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8-Sentence CER Paragraph Challenge! At my school, we use Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) to help students structure their arguments. This activity is designed to “take off the training wheels” of CER by showing students that strong argumentation doesn’t have to follow a rigid formula—there’s flexibility in how ideas can be organized and expressed. Link: briantolentino.com/8-sentence-cer…

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

anyone else have this recurring dream: you realize you are 2-3 months into a really important college course....and you straight up haven’t been to class ONE time, done any assignments, or taken any exams and that F is about to tank your GPA for the semester

Back in my day, we didn’t have AI DJs or algorithmic playlists. We discovered new music through teen dramas on TV.

Literally this is Dawson and Pacey in one of the last episodes of the show. They never even officially reconcile on screen. The coolest thing about Dawson’s Creek is that they weren’t scared of massive relationship changes or lasting consequences for their characters actions

Loving the Paramore inclusion in Bridgerton 🤘

PLEASE let Swedish Chef singing Rapper’s Delight be one of the songs featured on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets:

Many students are sold a lie that learning should feel pleasurable, and when that's not their experience, the cognitive dissonance eats them alive. It's like someone signs up for strength & conditioning at a gym and the trainer tells them that they should feel pleasure doing pushups, sprints, deadlifts, etc. Or like a nutritionist saying "you should enjoy the taste of broccoli." Completely alienating. What a good trainer will say is "Yes, it feels taxing, and that's okay, that's normal. Our goal here is not pleasure, it's satisfaction -- making progress, doing things you weren't able to do before, feeling good about what you've accomplished, transforming yourself in ways that are beneficial for your future. You're here to work, so let's do work." People respect that, and there's a kind of comfort in knowing that we're all here to do serious work. Whether it's the gym or the classroom, that's what people need to hear.

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this show was so fun. I still don't get why Disney forgets its existence

Christmas Wrapping is the greatest Christmas song.

This is my mantra for 2026

huge news for the people who loved disney channel original movie ‘cow belles’ growing up

Dear parents, Most children do not read books anymore. If you get your child to read just ONE BOOK PER MONTH (canonical, classic) from age 10-18, they will be so far ahead of their peers by the time they reach college. Sincerely, A Teacher

if yall don’t watch this we will never get more so please, PLEASE, for the muppet fans in your life, watch this when it comes out!!!!!

Happy Bill of Rights Day! Let’s have a poster giveaway. Interact for your chance to win one Bill of Rights poster. Ends 12/16, 12am CST

This is good actually. It's why you shouldn't outsource your writing to AI. Writing is thinking.

We have an entire cohort of students cheating their way through high school. This is a huge problem we need to address.