William Wong

PK-12 Helper / Ed Week Educator Who Will Shape K-12 / LinkedIn Top K-12 Voice / Former Teacher/Admin / EdFinTech w Allovue

[CAAPLE @CAAPLEorg]

The CAAPLE Annual Conference is coming soon! Register at the early bird rate before Jan 21! Call for proposals and CAAPLE awards nominations are due Jan 19. Check out all the info at https://t.co/sc1b6zekHe #CAAPLEproud #bridgingandbelonging #alliance #advocacy #advancement

[John Penniman @Historiographos]

I will never recover from this student email.

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@kennedy_tierney At HS level and perhaps middle school, reduce number of periods and extend the length. Teachers have fewer classes to teach (and fewer preps), students have fewer different subject classes to attend. Drawback is having one class for many hours in a row might be too long.

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

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[William Wong @mrwillwong]

Check out this inspirational education documentary by academy award nominated directors. It’s about Los Angeles USD’s music repair shop. https://t.co/Hfl0L9WkGL

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@NewAmericaEd a new pandemic. But these types of confusing regulations and jargon makes it difficult for district finance and business staff to make decisions. Having more staff to navigate may have helped, but having plain and clear guidance could have helped like “Yes you can buy masks”

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@NewAmericaEd With 3 - strains on staff - I spoke with a chief business officer who shared they were getting hell from federal auditors because they bought filters and masks without a competitive procurement process. But the governor’s emergency declaration allowed for this. After all it was

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@MatthewAKraft Definitely! If I had told K teachers they’d loop K to, let’s say, 3, they’d have heart attacks! I wonder if there’s some format to encourage some looping For the relational benefits, and not overburden w prep/lessons over many subjects and many grade levels.

[Matt Barnum @matt_barnum]

As a reminder, the ACT is *not* a valid measure of student learning over time because the test-taking sample is constantly shifting. (If you want to show that test scores are down, there are plenty of other valid data points!)
https://t.co/Ocm8zOhn3Q

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@matt_barnum I've enjoyed your reporting for many years thanks so much for all of it. Might you be able to write about what you would do if you had the magic K-12 wand to change what you could?

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@jessgartner During this time, enrollment dropped across all three schools, likely to around 1,500 students. So a 6%+ drop in enrollment but a 100% increase in counselors!

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@jessgartner made an impact in individual and small group sessions for the students she could reach. She conveyed it was overwhelming. But in my perspective 0.2FTE was better than 0! This was pre pandemic, and anecdotally it’s now far more challenging

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Many are skeptical that capital spending matters for students.

Summary of older papers shows it does
https://t.co/YaHKiVZeW4

However, this impressive new study by @BarbaraBiasi and others provides compelling evidence of benefits for low-income kids.

https://t.co/bTIXA74ofK

[John R. Sowash @jrsowash]

Some sad news just announced by Google....#Jamboard has been discontinued. 😢

Official announcement: https://t.co/WFtSkR1Ayg

You CAN continue to use Jamboard until October 1, 2024 (1 year). After this date, you will no longer be able to create new Jam files.

I put together a summary of the Important dates and alternatives in this blog post: https://t.co/r66cs1KKrV

#GoogleEDU #EdTech #GoogleClassroom #teachertwitter

[ILO Group @WeAreILO]

New data from our Superintendent Research Project shows a significant increase in transitions from July '22 to July '23. 107 of the 500 largest districts experienced leadership changes. But only a 2.4% increase in women-led districts.

More details:
https://t.co/9iJeCkPxrC

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@sziemnik2198 What a great idea. What do they say?!?

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

This is going to get interesting 👀

[William Wong @mrwillwong]

@MrWithersKS1 They’re now 30 to 34(yikes!), and I’m now LinkedIn connected to many, which was strange at first but also awesome as I see what they’re doing in the world professionally.