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Zach Czaia

@zachczaia.bsky.social

Poet. High School English teacher. Substack, "Teacher / Poet" here: https://zachczaia.substack.com/

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Trevor Aleo@mraleosays.bsky.social · 5d ago

This sums up my feelings on the NHJ story pretty well. It was a moving read but it really highlights the limitations of liberal coded analysis and critique. Though she gestures towards the structural issues underpinning her story, her focus is the failure of individual teachers, admin, & schools.

Chanea Bond@heymrsbond.com · 5d ago

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s story has been a compelling one to follow, and as a Black parent and an educator, I am simultaneously moved and disappointed. Hannah-Jones writes about race and power, but she devotes much of her article to individual shortcomings to systemic issues.

Zach Czaia@zachczaia.bsky.social · last wk.

"The College is actively demonstrating that it would rather cut what’s hard to measure than defend what’s hard to replace." Brilliantly and succinctly stated by The Crimson's Tara G. Malhotra: www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

thecrimson.com

Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · last wk.

the structures of professional growth expressed here should be something within our reach - they're already achieved in some small, select spaces - but this frame of discussion is treated as either a frivolous daydream or dangerous elitism by too much of the education and curricular policy space.

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Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · last wk.

I am starting to wonder if this decade in education is going to be known as the decade where the disconnect between decision-makers in education and people actually in classrooms got so wide that something was permanently broken. This just isn't sustainable.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m not going to take the bait, but the argument that academics should not be judged for the money they take from ideological thinktanks, civics centers, & philanthrocapitalist foundations is either very naive or very compromised. Following the money is not paranoid style, it’s first principles.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 4w ago

"You can't scale good teaching" is a remarkable claim--and an arguable claim--that should be at the center of this conversation and not an aside. You certainly can't scale something you don't invest in but of course you can scale good teaching if you do invest in it. /1

Hendrick admits Alpha School’s model is “not perfect.” But he argues that most kids aren’t getting a good teacher or instruction grounded in learning science in a classroom anyway. “You have massive variance in teacher quality and pupil outcomes in a way that most people would find shocking,” he says. “The variance within schools between teacher quality is often greater than the variance between schools. If you apply that to doctors or dentists, there’d be a public outcry.” That’s Hendrick’s biggest argument for Alpha School’s model as a solution: “You can’t scale good teaching,” he says. Software, Hendrick argues, can be updated across classrooms at once as new curriculum and instructional research emerges and can give feedback far faster than a teacher grading assignments one by one.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Has a commercial edtech company or school chain ever had the press attention of Alpha School? Getting in Scientific American seems like a big win for Alpha School PR. Reckon it's also a clear sign of its strategy to claim *scientific* legitimacy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 4w ago

Did I read this report and immediately decide to write a new Broken Copier post from scratch today going through it piece by piece—even though I had previously planned on taking a week off from blogging with the new school year about to show up on my doorstep? Yup. (Comes out tomorrow morning!)

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 4w ago

You know when you read something, sigh deeply, and then want to shout to the heavens, "THANK YOU!" This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:

concerning effects of AI, per the MIT report (linked in reply)
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 4w ago

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · last mo.

Full line-up of speakers for TFA's 35th anniversary summit has 58 speakers. Want to guess how many of them are teachers? Hint: the answer rhymes with "hero." (Seriously: they had 58 slots!) www.events.teachforamerica.org/35years/page...

Speakers for Teach For America's 35th Anniversary Summit

Hear from 'Insecure' actor Jay Ellis, Peloton instructor and ESPN reporter Jess Sims, Campaign Zero Executive Director Deray McKesson, and many more on education topics and beyond.

events.teachforamerica.org