Mindy Walker

Mom of Boys, Educator Advocate and Football Fan who Loves Jesus.

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@GolfSupers @karyjones24 Congratulations!

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

HR: We lost a high-performing employee today.

CEO: What happened?

HR: The company hired someone fresh out of college into the same role and paid them more than him, even after he gave us 11 years.

CEO: But we pay well for this job.

HR: He earns 55,000 after more than a decade of loyalty. The new hire started at 70,000.

CEO: That’s unfortunate, but that’s the market rate for new talent.

HR: And now we’ve lost the person who actually carried the role for years.

CEO: Fine. Declare the position vacant.

HR: With what budget?

CEO: 80,000 starting salary.

Companies will underpay loyal employees for years, then suddenly find a bigger budget the moment those employees leave.

The problem is rarely money. It is how little they value the people who stayed.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Wild: Seahawks star guard Grey Zabel was asking his teammates to fix his dislocated thumb in the huddle during the Super Bowl.

Zabel is built DIFFERENT 😤

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@Matt_Pinner Gertrude

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@JJWatt The real question is how is the restaurant paying them? Restaurant should not be paying them servers wages (passing the cost along to us) if they are not truly a server. Pay the wage they are earning rather than counting on the customer to pay the employee wage. Just my thought

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@ctlinebacker41 @MSSUBaseball Well I certainly hope the issue is addressed appropriately

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@DocSig The portal is great…until it’s not. No one knows the value of commitment anymore. And it just used to be in personal relationships. Bring $$$ in and all goes down the toilet

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Standardized tests were never designed to capture the full range of how students learn.
They were designed to compare performance under identical conditions.
Research in cognitive psychology and educational measurement has shown for decades that standardized tests are highly sensitive to factors like:
processing speed
reading stamina
test anxiety
working memory load
familiarity with test formats
In other words, they measure how a brain performs in a narrow, timed environment, not how deeply it understands content.
That’s why standardized tests consistently favor certain cognitive profiles:
fast processors
strong abstract and language-based thinkers
students comfortable with pressure and prolonged focus
They reward speed, stamina, and format fluency,
not curiosity, creativity, reasoning depth, or real-world application.
Which leads to a misunderstanding we keep making.
Some students test well but disengage from school.
Others engage deeply, explain their thinking, apply concepts, and grow , yet struggle on tests.
Both can be true.
And neither tells you who a student really is.
A test score is not a measure of learning capacity.
It’s a snapshot of performance under artificial conditions.
When we confuse the two, we don’t just misread students.
We mis-teach them.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Fck CBS.

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@oliverburdick Amen!

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@Puppieslover

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@MayMayspeaks The match

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@Pixie1z Pepe jeans from the Buckle

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@Wisdom_HQ 8

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@honeymoon250 Princess Di

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@NefflynBe $$$

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@prophetessfay1 Amen

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@Astrowicca0 111

[Mindy Walker @MwalkerMSTA]

@selfhealingpage Yes!

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

After ten years of saving lives, police dog Indy heard his name on the radio for the last time, and in the silence that followed, even the toughest officer broke down in tears.