Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham

Passionate teacher father James Madison Fellow MI '19 Normandy Institute '23 collects books footballfan golden retrievers Tweets & RTs my opinion, not employer

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

Ready to be dangerous?

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

@dbsiowa Could be worse. 26th isn’t as bad as 40ish like Michigan.

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

@dbsiowa You forgot PA

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

@FixingEducation Leaving the profession.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

They tried so hard to suppress this video today.

But because of YOU, it is now TRENDING.

Please RETWEET and QUOTE TWEET this important video reminding us all WHO WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

@FixingEducation All of the above.

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

@dbsiowa I keep screwing up my brisket. The flat always ends up like beef jerky. I don’t even want to drop $100 to keep trying and get it right.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Teachers, please DO NOT follow up “I know I don’t get paid enough” with:

• “But I love my job.”
• “But the district doesn’t have the money. Times are tough.”
• “But I do it for the kids.”

You’re allowed to love your job, care about the kids, AND still expect to be paid fairly.

And yes…the money is there.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Do you know who dislikes the lack of accountability for misbehaved students in schools even more than teachers?

The good kids who actually want to learn.

They’re often the ones being silently bullied, distracted, intimidated, or forced to sit in chaos every day while administrators let it continue.

When a severely misbehaved student is suspended, it’s often a relief for the students trying to do the right thing, too.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Pat Ryan on the War Powers vote: "These chickenhawk motherfuckers are gonna send us home for Memorial Day weekend where I'm gonna honor my veterans that I served 27 months in combat with and they're gonna not even give an up or down vote on continuing this war almost 3 months in while Americans are paying almost $5 at the pump. It is fucking pathetic when they use this procedural bullshit argument and every American should just be absolutely outraged about this, it is a disgrace" (Video: @EricMGarcia)

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Groves Athletics @GrovesAthletics]

Today, we celebrated 15 outstanding Groves seniors who have committed to continue their academic and athletic careers at the collegiate level. 🏆

[Geoff (Back to the Grind) Wickersham @mrwickersham]

Amen!

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

It’s Simple…

Phones don’t belong in classrooms or hallways. 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Some adults aren’t either. Phones distract, disrupt, and undermine learning.

[Chyck Justice 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Chyck_Justice]

@travisakers Saw this yesterday

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools are meant to support families, not replace them.

That means parents need to actually parent, and the govt & communities need to stop treating schools as the fix for bad parenting.

Educators who think otherwise might be influenced a bit too much by “teacher hero” movies.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Officially one of my fave cat videos of all time now

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

it’s #NoKings day please find and join your local protest against this lawless corrupt Trump regime. Protest matters trust me as a historian of abolition and radical social movements. The MAGAts have created chaos at home and abroad and are unchristian unpatriotic reactionaries.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

It isn’t just student behavior. It’s the lack of consequences that usually heighten that behavior.