Jill Turner

7th grade English teacher at Mercer Middle School

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@waygroundai @KyleNiemis I used to be able to alphabetize my resources within a folder/ collection, and I can't figure out how to do that now. It is essential for me to be able to do this!
What happened?

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Quizizz has a new name… it's now Wayground! Loving the energy around the launch. They even made a virtual piñata game where you can win prizes. Super fun, check it out 👉 https://t.co/G0WXjz0nO4 @waygroundai #wayground

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Quizizz has a new name… it’s now Wayground!
Still my go-to for quizzes, lessons, AI, differentiation... Same platform I love, just getting even better. Let’s gooo 📷
#Wayground @waygroundai @waygroundai

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Did you know @Quizizz is turning 10 and getting a new name? 🎉
Stay tuned for the big celebration on June 24th 👀
You won’t want to miss it!
#BeyondtheZZZ #teachertwitter #edtech

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

BREAKING:

Both the White House and RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad.

It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#MAGAKidnappers

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@Quizizz has a big announcement coming on June 24th! 🎉🎉

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Proud to be a @Quizizz Game Changer! There is SO much you can do on Quizizz! 🤩 🙌 Take the course and you’ll be saying, “ I didn’t know Quizizz could do that!” @LCPS_Mercer #youcanwithquizizz #quizizzgamechanger @AlanaColabella
https://t.co/SWFQqwsBB8

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

I'm halfway through the @Quizizz Game Changer Certification, and I've already learned a lot. There is so much more to Quizizz than there used to be. Thank you @LCPS_Mercer and @DiehlNikisha! 🎉 💜 https://t.co/ZOUsO2fSLe #edtech #youcanwithquizizz

[Inspire Loudoun @InspireLoudoun]

🚀Hurry up and register now to attend Inspire Loudoun 2024! IL24 will be the biggest and best educational conference to ever be held in our area. Go to https://t.co/YVqcNAfSYJ and sign today so you don't miss out.
#inspireloudoun24
@aps_edtech @tweetwps

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@USAA @USAA_help When did you downgrade your customer service model?
Claim from 8/2, where the other party’s insurance assumed full liability within days, that is still unresolved. We have wasted 13 days of car rental due to your mismanagement.
Member since 1988, maybe leaving

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Just me fangirling over Alan Gratz, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Ruta Sepetys 🤩

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@MrGeigerMMS A great day to get excited for the school year!

[Dr. John Spencer @spencerideas]

As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students:

1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill development that we fail to see the need for reading for pleasure in order to develop reading endurance. At the middle school level, one of the key elements in helping students increase their reading scores was the role of endurance.

2. An emphasis on phonics, blending, and phonemic awareness at the middle school level sometimes fails to recognize the role of critical thinking, vocabulary, and prior knowledge in reading comprehension. I’ve seen highly fluent readers fail reading tests for these reasons.

3. The one-size-fits-all systematic approach that rejects balance might work at younger levels but the reasons a 13 year old is behind will often be far more varied.

4. I’m really worried that some of the people screaming the loudest about research haven’t read the research in-depth and seen the limitations in actual studies, the nuances in the finding, and the context of the studies (rarely about middle school)

5. I want to make sure we are paying attention to accessibility. I know many people who are dyslexic and became avid readers once they could use voice-to-text and audio readers. My fear is that readying will be defined solely as decoding written text and certain people who might thrive as readers will be forced to do drills where they lean into their weakness without learning about assistive technology.

I’m no expert in early literacy but I am concerned with prescriptive approaches that treat middle school students in the same way as a second graders. I’m worried about prescriptive, singular solutions.

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@GiftedTawk I tell them, because it’s just a number. This year, I’m forty-sixteen 🤣

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Students gave their classmates feedback on their “Influencers of the 1920s” projects at our speakeasy culmination of the 1920s unit. @LCPS_Mercer

[TCEA @TCEA]

🤹‍♀️4 Review Activities that Promote High Level Thinking and Student Discussion About Your Content🔻

https://t.co/lTKCgQ0X3N via @meredithakers
#learning #k12 #edchat

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

#EggDashChallenge to review imperialism @LCPS_Mercer

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

@quizizz I really want to use this feature, but when I moved my google slides into a Quizizz lesson, the formatting changed slightly. What "page setup" dimensions should I use in my slides to better match the dimensions in Quizizz?

[Wayground @waygroundai]

You can create an entire lesson on Quizizz full of content, checks for understanding, and embedded content, all in less than 2 minutes. Don't believe us? Kyle will prove it...

#youcanwithquizizz

[Jill Turner @MrsTurnerMMS]

Students collaborated to create algorithms to code a route for their @iRobot to visit the US territories acquired during the Spanish American War. @LCPS_Mercer @csforlcps @SSGSlcps @cjacksonlcps