David F. Cain

Educator, Assistant Principal, former ELA Teacher with a science problem...

[David F. Cain @Dfcain]

Noah Cain, 2017 #brcmMASTERS #SSPalumni , & @SBCSS sweepstakes winner won 3rd in Electronics & Electromagnetism at #CSEF2019 @casciencecenter state fair for his air quality sensors and app #sciencefair @society4science @BroadcomSTEM @RancheroMiddle

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s crazy

[Eric Kalenze @erickalenze]

Sure is astounding how many in education believe the best way to help students improve at something...

...is to have students avoid doing that very thing.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A land forged by fire and sculpted by ice..

Iceland is truly extraordinary 🧵

1. People gathered around lava, Iceland.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

1. 'Trauma-informed' has IMO debased the concept of trauma by expanding its definition so generously to include almost any human experience, defeating the purpose of the category itself.
2. The practical implications of TIP in schools have led many to treat mainstream misbehaviour as typically emerging from trauma- which is clearly wrong.
3. Often (*very* often) advocates use it as a reason to reduce boundaries for children who often need them the most.
4. Ironically, the features of many TI approaches are similar to the features of good mainstream practice- calm, secure, safe environments where people are treated with dignity.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

France has now criminalized objections to the mRNA platform, exposing those targeted to ruinous fines and imprisonment. It’s obvious lunacy, and that it’s happening in a Western nation should alarm us all

This madness must be defeated, in France, at the WHO, everywhere it arises

[David F. Cain @Dfcain]

@photographmaine The red house was Margaret Hamilton’s (The Wizard of Oz) house

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies.

What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to punish "microaggressions," including statements intended to be kind, if even one person from a favored group took offense. The presidents are now saying: "Jews are not a favored group, so offending or threatening Jews is not so bad. For Jews, it all depends on context." We might call this double standard "institutional anti-semitism."

University presidents: If you're not going to punish students for calling for the elimination of Israel and Israelis, it's OK with me, but ONLY if you also immediately dismantle the speech policing apparatus and norms you created in 2015-2016. Please read The Coddling of the American Mind. @glukianoff and I laid out exactly where the oppressor/victim frame came from (ch. 3), how it spread out of a few departments to gain power over administrators and campus culture (chapters 4 and 5), and how it drove the creation of the bureaucratic structures and processes that now have us all teaching and learning on eggshells (ch. 10). In chapter 13 we offer advice to leaders on how to to return universities to their academic mission and regain public trust.

[Dr. Matt Rhoads @MattRhoads1990]

5 years ago I was against phone bans in K-12.

Fast forward to 2023, I am for every single K-12 school to ban phones.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

This tweet brings to mind the development in the 19th century when slavery, which had previously been defended as a "necessary evil," began to be promoted by its supporters as a "positive good." That's where we are with the killing of unborn babies today--it's to be "celebrated."

[Marc Allard-Ratick @RatickM]

I make one mistake and I’m on thin ice….I was trying to be healthy by reheating Salmon from the night before and now I may never graduate from interventional fellowship.

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

More than 25 million people use Google Docs.

But most of us still don't know its best features.

Here are 11 Google Docs tips that'll save you 100s of hours of your life:

[Matt Ryan #CanonChat 📕: Steinbeck's East of Eden @MatRyanELATeach]

I also love this sentiment about time:

[Ariana Hernandez @arianakhern]

#Smartstart for the win on the first day of summer school. In between activities, I asked Ss if they wanted a break. Their reply, “No! Let’s keep going! This is fun!”. They chose work over football. Can’t beat that… let’s keep going. #EDUProtocols #reps

[Matt Ryan #CanonChat 📕: Steinbeck's East of Eden @MatRyanELATeach]

Many folks are determined to segment people into subgroups. Focus on differences and isolate. And once divided, set these groups against each other.

One of the reasons I love great literature is that it illuminates our common humanity. We are more alike than we are different.

[Dr. Sonny Magana @sonnymagana]

What is #TechnoDeterminism and how can it lead to a value-positive bias about #EdTech?
From the book #DisruptiveClassroomTech
#T3Framework #T3EduProtocols
#T3ResearchMatters

[Timothy Shanahan @ReadingShanahan]

Do screening and monitoring tests really help us raise reading achievement?
https://t.co/j3Pda6sQrI

[David F. Cain @Dfcain]

This is an awesome story!
Mini boat launched by Rye N.H. students found in Norway after 462-day voyage unites schools half a world away https://t.co/xS5eBQC28D

[Robert McCollum @RobertMcCollum5]

Have you ever seen the “EduProtocol” wave of excitement with kids? I have! #thisiswaybetter #T3 #EDUProtocols #learning #savingtime @jcorippo @sonnymagana

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

I've got an idea. I'll say what I think and why. If you disagree, you say what you think and why. I'll consider your arguments and respond to you. You consider mine and respond to me. I won't bully or try to silence you. You won't bully or try to silence me. We'll call it ....

[David F. Cain @Dfcain]

Well, look at that!! "Children respond better to parents reading from books compared with tablets" https://t.co/Blizzp9NJW