Mike Dodge

Husband, Father, DeepThinker, PodcastConsumer, loverOfLogistics, Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at Orchard View Middle School.

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I am only one
But I am one
I can’t do everything
But I can do something

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“Your past is not an excuse, but it is an explanation” #WhatHappenedToYou? @Oprah #ThisIsWhereHealingBegins

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Loved the first part looking at a different way to care for dementia patients. The last line about depression was awesome. Things you shouldn’t say to someone w/depression “Just get over it. The absence of the ability to ‘just get over it’ is depression” https://t.co/1IZtvgeIcT

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This line resonated with me
“One more way for us to be cops rather than educators, to be surveilors and to build more gates, build more walls rather than see how we can use these tools as collaborators”
#teachingthinkers #letstalkeducation #letscollaborate https://t.co/s4bRoq4ToY

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@18min in “It’s not compassion fatigue” it’s “empathic distress”. There are so many parallels here to education. There are so many things we can help students (and teachers) with, but there are “some problems we can’t solve, at least in the short term”. https://t.co/sR9fViMDFG

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This all became too real 😬#teendriver #firstson #iliketodrive #imgettingold https://t.co/7uwVthKSEq

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“This test just confirms what we already know” “let’s not try to ask every iteration or combination … make your summative assessment something that is going to confirm what you already suspect about the learner, you already have interacted with them”

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“I was good at the doing math, I was not good at the ‘thinking’….I was good at following the formulas and algorithms, I was good at procedures, I could remember and memorize.. I was never put in a position to really do too much thinking” #icanrelate https://t.co/nhBrkZ7Kqi

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How many of our students fit that second part and think they are “a math person” …..or worse, don’t fit that and this have the mindset that they are not “a math person”. #changingmindsets #wereallmathpeople #teachinghowtothink

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Baseball fun!
#mlb #familyvacation #gotigers #myfam https://t.co/pPwV0Yynbk

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First WhiteSox game at “The New Comiskey Park” vs Our Tigers! #ballparks #mlb #familyvacation #tigersbaseball @ Guaranteed Rate Field https://t.co/BDq6g58Oxr

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If you want to watch the service check it out here https://t.co/pew9M6PrG9

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“The more you know them, the more you love them” thnx @peteryoshonis for the message today. #relationships #loveyourneighbor #justshowup

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Your neighbors, your colleagues, your students, your friends…..

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Life creates the conditions for more life “Being a teacher is like being a gardener. Gardeners don’t make plants grow, they create the conditions for life, for growth”….”We are verbs, not nouns”. #powerfulthinking #myTakeAways #rethinkingeducation https://t.co/yCPCeOTLYr

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That quote hit me so hard this morning, personally and professionally.

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“You raise your children not to be followers, but you never take into consideration that means that one day they won’t follow you, and in that moment you will either have to stand on your word or you will be made a hypocrite” thnx ⁦@JasonReynolds83⁩ https://t.co/Cy6fwu8Pp8

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Also thnx @JoshuaArend & @frangsi for the recommendation

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Thnx @educrushpod When designing PD I will stay centered on “Did it have a good beginning, middle, and end? Did you connect, process and personalize?” Also thnx @PeterLiljedahl for all of the insight! Responsible over accountable. #HWtalk #shiftingpractice https://t.co/vGyqF8jog0