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@aerinbender.bsky.social

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Overeducated (grad degrees x 2) teacher, writer, TEDx speaker, trained theologian. Liberal, cerebral, sapiosexual. Single mom, neurodivergent, perimenopausal, living by books and wit. “No coward soul is mine.” 🌱☕

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Women are taught to ignore the dashboard until the engine melts.

Dashboard
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Dashboard

Midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s the moment the warning lights finally become undeniable.

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Women are taught to ignore the dashboard until the engine melts.

Dashboard
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Dashboard

Midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s the moment the warning lights finally become undeniable.

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🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · 3d

Riddle: what is an introvert's most nightmarish holiday?

Answer: Halloween.

Not at all because of the ghoulish costumes or spooky decor, but because there are strangers coming to your door, asking for things, and requiring you to make eye contact.

Hard Pass.

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They call it prompt fatigue.
I call it Tuesday.
Teachers know the feeling.

#Teaching #AIintheClassroom #TeacherLife #PromptFatigue #Burnout

Prompt Fatigue
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Prompt Fatigue

They said AI would lighten the load. It did—by handing me a different shovel. Somewhere under the promise of progress, I think I lost my weekend.

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If you’ve ever tried to keep showing up when everything feels impossible — teaching, parenting, healing, or just being human — this one’s for you.

Go. Read. Share. Remind the world that even half-broken, we still show up whole.

Teaching With One Hand
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Teaching With One Hand

Learning patience, presence, and punctuation — one comma at a time.

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🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · 16d

When the writer can’t write, the teacher still teaches.
Dictation, healing, and the sound of showing up anyway.

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A high school teacher reflects on conferences, complaints, and the quiet hope that keeps curiosity alive in modern classrooms.

#parentteacherconferences #teacherperspective #modernteens #classroomstories #educationwriting #teacherreflection #curiosityineducation

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Conferences, Curiosities, and the Case of the Modern Teen

Five curiosities from a teacher who’s measured by data but fueled by meaning

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Can't you just mute "#MAGA" for that?

🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · 27d

And she has such lovely jewelry....

(Sorry. I didn't know what else to add to all the outrage. It's utterly and overwhelming so disgusting. I just want to lift up Congresswoman Grijalva in every tiny way possible.)

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The students in my classroom aren’t just tired — they’re running the same race their parents are losing. I keep wondering what happens to a country when its children stop believing in the finish line.

#Teachers #AmericanDream #Exhaustion #SubstackWriters

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🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · Oct 2

My energy

(Although, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social, the potato one is pretty perfect. Def. my favorite)

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My energy

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My energy

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My energy

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My energy

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My energy

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a black and white photo of a kitten sleeping on a blanket .

ALT: a black and white photo of a kitten sleeping on a blanket .

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🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · Oct 2

Dear @joyful3.bsky.social - your voice was the one I needed to hear today. Thank you.

🅐🅔🅡🅘🅝⒭⒪⒮⒠🌱☕ @aerinbender.bsky.social · Sep 30

My brain turned a lost key, a semicolon, and an ex-boyfriend into a full Broadway production. Spoiler: it was not a hit show..

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Everything Is a Crisis (According to My Brain)

Written between acting classes at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and dedicated to Laura, who taught me theatre better than my brain’s panic musicals ever could.

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