Abby French
@awf1.bsky.social
Exploring and learning.
Class of 2020 ASCD Emerging Leaders
#SelfDeterminedLearning
Class of 2020 ASCD Emerging Leaders
#SelfDeterminedLearning
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Students who wrote short explanations after learning about greenhouse gases outscored their peers by 49% on a follow-up test of comprehension. 🚀
#EduSky
#EduSky
September 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Students who wrote short explanations after learning about greenhouse gases outscored their peers by 49% on a follow-up test of comprehension. 🚀
#EduSky
#EduSky
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Let's replace all US Democratic leadership and all @teamlabouruk.bsky.social leadership. Let's go to what the people need www.tiktok.com/@zohran_k_ma...
One week ago today, we shocked the establishment and redrew the political map of New York City with a campaign relentlessly focused on the needs of working people. Let's break it down.
TikTok video by Zohran Mamdani
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July 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Let's replace all US Democratic leadership and all @teamlabouruk.bsky.social leadership. Let's go to what the people need www.tiktok.com/@zohran_k_ma...
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial Inequality Under the Law? | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial Inequality Under the Law? | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
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June 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial Inequality Under the Law? | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Importance of Teaching and Learning Conditions url:https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/leandro-teaching-and-learning-conditions-brief?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=e16757bffa-LPIMC_MayDeepDive_2025_05_08_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-e16757bffa-223683479
May 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Importance of Teaching and Learning Conditions url:https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/leandro-teaching-and-learning-conditions-brief?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=e16757bffa-LPIMC_MayDeepDive_2025_05_08_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-e16757bffa-223683479
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imagine if showing evidence of learning and using inquiry competencies was an end in mind for assessing and reporting progress- consider how different teaching and learning would be. #Edusky
April 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
imagine if showing evidence of learning and using inquiry competencies was an end in mind for assessing and reporting progress- consider how different teaching and learning would be. #Edusky
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Teachers, we want to hear your strategies and thoughts on student motivation and assessment! 📝🌟
Join the conversation in our #EduInFocus slow chat, hosted by @mrrablin.bsky.social 💬
#EduSky #assessment #StudentEngagement
Join the conversation in our #EduInFocus slow chat, hosted by @mrrablin.bsky.social 💬
#EduSky #assessment #StudentEngagement
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Join in!
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Our LA team has been rewriting our curriculum using Heidi Hayes Jacob's storyboarding approach.
Today, an LA teacher showed me how she's using storyboards for her lesson plans, saying “At a glance, you can see what my class is like. Lesson plans make so much more sense this way.”
#EduSky
Today, an LA teacher showed me how she's using storyboards for her lesson plans, saying “At a glance, you can see what my class is like. Lesson plans make so much more sense this way.”
#EduSky
April 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our LA team has been rewriting our curriculum using Heidi Hayes Jacob's storyboarding approach.
Today, an LA teacher showed me how she's using storyboards for her lesson plans, saying “At a glance, you can see what my class is like. Lesson plans make so much more sense this way.”
#EduSky
Today, an LA teacher showed me how she's using storyboards for her lesson plans, saying “At a glance, you can see what my class is like. Lesson plans make so much more sense this way.”
#EduSky
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It’s a recalibration of economic control.
Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way.
When the dust finally settles, they will own more.
The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way.
When the dust finally settles, they will own more.
The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
April 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s a recalibration of economic control.
Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way.
When the dust finally settles, they will own more.
The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way.
When the dust finally settles, they will own more.
The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
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reading why the very act of trying to get a dyslexic, ADHD kid to square with the normative expectations of school / to learn how to cram their square peg persona into a round hole setting is at odds w human-valued learning
"I’ll say this at the start because some of you might not understand. Yes, I am dyslexic. No, I do not wish I read like you. No, I don’t want to get better at alphabetical decoding or phonics."
medium.com/@irasocol/no...
medium.com/@irasocol/no...
No, I do not wish that my brain was “normal.”
a rant
medium.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
reading why the very act of trying to get a dyslexic, ADHD kid to square with the normative expectations of school / to learn how to cram their square peg persona into a round hole setting is at odds w human-valued learning
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I really need to go to bed but I just keep coming back to the utter and abject failure of imagination that exists in this particular discourse about learning & schooling. My god, people, schooling and learning can look like ten thousand different things and all be good and right and effective!
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March 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I really need to go to bed but I just keep coming back to the utter and abject failure of imagination that exists in this particular discourse about learning & schooling. My god, people, schooling and learning can look like ten thousand different things and all be good and right and effective!
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Managing the push and pull of school leadership with humor www.smartbrief.com/original/man...
#Elevate
#Elevate
Managing the push and pull of school leadership with humor - SmartBrief
With so much to juggle, the best leaders model perseverance but don’t take themselves too seriously, Principal Michael Gaskell writes.
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March 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Managing the push and pull of school leadership with humor www.smartbrief.com/original/man...
#Elevate
#Elevate
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@peterkindfield.bsky.social what better way to learn than forest-centered learning for little humans? Why indigenous peoples understand systems and cycles anchor all of the Earth their respect and understanding of the natural world is sustainability at work #environmentaleducationmatters
February 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@peterkindfield.bsky.social what better way to learn than forest-centered learning for little humans? Why indigenous peoples understand systems and cycles anchor all of the Earth their respect and understanding of the natural world is sustainability at work #environmentaleducationmatters
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Public education is the backbone of American democracy.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
February 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Public education is the backbone of American democracy.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
#EduSkyChat
A3: This past summer I designed an immersive summer academy to offer middle school students an opportunity to explore CTE programs and career paths. We infused hands-on learning activities with field trips to local industries and guest speakers. Just an amazing collaboration.
A3: This past summer I designed an immersive summer academy to offer middle school students an opportunity to explore CTE programs and career paths. We infused hands-on learning activities with field trips to local industries and guest speakers. Just an amazing collaboration.
February 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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A3: This past summer I designed an immersive summer academy to offer middle school students an opportunity to explore CTE programs and career paths. We infused hands-on learning activities with field trips to local industries and guest speakers. Just an amazing collaboration.
A3: This past summer I designed an immersive summer academy to offer middle school students an opportunity to explore CTE programs and career paths. We infused hands-on learning activities with field trips to local industries and guest speakers. Just an amazing collaboration.
#EduSkyChat
A2: Community partners (higher education, economic development orgs., industry, etc) play such a vital role in a strong, responsive, vibrant school community. Our CTE programs, faculty, and students thrive because of the support, guidance, & engagement of these people & businesses.
A2: Community partners (higher education, economic development orgs., industry, etc) play such a vital role in a strong, responsive, vibrant school community. Our CTE programs, faculty, and students thrive because of the support, guidance, & engagement of these people & businesses.
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A2: Community partners (higher education, economic development orgs., industry, etc) play such a vital role in a strong, responsive, vibrant school community. Our CTE programs, faculty, and students thrive because of the support, guidance, & engagement of these people & businesses.
A2: Community partners (higher education, economic development orgs., industry, etc) play such a vital role in a strong, responsive, vibrant school community. Our CTE programs, faculty, and students thrive because of the support, guidance, & engagement of these people & businesses.
#EduSkyChat
A1:
Good evening! I serve as Student Pathways Coach in my school district’s Office of Curriculum & Development. Any chance we can connect student-interest & strengths with possible career pathways, is an incredible opportunity to increase motivation & engagement.
A1:
Good evening! I serve as Student Pathways Coach in my school district’s Office of Curriculum & Development. Any chance we can connect student-interest & strengths with possible career pathways, is an incredible opportunity to increase motivation & engagement.
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
#EduSkyChat
A1:
Good evening! I serve as Student Pathways Coach in my school district’s Office of Curriculum & Development. Any chance we can connect student-interest & strengths with possible career pathways, is an incredible opportunity to increase motivation & engagement.
A1:
Good evening! I serve as Student Pathways Coach in my school district’s Office of Curriculum & Development. Any chance we can connect student-interest & strengths with possible career pathways, is an incredible opportunity to increase motivation & engagement.
#Rethink_Learning
Good evening, friends!
Saw Q1 about resilience in educators, and wanted to share my thoughts.
It’s pretty simple. As an educator, I have an unwritten contract with the students and families I serve.
I must be as courageous as my students.
Good evening, friends!
Saw Q1 about resilience in educators, and wanted to share my thoughts.
It’s pretty simple. As an educator, I have an unwritten contract with the students and families I serve.
I must be as courageous as my students.
February 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
#Rethink_Learning
Good evening, friends!
Saw Q1 about resilience in educators, and wanted to share my thoughts.
It’s pretty simple. As an educator, I have an unwritten contract with the students and families I serve.
I must be as courageous as my students.
Good evening, friends!
Saw Q1 about resilience in educators, and wanted to share my thoughts.
It’s pretty simple. As an educator, I have an unwritten contract with the students and families I serve.
I must be as courageous as my students.
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
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Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
Thinking about schools trying to communicate information and give support to students and families regarding changed immigration policies. 💔
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thinking about schools trying to communicate information and give support to students and families regarding changed immigration policies. 💔