Sterling Simmons

Quirky guy, former teacher, 🏳️‍🌈, skinny king, short king

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

I'm assuming he's saying he would've been an old man with a whole child....

[R @viktorv085]

man don't get me started

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@0xOuzos @stogolp

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

As a black guy, no to all of this.

[Daquan Wiltshire DSG 🤘🏾🐝 @DAQUANDSG]

A white person in black face and saying the n word. No one has a problem with it. See, white people? Not only do you have freedom of speech but you also have the freedom to do black face, if done tactfully and comedically. Y’all just wanna be outright racist, that’s where the issue arises. Also, this was hilarious 😂

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@mathillustrated I utilized the book when I began my 3 year in the classroom and it revolutionized my teaching and approach to behavior management. As an example of the approach, here's a chart from the book or website (not sure which medium this particular graphic is from).

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@mathillustrated This sounds like a misinterpretation of the Responsive Classroom's "The First Six Weeks of School", which outlines how to create routines and structures for instruction and classroom community in the first 6 wks of school. It explicitly schedules academic content instruction.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@mathillustrated Like, do my fellow introverted educators not know that extroverts need to talk or they'll combust?

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@HartofLearning @drakmog I think his point is more about the inability to pull small groups for remediation with large class sizes. Effective literacy instruction can be hard to deliver if there are a lot of pragmatic problems in the way.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@LostSailorNY Wait, so if it was wrong during COVID, why would you choose to stoop to that level? Being cruel just to be cruel is not a worthy aim, neither is revenge.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@angeldadjoe And his parents were not the people who caused your grief. In the same way you would do anything you could do to see your daughter one more time, they want to do the same. They are being arbitrarily held in detention, even though they could be sent back to Mex today.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

I think there's two big issues at hand:

Were phones really as big an issue as reporting made it seem?

If the issue is screen time affects on the brain, kids still use Chromebooks and iPads all the time.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Do test scores improve after phone bans? Not really.
- High schools gain a little. Middle schools lose a little. The average is close to zero.
- Behaviour worsens before it improves when phones are removed.
- Phone bans hurt wellbeing at first, then modestly help, but the effects are not large or transformative.
Bottom line: Lockable phone pouches reduce phone use and initially disrupt behaviour and wellbeing, but ultimately produce near zero overall effects on academic achievement.
https://t.co/nGWt0bEvmR

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

Oh my gosh, I was so scared he had passed away.

[Netflix @netflix]

"Marty is good at life."

MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT, the definitive documentary on the beloved comedian Martin Short, premieres May 12. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

One of my least favorite discourses that pops up every single year: "This kid got a 99% SAT, and no Ivy Leagues!" followed by blaming wokeness or whatever they hate.

Look. 2M kids take the SAT each year. By definition 20K will get top 1% scores. It's impossible for them all to get into the Ivy League, who admit around 15K per year.

And that doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of Ivy admits are legacies, rich kids, or athletes, so the pool is actually smaller. And it doesn't account for the idea that the Ivies would legitimately rather have a kid with top 5% scores plus [other really cool thing] rather than the top 1% TestBotOptimizer.

It is *not a story* that kids with strong numbers get rejected from elite universities, but every year it's portrayed as a shocking new trend caused by whatever the current culture war item is.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

We have to stop assuming that every chronically absent child has parents who are lazy and purposely neglectful. Truancy letters aren't going to fix absences for every child if root causes like physical burnout, transportation issues, etc., are not holistically addressed.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

Schools and districts already track absences and trends on specific students. If we're going to report on a state's efforts to tackle absenteeism, just be honest and say the state wants a better outlook on who is absent, not the schools that take attendance everyday.A

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools don’t need a dashboard to understand chronic absenteeism.

They already know why 1 in 4 students miss a month of school (Ohio).

This just adds more work for teachers/schools while pretending the problem isn’t at home.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

Also, I really think that if we are going to help students attend school daily and weekly, we have to go beyond punitive measures for parents and families. Some families have adults working slave hours to get by, which can impact simple tasks like waking up to get a kid ready.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@karenvaites @VinceBoley @georgiadeptofed Who would not know how to plan a unit from scratch if they had the templates, resources, etc. to do so. Teachers entering the profession may know the basal isn't working. But it's hard to pivot when you've never experienced the work and rhythm of a different teaching model.

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

@karenvaites @VinceBoley @georgiadeptofed Should not plan curriculum. This view that teachers are all inept at planning a curriculum that can meet knowledge building demands and push students into complex thinking about books. With the push to scripted curriculum, I worry that we are creating a generation of teachers

[Sterling Simmons @SterlingSimmon6]

1. Why is "baby" in quotations?
2. Only one of the dads struck Ryley, specifically the one without the baby.
3. Did you think gay men lose the male inclination to hit when offended?

[Ryley Niemi @RyleyNiemi_]

🚨🚨They had The Baby in THEIR ARMS!!

🚨🚨Are Gay Men Fit to be Parents?🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

2 Gay Dads with Their "Baby" Strike Ryley Niemi in the back of the head 3 Times

And also break a $2,500 Camera

Support these patriots at this GoFundMe
https://t.co/uL2jMXmjuC