Professor of Happiness, Education, and Early Childhood Educ (retired) @writingproject teacher consultant. #lupus. #longcovid. mild version @ProfessorEFox
Teachers, never take for granted the incredible role our effective principals and assistant principals play in shaping our schools. They are the thermostat, providing guidance, support, encouragement and leadership. They are the difference makers for the difference makers!
Studying science fairs: https://t.co/DyA7UTQeuS. Depressingly, most really aren't fairs at all but contests; the point is to triumph over other budding scientists. Discovery is framed as just a means to the end of winning. (See also: chorus "festivals" and talent "shows.")
85% of people living with chronic pain also live with depression.
But this is what we call a NORMAL response to an ABNORMAL situation.
Not everyone living with chronic pain is "mentally ill" + "imbalanced"🙄
This depression is *situational*
End. The. Stigma.🔥
#MedTwitter#MedEd
A conservative group gets local press with a report faulting local ed. schools for training teachers to teach kids to read with anything other than explicit phonics instruction. My brief response in the Boston Globe: [screenshot of letter]
I've often posted links to research that refutes the #SOR claim that kids can't learn to read without explicit phonics instruction (and also warns of its disadvantages). This study explores HOW proficiency is attained in its absence: https://t.co/cFEjqJwebD #REALscienceofreading