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Colleen Kelly

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Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇 https://linktr.ee/colleenkellyauthor

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · Feb 28

I have a free novella coming out 3/25 and just LOOK at the beautiful cover! I love it so much! These are the sweetest, shmoopiest muffins and everyone in #romacelandia should sign up for my newsletter to read about them:

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The cover of a free regency romance novella. A blonde white woman in a blue satin gown with a loose updo looks up at a man in a blue waistcoat. Only his mouth and chin are visible. He holds her hip and she has an open hand against his chest n the title A Midsummer Night’s Duke is centered on the cover and the authors name— Colleen Kelly — is below

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 1d

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Sally is a wizard and a wonder. She deserves her spot atop the seo ladder. No one who spends time with Sally comes away unchanged

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Wait… wait… you managed to avoid reencountering it until *now*? Impressively done

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3d

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d

Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

Teachers are overworked! So let’s pretend that if they use AI, they will save time and then we can hire even fewer of them! Outstanding. Nice work all around.

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Never wished I spoke French more than reading this post (not even when i was in Provence broken asking “will you ship this to New York?” of a very disdainful woman in a pottery shop)

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s as though the modes of thinking intrinsic to the liberal arts have been fracked: excavated from their pedagogical bedrock; processed into generic, blandly adaptable ‘skills’; and then injected back into our curricula and institutions, albeit in a barely recognizable state”

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t like to post student malapropisms because it’s not kind and they’re learning, but “an act with fetal consequences” was too good not to share

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, the College Board has so suborned modern high schools that we willingly knuckle under & sacrifice a whole school day every year so that some combination of 9/10/11th graders can repeatedly take PSATs for 'practice,' and to better integrate them into the College Board's data collection system.

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 8d

Yes. It’s good to be able to identify and summarize arguments (or “main ideas”) but that’s not the same as forming an interpretation

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t want to read too much into this because having been educated in the ‘90s I know that most kids were not fantastic readers of subtle irony then, either. Difference now (maybe) is that k-12 pedagogy has shifted to meet them where they are rather than set a bar many won’t reach as the standard

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 8d

I scored the AP exam prose passage essay a few years ago, which was a Mavis Gallant story excerpt, and maybe 1 in 30 kids (generously) identified the irony in the piece, which was essential to understanding it. Any subtlety in tone is so so hard for them to notice let alone analyze

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 9d

mortified my 14yo son by telling him “you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe, and you’re never ever gonna” in front of his friends and this is what parenting is all about

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10d

Teaching Macbeth to sophomores right now, doing nothing fancy— read or listen to a scene, talk it over speech by speech, follow up on what they find weird or funny or confusing— and it’s going so well. High schoolers LOVE gossiping about toxic relationships

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t think the martinis helped

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 11d

Awwww Taylor loves a dirty joke just as much as I do AND is just as likely to flog it to death

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13d

"'Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide.'"

PEN America warns of rise in books 'systematically removed from school libraries'

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.

www.npr.org

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 13d

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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 13d

[SCREAMS IN NEW JERSEY DESPAIR]

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 13d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 14d

Save me

A school sidewalk with the number 67 written on it in water

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 17d

…. checking next year’s Met schedule

Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 17d

Can any Billy Budd fans confirm?

Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 17d

lovely time at the met production of kavalier and clay; maybe the most dick jokes I’ve ever heard in an opera? especially an English language one?

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