Simison

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

[Simison @EEsimison]

"for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea."
~e.e. cummings

[Simison @EEsimison]

I think I need to just roll over and let the sickness takeover instead of exerting an even greater amount of energy fighting it off and delaying the inevitable.

[Aaron S Blackwelder MA Ed @AaronSBlackwel1]

If students are learning about stars and they are to draw a model, exceeding expectations is not making a 3D diagram.

This does not demonstrate deeper understanding.

This is inequitable.

We cannot assume students have the resources at home. This is the same as buying a grade.

[ACLU @ACLU]

It’s called the First Amendment.

[Simison @EEsimison]

Brilliant thread on assessment practices and how grades negatively impact a student’s leaning experience and perception of progress.

[Jared Colley @jcolley8]

THREAD: I loved the chapter “What about grades” from @biblioracle’s #WhyTheyCantWrite. Does a S who goes from “D+ work” to “C+ work” deserve a lower final grade than the S who remains at a “B+ performance” the whole semester? Is this symptomatic of a broken scoring system? 👇

[Michael Barbaro @mikiebarb]

Having been repeatedly warned that this invocation endangers reporters — and is manifestly untrue — the president just keeps saying it anyway.

[Common Educator 🙃 @commoneducator]

You know you’re at a high school swim meet when. . .

[Michael Barbaro @mikiebarb]

On today's Daily: The President's plan to avoid a shutdown by declaring a national emergency. We started off with the great @peterbakernyt until the news broke -- in the studio! -- and was then joined by the inimitable @MarkLandler, who explained it all: https://t.co/3zjSJFRPZN

[Simison @EEsimison]

This is an excellent source for my mini-lesson on cohesion and coherence with the freshmen. #simisonedu

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Trump announced a national-emergency declaration with one of the least coherent statements of his presidency, writes @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/q2umAka5ff

[Scott Looney @slooney]

NAIS - A Standards-Based Assessment Model Can Help Build More Diverse and Equitable Communities https://t.co/Q6EasJb4sU Great piece on the Mastery as a vehicle for equity, and the role of the @MastTranscript

[ACLU @ACLU]

No matter how many times President Trump repeats it, there is no border security crisis. Period.

[Simison @EEsimison]

Can we just fast-forward 15 hours so this day is over?

[Simison @EEsimison]

@jennieweiner This is much more exciting than my normal Saturday morning news cycle. I’m following this story VERY closely. #teamginger🦷

[Simison @EEsimison]

@savannahlyyne You’re a writer. You have the endurance for this.

[Simison @EEsimison]

This wild and crazy week needs to end. That is all. #simisonedu

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources." --Herb Simon

[Simison @EEsimison]

@catanzaro_class @ncte @NCTE_WCU Hope you had a great first day!!

[Simison @EEsimison]

After a frustrating day all around, the ice on the cake was that it just took me two hours to get home from school in the storm. Silver lining: listened to two awesome @Radiolab episodes. And yes, I meant ice not icing ❄️ ��� #simisonedu

[Jesse Tyler Ferguson (he/him/his) @jessetyler]

@realDonaldTrump Your idiocy would be hilarious if you weren’t president.

[Simison @EEsimison]

@savannahlyyne @tessla_d May 19. 7am start.

[Simison @EEsimison]

@savannahlyyne Any interest in the Mystic 10k in May? @tessla_d and I are contemplating on whether or not to torture ourselves.