Hayley

4th Year HS ELA Teacher, M.S. Ed. Acknowledging/Breaking down universal truths for a living. And saying “analyze” more times than can count.

[Hayley @hayleymkaz]

reminder: you can still appreciate elements of the traditional literary canon. but you can also recognize what’s problematic and what voices are missing. then you can do the work to disrupt, add, rebuild, and revitalize with marginalized voices. no mutual exclusivities here.

[swm @sheathescholar]

I don’t want to be “included” in this world. I want a new world dreamt up with people like me in mind.

[trish @ultragloss]

what was in the air when florence and the machine wrote dog days are over like omg………..

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

Letting kids read what THEY want is the best first step toward helping them fall in love with reading.

[Icona @iconawrites]

I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income.

[. @elliott_gr]

when i came out as trans in senior year of HS, I sent an email to all my former & current teachers as well as the administrators to let them know of my name change & pronouns. (this was over 10 years ago). The vice principal emailed me, asking me to visit his office. (1/?)

[Brian Aspinall @mraspinall]

Our students’ mental health is way more important than any test score.

[Sama’an Ashrawi @SamaanAshrawi]

My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was moving into his dorm room freshman year of college and there was a boy “with the prettiest eyes;” after Grandpa passed, I learned from my mother who that boy was.

[@lorenagerman on bluesky 💗 @nenagerman]

I think that portfolios have tons of potential, particularly in an ELA classroom.

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

the past couple years have been so grueling that everyone should be allowed to take the summer off and spend it reading by a lake.

[Hayley @hayleymkaz]

this thread is really important and heartbreaking

[Hayley @hayleymkaz]

Trying to stay passionate within this field when there are just so many devastating and inequitable larger structures at play is a WORKOUT

[Hayley @hayleymkaz]

This year has been… exhausting. Not much else to say beyond that.

[Scott Bayer #THEBOOKCHAT co-founder @Lyricalswordz]

A friend sent me the words of Octavia Butler and I'm holding on tightly to them right now

[Susan Barber @susangbarber]

What I tell my students about punctuation: don't overuse em dashes and parenthesis.
Me when I write: completely overusing em dashes - because who can resist - and parenthesis (because I just have so much to say that doesn't fit in one sentence).

[LeVar Burton @levarburton]

Don’t allow them to steal your joy!

[Hayley @hayleymkaz]

@CNHardigree Every time I do a KWL chart I find that I accidentally move on before letting students actually fill out the L column 😅

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Real learning loss is:

- students not having a teacher because they resigned.

- students having teachers who are burnt out.

- students having teachers who are struggling to survive so they have to work another job.

- students not having the resources that they need.

[MissOkBoomer @MissJordanBoom1]

Every time we get a 3-day weekend, I am convinced that this is what teachers need to survive in education. At least this teacher! Thoughts?