Christine Dyer

I wrote in continuation to this piece. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sunflo... Thx, @covingtonedu.bsky.social for the inspiration! 🌻

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

And IT doesn’t get to tell us what is cruel. What are we doing here?

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

"Reading the World" is a new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. We speak with one of its co-directors and a consulting producer.

Wow, I had no idea this was coming out. Thanks to @democracynow.org for amplifying it: youtu.be/Clc1o-34UIo?...

This has gotten worse in the last decade or so. It’s become difficult to talk with people I genuinely like. And the moral binary of typical/divergent has codified into the belief that it’s more important for people to talk than it is for others to feel heard. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I’m engaged in some Foucauldian discourse analysis and this right here is screaming “…principle[s] of [their] own subjection.”

Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.

This essay by a Romanian shows why US/Canadians should read about how people from different cultures observe us and our practices. "Never in my life have I seen people so completely unsupported, even with such a large network of friends." the6thspence.substack.com/p/north-amer...

Pop Syllabus.

New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79

Excellent 🧵

BUT REALLY FOLKS WHEN ARE YOU MAKING LUNCH?!?! #edusky also, as a parent: I'd add going over morning routine with your own kids too!

I wrote about this pattern. The New York Times has been asking how women should change. Today, Scott Galloway is asked about struggling young men and what society can do to help them. Why do we keep asking women to adapt while asking what society can do to help men? msmagazine.com/2026/07/31/n...

It’s often necessary and energizing to mobilize through shared opposition. But this form of solidarity will always stagnate if we can’t also recognize what we love in common and imagine what we hope to build together. As usual, I think the preschool classroom offers some wisdom in finding balance.

Also these are rhetorical questions, fam. I teach classes on Critical Race Theory, and criminalization and abolition in education. I know the answers. If you don't, I suggest you read things. You can start here an oldie but classic: hechingerreport.org/opinion-usin...

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Counting down to our next #literacies chat with Dr. Barrett Rosser ( drbarrettrosser.bsky.social) all about Black Girls' Literacies! Don't miss out!

Please don’t apologize. Your thread is great! 😊

OMG THIS

best thing right now: staying curious about what other teachers are doing in different classrooms, asking questions and engaging in conversation, and figuring this out together. pieces like this? a huge win

Listen, once the consumer tech made us FEEL good/right/in control? Our libidinal desires took over. we are “feeling” our way right into corporate sovereignty and ceremonial government.

SO GOOD

When asked what percentage of their planning time they got to use for grading and planning, nearly half said they got less than 20 percent of what they were supposed to get for that day. www.cultofpedagogy.com/planning-pro...

My latest: I don’t respect America at 250. The only thing I can think of is how America is still a young, spoiled brat of a nation that no one is able to discipline. Foreign writers have been commenting on the US's developmental problems for centuries. karenattiah.substack.com/p/america-ne...

If you’ve ever wanted to see me be bossed around by perhaps the only people alive who can get away with it, boy oh boy, do I have a treat for you:

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)