EdWeek's Ultimate PD Reading List just dropped, crowdsourced by educators, and NINE Corwin titles made the cut! 📚🏆 See the full list: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/edweeks-ultimate-pd-reading-list-is-here/2026/07 #EdWeek #ProfessionalDevelopment

Reading these comments are worth your time. Upsetting to learn today that Harvard is dismantling its Writing Center and is laying off Jane Rosenzweig, its long-time director. Student voices here show what is lost in a move like this, and what an institution gains in a well led writing center.

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

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This is the best poetry collection I’ve read in a long time! The diction, the themes, the structure of both poems and the collection as a whole…magnificent! This is a library copy, but I’m buying my own today to annotate. Thank you @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for this shining gift of a book 📖🌖

Fun fact: If you are friends with me, you’re eventually getting a screenshot of a poem I think you’ll like. And that fact makes me smile 🙂

If you’re sick of reading oversimplified narratives about literacy in popular articles, please check out this brilliant piece by @mraleosays.bsky.social for some more nuanced angles on an important topic. It’s so good 🙌🏻 open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Three Theses On the Literacy Crisis

Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the "End of Reading"

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With technology this new and rapidly evolving, many teachers have little precedent to draw on when creating AI guidance for students. 8 veteran educators share what’s working inside their classrooms. 💻 ⬇️ #EduSkyAI #EduSky

8 Classroom AI Policies Developed by Teachers

Setting clear, shared expectations around student AI use is uncharted territory for many teachers. Educators across disciplines and grade levels share their current policies.

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Confronted with a rapidly evolving technology, many educators have little precedent to draw on when creating classroom-level AI policy. For @edutopia.org, I asked 8 educators across disciplines/ grade levels how they establish shared values + expectations about AI use in their classrooms:

8 Classroom AI Policies Developed by Teachers

Setting clear, shared expectations around student AI use is uncharted territory for many teachers. Educators across disciplines and grade levels share their current policies.

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I’m honored to be on this Ultimate PD Reading List from @edweek.org 📖 alongside writers and educators I esteem 🙂 www.edweek.org/leadership/e...

EdWeek’s Ultimate PD Reading List Is Here

EdWeek's crowd-sourced PD reading list is here! See your top book recommendations and ask an author some questions.

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Strategies for approaching AI in writing class don’t have to be cumbersome or punitive. Sometimes all it takes is building in more time to write and to think about our own writing process and a tool for transparency. Students who value their own voice don’t want a machine to hijack their process.

Edutopia@edutopia.org · 4w ago

AI transparency surveys—and the class discussions that come before them—can help students reflect on their decisions about AI, build discernment, and develop their own writing voice. Read more from @thevogelman.bsky.social here: https://edut.to/4w5vV5a

shhh don't let the HQIM folks know but @thevogelman.bsky.social is 100% right: sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is to bring a children's poem into a high school classroom and watch what they do with it

Brett Vogelsinger@thevogelman.bsky.social · 4w ago

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Can children's poetry, written for younger audiences, get teenagers thinking and dreaming, talking and writing? In my experience, they can, and my latest Substack explores how reading a book by @joycesidman.bsky.social this summer reminded me of this. Link in first comment #teaching #ela #edusky

Nothing like reading Bleak House poolside when you suddenly hit the chapter that draws tears 😢 It’s been a joy slow reading this with @marcusluther.bsky.social and the whole crew 🤗 Love how Dickens is pulling threads of plot together in the second half of this novel!

EdWeek is surveying folks for favorite PD books! If you are a fan of Poetry Pauses or Artful AI in Writing Instruction, please take ten seconds to give the book a shout out here: www.edweek.org/leadership/d...

Do You Have a Favorite PD Book? We Want to Hear It

A handy guide to the latest in professional development—just a few clicks away.

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NEW: Sharpen AI Skills While Kids Learn New Words. Teacher-author Brett Vogelsinger describes four strategies he's using to encourage students to explore new vocabulary while examining AI bias and limitations. #edusky @thevogelman.bsky.social #vocabulary #AIsky www.middleweb.com/53535/sharpe...

Sharpen Their AI Skills While Students Learn New Words

Teacher-author Brett Vogelsinger describes four strategies he's using to encourage students to explore new vocabulary while examining AI bias and limitations.

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“In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake, and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore.” What a line about the effects of long illness! #Dickens

Brett Vogelsinger@thevogelman.bsky.social · last mo.

Feeling like a fancy reader today 😄 Chapter 35 of our Bleak House slow read in a coffeehouse this morning 🙂

Feeling like a fancy reader today 😄 Chapter 35 of our Bleak House slow read in a coffeehouse this morning 🙂

Thrilled to see my piece on vocabulary instruction and AI for @middleweb.bsky.social featured in the #ISTE #ASCD @smartbrief.bsky.social newsletter today! newsletter.smartbrief.com/servlet/Arch...

Yesterday,I went back for a second time. If you can catch it before closing on August 18, this is a production and a cast for the ages 🤩 And there is no bad seat in the house!

Here is a short, free webinar episode you might enjoy that features some thinking from Artful AI in Writing Instruction, part of a longer series on AI in the ELA classroom. @corwinpress.bsky.social youtu.be/aTs0_ydGZUE?...

Artful AI in Writing Instruction

YouTube video by AI in the High School ELA Classroom

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🙏 still surreal to me that a random text exchange became this project/experience! (nearly 100k words of discussion later, I'd add!)

Brett Vogelsinger@thevogelman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm at the halfway point of a big, slow-read of Bleak House by Charles Dickens I've been working on with @marcusluther.bsky.social and English teachers from around the world. The weekly online discussions remind me of how vital it is to maintain our own wonder+joy+struggle as readers 🤔😊

I’m excited to share this piece about AI and vocabulary on MiddleWeb today!

MiddleWeb@middleweb.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Sharpen AI Skills While Kids Learn New Words. Teacher-author Brett Vogelsinger describes four strategies he's using to encourage students to explore new vocabulary while examining AI bias and limitations. #edusky @thevogelman.bsky.social #vocabulary #AIsky www.middleweb.com/53535/sharpe...

I'm at the halfway point of a big, slow-read of Bleak House by Charles Dickens I've been working on with @marcusluther.bsky.social and English teachers from around the world. The weekly online discussions remind me of how vital it is to maintain our own wonder+joy+struggle as readers 🤔😊

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Alt: Finger Points to Vintage Books in Library

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Please read this beautiful, beautiful piece everyone! An important reminder of why remembering our "home" as writers is so valuable, personal, and important. Honored to know both of these co-authors and their exceptional work ☺️

Jennifer Tannous@jatannous.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Let’s return to those we trust with our words! @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @thevogelman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theimpor...

At #NCTE26, I’ll be at #poetry roundtables with this crew 🤩: @joelrgarza.bsky.social @rebekahodell1.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social @thereadingzone.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @cayneletizia.bsky.social @xochitlbentley.bsky.social and more!

"People spend entire lives trying to convince themselves they are good." Students can write incredible things and students DO write incredible things (seriously: just zoom in and take it a look!) and too often I think we forget about that when we talk about writing in our classrooms and schools.

In one of our final debate classes this year, I gave new life to a dictionary I salvaged from a trash can with this challenge: Write an aff or neg speech in 15 min using as many words from the torn-out page of the dictionary as you can. An alliterative end-of-year fiesta!

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Beautiful final reflection piece from a student in Creative Writing! I love what students can create when we give them space and freedom to do so 😊 #edusky #teachers #creativewriting

Poem of the Day: “What’s In My Journal” by William Stafford. Add a page torn from a dictionary being discarded from the book room. Take time to survey your own notebook. Write a poem, embedding words from the dictionary page that stretch your thinking or diction. #BlueSkyEdu #poemaday

Love and hate are not the only two reactions people can have to AI. Students are often in the middle, and we can help them use discernment when we get them talking about how and why they use and don’t use AI. Let’s not oversimplify topics…or teenagers! share.inquirer.com/bjkoHn

This Central Bucks English teacher isn’t banning AI. Instead, he’s asking kids how they used it.

A Central Bucks teacher has stepped into a national debate over AI’s role in the classroom playing out in statehouses and universities, and down to local school boards.

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