StephanyMcD

Wife, mom, teacher, reader, four-leaf clover finder.🍀

[iain welch @iaindwelch]

I hope that you are having a really lovely day so far, lovely people and lovely dogs.
It is a tad blustery here.
I'm wishing you the very best for the rest of your day.
#hoorayfordogs #blustery #beagle

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

“Go for a walk when things dazzle you.”

[Happy PhD Supervisor @HaPhDsupervisor]

A new PhD started today. She asked for general advice for the first few months. This was my advice:
1. Don’t work evenings or weekends
2. Don’t aim to prove yourself (to me), I’m already convinced of your capacities
3. Go for a walk when things dazzle you (1/3)

[iain welch @iaindwelch]

Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs.
The team are feeling the love.
This is good night picture 999 for the team.
Sleep well and sweet dreams.
I hope that you have a really fab day tomorrow.
#hoorayfordogs #beagle #labrador #westie #springer #redsquirrel #love

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Watching October Sky it’s like Jock Jams but for teachers.

[Cult of Pedagogy @cultofpedagogy]

I went BANANAS when I first saw a #thinkingclassroom in action, so I was thrilled to have had the honor of interviewing @pgliljedahl on this week's podcast. (Thank you @Willmdunn for putting this on my radar!!) https://t.co/OP4PEzgtSf #mtbos

[Dr.Gretchen Morrison @gmlovetolearn]

This is a MUST listen! Thank you @cultofpedagogy for sharing this conversation with @JSerravallo & @KellyBCartwrig1. Let’s lead in learning together instead of being divided. 📚❤️📚
#literacy #Reading #literacyinstruction #scienceofreading #neuroscience
https://t.co/GBmFxn4bdS

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Be Flora, Be Frank!

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Flora and Frank. Frank is showing Flora the art of digging holes. Flora is just happy to be here. 13/10 for both

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Mud is a silent assassin. These are obviously good boys and would never.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Finley and Felix. They were not playing in the mud. They were attacked by the mud. Came out of nowhere. 13/10 for both

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Live from the car dealership.
We are all buddies here.🤨

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

@ZachMcDermott77

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Reksio. This net may be able to block his body. But it will never block his spirit. 12/10

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest.

Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes.

So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest.

The winner was

A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield.

"Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike."

As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed.

“That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’”

So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe:

The Air Max 1.

The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on.

"To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike."

Takeaway 1:

Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max.

Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head."

“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.”

Takeaway 2:

Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world.

This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904.

Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things.

Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon.

He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer.

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"Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Jo Boaler @joboaler]

How about starting each day with a "data talk" - they help students develop the data literacy that will protect them in the modern world. https://t.co/riLrmcXkPB For soccer lovers, this is one of my favorites!

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Welcome to Michigan! What’s your dream?

[MI State Historic Preservation Office @MISHPO]

Anyone fancy owning your own #lighthouse? 2 Great Lakes lighthouses being auctioned off, including one in U.P. https://t.co/BmsQ2rILWr @Visit_Keweenaw @LakeSuperior @UpperPeninsula

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

Mrs. McDermott Has Too Many Tomatoes. A cautionary tale now available as a graphic novel and sandwich spread.🍅🍅🍅

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

During the year 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden received a remarkable gift—a lion, one of the earliest lions to arrive in Scandinavia. Unfortunately, the lion passed away shortly after its arrival. Subsequently, the deceased lion was entrusted to a taxidermist, who set out to preserve its form. Both the taxidermist and the museum keepers faced a peculiar challenge—they had never encountered a lion before and lacked knowledge of its proper appearance. Consequently, the final mounted display exhibited significant anatomical inaccuracies, particularly noticeable in the lion's face.

[StephanyMcD @StephanyMcD1]

@mr_reierson Top shelf question

[Michael Vogel @MichaelVogel1]

Me: If you don't get to bed RIGHT NOW, you are grounded

My Kid: Wait! I have a joke for you

Me: is the joke so important it's worth getting grounded for!?

My Kid: Do trees poop?

Me: Huh

My Kid: Yes, as that's how you get No. 2 pencils

Me:

My Kid: Am I still grounded?

Me: