Western Tech Lax

Coach, teacher. Come for the lacrosse, stay for the pedagogy. RT=anything from ironic juxtaposition to approval to obvious look-at-this-nonsense 😡😡 he/him.

[Mennonite Action Lancaster @MennoActionLanc]

BREAKING: Over 100 Mennonites are holding an unannounced worship service and hymn sing in Lloyd Smucker’s Lancaster, PA office, calling for him to support peace and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. #Mennonites4Ceasefire

[Eugene V. Debs Museum @DebsMuseum]

From “Peace on Earth” in The American Socialist, 1915

[Toph Marshall @Tophocles]

Today's @xkcd includes a shout-out to @EmilyRCWilson
https://t.co/sRRegPTWFZ

[Craig Clary @ClaryCraig]

Western Tech boys soccer wins eighth straight and continues best start in school history with victory over Pikesville PHOTOS, STORY: https://t.co/kQqNK8DOUe

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of America is in Decline Like The Roman Empire

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[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Sending my deepest prayers and condolences to the loved ones and family of Senator Dianne Feinstein. May she rest in peace after a lasting legacy of standing up for human rights.

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

Politicians who never attended public school, who don’t send their kids to public school, shouldn’t be making policy for public schools.

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

@prestonedu1 @korytellers This fight begins end of Q1. You basically got a 4-corner free-for-all rumpus: One corner: "I assign new seats every quarter & separate friends" vs "you heartless monster, let friends sit together"; other corners are "same seats all year" and "pick your new seat erry day"

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

Every coffee stop during spirit weeks are fraught with such tensions...

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

Louder for erryone in the back, please.

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

@MonteSyrie @CovingtonEDU Mistakes (“mistakes?”), “wrong” answers, detours —they’re an integral part of the learning.

I compared it to learning to walk… no one walks without crashing into the coffee table a couple times.

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

Individual —>group annotation of “Butterflies” by Patricia Grace. Practicing literary analysis: what’s emphasized, what’s elided? @WesternTech_HS @BCPS_ELA @JodiRWicks

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Our future (via Cory Doctorow): Because we're busy or lazy, half of us use AI to transform a few bullet points into a lengthy, impressively formal document. Then we send it to the other half of us, who, also being busy or lazy, use AI to boil it down to a few bullet points.

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

An intellectuallye curious, criticallye empowered, and philosophicallye informed citizenrye who dreameth beyond 1950s visions of the future ys a tech billionaire's greatest obstacle

[Joy Kirr (she/her) @JoyKirr]

My goal w/what to grade:
If we've practiced the skill (enough?), and they've received feedback on that skill a few times (from different sources - me, peers, activity), then I'll make something new that uses those skills - as evidence toward their grade. #EduChat #ungrading #ttog

[Katie Landon, Ph.D. @Katienlandon]

@jralph6AKA @KyriaJoseph @WesternTech_HS @Westerntechlib I love those people!

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

@bmorebacon room 210 :) 😎

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

No luck for @bmorebacon

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

Sorry Owen.

[Western Tech Lax @WesternTechLax]

Sorry Owen.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Free-agent RB Dalvin Cook is planning to sign a one-year deal worth up to $8.6 million with the New York Jets, per source.