Lisa Ann Gates
@cohslgates.bsky.social
Retired teacher but not retired from the world of life, learning, and education
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"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
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"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
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This morning I am envisioning a kinder and happier world 💛 💜
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This morning I am envisioning a kinder and happier world 💛 💜
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"Both things can be true. Students are becoming more skilled at extracting value from AI while simultaneously becoming more dependent on it."
A piece built entirely around conversations with students about AI? Must-read of the morning:
fitzyhistory.substack.com/p/ai-convers...
A piece built entirely around conversations with students about AI? Must-read of the morning:
fitzyhistory.substack.com/p/ai-convers...
AI Conversations Behind Closed Doors
Student Focus Groups Reveal What's Actually Happening
fitzyhistory.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Both things can be true. Students are becoming more skilled at extracting value from AI while simultaneously becoming more dependent on it."
A piece built entirely around conversations with students about AI? Must-read of the morning:
fitzyhistory.substack.com/p/ai-convers...
A piece built entirely around conversations with students about AI? Must-read of the morning:
fitzyhistory.substack.com/p/ai-convers...
I am not a luddite, but AI is becoming more and more of an anathema to me.
Pair this article with Bruce Holsinger's novel Culpability.
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Pair this article with Bruce Holsinger's novel Culpability.
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Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.
A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.
wapo.st
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I am not a luddite, but AI is becoming more and more of an anathema to me.
Pair this article with Bruce Holsinger's novel Culpability.
Gift article
wapo.st/4scolDU
Pair this article with Bruce Holsinger's novel Culpability.
Gift article
wapo.st/4scolDU
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Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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An important step in turning charter schools into private schools and further weakening the public schools.
'A parallel system': Miami-Dade school district to be cut out of decisions about charter schools
Miami Dade College will soon begin to authorize new charter schools, according to a presentation reviewed by WLRN, cutting out the school district. “If it's going to be funded by public dollars, in my...
www.wlrn.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
An important step in turning charter schools into private schools and further weakening the public schools.
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To keep things simple: I am an English teacher, and having made a love of words and of learning into a career, I cannot avoid seeing how AI is being deployed as anything less than a profound assault on things I hold dear.
December 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
To keep things simple: I am an English teacher, and having made a love of words and of learning into a career, I cannot avoid seeing how AI is being deployed as anything less than a profound assault on things I hold dear.
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Same Macbeth, to me, but all valor has been lost. He has been a leader and killer of men, cunning and cool. Yet, when he becomes a murderer, he gives into the darkest of those impulses that made him a great warrior & in so doing is undone. This why he is so wary before the deed. His slide has begun
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I swear that I love books so much, and I hate feeling like a pedant, but The Discourse™️ today makes me feel like I have to remind folks: books are necessary but insufficient for transformative teaching. We can’t talk about the “what” absent the “how”!
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Books Cannot Not Save English (Part 1)
Why literature is necessary but insufficient for transformative teaching
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I swear that I love books so much, and I hate feeling like a pedant, but The Discourse™️ today makes me feel like I have to remind folks: books are necessary but insufficient for transformative teaching. We can’t talk about the “what” absent the “how”!
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
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“The robots are here. And they’re not even cool. Instead, they’re harbingers of a soulless dystopia architected by the jaundiced men who bought the presidency. They’re death doulas for the middle class.”
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“The robots are here. And they’re not even cool. Instead, they’re harbingers of a soulless dystopia architected by the jaundiced men who bought the presidency. They’re death doulas for the middle class.”
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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“The way we allocate time in the classroom is an expression of our values.” @marcusluther.bsky.social
Yes! #TeacherSky
Yes! #TeacherSky
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“The way we allocate time in the classroom is an expression of our values.” @marcusluther.bsky.social
Yes! #TeacherSky
Yes! #TeacherSky
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Today in Feature, Not Bug
“'There's no reason for them to set it up this way if they were really trying to prioritize low-income families,' he said."
“'There's no reason for them to set it up this way if they were really trying to prioritize low-income families,' he said."
Texas voucher timeline discrepancy may box out low-income families, experts say
Many of the most elite private schools in the Houston area will close their applications months before the school voucher program is slated to open. What does that mean for families?
www.houstonchronicle.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today in Feature, Not Bug
“'There's no reason for them to set it up this way if they were really trying to prioritize low-income families,' he said."
“'There's no reason for them to set it up this way if they were really trying to prioritize low-income families,' he said."
My heart breaks for the loss of this man and his voice. I am so glad that I have so many wonderful concert memories to cherish.
Raul Malo, the operatic vocalist and co-founder of the Grammy-winning, Latin-tinged country band the Mavericks, has died at age 60.
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My heart breaks for the loss of this man and his voice. I am so glad that I have so many wonderful concert memories to cherish.
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The Sanctity of Literacy
Reading is a magical, communal experience
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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“Reading became a means to a standardized (and fundable) end, not the magical mana that makes us more fully human.”
When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/the-sancti...
When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/the-sancti...
The Sanctity of Literacy
Reading is a magical, communal experience
adrianneibauer.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Reading became a means to a standardized (and fundable) end, not the magical mana that makes us more fully human.”
When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/the-sancti...
When you read something on Monday and realize it’s going to be the best thing you read all week.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/the-sancti...
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Simple step to better today.
Revive your why.
Revive your why.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Simple step to better today.
Revive your why.
Revive your why.
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Excited to have our work on digital texts & how to teach them recognized by NTLI! Whether you’re an English teacher, professor, teacher educator, or literacy scholar, our database is a great resource to explore new digital genres and forms.
reminiscent-attention-b9e.notion.site/HackYourStac...
reminiscent-attention-b9e.notion.site/HackYourStac...
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Excited to have our work on digital texts & how to teach them recognized by NTLI! Whether you’re an English teacher, professor, teacher educator, or literacy scholar, our database is a great resource to explore new digital genres and forms.
reminiscent-attention-b9e.notion.site/HackYourStac...
reminiscent-attention-b9e.notion.site/HackYourStac...
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As younger children spend more time on YouTube, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies
As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As younger children spend more time on YouTube, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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"The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for 'authenticity' in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said."
My brain is being poisoned by too much irony in my diet.
My brain is being poisoned by too much irony in my diet.
AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions
Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read those es...
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for 'authenticity' in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said."
My brain is being poisoned by too much irony in my diet.
My brain is being poisoned by too much irony in my diet.
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Some days, especially during this distracting time of the year, you need something fun for students to do. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky
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Adrian's Top Five
Five activities for those days when you just need to fill time.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some days, especially during this distracting time of the year, you need something fun for students to do. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky
open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...
open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...
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When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
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Re-reading the play as a middle aged woman I have a much more complex appreciation of Lady Macbeth. While my students write her off as evil very quickly I'm like "now don't be so hasty..." The conversations we have about the lack of power women had for themselves back then are really rich.
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Re-reading the play as a middle aged woman I have a much more complex appreciation of Lady Macbeth. While my students write her off as evil very quickly I'm like "now don't be so hasty..." The conversations we have about the lack of power women had for themselves back then are really rich.
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Laughing in high school teacher.
“I will allow my son to use ChatGPT and similar tools at some point. But when I do, I plan to show him how to fact-check the sources the A.I. has provided, and make sure he understands that computers often ‘learn‘ the wrong thing from online sources.”
#GiftArticle
“I will allow my son to use ChatGPT and similar tools at some point. But when I do, I plan to show him how to fact-check the sources the A.I. has provided, and make sure he understands that computers often ‘learn‘ the wrong thing from online sources.”
#GiftArticle
Opinion | How to Prepare Your Kids for the A.I. Revolution
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Laughing in high school teacher.
“I will allow my son to use ChatGPT and similar tools at some point. But when I do, I plan to show him how to fact-check the sources the A.I. has provided, and make sure he understands that computers often ‘learn‘ the wrong thing from online sources.”
#GiftArticle
“I will allow my son to use ChatGPT and similar tools at some point. But when I do, I plan to show him how to fact-check the sources the A.I. has provided, and make sure he understands that computers often ‘learn‘ the wrong thing from online sources.”
#GiftArticle