Rick Wormeli

Teacher, Author, Education Consultant, husband, father, son, brother, grandfather. Former account @rickwormeli - Also over on @rickwormeli.bsky.social.

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

In 2026, let's walk together, finding every opportunity (and make our own if none are found) to hold candid conversations on oppression, to become aware, remain informed, and do the heavy lifting required. Let's find a way to cultivate hope, dismantle despair, summon courage, suppress ego, think critically, extend compassion, and ignite creative endeavor in each of us - You know, 'the stuff of great humanity. There's a wonderful generation coming up, looking for our example; we can do this.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Grief Is a Form of Patriotism, Too.

This 4th of July, many of us won't be waving flags or watching fireworks.
Not because we hate our country, but because we love it too much to pretend everything is fine.🧵

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

“Peps and pals genuinely believe that they are social justice warriors sharing methods for creating orderly classrooms, where the-best-that-has-been-thought-and-said cultural capital can be imparted through a knowledge-rich curriculum taught by highly-educated altruistic teachers”

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[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

@DruTomlin4Edu @FearlessSchools @mccartyann @CreativeLdrSol @AMLE @thebeatles @drcedgray @BoykinBryan @DouglasReeves @AllysonApsey @melsteph0801 @blocht574 @bradmeltzer Hot dog! This must have been great!

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

This morning, the corrupted Supreme Court showed us exactly how far they’re willing to go to expand Trump’s power, giving him control over the very agencies Congress designed to hold the powerful accountable by clearing the way for him to install loyalists who will do his bidding.

This is only possible because the conservative majority was willing to throw away 100-year precedent to achieve its aim of stripping agencies of independence from political interference. This is what is at stake: When you control the agencies that protect workers, consumers, and the environment, you threaten the stability of our markets, the fairness of our enforcement systems, and the trust Americans place in their government.

We must stand up for a government that works for the people, not one corrupt president.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
…
"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The Supreme Court has ruled that the manifestly racist policy of deporting Haitians theoretically might not have been racist on another set of facts aside from the one that actually obtained in our real world. Even by this Supreme Court's standards this is sad and embarrassing—as well as contributory to obvious and avoidable injustice.
https://t.co/W9dxSyvzc0

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The reason I don’t want a “Christian nation” isn’t because I’m against Christianity.

It’s because I’ve studied church history and learned about the horrors caused by the church fusing itself with the empire.

Separation of church and state helps keep Christianity Christian.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The Supreme Court has ruled that the manifestly racist policy of deporting Haitians theoretically might not have been racist on another set of facts aside from the one that actually obtained in our real world. Even by their standards this is sad and embarrassing—as well as contributory to obvious and avoidable injustice.
https://t.co/rgY99pwxs5

[Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley]

After noting that the Supreme Court majority seemed oddly reluctant to include any examples of Trump's "repellent and racially inflected" statements about Haiti in its TPS ruling that downplayed them, Justice Kagan provided some receipts:

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

My new column. I'm just a little fed up with all of the megalomania, cruelty, ignorance, hate, and stupidity animating the country and our public policy and politics right now. https://t.co/j3apzcQWoL

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

A bit of hope amidst surging racism and toxic, anti-DEIA politicking: https://t.co/Q9ggjkS5aI

[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

With the support of our practical guide, professional learning communities will discover a clear road map for implementing a standards-based grading system at the secondary level.

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[The 74 @The74]

Student’s view: There is no substitute for learning to swim. But classroom instruction can protect millions of children who never get swim lessons https://t.co/rsQlhooRqp

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

More people died of Spanish flu than died in WWI. Putting ignorance and politics ahead of science kills soldiers. https://t.co/VdaHGLoIPu

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

Pride night and baseball players' free speech - interesting article re: personal expressions on MLB uniforms: https://t.co/6no5oFEs8F

[Danny Brassell, PhD @DannyBrassell]

Screens need charging, but stories never die. 🔌 No batteries? No problem. A book is the ultimate portable device that never runs out of juice. This weekend, unplug the device and recharge your mind. Get lost in a book. 📚

#LiteracyHacks #ReadingHacks

[FFRF @FFRF]

When a student asks, “Did this really happen?” what is the teacher supposed to do? Explain that many people view it as a religious story, or defend the Bible as historical fact?

Public schools shouldn't be put in that position.

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[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

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[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"It's not enough to read a book to your kid and then sit there looking at your phone. Your kid is going to want to look at a phone if that's what you're doing... children have to see you reading books." Acclaimed novelist Ann Patchett tells me why she's "evangelical" about the importance of reading and protecting books. "Book banning is a terrible thing. And it's an extraordinary waste of time... it takes up the energy that we need to make children safe from guns."