Dan Shay

Science Geek | #Biotechnology Teacher | Department Lead | #PBL Curriculum Writer | Dad | 2021 WASEF Teacher of the Year | 2023 OBTA #amwriting #kidslit |

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Hey you- what are you still doing here? Come to Bluesky.

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

So, selfishly, I am *super* happy to be a teacher this week.

There are, of course, student-centered reasons… but man, am I happy that I get to spend this week surrounded by kids’ laughter and beautiful foolishness.

Happy to not be alone w my thoughts about the world.

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

@ContamClub

Any idea what this jiggly mass growing in Acetate buffer could be?

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

If you voted for Trump I don’t like you, but I care about you.

A lot of you are gloating in my DMs.

When Trump era policies destroy your access to healthcare, education and clean water I will not be there to gloat, I will be there to help you organize.

When Trump era policies deport your friends or legally deny you healthcare I’m not going to stand over you and say “seee”, I’m going to help you organize.

When Trump era policies defund public schools in your district and their vouchers aren’t enough for private school, we will not be there to gloat and point fingers, we will be there to help you organize.

When you’re eventually disenfranchised by Project 2025, we will all be there for you as community.

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

@MattRKay I reply, "Physically, emotionally, or existentially?"

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

How can we continue to teach intellectual skills when the rebellion to intellectualism partially got us into this mess?

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Uh huh, sure, sure.

I’m sure there are quite a few college professors who teach night classes getting sick tonight.

Not that I’m complaining 😀

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

My district recently informed us that clocking in even a minute after 7:15 is considered a 'gift of public funds'—meaning we won’t be paid for that time.

Alternatively, the hours I put in outside of my contracted time are also a gift to the public. And those are not required.

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Imagine what MLL students could accomplish if we just let them do everything in their native language…

[Matthew R. Kay @MattRKay]

Absolutely. I've got it framed and hanging in my office.

I literally look up at it when grading and shut my laptop, go downstairs, and the play the floor is lava or something

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Has anyone ever found and read an article, summarized it and saved it, found a perfect spot for it in your literature review... only to to have it completely disappear from the internet?

I think I may be being haunted by phantom citations...

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Teachers: This drawer is for snacks, right?

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

The fact that school cafeteria workers get upwards of 1500 people fed and out the door in less that 30 minutes is miraculous.

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Asking questions, developing models, carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, using mathematics and computational thinking, constructing explanations, engaging in argument from evidence, evaluation information.

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

So this is actually a common misconception. Inquiry does not mean this according to NGSS

The shift from using the term inquiry to ‘Scientific Practices’ came because the term Inquiry had a million definitions.

Inquiry as defined by NGSS technically means using practices…

[Olivia Mullins @oliviajune82]

@mathillustrated Not really what? I'm in science so I rely heavily on how NGSS writes about it. "Inquiry" is when a major part of the lesson(s) require students to "figure out" the central ideas of said lesson. Vs. DI where the central ideas are explained by the teacher

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

@NicholasFerroni Textpectation 💯

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

@ATinyGreenCell I did this with my students to sequence a phage genome. Exonuclease resistant random hexamer primers + circular DNA + phi29 = magic

[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Just a reminder that Native Americans are not a historical people, that we are still here, and that the biggest injustice in U.S. history—the dispossession of land from Indigenous nations largely by fraudulent treaties—remains ongoing

[Dan Shay @danshayscience]

Chat and I have gone through some things... 🥲

[Tom Morgan @tomowenmorgan]

Pretty cool.

Ask ChatGPT “From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself”