@Ms_PEnglish

The mind will not be educated at the expense of the heart. -- Bl. Basil Anthony Moreau, C.S.C.

Joined September 2012
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In this house, we use the Oxford comma.
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” Remembering #JamesBaldwin on his 101st birthday.
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The four separate parishes where I was baptized, made my First Communion, confirmed, and had all three of my children baptized have all had major fires.
Moon Dragon
@frozenaesthetic1 Apr 2025
Share a piece of lore about yourself
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Happy Independence Day to my friends across the pond. And for the record, it’s written “red, white, and blue.”
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#ReThinkMLK Before sharing another quote from my father or asserting what he would stand for or against today: 1. Read/re-read #LetterFromBirminghamJail: africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Ge… 2. Listen/re-listen to #TheOtherAmerica: youtu.be/dOWDtDUKz-U?si=6rOF… 3. Listen/re-listen to #BeyondVietnam: #ATimeToBreakSilence: youtu.be/AJhgXKGldUk?si=l1js… Share new insight/learning in the comments. Share this challenge. #MLK #LessonsLearned #MLKToday
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Truth, justice, and the Oxford comma are always worth fighting for.
krista
@kristabellerina19 Jun 2025
My kid got into a fight with another kid at school but that’s okay because she was defending the Oxford comma.
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Outsourcing your thinking has deep implications for your learning. Even when it's something as simple as knowing how to cite sources correctly in a particular style, if you don't know generally what it should look like, you don't have any idea what could be incorrect.
Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle1713 Mar 2025
I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.
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Tonight, the door of hope has opened wide to the world. Tonight, God speaks to each of us and says: there is hope also for you! #Christmas #Jubilee2025
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witness it 🕯️
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A tiny thing that my students and I do, but one that makes a difference, is thanking each other at the end of a class. That small practice of gratitude for each other and the work we do together is a good reminder of the gifts of teaching and learning.
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Sometimes the universe just lavishes beauty on a tiny spot.
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We don't get a long fall in Atlanta, but we do have a lovely one.
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Everyone’s arguing about what adults should or shouldn’t read. “Don’t read kids’ books.” “Read the classics.” Read both. Read widely. Read for knowledge and pleasure, read for the joy of a good story, read for wisdom and escape, read for no reason at all. Just read.
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A strangely moving plaque in the cloisters of Durham cathedral- of particular interest to Americans
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Period 2 doing a gallery walk with "Letter from Birmingham Jail" annotations.
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If you don't know the story of the 9/11 maritime evacuation of Lower Manhattan, watch the short documentary Boatlift (available online). I show it every year to my classes and the sheer decency and goodness of ordinary people gets me every time.
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Starting year 22 in the classroom in the morning. Still going to have weird pre-first-day dreams tonight.
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reading books is not enough, I need to see them dramatically reenacted by a Jack Russell terrier in full costume
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Every AI conversation in rhet/comp must wrestle with this problem: Until AI language models are built exclusively on public domain work, there is *no* ethical way to use them. They're built w/the stolen work of countless struggling writers and artists, who we exploit w/each use.
Drew McWeeny@DrewMcWeeny12 Apr 2024
Every time an AI company complains that they would be bankrupted if they had to actually pay artists for the art they're dumping into their shitty generative engines, it just makes me root even harder for their complete and utter bankruptcy to actually happen.
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Me too. See also: correcting every single error in student writing. My proficiency as a copyeditor had no effect on student learning!
Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn6 Mar 2024
I used to assume I was a good teacher because I knew what I was talking about, I enjoyed what I was talking about, and I was a good talker. Only much later did I realize the problem was my assumption that teaching mostly involves talking (& my tendency to do way too much of it).
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