Denise@EducatingMinds
@educatingminds.bsky.social
Teacher(always), education leader, PK-12 strategist. Connecting hearts, minds & ideas to transform education & lives. Unbought & unbossed.
they cutting up what dance 🕺 is this #shortsfeed
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November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A must-read... Whole People Don’t Fit in Broken Systems
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Whole People Don’t Fit in Broken Systems
We keep telling people to heal in environments that keep breaking them. To practice “self-care” in systems built on self-sacrifice.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A must-read... Whole People Don’t Fit in Broken Systems
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If you claim to be an ally or co-conspirator but can’t name a single Black person you’re close to, how do you expect me to believe you?
March 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you claim to be an ally or co-conspirator but can’t name a single Black person you’re close to, how do you expect me to believe you?
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On weekends, I read. Today, I am left w/ these words, "In our cynical world, we have to learn to pay more attention to ourselves & those who are important to us. But we also have to fight injustice and cruelty if we are to hold on to our humanity and...do our part to build a better world."
February 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
On weekends, I read. Today, I am left w/ these words, "In our cynical world, we have to learn to pay more attention to ourselves & those who are important to us. But we also have to fight injustice and cruelty if we are to hold on to our humanity and...do our part to build a better world."
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Brooklyn!
Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers
Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class
Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm
Center for Fiction
RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers
Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class
Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm
Center for Fiction
RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
February 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Brooklyn!
Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers
Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class
Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm
Center for Fiction
RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers
Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class
Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm
Center for Fiction
RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
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Hold your loved ones close. Be the reason someone stays believing the world still has good people in it. I'll be out here doing my best to do the same. 🫂📚🤗
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hold your loved ones close. Be the reason someone stays believing the world still has good people in it. I'll be out here doing my best to do the same. 🫂📚🤗
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🤬 Target has ended DEI goals and I have ended my Target shopping.
Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline at 1-800-541-6838/ email [email protected]
Target's HR Operations Center team at 1-800-394-1885
General Guest inquiries: 1-800-440-0680
Let’s all call at once
Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline at 1-800-541-6838/ email [email protected]
Target's HR Operations Center team at 1-800-394-1885
General Guest inquiries: 1-800-440-0680
Let’s all call at once
January 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🤬 Target has ended DEI goals and I have ended my Target shopping.
Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline at 1-800-541-6838/ email [email protected]
Target's HR Operations Center team at 1-800-394-1885
General Guest inquiries: 1-800-440-0680
Let’s all call at once
Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline at 1-800-541-6838/ email [email protected]
Target's HR Operations Center team at 1-800-394-1885
General Guest inquiries: 1-800-440-0680
Let’s all call at once
-10..and below wind chills is no joking matter. Schools need to stop playing politics & consider well being of children & staff. E-learning or closing for the day is not a sign of weakness. School should not be the sole child care solution. Skip the histrionics about this.
#PeopleOverPolitics
#PeopleOverPolitics
January 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
-10..and below wind chills is no joking matter. Schools need to stop playing politics & consider well being of children & staff. E-learning or closing for the day is not a sign of weakness. School should not be the sole child care solution. Skip the histrionics about this.
#PeopleOverPolitics
#PeopleOverPolitics
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
MLK Jr
MLK Jr
martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech .
Alt: martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech .
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January 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
MLK Jr
MLK Jr
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Agreeing to disagree is for pizza toppings, not racism.
November 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Agreeing to disagree is for pizza toppings, not racism.
So Amazon, Meta, Walmart, Walgreens et al all want us to believe that DEI programs are going away bc systemic inequities no longer exist!? Nevermind the convicted felon being sworn in a few weeks whose wht privilege & entitlement are the only reasons he's bought his way into the office. #hypocrisy
January 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
So Amazon, Meta, Walmart, Walgreens et al all want us to believe that DEI programs are going away bc systemic inequities no longer exist!? Nevermind the convicted felon being sworn in a few weeks whose wht privilege & entitlement are the only reasons he's bought his way into the office. #hypocrisy
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
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You have every right to reevaluate your circles, and distance yourself from people who have revealed their true selves this season. It’s okay to leave toxicity behind and build communities around you in 2025 that lead with love, justice, and truth.
December 29, 2024 at 12:00 AM
You have every right to reevaluate your circles, and distance yourself from people who have revealed their true selves this season. It’s okay to leave toxicity behind and build communities around you in 2025 that lead with love, justice, and truth.
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I want to let my friends/followers know that I care about you.
You're important
& I'm sending hope, light & support your way.
Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988
UK:0800 689 5652
US:1-800-273-8255
Canada:1.833.456.4566
You're important
& I'm sending hope, light & support your way.
Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988
UK:0800 689 5652
US:1-800-273-8255
Canada:1.833.456.4566
Passing on:
It's a tough time of the year.
Could two followers please copy and re-post this message to show that someone is always there? Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
UK: 0800 689 5652
US: 1-800-273-8255
Canada: 1.833.456.4566
It's a tough time of the year.
Could two followers please copy and re-post this message to show that someone is always there? Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
UK: 0800 689 5652
US: 1-800-273-8255
Canada: 1.833.456.4566
December 15, 2024 at 3:30 AM
I want to let my friends/followers know that I care about you.
You're important
& I'm sending hope, light & support your way.
Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988
UK:0800 689 5652
US:1-800-273-8255
Canada:1.833.456.4566
You're important
& I'm sending hope, light & support your way.
Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988
UK:0800 689 5652
US:1-800-273-8255
Canada:1.833.456.4566
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December 10, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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My favorite collection of hers. Her writing was so funny, and so sincerely radiant with love. Even the tough love was tender on the inside.
#NikkiGiovanni
#Ancestor
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#NikkiGiovanni
#Ancestor
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputatio...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:20 AM
My favorite collection of hers. Her writing was so funny, and so sincerely radiant with love. Even the tough love was tender on the inside.
#NikkiGiovanni
#Ancestor
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
#NikkiGiovanni
#Ancestor
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
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"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"
~ James Baldwin, who passed 37 years ago today, and whose voice is needed now more than ever
~ James Baldwin, who passed 37 years ago today, and whose voice is needed now more than ever
December 1, 2024 at 10:07 PM
"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"
~ James Baldwin, who passed 37 years ago today, and whose voice is needed now more than ever
~ James Baldwin, who passed 37 years ago today, and whose voice is needed now more than ever
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Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award.
📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors
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📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors
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Oral History of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
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November 25, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award.
📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors
youtu.be/Zm6zmaERJ3c?...
📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors
youtu.be/Zm6zmaERJ3c?...
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Racists are tragically mediocre people. There is not a single human who ever existed who shared the characteristics of being extraordinary as well as being racist. Because a central driving force behind racism is an inability to cope with mediocrity
November 24, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Racists are tragically mediocre people. There is not a single human who ever existed who shared the characteristics of being extraordinary as well as being racist. Because a central driving force behind racism is an inability to cope with mediocrity
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Every time I come on to this app I hear this song in my head.
My paternal grandmother
loved it. “Blue skies looking at you…”listen: youtu.be/FVz1ATv7vR8
My paternal grandmother
loved it. “Blue skies looking at you…”listen: youtu.be/FVz1ATv7vR8
Maxine Sullivan - Blue Skies
YouTube video by ziontao
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November 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Every time I come on to this app I hear this song in my head.
My paternal grandmother
loved it. “Blue skies looking at you…”listen: youtu.be/FVz1ATv7vR8
My paternal grandmother
loved it. “Blue skies looking at you…”listen: youtu.be/FVz1ATv7vR8
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💔We miss EduTwitter very much.
💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab
🙏Tag & invite other edufriends!
We can figure this app our together.
While we (re)build community.
💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab
🙏Tag & invite other edufriends!
We can figure this app our together.
While we (re)build community.
November 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
💔We miss EduTwitter very much.
💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab
🙏Tag & invite other edufriends!
We can figure this app our together.
While we (re)build community.
💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab
🙏Tag & invite other edufriends!
We can figure this app our together.
While we (re)build community.
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Bernice King is a light that keeps hope alive 🤟
November 13, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Bernice King is a light that keeps hope alive 🤟