Justin Cerenzia @Cerenz Twitter profile

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Justin Cerenzia

8 months

One of nature’s rarest miracles out front of the house this afternoon. The mitosis of a UPS truck. Truly magical. So special.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

There is not one single thing improved about it. I’ve been on Tweetdeck for nearly a decade. The new version looks and operates like the regular Twitter homepage. The “Decks” feature is pointless. Like everything else since the sale, it’s far worse.

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1 year

We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Some notes on getting started and the future of the product

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1 year

@BunkiePerkins And are these “friends” here with us now currently, Bunkie?

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@Cerenz

1 year

Folks—some exciting news in my world as I’m heading for a new adventure in 2023-2024. I have recently been offered and accepted the Buckley Executive Director, Chair for Teaching & Learning at Episcopal Academy ( @Ea1785 ) in suburban Philadelphia. (1/x)

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@Cerenz

1 year

That’s a wrap on 19 seasons in prep hockey. Nice touch from the team after 11 years at SG and 8 at The Hill. Tons of memories. Multiple weddings of former players, births, triumphs, tragedies. Too many to list, all them a reminder of why it’s such a great game.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Again, kids…reading (books especially) is a cheat code in today’s society. To that end I really look forward to the Michael Lewis book on this absolute 🤡 show.

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@tds153

2 years

This, from an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried (whose crypto exchange has just imploded) is very funny. That loser Tolstoy. Think of the time he could have saved.

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1 year

@RadioFreeTom *Incites the entirety of the Indian subcontinent based on culinary preferences* “NOW HERE’S A MAN AFRAID OF OTHER POINTS OF VIEW!”

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@Cerenz

1 year

@RadioFreeTom @TheAtlantic Coming from you this GIF has me on high alert.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Eight years ago, today, I was having a very bad time. But thanks to an array of medical professionals and what can only be described as a miracle, I came through basically unscathed after a skull fracture and epidural hematoma. I’ve been thankful every day since. #aliveday2022

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

10 months

I was not, in fact, dancing on my own.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

I am ready.

Christopher Nolan Art & Updates

@NolanAnalyst

1 year

Christopher Nolan promises that viewers will be able to almost physically feel the nuclear detonation in 'OPPENHEIMER': “We knew that this had to be the showstopper. We’re able to do things with picture now that before we were really only able to do with sound in terms of an

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5 months

When I went back to SG 12 years ago to be the head coach, I said I wanted to do 2 things: 1. Win an Eberhart 2. Win a Small School NE title. I never accomplished either. And I was only head coach for 2 years b/c life is funny. But this? This right here? I love this.

SG Athletics

@GoSGDragons

5 months

BVH Final: SG 4 - @GrotonBVH 0 Eberhart Division Champions!

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@Cerenz

9 months

@edsbs Meanwhile, in baseball…BALL GO BOOM in this town. “Very nasty.”— @treblaw ’s family.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

8 months

@edsbs Gruden? Uncle Baby Bobby Knight!

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

It’s not my den. It’s not your den. It’s Arden. View from the common room couch in what had been my dorm room—same couch placement 22 years ago.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

8 months

@edsbs More like “Better Call Paul” imo.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Oh man ‘Cake Weather’ is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. I often share it with students as an example of the layers inherent in good writing. It’s about cake. And weather. And everything else that makes us human. And that’s often what makes writing so good.

Channel 6

@Channel6_feed

2 years

In the spirit of it being 13 degrees with no chance of rain outside, here's a little holiday rerun featuring a ghost of Christmas past:

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

The Gang Goes to Philly (and Dad’s flying solo)

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

7 months

Me. A lifelong 57 percenter, yelling about my favorite internet friends.

Channel 6

@Channel6_feed

7 months

End-of-year roundup for our subscribers and sustainers, with some announcements on next year's pricing and new feature preview:

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

When it’s your last night living in a dorm after nearly 15 years of marriage and the only cups you have left are from the annual “I’m Not Dead” party that you’ve held for the last 7 years. #CerenziaOverAndOut

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

7 months

@HollyAnderson Getting absolutely wrecked by the 8-year-old in Big Buck Hunter. Circle of life. Put me out to pasture.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Here’s to being less tired—and riding my bike way more—in 2023.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

7 months

Pulled this bad boy out of storage finally. Can’t wait for the kids to ruin it. 😆

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

I have been screaming this part the last few years. I’ve been teaching for nearly two decades. I’m an infinitely better teacher than I was at the start. My students’ grades are higher than ever. Shouldn’t that be viewed as a good thing?

Joshua Eyler

@joshua_r_eyler

1 year

I know this will be shocking to many, but lots of high grades might actually mean that students are learning a lot in a course that has been designed with both high standards and the tools to help students reach those standards. 5/x

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

Dudes posting their (newly inherited garden) Ws.

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@Cerenz

2 years

Love, love, love this piece and see plenty of parallels for schools (seriously).

Ted Gioia

@tedgioia

2 years

What can we learn from the surprising turnaround at Barnes & Noble? (my latest) This company almost died, but now it's growing again, and will open 30 new stores in 2023. Other industries—music, newspapers, movies, etc.—should learn from their example.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

@janecoaston Used to drop off our NFL pick ‘em pool picks at early mass on Sunday AM!

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

7 months

America has a weird obsession with elitism in education. I’ve attended some objectively elite institutions. I learned a ton. I also learned a ton from doing demo on houses in high school, cooking in crowded kitchens, and unloading trucks at 4 AM at the paint store.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Whistling “Farmer in the dell” like Omar in ‘The Wire’ as I annihilate my kids in laser tag for the 39th time since Christmas.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

Good night for the fam as son Tate had two on the PP in a 2-1 win over Millbrook.

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@Buccigross

2 years

595 wins for 55 year old Rand Pecknold. If he coaches until he is 70, 1,000 wins is in play.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

Read this entire thing with glee, recalling every play and reference only to get to the end and wonder, "Am I a 'Headband QB' in life? As a father?" I might be. I might be.

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@Channel6_feed

1 year

Is the weather vile where you are also? Great, let's revisit the Rose Bowl:

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

5 months

*Crying in the club* (My office)

SG Athletics

@GoSGDragons

5 months

BVH Final: SG 4 - @GrotonBVH 0 Eberhart Division Champions!

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

9 months

“Leave some time for forgetting,” reminds @effortfuleduktr in an outstanding presentation on ‘Human Memory and its Impact in the Classroom.’ #EducationFest

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

I pick up so much great new (to me) music when Ted does stuff like this. His Substack is outstanding, but these alone make it worthwhile.

Ted Gioia

@tedgioia

1 year

I'm writing about the 30 most intriguing musical artists of 2023. Here is the first installment.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

8 months

It’s my birthday. How old am I? Did you hear about the duel between 30 and 40?!?!! A very silly goose once told me… “40 won.”

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

@derekbruff You sure?

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

11 months

@RadioFreeTom Same energy

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

7 months

Tomorrow we’ll host the 8th annual “I’m Not Dead” party. 9 years ago (on 12/17/14) I was hit in the head by a puck while coaching a game. I nearly died. That I survived, basically unscathed, is a miracle. We lost many things in the move. We did not lose the Jell-O shot cups.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

9 months

🤓 ✅

Christopher Manning

@chrmanning

9 months

My “Human Language Understanding & Reasoning” in @americanacad ’s Dædalus is a short, readable intro to language understanding and generation by computers (“artificial intelligence”). Thousands have read it in the last 3 months … so maybe you should too?

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6 months

Thing I'm grappling with: If all we ever follow are "best" practices than we never evolve or get better. I want emergent strategies. I want to find & develop promising practices. We can take fundamental elements of teaching & learning and extend them to make something anew.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

5 months

We are having a great time. And also I need a whole new back.

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@Cerenz

1 year

It’s happening. Of course I’m packing books first. #ThePackening .

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@Cerenz

1 year

Onward, etc. #LEGGO

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

I am once again sharing this excellent @sketchplanator visual and no this has nothing to do with the fact that our first semester recently closed. And shout out to the #ungrading community on here. There’s got to be a better way.

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@Cerenz

2 years

Ethan's writing on this from the outset has offered some of the most measured, thoughtful, and useful thinking about the AI question in education. Subscribe to his Substack if you don't already.

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

2 years

AI is now everywhere in schools (even if you don’t know it), but that isn’t all bad. Even with the limitations of ChatGPT it can be used to teach three of the hardest (and most important) lessons in classes. Some assignments you can use right now👇

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1 year

I have been thinking about this post, which explores the work of @DrSarahEaton , for much of spring break. I’m still thinking about it as we return (tomorrow) following a lengthy hiatus. Are We Approaching a Postplagiarism Era? - via @Bali_maha

Are We Approaching a Postplagiarism Era?

So in case you missed it, the wonderful Sarah Elaine Eaton recently blogged about the 6 Tenets of the Postplagiarism Era, which she had first mentioned in the final chapter of Plagiarism in Hi…

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@Cerenz

5 months

Some real Hingle McCringleberry energy here.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

9 months

I am such a fan of Annie Murphy Paul's 'The Extended Mind' and to learn (just last night!) that this book exists in the world is incredible. What a find for me. I'm equal parts furious I missed this initially and excited to have something new to obsess over soon.

David Goodwin

@MrGoodwin23

2 years

@anniemurphypaul ’s The Extended Mind in Action is out in the world. I've just received my copies, and I couldn't be happier with how it has turned out. @JohnCattEd @Emma_Turner75 @olicav

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

1 year

Absolutely INCREDIBLE trip to my faculty mailbox this AM @coffeeblack28 @tim_bomb @HooperOD @stephenethom @Ohdum24

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@Cerenz

1 year

The old banana phone trick! Teach your kids the classics.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

11 months

Big community guy. “I need to get this out of the street. I don’t want a car to run it over and for that house to blow up.” “Do you want help throwing it in the woods?” “No. I’m strong enough. I believe in myself.” Well then!

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@Cerenz

1 year

When your parents finally enroll you in something for yourself and you’re not tagging along with your older brothers every day. PS- #GoBirds

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

9 months

What a day at the inaugural @EducationFestUS ! Tons of inspiration and even more learning. Thanks to @saes , @gwhitmancttl & @TheCTTL team for being such great hosts. Head is spinning with possibilities—will be absolutely buzzing for the drive home.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

2 years

The vibes are IMMACULATE currently.

SG Athletics

@GoSGDragons

2 years

BVH OT FINAL: SG 3 - @RL_Athletics 2 E. Baldwin with the game winner! #GoDragons 🐉

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@Cerenz

1 year

My 11th! @tenspeedspokes Longest Day Ride. Last one as an RI resident but I’ll be back as often as possible. Some of my best Rhode Island friends have come from this great group of folks.

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@Cerenz

11 months

Good morning to this frittata and this frittata only.

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Justin Cerenzia

@Cerenz

8 months

Excited for this session from @gwhitmancttl & @KristinASimmers on Coaching the Student & the Athlete’s Brain. As a coach I often brought concepts of CogSci into practice planning, communication, etc. and sought to help other coaches do the same. Good intersections here.

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11 months

Send help.

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11 months

Phils’ bats asleep on a Sunday scorcher? It’s zucchini season. We’re unbothered.

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1 year

SNOW DAY! SKID-STEER! Best day of this kid’s life.

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@Cerenz

6 months

The amount of “AI Consultants” flooding into the education space is really overwhelming. Experiment, play, & iterate with what’s out there & freely available before committing resources to an individual. They know only slightly more than you do—b/c we all know very little.

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@Cerenz

8 months

@effortfuleduktr I think this just means you did the meme correctly.

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@Cerenz

6 months

WELP

Pablo Torre Finds Out

@pablofindsout

6 months

The guy who literally wrote the book on the Alpha Wolf admits that his conclusion ... was based on a mistake. More on what it actually means to be an "Alpha" 👀🐺

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@Cerenz

10 months

Hold all of my calls please.

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@Cerenz

9 months

Years back I read something saying, “One night you’ll read to your kid for the last time ever.” That simultaneously ruined me but also made me really excited to read to them even more. I still read to them (and now with them). And that’s great too.

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@Cerenz

2 years

First #ChatGPT and now this. The future has to chill out a little bit.

Robin Söderlund

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2 years

Teemu Hartikainen 🤯

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2 years

One of my takeaways of the early results thus far tonight is that we may in fact make politics boring again in my lifetime. And we’d all be better off as a result.

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@Cerenz

1 year

Ok, Ron.

DeSantis War Room 🐊

@DeSantisWarRoom

1 year

DESANTIS: "I also look forward to, as President, restoring the name of FORT BRAGG to our great military base in Fayetteville, North Carolina... It's an iconic name and iconic base, and we're not gonna let political correctness run amok."

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@Cerenz

1 year

Josh with an absolute flamethrower here. There’s a reason I still go into ‘How Humans Learn’ weekly.

Joshua Eyler

@joshua_r_eyler

1 year

There are so many assumptions at the center of this new piece: Assumption 1: Grades are effective measurements of learning. Assumption 2: A high grade means lower standards in the class. Assumption 3: Higher GPAs over time is a bad thing. A 🧵. 1/x

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@Cerenz

1 year

Now watching students work through the 2nd stage—collaboratively—of a two-stage assessment in Advanced Physics and I am not exaggerating when I say that there’s a real kind of beauty in what’s transpiring. #DimanDays

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@Cerenz

1 year

“I love Eagles football and family.” -Benno, 8 My man! #GoBirds

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@Cerenz

1 year

Here’s a thing about working in education that’s obvious to those in education, but less so to everyone else. EVERYONE has gone to school at some level. Thus, everyone thinks they’re an expert to some degree. They’ve all had “experience” after all. (1/x)

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@Cerenz

2 years

Good evening and welcome to 5/7 fishes.

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7 months

Having spent the entirety of their lives at at a boarding school that had back up generator power for the entire campus in times of need, the Cerenzia brothers are absolutely flummoxed by their first extended outage. Electricity. How does it work? Figure it out, Ben Franklin.

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@Cerenz

2 years

I have destroyed the binding in my copy of @joshua_r_eyler 's 'How Humans Learn' (because I have dog-eared it, annotated it, and used it constantly these last few years).

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@Cerenz

9 months

Witnessed some facilitation sorcery from @AllisonBSchultz while co-leading an @ea_ctl session on AI for middle school faculty this afternoon. She riffed on @olicav ’s work on ‘Zooming In & Out’ and “If—Then—So That” to get folks thinking about their practice. Awesome remix.

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@Cerenz

1 year

I like pre-ordering books way in advance because they’ll arrive like unexpected gifts months after you forgot you ordered it. Like this one (a beautiful cover btw) from @SaRoseCav .

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@Cerenz

2 years

When you turn 8.

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6 months

Asserting absolute dominance over the other neighborhood fathers by hand shoveling one of the longest driveways all before 7 AM. Work harder. Not smarter.

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@Cerenz

1 year

When you visit your grandmother who lives adjacent to Amish country and suddenly realize you’re all about that simple life.

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@Cerenz

2 years

@edsbs There is a Baskerville in Indiana and in Washington. So this checks out.

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@Cerenz

1 year

When we tout grade distributions that follow normal distribution I often like to point out that this suggests our teaching had little/no impact as doing nothing would likely produce a similar outcome.

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

1 year

A modern version of the Galton Box invented by Sir Francis Galton in 1894, built to demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem - showing how random processes gather around the mean [source, read more: ]

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1 year

I used to question the value of teaching the rise of the labor movement alongside and beyond industrialization and the Progressive Era but now I have actual former students picketing during the WAG-SAG AFTRA strike and I’m glad we explored something not beholden to the AP test.

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1 year

Absolutely screaming at the bus stop after the 8-year-old crushed his spelling test (AGAIN) b/c he’s finally implementing all of the learning strategies that his Dad never shuts up about.

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@Cerenz

1 year

The amount of effort it takes just to get these things on these days is truly alarming. Only a few sessions of ‘Hockey Night in Newport’ left.

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@Cerenz

1 year

One of my more radical education takes is that once a student is accepted/enrolls at the college or university of their choice, than their high school career should effectively be over. (1/x)

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1 year

First of the season. Hold all of my calls.

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@Cerenz

1 year

Super useful Bing AI use case this AM, developing scenarios for an in-class exercise we'll do, all inspired by @emollick . There's much more back & forth, but the responsiveness (I point it to @econdavid 's great book 'Invisible Learning' and it summarizes it well) was impressive.

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@Cerenz

1 year

In conclusion

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@Cerenz

1 year

Doing curls with zucchini from the garden like a real champion.

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@Cerenz

2 years

DC Bound tomorrow, where I'll be presenting (on Saturday) at @TABSorg along with my colleague Ryan Mulhern on our shift to being test-optional in our admissions process. We'll explore the research which lead to the decision and discuss insights and reflections thus far.

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@Cerenz

8 months

We need to paint this room and we still don’t have window treatments, but the tree is up. Another rousing family exercise with only three fistfights, 1 burgeoning black eye, and 4 timeouts. We are raising MMA fighters. Merry everything.

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@Cerenz

1 year

@melnickjeffrey1 Will you ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ by chance?

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@Cerenz

1 year

8-year old just went full snap show after getting beat five hole in a cross-ice game this AM. I’d be angry with him, but I did the same thing last Thursday night. He’s got it. Time to install synthetic ice in the garage.

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@Cerenz

2 years

HE GOES TO VILLANOVA. I WENT TO VILLANOVA. IT’S ON THE MAINLINE. HE’S AT RISK OF GETTING HIT BY A WHITE RANGE ROVER WHILE CROSSING LANCASTER AVENUE. THAT’S ALL.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

2 years

My son goes to school here in Pennsylvania. And as a mom, I worry about his safety every single time he steps foot off campus. I know @DrOz will have the backs of law enforcement and keep our kids safe—and that's why I'm asking you all to vote for him on Election Day.

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9 months

Fall Fest! (Which means his brothers disappear for 2 hours and we rotate between the same 3 slides while pounding Kona Ices)

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@Cerenz

1 year

It’s increasingly difficult to catch this kid being a kid these days as he is 8 going on 18 (and often 80). But I did this AM and that felt like a giant W to start the day.

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@Cerenz

11 months

The haters are apoplectic. We’ve done it again. Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse night. LEGGGO.

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@Cerenz

8 months

Bell Biv DeVoe at the Thanksgiving Day Parade is my kind of elder millennial pandering.

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@Cerenz

11 months

Me & the homies ready for College Football season. (Dad’s spot in the basement isn’t quite ready yet) I did replace 22 recessed lights last week because I’m a team player. Shuffleboard—Big Buck Hunter—Super Chexx Hockey & a much larger TV (in a different spot) imminent.

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