Richard C. Seder

observing the world go in circles and other interesting patterns, including the complex

[Richard C. Seder @mprvmnt]

“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.” - T. S. Eilliott

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@mpolikoff There is a certain retired professor of higher education that I believe suggested just that on Facebook…doughnuts solve all problems and conflicts.

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Launch of a new report: How do we define and demonstrate value from continuous improvement in the NHS?

@HelenBevan

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Our new report on a topic that's proved stubborn despite 3 decades of improvement strategy in health & care. It's about demonstrating & defining the value arising from quality or continuous improvement (CI) activity, particularly economic value. In the report, we summarise the perspectives/experiences of 150 senior NHS leaders who took part in our roundtable meetings & raise a ‘call to action’. If we want to mainstream CI, we need to develop improvement metrics that are more fully aligned with operational & financial measures: https://t.co/KoaewvRbe1 #Quality2024. This is a collaborative project between @HorizonsNHS & @WarwickBSchool.

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@Dr_ConstanceL It would actually be fair to say that a lot of it is bad.

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In a re-analysis of Tennessee STAR, “if the 29% of highly sensitive schools [to class size reduction] had been omitted from the experiment, 2SLS would have failed to detect any causal effect of class size on test scores.” Interesting…

https://t.co/XA4oHKjsSx

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WestEd reception always far, far better than the @USCRossier reception at #AERA. One, the food is appreciably better (it’s not even close). Two, I always see friends at the WestEd reception with tons of conversation vs @USCRossier could care less if I was there even as an alum.

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@mpolikoff AERA stinks (said as an an intentional non-attendee). Philly food is great.

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@mpolikoff Can I petition that it be your forever Workday picture? 😁

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@dpeurach joining us live at the Sharjah International Summit on Improvement in Education from Michigan.

(It’s 3:15am in Ann Arbor Michigan…what a trooper!)

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@dpeurach addressing the Sharjah International Summit on Improvement in Education hosted by the Sharjah Education Academy and the Sharjah Private Education Authority together with the @CarnegieFdn.

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@mpolikoff As I told someone who was remarking on the same dynamics you described, some of it is uncontrolled narcissism…people wanting to be recognized and loved for their outstanding work as they believe they are the best and anything that isn’t that is viewed as threat.

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@mpolikoff The pettiness and actions on perceived fears and the amount of time & energy spent on non-work were many reasons I did not go the academic route. With that said, these same behaviors pervade the profit and nonprofit sectors, too.

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@mpolikoff I’ll share my opinion: good riddance. They were slow and unresponsive to make changes to online content. With that said, it doesn’t solve the fundamental problems with the EdD program.

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Not so hot take: anybody that drafts #CalebWilliams will be drafting another Kyler Murray — undersized, small hands, quick enough to evade in college but not the NFL, always throwing off his back foot while going backwards because he’s not tall enough to step up in the pocket.

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@mpolikoff But…but…I thought homework doesn’t matter.

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@FarleyRipple Bad-faith argument.

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@spencerideas Moreover, treating metrics like RBI w/o understanding contex loses meaning…just like any metric. Did/do I ever compare RBIs of lead-off hitters and clean-up hitters? No. The context and an understanding of the game tells me not to. Interpretation requires understanding context.

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@spencerideas Would be nice if didn’t straw-man test scores/value-added. And, just as baseball metrics have improved to provide more information, so too does work of educators, paychometricians, researchers, etc. to improve education/learning metrics.

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“It seems to maybe be trending in the right direction, but it’s still basically flat.” Ummm…ok.

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@mpolikoff @USCRossier @UAS_CESR 👏👏👏

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And only gets worse. Gate agents start boarding process. But everyone on plane says it’s not ready to be boarded because catering still doing their thing. They push everyone that started boarding off plane again. It’s almost as if this is the first day of @united operations!!!

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I honestly don’t understand why towing this plane to the gate and boarding are delayed when this plane has been here for HOURS. There’s reason why people dislike @united so much…it’s dumb things like this, especially for a red-eye flight; just want to get on and go to sleep.