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[earthbird @earthbird]

@MassRMV 1 hour 13 min.. .??
When I began this wait your message said the wait would be 10 minutes

[earthbird @earthbird]

@MassRMV Been on hold for an hour. When are you going to answer my call?

[earthbird @earthbird]

@Tom_Newkirk Great questions, Tom. "Evidence-based" is used by corporations to help convince school districts to buy their products. Then, administrators in those districts use the term to convince teachers to use those products. Eventually, the phrase becomes a synonym for "truth."

[earthbird @earthbird]

Helpful distinction between rubrics and criteria.

[Tom Newkirk @Tom_Newkirk]

I think we can confuse criteria with rubrics. We apply criteria flexibly as we read--depending on our purpose and what the writer is attempting. And they are often still subjective. Rubrics often pre-judge what is important and compartmentalize our reading in an unnatural way.

[earthbird @earthbird]

Interesting idea worth considering for teachers who want to help their students succeed.

[Stephen Krashen @skrashen]

NYTimes: Students learn from people they love… https://t.co/urOOBYvLtY
A very good article, but I got worried when I reached this line:
“… think about your own school or organization. Do you have a metric for measuring relationship quality?”
Let's test love and friendship?

[earthbird @earthbird]

@Tom_Newkirk Yes, Tom. Divergent judgments are a problem especially when authentic responses interfere with machine-style ones--when learning to write becomes a synonym for learning how to acquiesce to being controlled by others and believing that control to be a form of inspiration.

[Stephen Krashen @skrashen]

The biggest problem in education is poverty. A major responsibility of the Dept of Ed is to protect children from the effects of poverty, until we can eliminate it: Now get to work: Improve food programs, more school nurses, more support for libraries and librarians.

[earthbird @earthbird]

Thank you, Stephen, for your continuing efforts to advocate for children in ways that matter.

[Stephen Krashen @skrashen]

The biggest problem in education is poverty. A major responsibility of the Dept of Ed is to protect children from the effects of poverty, until we can eliminate it: Now get to work: Improve food programs, more school nurses, more support for libraries and librarians.

[earthbird @earthbird]

Dear Administrators, if you believe leadership means coercing teachers to adopt something new, anything new, so long as you've noticed lots of articles about about it in journals, time to awaken from the current obsession with resilience, standards, rigor, rubrics . . . .

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Resilience is a useful capability to have, sure, but efforts to promote it in kids often distract from efforts to identify and challenge harmful practices (or policies) that *require* resilience

[earthbird @earthbird]

@alfiekohn Never stop interrogating received opinion.

[earthbird @earthbird]

@ChrisMarsicano Dear College Professor Chris Marsicano, please stop assuming that all high school teachers teach students not to use first person. It isn't true. Teach what you need to teach. But don't point at me or the thousands of high school teachers working hard to help their students grow.

[earthbird @earthbird]

For teachers who welcome those still willing to interrogate received truths.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

2/ "Phrases such as 'higher achievement,' 'positive outcomes,' & 'better results' refer only to standardized test scores. These are poor indicators of intellectual proficiency & primarily measure socioeconomic status or the extent of students' training in test-taking skills"

[Andrea A. Lunsford @LunsfordHandbks]

Whole groups of richly complex people are often reduced to a single narrative and it’s crucial for us to reject such single stories, along with master narratives of all kinds, and rather to pursue what I am calling narrative justice. https://t.co/bD8Pk9l5RG

[earthbird @earthbird]

Ideas about importance of avoiding claustrophobic, reductionist "stories."

[Andrea A. Lunsford @LunsfordHandbks]

Whole groups of richly complex people are often reduced to a single narrative and it’s crucial for us to reject such single stories, along with master narratives of all kinds, and rather to pursue what I am calling narrative justice. https://t.co/bD8Pk9l5RG

[earthbird @earthbird]

@avcotton Interesting question--even if some innovative schools have staying power. Many do fade because they were the innovative creation of one individual--and individuals either move on to innovate something else once innovation becomes a new status quo. And nobody lives forever.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

“I've seen the damage that Accelerated Reader can do”: In case you missed this short 2014 piece by @jenmarten on reading-for-rewards programs: https://t.co/N7G05lwd2L

[Andrea A. Lunsford @LunsfordHandbks]

There’s no section on CVs devoted to mentorship and there’s usually little or no consideration of mentorship in tenure proceedings, but it’s a role that I think is of enormous importance to the work we do and the values we hold. https://t.co/7f8YF7fb7N

[The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress]

Visit our tables at #RSA50, where you can pre-order exciting new books by @caseyboyle, @chriscarterUC, @wshesford, @christateston, Adela Licona, and Amy Propen. Plus, pick up titles by @lora_arduser, @danaleecloud, and @JayDolmage at our conference discount!

[Susan Ohanian @susanoha]

N.F.L. Adds First Amendment to List of Banned Substances https://t.co/5gWQiLqO5I

[Brian Greene @bgreene]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."--Stephen Jay Gould, died OTD 2002.