Amber Salyers
@amsalyers.bsky.social
Passionate K-2 Reading Specialist. Proud Public School Teacher.
Reading Recovery & OG trained. Organic Gardener.
School Gardening Club Leader.
Proud 🏳️🌈 Mom.
Reading Recovery & OG trained. Organic Gardener.
School Gardening Club Leader.
Proud 🏳️🌈 Mom.
Aquilegia and iris are in bloom! 🌱
May 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Aquilegia and iris are in bloom! 🌱
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A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.
February 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.
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This is no small thing:
Banned childrens book from DOD school libraries. Book is about a small 7yr old who eventually embraxes her freckles. She learns how to embrace her differences. (It reflects Julianna Moores experience as a student in a DOD school)
Banned childrens book from DOD school libraries. Book is about a small 7yr old who eventually embraxes her freckles. She learns how to embrace her differences. (It reflects Julianna Moores experience as a student in a DOD school)
February 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is no small thing:
Banned childrens book from DOD school libraries. Book is about a small 7yr old who eventually embraxes her freckles. She learns how to embrace her differences. (It reflects Julianna Moores experience as a student in a DOD school)
Banned childrens book from DOD school libraries. Book is about a small 7yr old who eventually embraxes her freckles. She learns how to embrace her differences. (It reflects Julianna Moores experience as a student in a DOD school)
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
February 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Public education should not be a partisan issue. I have been teaching children for 27 years from a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and incomes. Everyone should want children to learn.
February 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Public education should not be a partisan issue. I have been teaching children for 27 years from a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and incomes. Everyone should want children to learn.
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So proud of our Democratic members of Congress, right now! They’re being blocked from the Dept. of Education—and they’re not having it.
Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!
Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!
February 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So proud of our Democratic members of Congress, right now! They’re being blocked from the Dept. of Education—and they’re not having it.
Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!
Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!
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UPDATE: My colleagues and I were locked out of the Dept. of Education and denied a meeting with Acting Secretary Carter.
February 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
UPDATE: My colleagues and I were locked out of the Dept. of Education and denied a meeting with Acting Secretary Carter.
Title 1 Reading Specialist here trying not to panic. Will my job still be here next year? What will happen to my kids if my role is eliminated? Teaching is hard enough without the sense of dread about the future.
🍎 #EduSky #PrimarySky
🍎 #EduSky #PrimarySky
February 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Title 1 Reading Specialist here trying not to panic. Will my job still be here next year? What will happen to my kids if my role is eliminated? Teaching is hard enough without the sense of dread about the future.
🍎 #EduSky #PrimarySky
🍎 #EduSky #PrimarySky
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Curriculum is set at the state and local level and they have zero way to enforce this bullshit. Not with funding. Not with tests. Nada.
January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Curriculum is set at the state and local level and they have zero way to enforce this bullshit. Not with funding. Not with tests. Nada.
I read the term “word blindness” in a book and had to look up what it meant. I’ve been teaching 27 years and was a bit embarrassed that I didn’t know a literacy term. I learned it’s an old term for dyslexia. Hmm…still learning! #EduSkyPrimary 📚🍎
January 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I read the term “word blindness” in a book and had to look up what it meant. I’ve been teaching 27 years and was a bit embarrassed that I didn’t know a literacy term. I learned it’s an old term for dyslexia. Hmm…still learning! #EduSkyPrimary 📚🍎
Short rib Ragu is cooking away for Christmas Eve. Smells delicious! 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Short rib Ragu is cooking away for Christmas Eve. Smells delicious! 🎄
One of my favorite holiday traditions is my daughter making our family’s Christmas card. ♥️ She’s made one every year since she was 13 and she’s now in Art School. 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 5:14 PM
One of my favorite holiday traditions is my daughter making our family’s Christmas card. ♥️ She’s made one every year since she was 13 and she’s now in Art School. 🎄
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My son’s district switched to Fundations (a science of reading based curriculum) this year. I was asking him how class was going and he said:
I hate it. We used to read books and novels and now all we do is talk about what sounds letters make. I just want to have fun reading.
#EduSky
I hate it. We used to read books and novels and now all we do is talk about what sounds letters make. I just want to have fun reading.
#EduSky
November 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
My son’s district switched to Fundations (a science of reading based curriculum) this year. I was asking him how class was going and he said:
I hate it. We used to read books and novels and now all we do is talk about what sounds letters make. I just want to have fun reading.
#EduSky
I hate it. We used to read books and novels and now all we do is talk about what sounds letters make. I just want to have fun reading.
#EduSky
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Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.
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We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 AM
We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
7/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
7/20
November 30, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
7/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
7/20
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
6/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
6/20
November 27, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
6/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
6/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
5/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
5/20
November 27, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
5/20
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
5/20