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Rick Wormeli

@rickwormeli.bsky.social

Education consultant, trainer. Author of Fair Isn't Always Equal, 2nd Ed.; Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject; Summarization in any Subject, 2nd Ed, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice. Website: www.rickwormeli.com

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Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · last yr.

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034
Rick Wormeli@rickwormeli.bsky.social · last yr.

Members of LGBTQA+ community will find a ready advocate, & ceaselessly supportive colleague/friend in me. I stand w/you as you live yr authentic selves & navigate civic, religious, educ, legal, & political challenges. Know that you are deeply valued just as you are & that you are welcome in my life.

Rick Wormeli@rickwormeli.bsky.social · last yr.

Please teach children how to swim. And yes, Black children have the highest rate of drowning when we look at stats. My wife & I help with lessons for my daughter's kids, taking them to lessons & later, swimming w/them. Important article here on the topic: www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/h...

Drowning is the leading cause of death in young kids. Here’s how to prevent it | CNN

Drowning is the top cause of death in young kids. As pools and beaches reopen for the summer, emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen discusses important water-safety tips.

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Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.

This likely AI-hallucinated reading list is part of a ~60-page summer supplement, and in an initial spot-check, I'm having trouble confirming any of the quotes. But it's all such transparent filler that I can't help feeling sympathy for the lone freelancer apparently saddled with producing it.

Rachael King@rachaelking70.bsky.social · last yr.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Rick Wormeli@rickwormeli.bsky.social · last yr.

This is deeply ignorant of what DEI actually is & operating from ignorance often results in cruelty & regret. Let's do our hmwrk b4 succumbing to gaslit myths. And the Parents Rights in Education group mentioned? ' Far more abt imposing their religion upon everyone else than about parents' rights.

Honesty for Ohio Education@honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · last yr.

Ohio’s public K-12 schools are now the focus of legislative effort by state lawmakers to ban diversity, equity & inclusion. Senate Bill 113 is similar to different legislation already passed the legislature banning DEI in Ohio's public colleges & universities www.ideastream.org/2025-05-19/a...

Honesty for Ohio Education@honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · last yr.

Ohio’s public K-12 schools are now the focus of legislative effort by state lawmakers to ban diversity, equity & inclusion. Senate Bill 113 is similar to different legislation already passed the legislature banning DEI in Ohio's public colleges & universities www.ideastream.org/2025-05-19/a...

A new bill aims to ban 'DEI' in K-12 schools

A bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in schools is in the Ohio Senate. A companion piece of legislation has been introduced in the Ohio House.

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Rick Wormeli@rickwormeli.bsky.social · last yr.

Jason Stanley's Erasing History is a compelling source in educators' efforts against ignorant & racist re-writing of history. @zinnedproject.bsky.social released an interview w/him, also providing a helpful list of resources for educators navigating all of this: www.zinnedproject.org/news/erasing...

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Scholar Jason Stanley, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, discussed his book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, which exposes the ways a...

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International Literacy Association (ILA)@ilatoday.bsky.social · last yr.

Behind every book borrowed is a story of resilience. Free for All: The Public Library shines a light on the librarians and advocates who've championed access to information against all odds. It's a powerful reminder of the role libraries play in shaping informed communities.

Free for All: The Public Library - Independent Lens

The story of how public libraries shaped America and how libraries continue to be a sanctuary for Americans everywhere.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · last yr.

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: read books, read them to your kids, encourage kids to read.

What Should Parents Be Worried About? The Books Their Children Don’t Read

“‘Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.’” So says the ex-English professor in “Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel about life under a ...

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Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last yr.

What structures are in place that make students choose to outsource their own thinking, and how we got to a point where the step that seems important to do yourself is the "writing up" of a bot's ideas rather than the thinking. /2

Whenever Wendy uses AI to write an essay (which is to say, whenever she writes an essay), she follows three steps. Step one: “I say, ‘I’m a first-year college student. I’m taking this English class.’” Otherwise, Wendy said, “it will give you a very advanced, very complicated writing style, and you don’t want that.” Step two: Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot. Step three: “Then I ask, ‘According to the prompt, can you please provide me an outline or an organization to give me a structure so that I can follow and write my essay?’ It then gives me an outline, introduction, topic sentences, paragraph one, paragraph two, paragraph three.” Sometimes, Wendy asks for a bullet list of ideas to support or refute a given argument: “I have difficulty with organization, and this makes it really easy for me to follow.