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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

10 days

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Martin Robinson

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Why is academic writing so awful?

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We've grown unaccustomed to hearing it, but this is what grownups in politics sound like.

Governor Josh Shapiro

@GovernorShapiro

3 months

We lost a fellow Pennsylvanian last night: Corey Comperatore. Earlier today, I spoke to his wife and his two daughters. They asked me to share that Corey died a hero — diving on his family to protect them from danger. I’ve ordered United States and Commonwealth flags to be

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@rweingarten Where do you live that there are already dead, brown leaves on the ground on July 1?

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3 months

Someone died today attending a political rally. If there is a clearer example of a "threat to democracy" I don't know what it is.

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29 days

You're a waitress serving a party of 24. Half order off the menu; the rest have special requests and drink orders. But you're also the chef and must prepare meals while still providing attentive service. That's what we ask teachers to do when we say "differentiate instruction."

Anna Stokke

@rastokke

29 days

1/3 I talked to @JonathanPlucker about de-streaming & anti-acceleration in my latest episode. In addition to the inequities created since affluent parents find opportunities outside the system, "We're acting like differentiation is a molehill and it's Mount Everest."

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7 months

At the end of every dark, depressing week, there is @NellieBowles . God bless her.

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2 months

“It’s not just that they knew about Biden’s condition and lied about it. They knew they were lying and believed they could dupe their supporters at least through November 5, 2024.”

The Free Press

@TheFP

2 months

Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example. @BariWeiss on the condescending logic that is by now very familiar to Americans:

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10 days

@S_Oberle Words. Plural.

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2 months

The nation’s best news outlet. Period. Full stop. @TheFP makes me hopeful for the future of American journalism.

Bari Weiss

@bariweiss

2 months

When I left the New York Times I had no plan, no email list. Today more than 750,000 people subscribe to The Free Press. Join us @TheFP . Subscribe:

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This @bariweiss piece has changed the way I will now think and speak about the collapse of trust in institutions. "What’s become clear is the crisis of trust is more accurately described as a crisis of trustworthiness," she writes. Boom. Nailed it.

Bari Weiss: The Era of the Noble Lie

Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example.

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7 months

One parent "discovered the coloring book on Tuesday, February 13, when a snow day forced her daughter to learn from home. 'This is classwork, not homework,' the parent said. 'If it weren’t for the snow, we wouldn’t have known.'" @TheFP

Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics

Students at a public elementary school in Brooklyn are learning revolutionary theory from a Black Lives Matter coloring book.

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@rpondiscio

20 days

Or we could just give teachers decent curriculum so they don't have to write their own lesson plans from scratch, or spend half their life on the Internet hunting for materials.

edutopia

@edutopia

20 days

Want to spend less time on planning and more time with students? ⏳🙋 These effective, educator-tested AI tools can help.

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8 months

"The city of Chicago is now facing seven lawsuits, at least three of them filed by people of color, all bound by a concern that their leaders would rather serve the migrants than their own vulnerable citizens."

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6 months

A brief thread on knowledge, vocabulary growth, and the "Matthew Effect." The vast majority of words you know and use were acquired by exposure not direct study. Consider how a child might encounter, learn, and ultimately add the word “endure” to her vocabulary. 1/11

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7 months

I have a pretty good idea: Reading. Math. History. Science. Art and music.

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7 months

Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years

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@rweingarten Shame on you, Randi. What a heartless, ignorant thing to believe, let alone to say publicly. I'm embarrassed for you.

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8 months

Kids won't learn from people they don't like is the new kids won't misbehave if lessons are engaging.

Beanie

@Beanie0597

8 months

This post from a teacher is the reality in far too many classrooms. With the focus on relationships over rigor, these students aren’t going to thrive as adults. They’ll be shocked to learn their boss doesn’t want a relationship w/ them, but has expectations. Things must change.

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1 year

When one of these videos goes viral, there's almost always one or more students at their desks, working quietly, avoiding the fray, and trying to get an education. Those kids are legion. When is it their turn to be the focus of our attention, effort, and concern?

Beanie

@Beanie0597

1 year

Another day of school = another video of a violent student acting out knowing there are no consequences. Restorative justice created this problem. Restoring clear behavior expectations w/ swift, consistent, negative consequences is the only solution.

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3 months

The Ten Commandments is inappropriate in classrooms. So are BLM banners, Pride flags, etc.

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1 year

We’ve largely lost our feel for strong institutions and are reluctant to have our character shaped by them. In this way, Michaela is a glorious anachronism. 24/24 -30-

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3 months

I’m reliably informed that classical education is rote, dull, and joyless.

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3 months

Kids demonstrate the Roman testudo formation🛡️

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1 year

"Calkins’ greatest sin is not even her reluctance to embrace phonics. It's her fuzzy-headed notion kids would become good readers if we simply filled their heads with stories, put engaging books in their hands and helped them fall in love with reading."

Repairing the damage Columbia's Teachers College did to American kids...

It will take patience and political will to ensure this time, Lucy Calkins’ methods remain dead and buried.

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7 months

"Any students who took part in the violence should be expelled....Violence is not extreme speech, but the antithesis of speech—and the antithesis of what higher education is supposed to be all about."

If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech, It Will Expel Its Rioters

Campuses must have the highest tolerance for expression, but no tolerance at all for violence like that exhibited by an anti-Israel mob this week.

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1 year

@rweingarten I’m 99.94% sure that even you don’t believe your own Tweet.

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4 months

Always delighted to write for @TheFP . The best damn news site period.

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@TheFP

4 months

In nearly every public school in the country, children are given curriculum materials that have no official oversight or approval. @rpondiscio : “How Public Schools Became Ideological Boot Camps”

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3 months

This can't be said too often or more emphatically. A huge mistake made by the right is making enemies of teachers who, in the main, aren't radicals seeking to indoctrinate kids. They're ordinary men and women who want to do a decent job and make a difference for kids.

Beanie

@Beanie0597

3 months

@AAC0519 The teachers I met this week are amazing and truly want to just teach. They’re frustrated by the lack of support from admins, poor quality curriculum, & vague standards. I’m thankful @FreedomFdtn is working on their behalf for representation & proud to provide resources through

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2 months

“We appreciate and understand that some students have mental health challenges, but we need to stop forcing teachers to be therapists,” @cadebrumley said. “Teachers are not trained for that, so it’s a disservice both to the teacher and to the student.”

Louisiana’s Clarion Call: “Let Teachers Teach.”

Teaching is the easiest job in the world to do badly and the hardest to do well. But it’s harder than ever for even the most fiercely committed teacher to stay true to his or her core mission—raising...

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2 months

If “misinformation” is not protected speech and threatens democracy, a question for @Tim_Walz is the penalty he deems appropriate for misleading voters about President Biden’s condition? Criminal prosecution? Or just impeaching the VP and disqualifying her from holding office?

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Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy”

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A hardy perennial.

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3 months

"One teacher described how two years of grad school and six months of student teaching left him unprepared for the realities of the classroom. He described ed school as 'a mix of folk wisdom, psycho-jargon, wishful thinking, and out-and-out bullshit.'”

Higher Pay Won’t Solve Teachers’ Problems

When I reflect on my time in the classroom, I don’t think about my paycheck, the staffing, orthe per‐pupil funding at my school, which seemed quite generous. Instead, I think about theimpediments...

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19 days

First year teaching is a shameful hazing ritual. It's inexcusable to make rookies create their own lessons or scour the Internet looking for resources. There are dozens of more important things for them to learn, practice, and master. It drives good people out of the profession.

Raistlin Majere, TOSA

@RaistMajereTOSA

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Week 4 Observations: 1. Dealt with an interesting situation this week about this. Young teacher is concerned but feeling overworked. Trying really hard to come up with lessons because the teacher thinks that going to the department looking for lessons will be perceived as lazy.

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7 months

Next time someone tells you schools are underfunded, ask them a) how much their school district spends per student, and b) how much more would be needed to be adequate. Be prepared for wildly off-the-mark answers.

Marguerite Roza

@MargueriteRoza

7 months

Ed finance types will appreciate this @planetmoney episode on school fundraisers. The staff and students spend untold hours raising $58 per kid to add to the $16,400 per student spent via public funds. @GonzalezSarahA

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7 months

Your occasional reminder that when you dismantle the meritocracy, you don't get equity. You get aristocracy.

Colleen Dippel

@ColleenDippel

7 months

We called academic achievement elitist & racist & we capitulated to unions & teacher groups who claimed that measuring results was “unfair” & “stressful”. And now here we are…you know whats stressful? Illiteracy. @Kress_Sandy @teainfo @rpondiscio Thx to @ChadAldeman for this.

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6 months

Been saying it for at least a decade: high school graduation rate is the phoniest data in education. It's completely within the control of schools to functionally declare a student has met "standards" for a HS diploma through phony "credit recovery" and other schemes.

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

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Your standardized test score just measure how good you are at taking standardized tests. The real test of your academic ability is if interest groups successfully manipulate sympathetic teachers into passing students who don't know how to read or do math.

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7 months

Not going to be blasé about this. This son of a mechanic from Long Island never dreamed of the day when he’d be ask to testify in Congress on any subject. Grateful for the many blessings of my American life.

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@CREDOatStanford Senior Fellow of @AEI @rpondiscio "It's equally important to have an education system that meets families where they are"

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2 months

Dear Director Cheatle: I'm available if you need me.

Kyle Becker

@kylenabecker

2 months

NEW: Secret Service director Kim Cheatle, good friend of Jill Biden and the new face of America's competency crisis, didn't post snipers on the roof where Trump was shot at because it was a sloped roof and she was afraid someone might slip and fall. You can't make this stuff up.

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7 months

An act like this in a single public school negatively impacts trust and credibility in a thousand more.

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@Tyler2ONeil

7 months

🚨BREAKING: Librarians in a South Carolina school district HID their card catalog from parents😲 A librarian wrote that she did this to prevent moms and dads from scouring it "for critical race theory books."‼️ @Moms4Liberty got receipts🧾 through FOIA

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Teachers are not free agents; they're public employees. A bus driver can't alter his route for social justice, nor can the police officer change his beat to "disrupt systems." Who gives teachers permission to unilaterally "disrupt the status quo?"

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I taught high school civics at @DemocracyPrep , a charter school in Harlem. We sent students--every one Black and brown; almost all first-generation college-goers to Yale. And every other Ivy League university.

Greg Price

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Walz: "I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale." Another weird moment where Democrats attack JD Vance for becoming successful.

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When I hear the phrase "right wing extremists" I usually think juntas, military dictatorship, paramilitary death squads, and the like. Not really in the same league as "parents who want to send their kids to a classical school."

Anthony Nicodemo(he/him/his)🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏀

@coachNicodemo

2 months

Currently reading The Education Wars by @BisforBerkshire and @Edu_Historian - both lay out how right wing extremists are looking to end public education thru vouchers. Some great excerpts and graphics illustrate the dangers of school choice. @AFTunion @nysut @kmclyons @mspetter

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I’m a former elementary school teacher. This is not “teacher voice.” It’s too condescending, even for young children.

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

2 months

NEW: The "weird" white woman who went viral during a Women's Kamala Zoom call is a teacher turned influencer whose TikTok account is even more cringe than her Zoom incident. "Mrs Frazzled" is known for talking to her TT audience as if she is speaking to 5-year-olds. She covers

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A literal pro-terrorism demonstration in Rock Center, in front of the building where I was working 9/11/01, and a few miles from where 3000 New Yorkers were killed. Let me offer my most measured response. Fuck you, clowns.

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Morons. Utter morons. "Down with the USA!" "Hamas is on the way"

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@CaitlinPacific @libbyemmons @bethanyshondark @lyndseyfifield @russell_nm @rpetty @4TiffanyJustice @DennisPrager With respect, that's just not accurate. I've followed M4L for almost the whole of their existence, had dozens of conversations with their leaders, etc. I also covered this conference. The intent was precisely as Libby suggests, and not to cite Hitler as inspiration.

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Whether differentiation “can be done” matters less than if it can be done effectively by average teachers, not the best and most talented, and if it improves outcomes more than other uses of teachers’ time. The juice has to be worth the squeeze.

Debra Tisler

@Debra_Tisler

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@rpondiscio Differentiation isn’t Mount Everest. Let’s start with evidenced practices and curriculum within the general education classroom. Starting there reduces the amount of differentiation needed because you can meet most of the basic foundational needs of all students.

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1 year

Headmistress @MissSnuffy left me free to wander anywhere I wanted, pop in to any classroom, anytime. Wouldn’t even suggest classrooms where I might see the best of the Michaela. “They’re all excellent,” she said. That’s confidence. 2/

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1 year

The mistake is expecting teachers both to design instruction (replacing textbooks with teacher-created lesson plans) *and* to deliver it; to diagnose, intervene, and increasingly practice therapy without a license (SEL). Teachers do too many things to do any of them well.

Daniel Buck, “Instruction Geek”

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It was a mistake for schools to do away with textbooks.

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1 year

The classrooms are spare by American standards. No décor on the walls; no bulletin boards. Clean, comfortable, carpeted, but nothing to distract student attention from the main attraction: the lesson and the teacher. Instruction is fast-paced and unabashedly teacher-driven. 5/

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I’ll die on this hill with @oldandrewuk

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The point of a school is for children to learn. Teachers aren't therapists, priests, politicians or substitute parents. We are there to teach.

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The crowd up in arms about book bans, censorship, and chilling teacher speech will never stand for this.... Hey! Where'd everybody go!?!

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8 months

Absolutely crazy! The teacher who blew the whistle on the $250,000 "Woke Kindergarten" has been put on "administrative leave" ‘You are a danger to the school [and] the community" another teacher told him. Full article in tweet below. @libsoftiktok @EndWokeness

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To my knowledge, no clear or consistent relationship has been demonstrated between teacher certification and student achievement. “Certified” is not a synonym for “effective.”

Houston Chronicle

@HoustonChron

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Houston ISD has 2,097 uncertified teachers out of more than 10,000 teachers for 2024-25, according to district records first provided to and reported by ABC13 KTRK.

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I wish I'd said this. "Differentiate instruction" is the pedagogical equivalent of "let them eat cake." Easy to say, impossible to do well, and less effective than grouping students by ability. Homily-based instruction doesn't reduce inequity, it cements it in place.

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1/3 I talked to @JonathanPlucker about de-streaming & anti-acceleration in my latest episode. In addition to the inequities created since affluent parents find opportunities outside the system, "We're acting like differentiation is a molehill and it's Mount Everest."

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Amen and thank you. And if you're on a plane with a crying baby, make it a point to make eye contact with the parent. Give them a smile, a nod, or some other gesture of empathy. It goes a long way to relieve an enormously stressful situation.

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@C_Hendrick

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Just had a frank exchange of words with a gentleman on a plane who seemed to think that the small child crying behind him was doing it on purpose. I was sitting next to the child’s mother who was already stressed and upset and his complaining made her feel ten times worse. No

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There’s no doubt in my mind that any student could thrive at Michaela. I’m equally certain not every teacher can or would. It takes a humility foreign to those who insist on “bringing their whole selves” to teaching. 23/

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The students aren't robots. Spent a delightful lunch with middle school students who are charming conversationalists, make eye contact and smile readily. You’d be tickled to death if your son or daughter was as confident and comfortable around adults as my lunch companions. 15/

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Adults are in charge, firmly and without apology. They are deadly serious about character-formation. It drips from their pores. 14/

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Goodness, gracious. If you oppose evidence-based literacy instruction--if you even think it's problematic--because people whose politics you don't like support it, you have really and truly lost the plot.

With Moms for Liberty Endorsement, ‘Science of Reading’ Faces More Political Controversy

The endorsement from the conservative organization known for challenging books raises some thorny issues for the bipartisan movement.

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I became a disciple of ED Hirsch because he was the one guy whose work on knowledge and vocabulary explained what I saw in my South Bronx classroom every day. Decades his ideas are gaining new momentum.

Reading Comprehension Hinges on Building Knowledge. New Curricula Aim to Help

Students need to know a lot of content to become good readers. Enter new curriculum series, which prioritized shared texts exploring history, science, and literature.

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"Keeping schools closed for so long was a mistake, and the Democrats shouldn’t pretend Harris is responsible for opening them. Nor should voters allow Democrats to pretend that she did." Not a @DeAngelisCorey tweet, but @TheAtlantic

The Democrats’ COVID Amnesia

Keeping schools closed for so long was a mistake, and the Democrats shouldn’t pretend Harris is responsible for opening them.

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BREAKING: Determined to end threats to democracy, Democrats nullify primaries, replace Biden with candidate hand-picked by party elites.

The Associated Press

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BREAKING: President Joe Biden ends his 2024 bid after a disastrous debate inflamed doubts he’s fit for four more years on the job.

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Not-so-exclusive: English is sloppy with religious allusions, idioms, and metaphors that are critical to reading comprehension and language proficiency. To deny children access to Western cultural touchstones is to impose illiteracy on them.

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Exclusive: Texas seeks to inject Bible stories into elementary school reading program

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Litmus test for school board candidates (and superintendents) what did you think of @ehanford “Sold a Story” and “Hard Words?” If they’ve never heard of it, it’s disqualifying.

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In fact, there are a few new teachers who’ve only been there a few months, even weeks. She challenged me to spot them. I failed. Incredible consistency throughout the building. There are marching bands whose moves are less closely coordinated than Michaela teachers. 3/

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I’d estimate a 20-1 ratio of positive reinforcement to negative. The students are so attentive and on-point it’s almost scary. 9/

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Civics teachers where you at?

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Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy”

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The last 72 hours have been the most clarifying of my professional life. After 9/11, I can't recall a reaction other than horror and anger. Nor did anyone I know express a wish to know more about "the roots of the conflict."

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If you “learn more from your students than they learn from me,” you’re doing it wrong.

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I saw zero teacher redirects or student misbehavior. Literally none. There was a constant stream of merits and demerits issued during each class; demerits might be for imprecise vocabulary or meandering answers not misbehavior. 8/

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Speaking of students, if you're offered a choice between a winning Powerball ticket, or standing in the hall at Michaela during transitions and getting five dollars every time a student says, “Good morning, sir!” (or “Miss”), choose the latter. You’ll be richer. 7/

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Teachers consistently push students to answer in full sentences, use sophisticated vocabulary and academic language. Most of the “demerits” given in class were for failure to do so. 11/

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8 months

When do we disrupt illiteracy?

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@Hebro_Steele

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“Bay Area elementary school where just 4% of students are proficient in math and 12% in English spent $250K on 'Woke Kindergarten' program where third-grade teacher was told to 'disrupt whiteness', and whose non-binary creator wants to abolish police.” The new stolen youth.

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@rpondiscio

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Content rich: a Year 7 geography lesson on economic activity generated by tourism at a nearby reservoir would be sophisticated and challenging for US high school students. A Year 11 discussion of Anglo-Saxon village life was mostly over my head, but not the students’. 6/

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

1 year

At first, I thought the pedagogy was so routinized that teachers were virtually identical, even interchangeable. Same pace, routines, and moves in every room. But like your eyes adjusting to the light, I got accustomed to it and saw teachers personalities shine through. 4/

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

1 year

Get the sense Michaela doesn’t spend a lot of time worrying about making their curriculum engaging, authentic, “culturally relevant,” etc. Michaela is *very* clear on what students need to know and how they need to conduct themselves. 13/

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

5 months

I ordered a quarter pounder and a chocolate shake just now at the drive-in window. I was asked, “Do you want fries with that?” My mind turned to those brave Princeton professors, and I said no. #Solidarity

Visegrád 24

@visegrad24

5 months

More than a dozen Princeton University faculty members dramatically announced today that they will undertake a solidarity hunger strike for a full 24 hours to show their support for some of the anti-Israeli students that are also on hunger strike.

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

1 year

I’ve been in plenty of classes in high-performing charters in the US where teachers keep control of the classroom and maintain student engagement with volume (e.g. when attention flags they get louder). Michaela teachers don’t do this. They don’t have to. 10/

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

2 months

The key question--seldom asked or studied--is whether teachers creating material is the best use of their time and what that takes time *away* from: studying student work, giving feedback, building relationships with parents, et al.

Jennifer Roberts

@JenBRoberts

2 months

@rpondiscio Our district quit using textbooks and instead, teachers created pdfs and slideshow. Example compared to textbook:

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

3 months

The press corps was not deceived. It was deceptive, incurious, or both. If you were shocked by Biden’s debate performance, it’s time to diversify your news consumption habits and outlets.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

3 months

Axios: "Hell has no fury like a press corps deceived. Reporters feel duped — and some probably embarrassed —and are scrambling to unearth new evidence of decline."

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

1 year

Each class has a “Head of Year,” a senior faculty member who stays with that cohort. The result is someone with deep knowledge of the students and strong personal connections and almost parental investment in each. Best possible form of “SEL.” 17/

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Robert Pondiscio

@rpondiscio

6 months

You know what else doesn't motivate students to do their best work? Low standards and expectations,

Michael Chrzan

@theChrzanOne

6 months

Great, quick article by @edutopia . I've been shouting from the proverbial mountaintop about the grading myth. I still firmly believe it's our profession's most unexamined practice. #MTBoS #iteachmath #gradingforequity

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