Michael Roush

Curriculum Integration and Technology Coordinator for Felicity-Franklin Local Schools in Ohio. All posts mine. UDL, AT, Design Thinking. Go #CBJ!

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Summer Tech Work projects get started in earnest today.

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What if… instead of designing an education system that first serves the top students and leaves others to struggle on what’s left… we provided full support where it’s needed most first, and then moved up?

Would we still say there’s no money left before all students are served?

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@FixingEducation We left manners, shoe-tying, and potty-training to parents, and where did that get us?

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Afternoon @ProspectLeague baseball makes work go faster.

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Top of 5th.

Can’t wait for the @ChilliPaints home opener tomorrow!

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@sage_stage Who invented grades and made them more important than getting an actual education—schools, or parents?

I have a hard time getting my kid’s school to understand I don’t want her to get A’s/B’s on below-grade-level material. If she gets F’s on grade-level material, so be it.

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I just saw an uneventful infield fly rule in the 1st inning of the @ChilliPaints at @Mill_Rats game. If not for the 4 runs that scored around it, that would have been rather disappointing, @KJWISE7.

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Resetting retired/resigned staff laptops back to the default image is on the same level of bittersweet for me as watching the seniors graduate.

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@educator4ever36 If struggling learners suddenly succeed with a different approach, we might have to admit that we did a crappy job teaching them the first time. And that is a conclusion very few are willing to allow.

Failed interventions vindicate our choice of Tier I instruction.

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@JamesAFurey I do wish more educators approached it this way.

But if we don’t focus on what they’re incapable of doing, how else are we supposed to get them taken out of gen ed classrooms so that they aren’t a “distraction” to everyone else?

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When a person who would have been kept out of some gen ed classrooms as a “distraction” goes on to get her doctorate, the problem is with traditional structures, not the learner.

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@OKConserve @JamesAFurey I think I got my answer.

“Better” always refers to what makes the teacher’s life easier.

As you might guess, I do not agree.

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@OKConserve @JamesAFurey I’m not familiar with the law that says a “comprehensive final essay” has to be unseen by the teacher until two days before final grades are due. Guess I’ll go take a reading class.

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My toxic trait #173:

I “have to” use the shopping cart to take my groceries to the car, knowing full well I will lose circulation to both hands carrying everything into the house in one trip.

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@OKConserve @JamesAFurey I don’t want finals to be essays.

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@Catalina1016 @MonteSyrie @blocht574 For some of the “improve school by removing distracting kids” crowd, they might allow them a separate building, or a room far away from others, if it’s financially possible.

Otherwise they go home until they prove they can handle old-school education.

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@OKConserve @JamesAFurey Anyone who would assign 125 essays to be graded in two days is not a good teacher.

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@ajjuliani I’m old enough to remember when letting kids drive themselves to/from school would distract them from their studies and make absenteeism skyrocket.

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@CarolynGorman_ Let a lower-two-thirds kid struggle, and school is “supposed to be hard.”

When a straight-A kid struggles, the parents call the principal, berate the teacher, and complain to a board member.

Nobody’s favorite part of school should be considered less than someone else’s.

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@FixingEducation That’s a very interesting observation.

Do Americans have fewer structures in place to provide those solutions to society’s ills (besides “suck it up and live better” lectures) before/while those kids are enrolled? As compared to other countries?