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Kimberly
@kemblyfraggle.bsky.social
“Smart little devil!” -My Gram 😈

English Language Development Teacher 👩‍🏫
Learning every day from my refugee and immigrant students. 🌍

Trauma-Informed & Ally 👊

Proud single parent of well-adjusted, empathetic teens and a semi-feral child. 🥰
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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December 31, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Wow, I never knew he said this.

Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time—a man of unmatched kindness and integrity. Truly, he was too good for us.
December 31, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Make kids read, write, speak, and listen to a language they don’t understand.
Calculate Taylor expansions, come up with explanations of varying plausibility as to why I can drop all terms that are higher than first order.
December 30, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Angry baby kisses on a cozy Sunday. #CatSky
December 30, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Two cats, both alike in dignity… The grinch and the menace.

#CatSky
#ChristmasCats
December 26, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Angry baby chair.
#CatSky
December 22, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Where my teachers at? 🤩
December 21, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Here we go… One step closer to the Handmaid’s Tale. “We’re protecting the children!!”

As a resident of a city near Idaho, if I meet someone in this situation you can bet I’ll break this law 1000%.

Birth is traumatizing. Absolutely not something a minor should be forced into.
As with the persecution of trans people, they just *start* with minors
This week, a federal court ruled that Idaho can enforce its ban on interstate travel for abortion care for minors. www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-...
December 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Today our custodian received this apology letter from a 1st grader. Please enjoy the picture of him cleaning out the urinal. #EduSky
December 10, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Cat shark discovers a wormhole. 🐛 🌌 #CatSky
December 8, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Can we also talk about the multiple jobs teachers hold in order to “afford” paying for healthcare? I have two jobs, I need to find another one, just to afford my house payment, groceries, and gas to travel to work. Health insurance and other deductions take away 1/3 of my paychecks. And… #EduSky
December 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This week’s battle: convincing teachers that their MLLs don’t need to pass spelling tests in order to show grade-level understanding. If you can understand what they are trying to convey, they are right where they should be. Celebrate that.
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The angry baby has reclaimed the tree as his. Waiting for the shark cat to notice and start pestering him. #Caturday
December 7, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Must be terrifying knowing that someone who you’ve never met has the power to destroy your life
December 7, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Sleepy cat shark in her cat tree blanket fort on this cold, rainy Saturday. #Caturday
December 7, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Now that the living room has been moved around to accommodate the Christmas tree, this has become my little nook. This is where I work on assignments, create lessons, and sit just to observe all that is happening around me. This room always has movement between two teens and a 7-year-old.
December 2, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Sleepy shark cat after pestering the angry baby and claiming the tree for herself.
#Caturday
#CatsofBluesky
December 1, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I’ve decided to see if I can get away with a Griswold Family Christmas classroom door. We’ll see if I get away with it…

“Jolliest bunch of students this side of the school district.”

Eye-rollingly stupid? Yes. And why it will bring me so much joy.
November 27, 2024 at 4:20 AM
One of my MLLs told me today that her Dad died on Friday. F.R.I.D.A.Y!!!

And no one knew because her gen. ed. classroom teacher didn’t take her seriously when she told her on Monday. This is what microaggression looks like in action. 👎
November 27, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Without simplifying this text, what could teachers do to make this text more comprehensible for students who can decode?
✔️ guiding question
✔️ synonyms
✔️ images
✔️ teacher caption
✔️ audio
November 21, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Let’s consider how UDL framework supports multilingual learners.

#UDL (CAST, 2016) is an instructional framework commonly used in sp education to design equitable learning environments for ALL learners.

3 core principles:
1. ENGAGE
2. REPRESENT
3. EXPRESS

#ELsky #EduSky
November 24, 2024 at 7:40 PM
This week two of my first-grade MLLs shared stories of kids in kindergarten saying that they don’t play with tan and brown skinned kids. One of them also said that he was told he was less than because he is black. Kids are taught to hate and the damage is done at such a young age.
November 24, 2024 at 5:14 AM