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Alex Shevrin Venet

@asv.bsky.social

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Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Working on a memoir!

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · Jul 28

Did you know that I wrote some books for teachers and you should read them? I wrote them as a call to take action and transform schools with mental health and wellbeing in mind. I'd love if you checked them out.

www.unconditionallearning.org/books

two books on a bookstore shelf, both by Alex Shevrin Venet: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education and Becoming an Everyday Changemaker

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 45m

My pay-what-you-can workshops are back after a lil fall hiatus! Teachers, join me to chat about unconditional positive regard in hard times: www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...

Register – Sustaining care for the kids (and coworkers) who challenge us the most: unconditional positive regard in tough times – Zoom

Sustaining care for the kids (and coworkers) who challenge us the most: unconditional positive regard in tough times – Zoom, Mon Oct 20, 2025 - In a trauma-informed school community, we stay in commun...

www.tickettailor.com

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2h

Has anyone written about why exactly that AI font is so ugly? I can't explain why I recoil when I see it but I know there's a font expert out there who can.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 20h

Right? 💜💜💜

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 20h

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 20h

May the rain tonight wash away all these damn box elder bugs 🙏

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

This was sooooo fun!!! It's truly amazing to think about the sole dude who created Stardew Valley making the entire game by himself AND the original composition of all the music. Sounded great in orchestral arrangements!

An orchestra standing on stage beneath a screen with a graphic for Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh I would love to revisit this text

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations? I just started it but it's so great so far. Caregiver engagement/literacy focus.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

You can mention being featured on Edutopia/elsewhere as a model of best practices!

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 3d

People sometimes ask me if it's nice to live with a pianist and hear him practicing music all the time. But he plays on his keyboard with headphones on so actually what I hear is THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my goodness Margery I'm so sorry. Thinking of you.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

The handshake in the showstopper made no sense to me

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

ABOLISH ICE.

Pass it on.

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

My official statement on TLOAS: I can think something is objectively not very good art but still enjoy myself experiencing it. Both/and 🤣

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db (metallidan) @daninabox.com · 4d

Payday is usually a good day to ask for a few dollars more. I'm $310 away from goal with 5 days left to fundraise. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far! You rock!! fundraisers.nyrr.org/dan-barnes

NYRR TFK TCS Marathon

Please join me in supporting Team for Kids at the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon. Team for kids is a team of adult runners who raise funds to support New York Road Runners youth and community program...

fundraisers.nyrr.org

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

thanks I'm really excited ☺️ It's so fun to reconnect to creative parts of myself I'd neglected!

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

My main genre from childhood through college was poetry but I hadn't written a poem in probably 10+ years. This summer I was in a multi-genre workshop group and it inspired me to start writing poems again. One just got accepted to @flaremagazine.bsky.social (coming out at the end of the month) 🥰

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 13

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder that if you're not able to fast on Yom Kippur for any reason -- and mental health is a health reason -- it's regarded as a MITZVAH to eat.

Resources and more here:

Home | A Mitzvah to Eat

At A Mitzvah to Eat, we empower Jews needing ritual accommodations to safely connect to sacred Jewish practice and community. We provide resources, support, and advocacy for these Jews, as well as the...

www.amitzvahtoeat.org

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 6d

my cat is still upset about her (routine) vet visit yesterday and girl I understand. I also need several days to recover from going to the doctor.

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 7d

@ligerlillie.bsky.social just read your poem in FLARE (flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/on-a-shower-...) and wowwwww absolutely loved it

“On a Shower Chair” by Lillian Hochwender

Back to the downpour,it is a mercy to be heldafter decades of ablutionsspent stood with my rip-roaring motorcarheart, skin lobster-red,vision washed outas if overexposed— decades of thinkingthis is…

flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com

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Felonious Monk 📚 @thefeloniousmonk.com · 7d

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 7d

It's not my business whether/how he observes. But to schedule things in a way that excludes the fans who experience the same other-ness that you did...not great. Again, is it a huge deal? Nah. But what else is social media for but venting about small deals? lol

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 7d

This is so unimportant in the grand scheme of things but I'm so annoyed that Noah Kahan, who KNOWS what it's like to be one of very few Jews in VT, scheduled a rare show in VT...on Yom Kippur.

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Ben @liquidgelcaps.bsky.social · 9d

"Their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."

Indeed. They'd prefer we just die off.

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 9d

For the November/December issue of @motherjones.com, I dove into the history of the word "able-bodied"—including how it's been harmful to disabled Americans since the 1930s and it most certainly will be when Medicaid work reqs come into play again. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge

How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

www.motherjones.com

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