Carly Berwick

This is fun. I can open a private school with unlicensed teachers, no curriculum requirements, and no background checks in 9 states @propublica.org : projects.propublica.org/private-scho...

NYT interviewed academics who said don't allow teachers to choose their curriculum materials. But the actual research shows curriculum choice and teacher autonomy can increase student engagement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

Co-creating AI agreements with students in middle school on up may reduce reflexive AI dependency. My latest for @edutopia.org: www.edutopia.org/article/how-...

Great interview with Carla Ferreira, beyond the usual teacher hagiography. Q&A: Teacher of the Year creates safe zone amid ‘culture of fear' www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/09/qa-t...

It’s performatively offer to clear teacher wish list season. Teacher wish lists aren’t necessary in well funded districts with empowered principals who make sure to ask teachers what they need in the spring.

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

New article by Musoke, Frohwirth, & Gould details how to do social media surveillance/social listening as public health strategy, with methods implications for education and other fields. (It also cites one of my articles as a novel method of data collection). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cutting a proposal to get it under word count; someone says, just use AI, and I say, but this is one of the few things I am good at, and then realized that maybe soon being a writer and editor will be like a blacksmith or candle maker—a quaint skill trotted out as spectacle or bespoke service.

"They open the StudySync software program, which shows them each a series of questions tailored to their weaknesses. Their faces look like they’re being marched to the guillotine." www.wired.com/story/missis...

When teachers use AI in the classroom, engagement and trust go down. This study looked at 4500 grade 6-12 students and used a control group of no AI-tool or training. Students rated AI-assisted classrooms as "less enjoyable, less interesting, and less important." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As if Susan Choi wrote this—flashlights even feature, despite the publication of the 2023 escape itself being too late to be the inspiration for her 2025 novel, Flashlight: A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea ‘to Live and Stand Tall’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

This is why NJ school budgets are a mess this year. Healthcare costs soaring due in part to federal gutting of ACA, reimbursement of brand name GLPs and bad state policy Op-Ed: NJ is capable of fixing public workforce health benefits crisis www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/05/op-e...

All verklempt to have a story in this issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social alongside so many tremendous writers

Comments section in here a real mess. NYT readers have thoughts about the superior choices afforded by white flight and the welcome "right-sizing" of teaching staff in schools w/ fewer immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

The end of Hacks, episode 4, season 5 was great. To avoid spoilers, let me just leave this here, and we can join the abolitionist impulse: www.nationalbailout.org/giftguide

What is a good or effective school? Research by @owasow.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social suggests the "veiled capacity" of educators to teach through oppressive systems can remake society.

Great op-ed on the STEM teacher pipeline and the importance of opportunities to connect with colleagues, by Montclair State student Kira Paul www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/op-e...

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#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss "Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between!

This is the plot of Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes. Fiction writers see the patterns and possibility first.

5 women authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Toni Morrison Agatha Christie Deborah Levy NK Jemisin Jane Austen

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies. She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia: #academia #genAI refusal.blog

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

New paper on AI as carceral in schools: Tanksley and Cabral "consider how the proliferation of AI technologies into K-12 schools has worked to hide, speed up, and automate educational inequities for Black students, giving rise to a techno-educational carceral apparatus": www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...

Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ www.the74million.org/article/repo...

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics

Funded social science and education PhDs at University of Vienna, deadline 3/2/26. Great opportunity to get paid to do research in another country. #edusky #teaching www.researchgate.net/job/1034778_...

Librarians not only improve learning but also help students with media literacy—a critical skill today. In their absence, this skill falls to the English teacher already pressed to help kids read fluently and write across disciplines. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

This graphic reminds me of artist Marc Lombardi's mapping of Bush-era entanglements; Trump's grift has exponentially magnified what were once "webs of scandal": curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/...

Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by @terrainorg.bsky.social for my story “Sea Minks” www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...

Did annual cocoa house reading with students—everyone reads an excerpt from their work while I make hot cocoa or tea. Students said it felt weird and disrespectful . . . to have the teacher serve them. So they took tea&cocoa orders and mixed the cocoa for their peers. (I manned boiling water fwiw.)

OMG this again. Most of the teachers interviewed actually say they ARE reading novels with students. Prepackaged curricula are a problem. So don't use them, like teachers quoted here. Where is the "rarely" coming from (other than self-selecting survey responders)? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

This is amazing. Love it: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/04/n...

NYC used to send NJ its trash; now we get its garbage data and higher utility bills.

Wore what I thought was an Audrey Hepburn-esque black turtleneck today; an 8th grader called me Professor Snape. 🫶

I would like 1) not to grade/work/plan on weekends/vacations and miss important family and down time and 2) have health insurance for my family. Those desires are mutually incompatible. This is about universal health care.

This is a solid critique but fails to mention that much of the stress about college has come from defunding state schools, making college both a economic necessity and an impossibility, in an age of rising income inequality: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...

As shootings decline, NJ violence prevention groups get funding cut www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/11/as-s...

People are getting electricity cut off because of high bills. Causing the higher rates and bills: AI data centers drivehttps://wapo.st/3Xb0mXI

Bad infrastucture and SUVs/light trucks account for increase in pedestrian deaths; vehicles disproportionately hit Black and Latino peds on multi lane city roads: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Four times a year, end of marking period grading season always manages to bring to mind the last line of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find": It's no real pleasure in life.