Mandi

❤️Momma to 2 human boys 👦🏼 👦🏼 and 2 furry boys 🐶 🐶

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@educator4ever36 @IllinoisProf Oh I agree that's not right!

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@educator4ever36 @IllinoisProf Honest question - what should happen to a child (age 6) who hits another child in the face five minutes before recess? I've had this happen (as well as many similar situations) and technically I'm not supposed to take away their recess.

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@NJMomforinpers1 @rastokke Yesss!! What program? This seems like what we have to teach 😩

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@rastokke I feel this sums up iReady, at least in K! Teach what should be a basic concept but present it 100 different ways, throw in lots of manipulatives, & then test. The only thing measured by the assessments is whether students can follow an overly complex set of directions... 😞

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@educator4ever36 We have one in PA and we always opt out

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@FixingEducation I would also add - let them be bored sometimes. You don't always need to have some form of entertainment in front of them. They can go a couple minutes without something to do. It fosters patience and creativity.

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@FixingEducation Notice and wonder 🙄

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@karenvaites Karen could you name some specific ELA curriculums that would be considered knowledge-based? I am only familiar with two I believe & they're awful. Not because they're knowledge-based, but for many other reasons. I would like to see better options.

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@Beanie0597 I would be furious if she were my child's teacher. And I say that as a fellow teacher!

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@MarkFusetti 😔

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@BarackObama Wow - to even equate these two situations! One man lost his life, one lost his terribly unfunny late night TV show. Jimmy Kimmel still has his free speech and is free to go elsewhere to use that constitutional right. 🙄

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@stoolpresidente @MSNBC This was so clearly a cold-blooded assassination. What an absolute scourge of a reporter. Disgusting. 🤬

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@karenvaites Our district uses a different curriculum that does include full books / novels in the older grades, but almost every single one is read TO them 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@ThrillaRilla369 I use like 8 of them 🤦🏼‍♀️

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@still_boneless I think it had the name of a family business on it

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@JamesAFurey Had this happen almost everyday 😞

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@GovernorShapiro Sounds like another program I'll pay for yet never receive a single benefit from.

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@NBCNews I don't believe this for a second

[Mandi @Mandi_Cooper]

@joel120193 @tombennett71 @researchED1 @researchED_US Would love to see some research on brain breaks! The kids who I think need them the most end up being the ones refusing to participate, or being sent back to their seats for doing them in an unsafe manner.

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@MrDanielBuck Great point!!!!