Kim Batman

Wife. Mother of 3. Retired Educator. Child Advocate. Life Long Learner. Always have a notebook.

[Kim Batman @kkbat11]

You go, @kaishabatman

[Luke McCown @luke_mccown]

I absolutely love this.
Have one in college and one just graduated HS.. but I have 4 still in the house and we’re definitely implementing!!!
Wished I have done this sooner

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

The most "boring" drive between two American cities: Denver to Kansas City, MO.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Become ungovernable

[Kim Batman @kkbat11]

@congressdj What did you use to enclose it? I would love to do mine, but not sure what product to buy?

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Figure out how to keep the good teachers where they are.

[Jody @jodybaker80]

The average teacher's salary in Missouri is $55,132. The average length of a teacher's contract in Missouri is 181.4 days. If we aren't properly compensated, a lot of us will leave the profession and you will be left with some real idiots teaching your children.

Did I do that right?

[Jen @jenteach13]

Nobody talks about what it costs a school when a good teacher walks out the door for good. The kids lose the relationship. The department loses the institutional knowledge. The next hire starts from zero. And everyone pretends that's just how it goes.

[Real Country Music @real_kuntry]

You’re My Best Friend

[Kim Batman @kkbat11]

@smorrisey 💯

[Sean Morrisey @smorrisey]

Unpopular opinion: We would get better reading outcomes by skipping fall benchmark assessments for first graders and up. Here me out. Most school districts get benchmark testing all wrong. The assessment team and the reading interventionists are one and the same. So students don't receive intervention until all the fall benchmark testing gets completed. Then the testing/intervention team spend days pouring over the data and setting up groups. In many schools intervention begins way too late (5 weeks or more after the school year starts). Why not just start on day #2 of the school year, seriously. Spring to Fall data doesn't generally change much. Please don't come after me about regression. Yes, some students may regress more than others, but I wonder how many schools and districts actually analyze spring to fall data by rank ordering students based on need. I've done this and generally nothing changes. There is so much opportunity cost to delaying intervention. Just look at spring data. If you want to look at yearly growth look at spring to spring data. This is as good or even better measure than fall to spring data.

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

This happens everyday in the system where I sub because they only pay $13.00 an hour. Want subs - pay more! And I hate it for the teachers picking up the slack. That is their districts’ fault.

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

On point 1: teachers didn’t lose interest in teaching. They lost interest in being told their thirty years don’t count as evidence, in scripted curriculum, in fidelity monitoring, in being managed by people who’ve never stood in front of a classroom.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Nobody talks about the Spanish teacher who is the PE teacher today. The math teacher is covering the art room. The counselor is teaching English. All of it is happening because there is nobody else. This happens every single day in schools across this country.

[@Kansas1 @TriciaBurt]

If you're looking for Kansas, count 8 from the bottom. We need to do better with our most vulnerable students. #ksed

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

Ed Tech has destroyed education by diminishing teachers abilities to teach, wrecking student attention spans, and pilfering district coffers.

[My moms caregiver @mymomcare]

This was our fidget spinner back in the day!

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

We always focus on how distracting cell phones are for students, but they are equally as distracting for teachers.

A teacher scrolling “reels” while students are working independently instead of walking the room answering questions, is also damaging to learning.

[Spectrum Dads @SpectrumDads]

Mason was diagnosed with autism at age 2.

“He wasn’t talking.”

“No language.”

Their pediatrician showed zero concern for young Mason.

So his parents did their own research.

Then, a miracle happened.

“Mason’s first words came just 3 days after he started taking leucovorin.”

His father discovered Dr. Richard Frye and his research on leucovorin and autism.

And it changed young Mason’s life.

Take a moment to hear this family’s powerful story: