Julie R Wright
@julierwright.bsky.social
High school math teacher & Portland Association of Teachers union rep. #NBCT. She/her. Ms., never Mrs. Living kidney donor (bit.ly/juliewrightkidneydonation).
Thank you for representing many of the rest of us who will be internally screaming along with you! I'm so sorry about what they're doing to the Twin Cities.
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Thank you for representing many of the rest of us who will be internally screaming along with you! I'm so sorry about what they're doing to the Twin Cities.
Informally, seems like it's both ("we're studying radicals"), but I believe more formally it's the symbol (not certain). Here's an example from the IM curriculum:
![Math text quote including "In general, if a is any positive number, then a^1/2 = sqrt(a)... Remember, these expressions that involve the [root] symbol are often referred to as radical expressions."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ih3jlkkbaaskuh77rcdbg2lv/bafkreieh7b2u3nercdqnpp23btcfpkwbyuusg4iw2o2cdqmdhzt6rzlviu@jpeg)
January 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Informally, seems like it's both ("we're studying radicals"), but I believe more formally it's the symbol (not certain). Here's an example from the IM curriculum:
I asked my high school students about their favorite elementary school teachers, and for the ones still working in my district, I'm going to send them an email.
January 17, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I asked my high school students about their favorite elementary school teachers, and for the ones still working in my district, I'm going to send them an email.
@repdexteror.bsky.social, I hope you will represent our district by supporting and/or co-sponsoring the Abolish ICE Act.
January 10, 2026 at 4:14 AM
@repdexteror.bsky.social, I hope you will represent our district by supporting and/or co-sponsoring the Abolish ICE Act.
My personal guess is someone politely asked this guy what his pronouns were and he immediately concluded he was being discriminated against for being cis.
December 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My personal guess is someone politely asked this guy what his pronouns were and he immediately concluded he was being discriminated against for being cis.
@scalzi.com has some hilarious responses to this, if you haven't seen them already
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
@scalzi.com has some hilarious responses to this, if you haven't seen them already
They're both great, but hard to tell about shape without seeing them on.
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
They're both great, but hard to tell about shape without seeing them on.
I mean, probably also true the other way...
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I mean, probably also true the other way...