (just this week!)

"They don’t just learn our subject content; they learn new perspectives and ways of being through our lessons" —@cmooreanderson.bsky.social My own major takeaway in learning from Christian? To be much more intentional in how I design for and lean into what he calls "metacontent" as a teacher

Sneak preview of tomorrow's Broken Copier post: this picture will be (somewhat) relevant! (That's a Pepsi, btw)

There are A LOT of complicated things in education, but a simple one, I think: we're all better off when more voices from actual classrooms and schools are being centered in the bigger conversation. So am I excited that @edutopia.org is trying to bring in even more of these voices? 100% yes!