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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 5h

This is the meritocracy in action.

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2 resources we talked about:

We Know Something You Don't Know - "We designed our game to foster critical conversations about the structures of schools and the people who navigate them. Our game includes reflection questions to support those conversations."

virginialund.itch.io/we-know-some...

We Know Something You Don't Know by virginialund, karisjones

A tabletop roleplaying game in the Belonging Outside Belonging system.

virginialund.itch.io

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

"Unsilencing Gratia is a TTRPG book designed to be an easy introduction to collaborative storytelling, usable in a classroom setting."

digthisbird.itch.io/unsilencing-...

Unsilencing Gratia by digthisbird

A TTRPG designed for new TTRPG players without a GM. Designed specifically for ELA classrooms, but useable anywhere!

digthisbird.itch.io

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 18h

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS ARE COLLEAGUES AND SHOULD ACT ACCORDINGLY

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 18h

the CLT is creating its own version of AP www.edchoice.org/podcast/stat...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 18h

Conferences, reports, grants—and people with clout and time for it need to be the ones who lead the charge.

Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 18h

There's got to be some way that we can prevent the worst possible people from owning the idea of resistance to the College Board model for advanced high school ed, there's got to be.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

I ended up ordering Tomboy: A Memoir recommended from that site!

mastersreview.com/graphic-memo...

Graphic Memoir – “Tomboy” by Liz Prince - The Masters Review

Tomboy is a charming YA graphic memoir that deals with issues related to bullying and conformity, especially in relation to children who don’t conform to traditional gender roles. Liz Prince writes ab...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

"Unsilencing Gratia is a TTRPG book designed to be an easy introduction to collaborative storytelling, usable in a classroom setting."

digthisbird.itch.io/unsilencing-...

Unsilencing Gratia by digthisbird

A TTRPG designed for new TTRPG players without a GM. Designed specifically for ELA classrooms, but useable anywhere!

digthisbird.itch.io

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

2 resources we talked about:

We Know Something You Don't Know - "We designed our game to foster critical conversations about the structures of schools and the people who navigate them. Our game includes reflection questions to support those conversations."

virginialund.itch.io/we-know-some...

We Know Something You Don't Know by virginialund, karisjones

A tabletop roleplaying game in the Belonging Outside Belonging system.

virginialund.itch.io

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Had an incredibly fun conversation this morning with @nashb.bsky.social, @karismjones.bsky.social, @virginiak.bsky.social, and @mraleosays.bsky.social about game-based literacies, multiliteracies, and their expansive Reader-Player Interactivity Framework!

Figure 1, which approximates a lily pad, signals elements shared by all texts (indicated by
the water, representing the influence of the social and cultural world; the leaf of the lily pad,
representing the socioculturally constructed practices and communities that define normative
interaction with texts; and the center of the lily, representing embodied interaction and the
transactional meaning making that all readers engage in). The petals of the lily represent four
invitations to interact, but are intentionally shown overlapping; the boundaries between these
invitations are porous.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

www.propublica.org

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Neighborhood schools are closing across Arizona. It’s because of vouchers.

"The math is simple: Arizona doesn’t provide enough funding to adequately fund one school system, much less two — a public system open to all and a selective private system." @azmirror.com

azmirror.com/2025/10/06/n...

Neighborhood schools are closing across Arizona. It's because of vouchers.

OPINION: Arizona's $1 billion voucher program is forcing public school closures while subsidizing wealthy families

azmirror.com

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Stories and Totalitarianism by Václav Havel -

"On the surface of things, everything goes on just as it does anywhere else: people work, have fun, make love, die. Beneath this surface a destructive disease is gnawing away.

'Call me when the man dies.'"

matiane.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/s...

Stories and Totalitarianism by Václav Havel

A friend of mine who is heavily asthmatic was sentenced, for political reasons, to several years in prison, where he suffered a great deal because his cellmates smoked and he could scarcely breathe…

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

In this "warzone" the person next to the priest they shot is dancing.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Every American I've known who has received medical or emergency treatment in a country with socialized healthcare sings its praises. Apparently some of them return without internalizing that lesson...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have any good recommendations for middle school nonfiction books about gender norms?

My 10yo loves books like Lumberjanes, The Moth Keeper, A Song for You and I, and many other fiction/graphic novels that explore gender themes, & I'd love to get something that explains them!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

My last 3 years of full-time work would not be possible at all if not for Twitter, though social media in general feels less dynamic and more like a liability these days. The ecosystem is entirely different than it used to be.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to the Captain Planet of our time:

epic handshake meme where one arm reads depression, the other anxiety, and they shake hands on not able to do anything and feeling bad about it the whole time

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.