Andrew Urevig

elementary teacher, writer/editor, co-founder @mndebate. it’s easier to critique than to create. he/him

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

I’m excited to present at the Teaching That Succeeds Symposium on June 30! I’ll talk about closing opportunity gaps in word problem instruction. Hosted by
@HKorbey, @goyenfoundation, & @mommagordon2!

→ Register: https://t.co/a9gqREbnrt

→ Schedule: https://t.co/ctJ5t8868u

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@hilarym99 This is what keeps me up at night. We have a real sense of what works for students, but if we can’t figure out better implementation at scale, gains are going to be moderate and—after that initial jump—stagnant.

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis. appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.

They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

New video shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.

[Kyle Potter @kpottermn]

On Instagram, Minneapolis journalist and anchor Jana Shortal of @kare11 - clearly wearing a press credentials - says she was pepper sprayed and punched in the eye by federal agents while trying to capture the aftermath of today’s fatal shooting.

[Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl @FrederickMelo]

HOME FREE AFTER MORE THAN TWO DAYS: Nasra Ahmed, 23, a St. Paul woman and U.S. citizen who was born in Minnesota, was released to her family without charges on Friday night after being detained by federal immigration enforcement agents and spending more than two days in detention.

“She went home traumatized, not eating, not talking, pissed off,” said state Rep. Samakab Hussein, who helped her family locate her in federal detention at the Sherburne County Jail and Fort Snelling. “She feels that she got kidnapped. The law is not protecting her. She was humiliated.”
https://t.co/ye4FZSt2X8

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

There are no words. ICE agents ate lunch at a small local Mexican restaurant in Minnesota, enjoyed their meal, then came back later that night as the restaurant was closing down and arrested the people who had served them.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@smorrisey Thanks for this. You’ve inspired me to step up my vocabulary teaching this year, and I think my students are better for it.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@mathillustrated @karenvaites @burnsmk1 @NCTM @rastokke @amandavande1 @sarahpowellphd @AERA_EdResearch - What kinds of students attended these schools?
- What was the detracking policy (policies)?
- What student outcomes were measured?
- What was the result?

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

The fact that any Minnesota schools are adopting Building Thinking Classrooms as an instructional approach for math shows a… profound lack of adult thinking. We’ve got to do better. https://t.co/29h7RiLuri

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Teachers need to be more entertaining than phones.” No teacher can compete with the dark wizards of tech and their addictive amusement devices. And frankly, not everything SHOULD be entertaining. Learning is hard but ultimately brings more joy than a life of ten-second videos.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

1 in 3. One in every three students can’t read at a basic level—a stat that’s worse for the most marginalized students in our society, for the children already denied a fair shot at opportunity.

Yet a professor of education cites this number to claim there’s no reading crisis.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

The problem isn’t people misreading NAEP scores. The problem is kids can’t read—and defenders of balanced literacy still want to debate definitions instead of solutions.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@sarahpowellphd I’m curious to learn more! Our state has started some interesting literacy work with the READ Act. I’m hopeful we can have conversations about improving on math, too.

[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

My granny's grandfather had a teacher-mom who was caught teaching enslaved people to read. Her husband (James) paid with his life. Happy Juneteenth, from my brother James and me, "They've killed the old lion, but his cubs still run free".

Until all can read.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@oliviajune82 @HistoryMatrs @educationgadfly I mostly agree. If the question is, "How do we raise general reading comprehension?" then the answer does necessitate strategies (taught well, as you note). I aim to teach students comprehension strategies they can use to build their knowledge. And yes, also do sci/SS lessons.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@oliviajune82 @HistoryMatrs @educationgadfly I agree that social studies should be part of the core anyway, for its own value. (I've spent most of today retooling my SS lessons for next year to impart more geography & history.) What I wonder about is whether SS instruction does much to increase general *reading* outcomes.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@dperkinsed @oliviajune82 I DO think PBL/inquiry doesn't work *efficiently.* If you teach in a place where you have extra time, or room for experimentation & inefficiency, sure. But if someone's teaching in a place where needs are high, challenges are great, & kids are behind—I'd advise direct instruction

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@dperkinsed @oliviajune82 Many things in education can *work* on some level, especially if you have extra time, extra staff, extra resources, and fewer challenges with behavior, economic precarity, etc. Whether something *works* is only 1 question, because many things work.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@dperkinsed @oliviajune82 But we need rigorous direct instruction as the standard in elementary and middle schools so that we can avoid such staggering academic failure in the first place. All students should have OPTIONS when leaving K-12, and large-scale PBL would hinder that for students in poverty.

[Andrew Urevig @aurevig]

@dperkinsed @oliviajune82 ACE's approach might be the best we can do with the resources we have for students who've been failed by the system for 10+ years. At that point, the tradeoff is tragic, but there's not much time left in their K-12. At least they'll be ready for a well-paying construction job.