Matthew R. Kay

Girl Dad, Philly Educator, Author, Columnist, Founder of Philly Slam League, Varsity Coach

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

I am excited to share that Prompting Deeper Discussions is available for pre-order. 🔥

Amazon: https://t.co/SzecMeXUzi

Barnes and Noble: https://t.co/JD7kLFH4jQ

ASCD (will come w/ study guide): https://t.co/9vxQI6w6Z2

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

Coming soon. 🙌🏿

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

The only thing that convinces my 4 y.o. to let us brush her teeth is a google image search of rotten teeth. Which means every morning the first thing safari shows me is rotten teeth

[Kyle Brandt @KyleBrandt]

Your name is sacred. Protect it and ask people to speak it properly.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

I told a group of kids a few days ago, “you know what? I really mess w/ yall. You’re a fun group.”

You would have thought I handed out $5 bills the way they were smiling 😊

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

I just watched this vid about parenting, and I can’t help but see classroom connections…

Loving students is our obligation, but we can’t fumble chances to show students that we LIKE them. That we enjoy spending time with them and find them interesting.

https://t.co/64thAkesqF

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Overlooked reason for the literacy crisis is that media has stopped pushing reading entirely. As recently as the 1990s books were at the center of culture. As kids it was drilled into us that to be successful, you had to read. We need a national campaign to make kids read again.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

My latest column for @ELmagazine. 💯

https://t.co/qK1FWdgG2V

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

“… he didn’t have to help me but he did.” 💯

Aww. Shout out to the real ones.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

This is how we do it

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

This brought a couple of literal joy tears.

[yoxic @yoxics]

Kai Cenat kept having to look up what certain words meant during his reading journey to become a better speaker 😭

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We need to heavily shame and stigmatize using AI for personal writing: texts, eulogies, essays, twitter posts. Letting a machine steal your words is a dangerous habit, that over time will rob you of being able to write or think at all. Writing is for human beings.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

who had massive AJ Brown drops as a (the?) major reason the season ends

[Jon Harper @Jonharper70bd]

One effective solution discussed wasn’t tech-based. It was structured, shared reading time that rebuilds focus and stamina. Simple, deliberate, powerful. Listen.
@aldenejones @Doug_Lemov @DTWillingham @MattRKay @bamradionetwork https://t.co/AKNCEzAWQt #Reading #teachers

[e l l a 🇨🇦 @blondehotcoffee]

bro you will never rewatch that 7 minute video you took of fireworks just live in the moment

[Mike 📺 @michaelcollado]

A good audiobook will have you inventing chores to do.

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Remember that one time that lady said she enjoys a cup of coffee in the garden with her husband and Twitter ATE HER ALIVE!

There is no love here. This is the dark area Mufasa was pointing too.

[Emil DeRosa @emilderosa]

I like in a nonfiction book when all the sudden there's a big break for a pictures section. The author's like "oh by the way these are the guys I was telling you about."

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Each year at the Commemorative Service, I am both Dr. King’s daughter and a citizen of this world—grieving and hoping alongside others.

I hear my mother’s insistence that we institutionalize my father’s work, not just his memory. That is what we strive to do at The King Center.

#KHO26 #Nonviolence365 #MLK #CSK

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

Y'all really want yall babies googling “Santa Claus?”
Anything and everything else magical?

Yall really want them kids infinite scrolling at 8?? Whyyy?

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

Schools are begging parents to “hold the line” on elem kids getting cell phones and I’m genuinely confused about why it’s even a fight.

Childhood already only lasts like 7 seconds. Why the hell yall want to speed it up??? That’s crazy to me