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[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

We are in the home stretch. Here's a motivational reminder of how great you are. #sunchat https://t.co/V390yvspuR

[Jeremy Anderson @1JeremyAnderson]

Teachers, you spend so much time pouring into everyone else that sometimes you forget about yourself.

But hear this: you deserve the same peace, love, happiness, and support that you encourage your students to seek. Don’t forget to take care of you too.
#educators #teachers #education

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[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

@CattaniTony @NJPSA I was going to take a quick peek, but it is coming up "Page Not Found"

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

Students can make it all the way through a problem, but if their foundation isn't strong, they may not interpret the answer correctly. Blindly show these varying videos & see if your students can identify how much money the screen is displaying.
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[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

And how do you evaluate/compare pay between an Art, Music, PE, Foreign Language, Tech ... against a Math Teacher. Only ONE of those areas is in a measurably tested field. However, all of them are important! The ability to achieve any type of inserted measurable success also differs between each subject.

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

I am not trying to give a "hot take", but a grading scale has low relevancy in the grand scheme of things. Teachers unknowingly or on purpose will mold their teaching, assessments, and everything that surrounds the eventual output of a grade including rigor. An observed example: One teacher may give hints if a student comes up to their desk during an assessment. While, other teachers won't/don't.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

When I was in school, a "B+" was a 92 and an "A-" was a 93-95.

What was considered an A when you were in school?

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

That is a powerful quote! Nice work.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

If schools lack the courage to suspend the unruly, they are quietly expelling the innocent.

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

@Lvike1584 My guess is striving for perfection makes you way harder on yourself than the people around you actually view you.

[Mark E. Weston Ph.D. @ShiftParadigm]

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Mine are color coded & numbered and they still get mixed up ... but this simple idea is even better!!!

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Check out what we 3D printed today!!! Name tags for our iPad chargers so we don’t have to pull out EVERY iPad 👀😂

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

So true. 🧡

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

What a clever idea!

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Her she is THE first golden ticket finder! 9 to go! We are so excited for our chocolate reading adventure! @KarieBuck22 @ayerelementary @FHSchools

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

This would be a fun way to have a focus activity in a Language Arts classroom.

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Kills me all the time 😂😂🤣

[Mark E. Weston Ph.D. @ShiftParadigm]

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[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

This is a great way to start a Professional Development workshop.

[Nayralune @nayralune]

In this circle, "E" is present .... Times?

[Nayralune @nayralune]

In this circle, "E" is present .... Times?

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

There are various forms of this that often go without being noticed.
-The LCD projection in the back of the room. Is the font big enough?
-A teacher that mumbles is tough on people even with a slight hearing deficiency.

[Steve Hare @sharemath]

Years ago, an exemplary former student came to see me after school one day to tell me he was now flunking math, and that his teacher was getting increasingly irritated with him for “not paying attention.”

“Well, are you?” I asked.

“I'm trying to!” he said, with tears in his eyes.

I thought for a moment. As chance would have it, I had just had a similar situation in my own class.

“Are there assigned seats?”

“Yes.”

“Where do you sit?” I asked.

“In the front row!”

“Is your teacher right-handed?”

“Um… yeah?”

“Do you sit behind him to the left?”

“Yes!”

“Is he blocking you when he writes on the board?”

“YES!!”

A quick note to his mom resulted in his seat being moved, and the exemplary student quickly re-emerged.

Students who can't see the math can't learn the math.

This story and many others like it inspired me to create YouTeachYou, the first k-8 math method with a worked example for everything, printed on the page itself so all students are sure to see it.

See https://t.co/YTkPUsp7ve

[Kirt Thomason @DevEducators]

The very last part is huge! "...teachers will keep drowning ..." ... is leading to mass burnout.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We don’t have a classroom management problem.
We have an emotional regulation crisis that teachers are being asked to handle.
Somehow, “classroom management” has turned into:
• de-escalating trauma
• supporting anxiety and depression
• calming panic attacks
• breaking up fights
• being cursed at, threatened, and even assaulted
• being the counselor, social worker, and crisis team
And at the same time…
we remove the very things that actually help:
• recess
• movement
• art
• play
• connection
Teachers aren’t trained for this.
And they shouldn’t have to be.
Classroom management was never meant to do all of this.
It’s about:
relationships
rules
routines
responsibility
That’s it.
It was never designed to replace what families, communities, and systems failed to provide.
And until we stop offloading every societal failure onto schools,
teachers will keep drowning under expectations no human can meet.

[Mark E. Weston Ph.D. @ShiftParadigm]

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