Nate
@jessenathaniel.bsky.social
Black. Special Education administrator. Holding fast to the belief that education and restorative justice can meet the political moment. Committed to racial justice inside & outside of school.
Beautiful takedown thread of an article that probably shouldn’t have even gotten past an editor’s desk …
Kernels of truths wrapped in layers of distortion and blatant misinformation.
Kernels of truths wrapped in layers of distortion and blatant misinformation.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Beautiful takedown thread of an article that probably shouldn’t have even gotten past an editor’s desk …
Kernels of truths wrapped in layers of distortion and blatant misinformation.
Kernels of truths wrapped in layers of distortion and blatant misinformation.
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This article is why people should learn from neurodivergent people and the disability community before writing. It takes such an ableist tone toward our kids, and the writer seems to have never heard of the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, or the neurodiversity paradigm.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This article is why people should learn from neurodivergent people and the disability community before writing. It takes such an ableist tone toward our kids, and the writer seems to have never heard of the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, or the neurodiversity paradigm.
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
It’s easy to dunk on this, but what’s actually distressing for me is not even the aversion to reading as much as the juxtaposition of “book smarts” and “common sense”. We’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong if people feel THAT alienated from school.
🔥 “Juelz Santana Says Teaching Kids to Read Isn’t Important?! 😳📚” #trendingshorts #dipset
YouTube video by U.P Entertainment
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It’s easy to dunk on this, but what’s actually distressing for me is not even the aversion to reading as much as the juxtaposition of “book smarts” and “common sense”. We’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong if people feel THAT alienated from school.
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Mayor-elect Mamdani is an incredible campaigner and I hope his vision to provide provision for New Yorkers passes city council and gets support in Albany.
That said, endorsing Representative Jeffries to be the next Speaker of the House does nothing to help that. 1/4
That said, endorsing Representative Jeffries to be the next Speaker of the House does nothing to help that. 1/4
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mayor-elect Mamdani is an incredible campaigner and I hope his vision to provide provision for New Yorkers passes city council and gets support in Albany.
That said, endorsing Representative Jeffries to be the next Speaker of the House does nothing to help that. 1/4
That said, endorsing Representative Jeffries to be the next Speaker of the House does nothing to help that. 1/4
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This is an interesting assessment. Maybe that has something to do with it. People look for leadership and if those who are supposed to lead are complicit and also cowardly, people might think that this is the sum of organizing and resistance.
Part of it is that a lot of the elite’s gave up, and are ignoring it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is an interesting assessment. Maybe that has something to do with it. People look for leadership and if those who are supposed to lead are complicit and also cowardly, people might think that this is the sum of organizing and resistance.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Two main thoughts on this:
1. While I largely agree that the lesson plan here is a good model…
2. I very much disagree with the premise that all Ts should do is “previewing, rehearsing, and making sure hand outs are ready.”
There’s a tension there that drives a lot of recent pedagogical debates.
1. While I largely agree that the lesson plan here is a good model…
2. I very much disagree with the premise that all Ts should do is “previewing, rehearsing, and making sure hand outs are ready.”
There’s a tension there that drives a lot of recent pedagogical debates.
The Truth About Lesson Planning
The first truth about lesson planning is a paradox: In a perfect world, it wouldn’t even exist. Designing curriculum and instruction is its own science, and a difficult one at that. When well-desig…
educationrickshaw.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Two main thoughts on this:
1. While I largely agree that the lesson plan here is a good model…
2. I very much disagree with the premise that all Ts should do is “previewing, rehearsing, and making sure hand outs are ready.”
There’s a tension there that drives a lot of recent pedagogical debates.
1. While I largely agree that the lesson plan here is a good model…
2. I very much disagree with the premise that all Ts should do is “previewing, rehearsing, and making sure hand outs are ready.”
There’s a tension there that drives a lot of recent pedagogical debates.
I think this is a piece that’s worthy of consideration by educators across the full K-post-secondary spectrum. It’s my experience that the nature of this current cultural moment in the U.S. is almost forcing kids to ask the questions that the humanities grapple with. And the job market demands it.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I think this is a piece that’s worthy of consideration by educators across the full K-post-secondary spectrum. It’s my experience that the nature of this current cultural moment in the U.S. is almost forcing kids to ask the questions that the humanities grapple with. And the job market demands it.
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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The humanities aren’t “shrinking,” they’ve been deliberately starved of resources for decades and now humanities departments/majors are being shut down by reactionary administrators everywhere. They are not diminishing as some natural process of atrophy or entropy—they’re being smothered and killed.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The humanities aren’t “shrinking,” they’ve been deliberately starved of resources for decades and now humanities departments/majors are being shut down by reactionary administrators everywhere. They are not diminishing as some natural process of atrophy or entropy—they’re being smothered and killed.
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if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist
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I wrote a whole thing on this! (Read it here: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...) But the long and short of it is captured in these paragraphs.
![When people ask me why I decided to go into academia I typically reply that it’s an indoor job with no heavy lifting.
This, of course, is a simplification. I was also depressed. To be more precise, when I was deciding whether or not to go
to grad school I had then-undiagnosed severe recurrent depression [in hindsight I had a lot of sympathy for this lovely
piece Railton, 2015]. Both these were probably the most important factors in trying for graduate school.
In more detail, my primary reason for attending graduate school was that the various jobs I had done before, during, and
after my undergraduate degree were either arduous or entirely unfulfilling. Since I had not really enjoyed pre-university
schooling either, undergraduate philosophy was the one time in my life I had routinely enjoyed the tasks that were my
daily lot, and graduate school seemed a way to perpetuate that feeling. Since I still enjoy my work in the main, I can say
now that this ambition was entirely fulfilled.
What is more, I had a quite erroneous notion that the reason I was so routinely morose was that I had somehow trapped
myself with all my decisions in patterns or habits which, if I could secure a clean break, would simply dissipate into
something happier. Grad school, by offering me a chance to get a visa to some far away land (I mainly applied to
schools in the USA and Australia), seemed a good way of effecting such a change. In fact, those "habits" I was trapped
by amounted to having a supportive network of friends and family who were used to my ways, and moving away from
them prompted a breakdown within a year. But since this in turn led eventually to diagnosis and treatment (facilitated in
no small part by my advisor, Kevin Zollman, going far above and beyond the call of duty to get me help) that at least
allowed me to be reliably functional even this too was a success, by the cunning of reason.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iq6aw4tscf5n5oplggiyjfyl/bafkreic5kikb4x5v6dxxe6va6pq6b2jjprkjevxghefkf2zxljsedi7c4e@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I wrote a whole thing on this! (Read it here: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...) But the long and short of it is captured in these paragraphs.
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also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Playing RISK with the kids and every time we count up the troops they go crazy on 6-7 and it’s just fueling my quest for global domination
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Playing RISK with the kids and every time we count up the troops they go crazy on 6-7 and it’s just fueling my quest for global domination
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me waking up and opening this app
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
me waking up and opening this app
Really been thinking a lot about this issue of we should lead with rich, complex texts/concepts to make meaning of and weave standards into that vs starting with standards and finding aligned books. It’s totally doable and worth the effort! And Melissa & Lori are doing a great job tackling the issue
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Really been thinking a lot about this issue of we should lead with rich, complex texts/concepts to make meaning of and weave standards into that vs starting with standards and finding aligned books. It’s totally doable and worth the effort! And Melissa & Lori are doing a great job tackling the issue
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Problems Surrounding Amplify’s Core Knowledge Language Arts to Teach Reading, @nancyebailey.bsky.social:
"The [New York Committee] committee also expressed 'alarm regarding the detrimental impact of highly paced and scripted lessons…' on English language learners and special education students."
"The [New York Committee] committee also expressed 'alarm regarding the detrimental impact of highly paced and scripted lessons…' on English language learners and special education students."
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Problems Surrounding Amplify’s Core Knowledge Language Arts to Teach Reading, @nancyebailey.bsky.social:
"The [New York Committee] committee also expressed 'alarm regarding the detrimental impact of highly paced and scripted lessons…' on English language learners and special education students."
"The [New York Committee] committee also expressed 'alarm regarding the detrimental impact of highly paced and scripted lessons…' on English language learners and special education students."
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”
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 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”
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Barack Obama *ILL-ADVISEDLY* ran against Bobby Rush in 2000. He lost by 30%. Many of us absolutely knew he would lose at the time in Chicago. 3 years later he was running for Senate. Anyway, "waiting your turn" in politics is ridiculous. You run when you want to run & failure is fine.
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Barack Obama *ILL-ADVISEDLY* ran against Bobby Rush in 2000. He lost by 30%. Many of us absolutely knew he would lose at the time in Chicago. 3 years later he was running for Senate. Anyway, "waiting your turn" in politics is ridiculous. You run when you want to run & failure is fine.
Not a historian, but I have taught US history and never really take my teacher hat off… and I tend to agree.
It was hard for me to ignore that I’d have a hard time using this as a HS teaching tool because it moves so quickly past major events/figures that it would be hard to latch on to anything.
It was hard for me to ignore that I’d have a hard time using this as a HS teaching tool because it moves so quickly past major events/figures that it would be hard to latch on to anything.
Quick review of Ken Burns' American Revolution...it was just too fast. Tried to do too much too quickly.
Hit some key points, with some different perspectives, but lacked depth and nuance.
#HATM
Hit some key points, with some different perspectives, but lacked depth and nuance.
#HATM
a close up of a man 's face with a bloody wound on his forehead .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a bloody wound on his forehead .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Not a historian, but I have taught US history and never really take my teacher hat off… and I tend to agree.
It was hard for me to ignore that I’d have a hard time using this as a HS teaching tool because it moves so quickly past major events/figures that it would be hard to latch on to anything.
It was hard for me to ignore that I’d have a hard time using this as a HS teaching tool because it moves so quickly past major events/figures that it would be hard to latch on to anything.
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The central problem that emerged in Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution is that while he wants to integrate a wide range of voices and the historians responsible for this broader perspective, he refuses to allow it to disrupt a traditional and familiar narrative. 🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The central problem that emerged in Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution is that while he wants to integrate a wide range of voices and the historians responsible for this broader perspective, he refuses to allow it to disrupt a traditional and familiar narrative. 🗃️