Casey Swanson

Dad, husband, IB DP Coordinator, TOK, Psychology teacher, Lecturer for UMich SOE

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@effortfuleduktr It is amazing when I lead building PD on depth of processing or WMM, that the vast majority of teachers have never heard of it.

The new IB psych curriculum expects students to know, explain, and apply Cognitive Load Theory. Helping students understand cog science is CPI.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

Just read this gem from @effortfuleduktr I offer choice summer PD for my team of IB teachers and this will be on this year’s list.

This body of knowledge isn’t taught at most SOE. Looking forward to using this tool to shape the culture of learning in classrooms at my school.

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

Every one working in a public school district’s central office that is not clerical, should be required to sub 10 days in the district EVERY year, including the Superintendent, Chiefs, etc. and it should have to be at 10 different schools. The disconnect between what is happening in schools and what central office thinks is happening has never been wider.

[Blake Harvard @effortfuleduktr]

Dear colleges of higher education,

I am BEGGING you to have Ed. D.'s that don't have the word 'leadership' in them.

I want to be a better teacher...not get out of the classroom.

Sincerely,
Classroom teachers everywhere

[Icona @iconawrites]

It would be fun if public libraries were well-funded and open in the evenings and we built a culture where it’s normal to gather at the library after work and browse the shelves and chat about the latest books and read the Saturday night away.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize.

Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.

It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.

[Shay Stewart Bouley @blackgirlinmain]

It's easy to rag on the kids, but how many adults are sitting down reading big, dense books in 1-2 weeks?

I'm not talking audiobooks either, I mean actual physical books.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@mjbeers1 I’m a HS teacher and we moved from full Zoom to Google Meet.

No private chat.
No focus mode.
No easy to use formative assessment tools.
No preloading of surveys/quizzes.

The switch is hard is adversely impacting student engagement.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@FixingEducation Dismantling the professionalization of high school sports.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@IBchemmilam @LorneEC3

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@MuggleNet Tonks

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

*fun* story. some of our students went to a cadaver lab (or whatever its called) My student teacher helped chaperone. she told me that not a kid pulled out a phone!

so the solution is... cadaver labs. every day every class

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@heymrsbond I’m entering 19 years of HS SocSt teaching. In that time, one 45 minute PD about something related to economics, taught by a colleague who was earning a masters degree in economics. It was amazing.

This only occurred because the departmental admin couldn’t make the meeting.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@SteeleThoughts Get out of the way of the teachers already doing this work. Distribute your leadership. You’re learning about managing a building, administrative hoops, dealing with discipline, and navigating the bureaucratic systems that are different from your previous system you were in.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@msruggerio @ShanaVWhite @DrKerryane @reggie19061 For recertification, I took the same class I’m unqualified to teach and finished it a weekend. So often the DE in our area is staffed by the last hired adjunct that has no genuine connection to the school community.

[Casey Swanson @caseyswnsn]

@msruggerio @ShanaVWhite @DrKerryane @reggie19061 This is my same experience. Despite teaching AP and IB for over a decade, I wasn’t qualified product at my local CC. The students in my standardized AP/IB classes walk in with 4-8 credits ready to move to advanced coursework.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Just remember parents…teachers have a whole classroom full of them! 😈🤦🏻‍♂️

[USL Championship @USLChampionship]

MOTOR CITY MAGIC!!! 🪄

@DetroitCityFC advances in the @opencup! 🙌

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