English educator @PVRHSD, Literacy Coach, advisor @pvlitmag, 2016 @Princeton HS Teacher of the Year, occasional blogger, #LitTogether
Hillsdale, NJ
Joined September 2011
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Thank you, @NancyCostanzo2!
Amazing week at #PARSUM21. So grateful to @tomlittogether @MrsKTMcGrath @MrMorone @EllinKeene @MisterMinor @AimeeCarr_Matos @donalynbooks for all that you so generously shared. Thx to @CurriculumRSD @LanguageArtsRSD & @drmatthewmurphy for supporting this professional learning!
"If there's one thing journalism has taught me, though, it's that everyone has a story, and everyone has a right to have their story told."
PV alum Jake Aferiat reflects on his four years at Penn State's @DailyCollegian collegian.psu.edu/opinion/co…
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.@PVRHSD Soph Taylor Grady demonstrates how our student athletes are adapting, problem-solving, and thriving:
"Everyone is trying to get used to wearing the masks. It hurt our communication at first, but we became even louder...”
nj.com/highschoolsports/2021…
“Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making”
RIP LF
Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement, has died. He was 101.
He was known for his City Lights bookstore, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 50s and beyond: bit.ly/37Gm0K0
Check out @PascackValleyHS Sophomore (and current Morone student!) Taylor Grady's interview with @njpowerranking, in which they celebrate her "standout freshman year" and her efforts to build on this success in her upcoming season! @pvrhsd @egunder njpowerranking.com/2021/02/2…
Program advisor—and 2020-21 @pvrhsd Teacher of the Year— @BillRawson has established this student paper as the state’s preeminent school journalism program. They continue to raise the bar they themselves continually set. Well done, @PVStudentNews, all around.
BREAKING: The PV Student Publication has won 1st Place in Overall Excellence for Online Publications in New Jersey for the 4th straight year!
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A real shame!
What I wouldn’t give to see these guys, you know, just...
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🎶ONE MORE TIME🎶
Daft Punk are no more p4k.in/Qfnc2Tr
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Way to go, Spencer (and @PVStudentNews @BillRawson!!!)
Congrats to Spencer Goldstein of @PascackValleyHS, winner of the $5,000 Bernard Kilgore Scholarship awarded in partnership with NJ Press Assoc. As part of this award Spencer is NJ’s Journalist of the Year and can vie for the @nationalJEA Journalist of the Year @PVStudentNews
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Check out this year’s #PARSUM21 Summer Institute program and join us this July!
Here it is!! Our virtual institute is coming 7/13-15. See @EllinKeene @MisterMinor @donalynbooks @drtharris @shawnalongo @DanaClarkLit @ChristinaRizz0 @jpaltieri @quiche36 @c_rejent @MrMorone @sissy66madden @paramusarts and so many more!
Sign up today at tinyurl.com/PARSUM21
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Dr. Fauci just said that he has fully accepted his role as “the skunk at the picnic” and I’ve never felt more seen.
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I need someone to fund a study in which I test academic resilience among two groups of students: one asked to play a specific "SoulsBorne"-style game (I was thinking Hollow Knight) and a control group. youtu.be/9vJRopau0g0
So proud of @pvrhsd Sophomore Diego Mercado for being named a finalist in the @nytimes @NYTimesLearning 2020 Student Narrative Contest! Take a look at all the finalists here: int.nyt.com/data/documenttoo… @VMattPVRHSD @egunder @drbachenheimer
Such sad news. For anyone in your life who doubts the artistic merits of rap music, have them listen to the Madvillainy album with the MF Doom Genius.com page up.
MF Doom, the mysterious rapper known for impossibly intricate rhyme schemes and his signature mask, has died at age 49, his rep confirms. rol.st/2X1d2Be
My favorite kind of edu article-and an increasingly rare one-I went in expecting to vehemently disagree, but was shown compelling evidence to challenge my assumptions. This is a great dissection of why (many) redo policies have unintended consequences. Well done, @DavidFrangiosa!
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RT for #SmallBusinessSaturday
EDUCATORS:
Do you have a favorite local independent bookstore?
I want to support you, them, AND your students!
Please tag your indie below, or just share their website. In the coming days, I’ll be selecting several educators to receive a gift card to the store of their choice!
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The best data visualizations, like the best inventions, are the ones that are so intuitive and retrospectively obvious that they inevitably help push a society forward. This may be one of them.
Our research has found that red & blue US political maps create increased perceptions of polarization and more political stereotyping, compared to more accurate purple maps.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Thanks to @geealbers for this new website: purplestatesofamerica.org/
I get it, it’s an elementary school, there’s a pandemic, but I’ll be gosh-darned if this doesn’t send a confusing message about the purpose of student journalism.
edutopia.org/article/using-s…
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Some blame the officials, some blame the bureaucracy, but my fellow Type-A neurotics know the real villain here is the lack of a seemingly excessive number of redundancies. (Source: my 140ish iPhone “alarm” presets)
A Georgia election official said that the state expects to finish counting ballots today. He said that some counties had forgotten "to press the upload button," and that they've been reminded to do so. nyti.ms/2GAnriS