Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)
@naemmanuele.bsky.social
ELA Teacher & Department Chair in Erie, PA | Chair, Conference on English Leadership | President, LitAGE | Adjunct Lecturer, Gannon University | PhD Student, disability and reader identities, University at Buffalo | 🏳️🌈 | he/him/his
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For anyone interested in the scene shortening thing. It’s fun!
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For anyone interested in the scene shortening thing. It’s fun!
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Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
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When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
None of the existing reviews or meta-analyses have focused on personalized learning that accommodates learners’ interests. To address this issue, we conducted this meta-analysis to examine the effects...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
The highlight of class today was our 10-minute nap time. Too many students’ had a “Frown” of “tired” today, so we paused, “napped” with the lights off, then got back to writing argumentative essays.
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The highlight of class today was our 10-minute nap time. Too many students’ had a “Frown” of “tired” today, so we paused, “napped” with the lights off, then got back to writing argumentative essays.
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Going to inscribe @manshel.bsky.social into the American HS canon by assigning this essay to my 11th graders next week
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
The classroom staple turns a hundred.
www.newyorker.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Going to inscribe @manshel.bsky.social into the American HS canon by assigning this essay to my 11th graders next week
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Tonight, @tienpham.bsky.social and I saw The Hunger Games On Stage in London. It was phenomenal—the opening night/days critiques must have all been addressed because we had a glorious night in the theatre! #HungerGames
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Tonight, @tienpham.bsky.social and I saw The Hunger Games On Stage in London. It was phenomenal—the opening night/days critiques must have all been addressed because we had a glorious night in the theatre! #HungerGames
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If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans.
Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.
bookriot.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
I am never pleased with how I give my students through persuasive or argumentative writing. Today, I’m retooling this learning process once again.
October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I am never pleased with how I give my students through persuasive or argumentative writing. Today, I’m retooling this learning process once again.
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"But what I really want to do is to develop in students a determination to comprehend, to recognize when that isn’t happening, to have an awareness of possible sources of that failure, and the tools that would allow them to pierce the veil of the puzzling text."
🗺 ##EduSky
🗺 ##EduSky
Don’t Confuse Reading Comprehension and Learning to Read (and to Reread) | Shanahan on Literacy
This blog entry explains why immediate comprehensibility is the wrong standard for determining a good instructional text. The correct issue is what kind of text is most likely to increase students' re...
www.shanahanonliteracy.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"But what I really want to do is to develop in students a determination to comprehend, to recognize when that isn’t happening, to have an awareness of possible sources of that failure, and the tools that would allow them to pierce the veil of the puzzling text."
🗺 ##EduSky
🗺 ##EduSky
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POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
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Exciting news!
The days are getting darker 😔
How about a replay of a 30 minute webinar with 10 Poetry Pauses for the Dark Days?
Webinar includes a link library to every poem mentioned + use tomorrow lessons to see is through the dark.
movingwriterspd.gumroad.com/l/darkdayspo...
The days are getting darker 😔
How about a replay of a 30 minute webinar with 10 Poetry Pauses for the Dark Days?
Webinar includes a link library to every poem mentioned + use tomorrow lessons to see is through the dark.
movingwriterspd.gumroad.com/l/darkdayspo...
Poetry for the Dark Days
This offering is only available until November 1, 2025. If this time of the year with its short days, long nights, and troubling news stories feels bleak to you, know that you are not alone. Our stude...
movingwriterspd.gumroad.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Exciting news!
The days are getting darker 😔
How about a replay of a 30 minute webinar with 10 Poetry Pauses for the Dark Days?
Webinar includes a link library to every poem mentioned + use tomorrow lessons to see is through the dark.
movingwriterspd.gumroad.com/l/darkdayspo...
The days are getting darker 😔
How about a replay of a 30 minute webinar with 10 Poetry Pauses for the Dark Days?
Webinar includes a link library to every poem mentioned + use tomorrow lessons to see is through the dark.
movingwriterspd.gumroad.com/l/darkdayspo...
Is the demolition of the entire East Wing a similar concern to the “erasing history” of taking down Confederate leader statues? How are public response to these two actions similar or different?
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is the demolition of the entire East Wing a similar concern to the “erasing history” of taking down Confederate leader statues? How are public response to these two actions similar or different?
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Quick, easy, positive, and skill-based.
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Quick, easy, positive, and skill-based.
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
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Your Students Should Be Setting Learning Goals. Tips for Teachers to Make It Happen www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... is new @edweek.org post with @valeriebolling.bsky.social
Your Students Should Be Setting Learning Goals. Tips for Teachers to Make It Happen (Opinion)
In her new book, educator Valerie Bolling offers tips for helping students set and carry out goals.
www.edweek.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Your Students Should Be Setting Learning Goals. Tips for Teachers to Make It Happen www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... is new @edweek.org post with @valeriebolling.bsky.social
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Join us on Thursday with the awesome @lizlietz.bsky.social and @sjeducate.bsky.social to discuss text selection and challenges @naemmanuele.bsky.social @ncte.org 📚📚
Join our constituent group the Conference on English Leadership for a panel and small-group discussions exploring leadership decisions regarding text selection for English classrooms.
All #NCTE members are welcome! https://ncte.org/on-leadership-text-selection/
#EducationLeadership #CEL
All #NCTE members are welcome! https://ncte.org/on-leadership-text-selection/
#EducationLeadership #CEL
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Join us on Thursday with the awesome @lizlietz.bsky.social and @sjeducate.bsky.social to discuss text selection and challenges @naemmanuele.bsky.social @ncte.org 📚📚
I’ve been enjoying the first episode of the Learning Curve podcast.
- We need new metaphors for what AI is and does.
- What does “intelligence” mean?
- Is AI being used to augment or replace our intelligence?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
- We need new metaphors for what AI is and does.
- What does “intelligence” mean?
- Is AI being used to augment or replace our intelligence?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
What Kind of Intelligence Is AI?
Podcast Episode · Learning Curve · 08/19/2025 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I’ve been enjoying the first episode of the Learning Curve podcast.
- We need new metaphors for what AI is and does.
- What does “intelligence” mean?
- Is AI being used to augment or replace our intelligence?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
- We need new metaphors for what AI is and does.
- What does “intelligence” mean?
- Is AI being used to augment or replace our intelligence?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Naviance—our system to upload letters of recommendation for student college applications—has an AI feature right in the system to assist you in writing a letter: pick a tone, give some info, select if you want it to use bullets…
Why are we doing this?
Why are we doing this?
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Naviance—our system to upload letters of recommendation for student college applications—has an AI feature right in the system to assist you in writing a letter: pick a tone, give some info, select if you want it to use bullets…
Why are we doing this?
Why are we doing this?
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Setting up math learning stations doesn’t have to feel overwhelming! By focusing on a few core station types and committing to routines, you can boost engagement and student understanding. 🚀
#MathSky #ITeachMath
#MathSky #ITeachMath
Ensuring That Your Math Learning Stations Are a High-Leverage Routine
By focusing on a few core station types and committing to routines, teachers can boost engagement and student understanding.
edut.to
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Setting up math learning stations doesn’t have to feel overwhelming! By focusing on a few core station types and committing to routines, you can boost engagement and student understanding. 🚀
#MathSky #ITeachMath
#MathSky #ITeachMath
Register for this Thursday's #OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection event, featuring members of @ncte.org's Conference on English Leadership ( #CEL ).
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Register for this Thursday's #OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection event, featuring members of @ncte.org's Conference on English Leadership ( #CEL ).
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
We'll look at policies & practices in supporting teams when selecting texts in English classrooms.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
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"Writing is play. It is my playground, and more kids might write if we treated it that way." - @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social at #AASL25 👏🏻👏🏻Preach!
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Writing is play. It is my playground, and more kids might write if we treated it that way." - @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social at #AASL25 👏🏻👏🏻Preach!
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Hi, all!
A small group of people with long COVID is hosting a virtual rally on Saturday at 2:30 pm Pacific. We recognize that not everyone is able to participate in person, so we started hosting protests online in April.
You can read more here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
1/9
A small group of people with long COVID is hosting a virtual rally on Saturday at 2:30 pm Pacific. We recognize that not everyone is able to participate in person, so we started hosting protests online in April.
You can read more here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
1/9
For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual
"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hi, all!
A small group of people with long COVID is hosting a virtual rally on Saturday at 2:30 pm Pacific. We recognize that not everyone is able to participate in person, so we started hosting protests online in April.
You can read more here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
1/9
A small group of people with long COVID is hosting a virtual rally on Saturday at 2:30 pm Pacific. We recognize that not everyone is able to participate in person, so we started hosting protests online in April.
You can read more here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
1/9
In exploring rhetoric and propaganda techniques in class, we viewed Disney’s 1943 “Education for Death” and then Taco Bell’s 2015 “Routine Republic” short.
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In exploring rhetoric and propaganda techniques in class, we viewed Disney’s 1943 “Education for Death” and then Taco Bell’s 2015 “Routine Republic” short.
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1/4 Does your high school student with a disability get deadline extensions/more time to complete assignments done outside of class?
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1/4 Does your high school student with a disability get deadline extensions/more time to complete assignments done outside of class?
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Some words of wisdom? Comfort? from Merlin in this week’s #TarValonOrBust reading
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some words of wisdom? Comfort? from Merlin in this week’s #TarValonOrBust reading
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academics being asked to attend inane seminars to train students in ai "literacy" whilst chat gpt is introducing sexting
October 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
academics being asked to attend inane seminars to train students in ai "literacy" whilst chat gpt is introducing sexting