My love for a good cover and title remains unwavering. Love the imagery here for @rachegabriel.bsky.social and @teachkate.bsky.social's new book!
Kate Roberts
@teachkate.bsky.social
Educator helping connect the realities of actual classroom teaching to the ideals of pedagogy, research, and common sense. My new book, The Heart of Fiction: Reading for Character, Theme, and Craft, is out now at kateandmaggie.com
For those going into a new school year very soon—maybe you're already there!—here's a link to all of the most popular resources we've shared the past few years! (All 100% free, too—and you're welcome to make your own templates and adapt for your classroom/space)
Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne 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...
In high school, kids switch classes and hop from subject to subject multiple times a day. 🔄 So when lessons span over many days, ninth-grade English teacher Alicia Bechard prompts her students to revisit key ideas from the day before and refocus with a group recall activity. 🧵1/6
Also recorded a quick "recap video" of the post—with the top-line results, yes, but also the main takeaways I got from these conversations!
Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 3mo ago"I feel like AI defeats the purpose of this class." I went into this past school year thinking that it might finally be the year where I had no choice but to begin integrating AI into our classroom as a tool and skill. Walking out of this year? Talking with students? I realized I was wrong.
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
I think we often have the wrong idea around expertise in education. Expertise is not just “I know this really well so you should listen to me.” It also is, more importantly, “I know this very well so I’m better at listening to you.”
It's not JUST literacy skills It's not JUST reading stamina It's not JUST "the screens" It's not JUST curriculum choices It's not JUST homework culture It's not JUST over-scheduled students It's not JUST adults not reading, either It's complicated. Pretending otherwise doesn't help.
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
Who in the last 250 years could have foreseen that a vindictive rapist would take complete control of the US Justice Dept. & find flunkies willing to carry out his commands to persecute his critics & victims? We may recover from this, but where we are now is frankly terrifying. tinyurl.com/5az69ypv
US justice department reportedly opens criminal inquiry into Trump accuser E Jean Carroll
Officials said to be examining whether Carroll committed perjury in 2022 deposition tied to lawsuits against president
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Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity
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"It is not my job to compensate for a person’s erasure of me by making myself more present." I really appreciate this essay by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social — I feel like it presents a new, needed vantage point to a conversation that is getting somewhat tired... sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/...
You Do Not Need an AI Policy — Sonja Drimmer
You do not need an AI policy. Forget the crisis in plagiarism and cheating; that’s yesterday’s news. It is becoming increasingly common for my colleagues, both within my own university and elsewhere,...
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"We often can't know what our work will make possible. The good we do matters. We can tuck our chins, unlock our limbs, aim our bodies & forge deeper, broader, more determined connections. Sometimes those connections hold us up." @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...
Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender
“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”
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this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU
ACLU@aclu.org · 4mo agoBREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.
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Data from Star Trek but he uses 5 billion pounds of water per day and any time you ask him anything he gets the answer wrong.
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
"Who is the LMS for? At the end of the day, like all platforms, the LMS exists for itself." Your must-read piece of the morning, I think.
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 5mo ago"The LMS isn’t necessary. It never has been." - Audrey Watters. Speaking from my experience, it became clear over my 20 years of use that the LMS was an active detriment to my pedagogical goals and my students' learning. Disempowering for all. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ed-tech-depe...
For the record, I believe knowledge is important. Knowing stuff rocks. What I don’t believe, however, is that we should allow companies & NFPs to monopolize the mechanisms by which knowledge is packaged, legitimated, disseminated, & taught. That’s, kinda why we have K16 education institutions, no…?
"Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other (Freire).” Human beings. Human beings. Human beings.
This is a fantastic idea for a reporter to pursue and Chalkbeat remains a great independent media outlet.
Lily Altavena@lilyalta.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe all get a lot of sales pitches in our email. But school superintendents get *a lot* from ed tech companies. It's reached a fever pitch. Five superintendents shared their ed tech emails from one day. You're not ready for the numbers. projects.chalkbeat.org/2026/ed-tech...
My working theory is that there is no standardizable test that can be deployed to earn the equivalent of college credit bc college classes are not taught to a universal standard and the standards they are taught to are not possible to test in a single session.
@teachkate.bsky.social and I went here and many other places in this conversation—one that has been in my head ever since recording. Worth a listen, I think! (And would love to know what others think, too!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
What should reading look like in our classrooms?
Podcast Episode · The Broken Copier · April 1 · 52m
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"There's an existential question in some districts, I know, which is: do we even care about reading books at all?" We can say "yes" with our words, but what about our curriculum choices? What about how we allocate time in the classroom? At the end of the day, our choices = our values...