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.

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

@JoshKunnath Sure hope so, Josh! Thanks!

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

In case it will help: The two-day accurate, ethical grading seminars are back! We have three locations around the nation: October 6th & 7th, 2026 in Naperville, IL; February 2nd & 3rd, 2027 in Reston, VA; February 23rd & 24th, 2027 in Albuquerque, NM. The first day is on accurate, ethical, and fair grading practices, and the second day is on how to shift the culture and practices of faculties, including ourselves, for such practices. It's for teachers, leaders, coaches, college/university professors working with teachers, school board members, and interested parents. And hey, it's still one of the less expensive, 2-day seminars on grading you'll find, and we include lunch! For specific details go to: https://t.co/Jf7zHgnZGf

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Notice how it's always "America was founded on Christian principles!" until it comes to welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving our neighbors.

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

New, Two-day seminar on accurate, ethical grading practices (Day 1) and how to shift culture and grading practices for that type of grading (Day 2), including grading in a generative AI classroom, coming this fall and winter in Albuquerque, NM, Naperville, IL, and Reston, VA. Join us if you can! Details below.

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

In case it will help: The two-day accurate, ethical grading seminars are back! We have three locations around the nation: October 6th & 7th, 2026 in Naperville, IL; February 2nd & 3rd, 2027 in Reston, VA; February 23rd & 24th, 2027 in Albuquerque, NM. The first day is on accurate, ethical, and fair grading practices, and the second day is on how to shift the culture and practices of faculties, including ourselves, for such practices. It's for teachers, leaders, coaches, college/university professors working with teachers, school board members, and interested parents. And hey, it's still one of the less expensive, 2-day seminars on grading you'll find, and we include lunch! For specific details go to: https://t.co/Jf7zHgnZGf

[Katie Powell @Beyond_the_Desk]

I had the privilege of being on Frederick Buskey’s podcast, and the episode dropped today. There are few folks in our industry out there encouraging other educators and cheering them on quite the way Frederick does. He’s good people. Give it a listen! https://t.co/iNg4u5JPqY

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

@Beyond_the_Desk Well, this looks good - Will give it a listen!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk. https://t.co/k01W6WMsUV

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. https://t.co/nuojReB9Mv

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Who are the masked cowards who call themselves the “Patriot Front”?

They’re exactly who you think they are.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

An instant Pulitzer Prize winning photograph

[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”

https://t.co/ULPahD4piY

[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