Dave Schultz (she/her)
@imeanwegotguys.bsky.social
HS Social Studies teacher of 24 years | Principal intern | Reader | Artist | Washingtonian | Local union president
“ I don’t think it can be ignored that we don’t live in a society that typically regards teachers as intellectuals”
This part.
This part.
I don’t have answers to this dilemma — the specific point was about those who teach reading/lit finding time to read, which is part and parcel to me — but I don’t think it can be ignored that we don’t live in a society that typically regards teachers as intellectuals and the system reflects that.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“ I don’t think it can be ignored that we don’t live in a society that typically regards teachers as intellectuals”
This part.
This part.
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I wonder if that's not the problem: When teachers aren't encouraged to see themselves as intellectuals, it's a lot harder to encourage students to see themselves that way.
Almost all of our PD is one and done. Small cohorts get something longer. I wish we could change all the things. All of it.
Almost all of our PD is one and done. Small cohorts get something longer. I wish we could change all the things. All of it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I wonder if that's not the problem: When teachers aren't encouraged to see themselves as intellectuals, it's a lot harder to encourage students to see themselves that way.
Almost all of our PD is one and done. Small cohorts get something longer. I wish we could change all the things. All of it.
Almost all of our PD is one and done. Small cohorts get something longer. I wish we could change all the things. All of it.
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Predicability, flexibility, connection and empowerment help to reestablish safety. Days after break: reset routines/norms, provide choices for engagement, reestablish feeling of "I see you & care about you," and encourage students to self-assess needs/set goals for the weeks ahead.
Pedagogically,
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Predicability, flexibility, connection and empowerment help to reestablish safety. Days after break: reset routines/norms, provide choices for engagement, reestablish feeling of "I see you & care about you," and encourage students to self-assess needs/set goals for the weeks ahead.
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Pedagogically,
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pedagogically,
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
I don’t like forcing students do ‘rigorous’ things the days after long breaks. There’s often a feeling of malaise and a lot of trauma and we gotta make class a safe space again.
Community-building through conversation and games is how I re-enter the home stretch of the year.
🆒🆒🆒
⚠️ BREAKING:
Scientists Warn H5N1 Bird Flu Is Mutating Faster Than Ever
The virus is spreading across the world and mutating into an expanding family of viral strains unlike anything seen before.
Scientists Warn H5N1 Bird Flu Is Mutating Faster Than Ever
The virus is spreading across the world and mutating into an expanding family of viral strains unlike anything seen before.
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🆒🆒🆒
I deep cleaned my air fryer and now everything tastes like soap. 🤮
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I deep cleaned my air fryer and now everything tastes like soap. 🤮
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Even if you haven’t been masking, even if you’re a little embarrassed, no matter what the circumstances, masking in the airport and on the plane can keep everyone safer, including you, your loved ones & everyone you don’t know too! And bonus-hides judgy facial expressions. Mask up!
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Even if you haven’t been masking, even if you’re a little embarrassed, no matter what the circumstances, masking in the airport and on the plane can keep everyone safer, including you, your loved ones & everyone you don’t know too! And bonus-hides judgy facial expressions. Mask up!
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Yes.
No real history education + limited access to books + dependence on algorithms + the rise of AI = an easily manipulated and controlled citizenry
No real history education + limited access to books + dependence on algorithms + the rise of AI = an easily manipulated and controlled citizenry
I feel like a lot of us were privileged to be among the last generation to be able to learn under the 60's civil rights generation. What im seeing today from this newer generation of children is a serious lack of grounding, which i think is due to them not having direct access to the type of
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Yes.
No real history education + limited access to books + dependence on algorithms + the rise of AI = an easily manipulated and controlled citizenry
No real history education + limited access to books + dependence on algorithms + the rise of AI = an easily manipulated and controlled citizenry
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This.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This.
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This is depressing, as a high school teacher on the front lines of *all this* and trying to help kids actually learn, but the system, including the school district, is encouraging/pushing them otherwise.
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This is depressing, as a high school teacher on the front lines of *all this* and trying to help kids actually learn, but the system, including the school district, is encouraging/pushing them otherwise.
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Teaching has costs and problems aplenty, but at least I know that every time I go in and all the hours of work are aimed at providing a social good to others directly and primarily rather than making some CEO or stock picker richer.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Teaching has costs and problems aplenty, but at least I know that every time I go in and all the hours of work are aimed at providing a social good to others directly and primarily rather than making some CEO or stock picker richer.
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The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
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@lyz.bsky.social is right: one thing the Epstein fiasco has demonstrated clearly is that #MeToo did not go nearly far enough.
#MeToo Didn't Go Far Enough | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
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November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@lyz.bsky.social is right: one thing the Epstein fiasco has demonstrated clearly is that #MeToo did not go nearly far enough.
Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
By The Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow…
By The Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow…
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
By The Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow…
By The Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow…
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
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Tech bros love eugenics.
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Tech bros love eugenics.
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Because it's apparently Double Hot Take Friday, I think it would be a net positive for education and kids if we replaced 50% of packets with additional recess time.
I'd argue more learning time has been lost over the last decade through the slow bleed of pointless packets and inauthentic desk work than any other classroom practice. Guilty as charged, btw.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Because it's apparently Double Hot Take Friday, I think it would be a net positive for education and kids if we replaced 50% of packets with additional recess time.
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This is spot on. I spend so much of my day policing student with their laptops. #TeacherSky
So glad to see more teachers voices being elevated on issues they know best -- and to see screens in schools getting attention while AI mania is being pushed on K-12.
Kindergartners With Chromebooks: 350 Teachers on How Screens Took Over School
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is spot on. I spend so much of my day policing student with their laptops. #TeacherSky
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Here is my argument that the pundits are wrong. You absolutely can run a socialist in middle America and win. www.patreon.com/posts/143343...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Here is my argument that the pundits are wrong. You absolutely can run a socialist in middle America and win. www.patreon.com/posts/143343...