Clint Jones

“Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know,” Reads Banned Books, Omnivore, Husband, Father, High School Teacher, Poet, and Veteran. AP Lit. AP Lang. ESOL

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@ChesterCheetah Bring back Mexican Street Corn Cheetos

[The Cure @thecure]

THE LOVECATS ARE BACK… OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO OUT NOW!
https://t.co/9CxIDf3dDA

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@MatRyanELATeach Whitman gets my vote.

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

The belief in transferable skills is perhaps the most common chimera among teachers of reading. Imagine a handful of universal tools we could teach students and in so doing enable them to understand every text they read. Who wouldn’t seek out “the key to all inferences,” for example, knowing that once mastered this skill would allow our students to unlock what was unspoken in every story? Who among us would not dream such a beautiful dream?

The problem is that for all the beauty of the dream, the evidence is squarely against it.

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[Dweller @One_Way_Home]

Teacher reads comments her 8th graders said. They just keep getting better but her demeanor while reading them steals the show.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

An MIT writing professor on his students using AI:

"I realized that for the first time as a writing professor, I had to deal with students producing words without work, which wasn’t quite plagiarism and wasn’t quite paying for someone else to do the job, but it felt like a kind of naive chicanery; a perversion of the contract between writer and reader."

https://t.co/518RAEgrgq

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@arealmofwonder D makes me smile

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@omgsidewalks @TaraSkurtu Beasts of the Southern Wild

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@ChesterCheetah are Mexican Street Corn Cheetos ever coming back?

[Dr. Miah @dst6n01]

In defense of the humble novel...

https://t.co/hnrB8sn67d

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Students who take notes by hand get better grades than those who use laptops, especially in STEM fields.

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

Schools don’t just transmit knowledge. They model norms. If students learn that rules are optional and consequences negotiable, we shouldn’t be surprised when disorder follows—first in classrooms, then everywhere else.

https://t.co/bKaRTBl4m8

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@WUTangKids

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

This is what ICE being at the Atlanta airport looks like.

Doing NOTHING 😂 @realDonaldTrump

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

This is what ICE being at the Atlanta airport looks like.

Doing NOTHING 😂 @realDonaldTrump

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

How will it be enforced? What are the consequences for not enforcing it?

[WSB-TV @wsbtv]

Georgia high school students will no longer be able to use cellphones in class https://t.co/vZUevMJxpW

[Dave Griffith @poorerthandead]

Nothing meandering here. He’s telling us a story abt a profound realization re: the reasons we outsource intellectual work. Stories are vital bc they help relate complex phenomena from one human to another in a form that is memorable, portable, replicable.

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@ChesterCheetah when are the Mexican Street Corn Cheetos returning? That’s not soon enough.

[Clint Jones @DeciduousJones]

@WajahatAli @MuellerSheWrote “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.” ~ W. Owen

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

True. This includes:
1. ‘Decide the consequence for yourself’
2. ‘Use a restorative conversation’ MID LESSON
3. ‘Give them three warnings, then move them, then corridor, then chat then…’
4. ‘Do all the detentions yourself, plus admin plus follow up plus escalation’

[Andrew Old @oldandrewuk]

The central purpose of a school is learning. Teachers are not therapists, clergy, politicians, or stand in parents. Our role is to teach.