Shawn Michael
@asatree.site
(he/him) public middle school administrator striving for fully restorative, equitable, just, and universally designed learning for all.
asatree.site
asatree.site
A reflection on the flawed story we tell of our youth experiencing struggles. #edusky
The Danger of a Single Student Story
After Chimamanda Ngozi's The Danger of a Single Story, pondering the danger of the single stories adults perpetuate about students
asatree.site
September 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A reflection on the flawed story we tell of our youth experiencing struggles. #edusky
The more I serve as the person responding to more impactful school behaviors, working w/ the students & families involved, the more I can’t overstate the transformative power & importance of partnering w/ care givers early & often, by voice & in person, to gain partnership. #edusky
September 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The more I serve as the person responding to more impactful school behaviors, working w/ the students & families involved, the more I can’t overstate the transformative power & importance of partnering w/ care givers early & often, by voice & in person, to gain partnership. #edusky
Reposted by Shawn Michael
📣 Hear from Stephanie who recently completed Restorative Practices for Educators!
🏫 During this two-day introductory experience, you will learn the fundamental theory/practices for engaging with students, staff, and parents in your school setting: https://bit.ly/4ep40He
🏫 During this two-day introductory experience, you will learn the fundamental theory/practices for engaging with students, staff, and parents in your school setting: https://bit.ly/4ep40He
August 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
📣 Hear from Stephanie who recently completed Restorative Practices for Educators!
🏫 During this two-day introductory experience, you will learn the fundamental theory/practices for engaging with students, staff, and parents in your school setting: https://bit.ly/4ep40He
🏫 During this two-day introductory experience, you will learn the fundamental theory/practices for engaging with students, staff, and parents in your school setting: https://bit.ly/4ep40He
Reposted by Shawn Michael
This mans' imagination is next level
September 23, 2026 at 9:11 AM
This mans' imagination is next level
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Anybody familiar with any research out there on teachers leading educational change?
Not just leading a district agenda (though that’s fine too) but teacher-driven change from the ground up. I’m looking but might not be using the right terminology.
Thanks!
#edusky #edresearch
Not just leading a district agenda (though that’s fine too) but teacher-driven change from the ground up. I’m looking but might not be using the right terminology.
Thanks!
#edusky #edresearch
September 19, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Anybody familiar with any research out there on teachers leading educational change?
Not just leading a district agenda (though that’s fine too) but teacher-driven change from the ground up. I’m looking but might not be using the right terminology.
Thanks!
#edusky #edresearch
Not just leading a district agenda (though that’s fine too) but teacher-driven change from the ground up. I’m looking but might not be using the right terminology.
Thanks!
#edusky #edresearch
Reposted by Shawn Michael
🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
April 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
Reposted by Shawn Michael
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Reposted by Shawn Michael
This video, better than stills, illustrates just how many people marched in Boston yesterday.
City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston.
(From: Reddit)
City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston.
(From: Reddit)
April 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This video, better than stills, illustrates just how many people marched in Boston yesterday.
City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston.
(From: Reddit)
City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston.
(From: Reddit)
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
Reposted by Shawn Michael
"This is a shallow vision of education as achievement without agency that we should question vigorously. Is achievement without agency truly the goal of a literate society? How can we harmonize this with education as a democratic practice?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
Unsettling The Science of Reading: Who is Being Sold A Story? | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington
Literacy doesn’t come in a box, we’ll never find our kids at the bottom of a curriculum package, and there can be no broad support for systemic change that excludes input from and support for teachers...
www.humanrestorationproject.org
March 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"This is a shallow vision of education as achievement without agency that we should question vigorously. Is achievement without agency truly the goal of a literate society? How can we harmonize this with education as a democratic practice?"
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
Reposted by Shawn Michael
There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
January 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
Reposted by Shawn Michael
A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College
🧵
🧵
October 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College
🧵
🧵
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #27,742!
September 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #27,742!
In elementary school other kids and I traded and shared Atari 2600 game cartridges.
Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy:
I used pencil erasers to fix cassette tapes.
I used pencil erasers to fix cassette tapes.
Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy:
The first few cars I owned had cigarette lighters and built-in ashtrays
The first few cars I owned had cigarette lighters and built-in ashtrays
June 10, 2024 at 9:13 PM
In elementary school other kids and I traded and shared Atari 2600 game cartridges.
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Considering how widespread chronic absenteeism is right now, why don't more school leaders identify it as a top problem? My colleague @jillbarshay.bsky.social explains why absenteeism can be genuinely hard to identify: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... #edusky
February 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Considering how widespread chronic absenteeism is right now, why don't more school leaders identify it as a top problem? My colleague @jillbarshay.bsky.social explains why absenteeism can be genuinely hard to identify: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... #edusky
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Today is an important day
A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages.
The truth mattered today.
A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages.
The truth mattered today.
February 8, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Today is an important day
A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages.
The truth mattered today.
A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages.
The truth mattered today.
Reposted by Shawn Michael
December 1, 2023 at 11:09 AM
“You can’t get hurt skiing, unless you fall.” - Warren Miller
November 5, 2023 at 8:49 PM
“You can’t get hurt skiing, unless you fall.” - Warren Miller
Thinking a lot this weekend on how to engage some teachers in conversation and hopefully critical reflection around some ways I have heard them speaking to and about students. #EduSky
November 4, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Thinking a lot this weekend on how to engage some teachers in conversation and hopefully critical reflection around some ways I have heard them speaking to and about students. #EduSky
Hmm…
11.01 Introduction║J•D
Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)
johnnydecimal.com
October 21, 2023 at 2:43 AM
Hmm…
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
'For Shame': Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13
"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.
www.commondreams.org
October 20, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
“I want to do something good every day of my life. I want to leave the Earth better than I found it.”
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
99% Invisible on Apple Podcasts
Arts · 2023
podcasts.apple.com
October 20, 2023 at 10:44 AM
“I want to do something good every day of my life. I want to leave the Earth better than I found it.”
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
Reposted by Shawn Michael
Proquestionation.
October 19, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Proquestionation.