Alycia Pindar (she/her)

K-8 Music in DDSB - Views are my own (unless they’re yours, too?)

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@MichaelBuble
My students begged me to post my 4Bs
When I’m working with a small group only FOUR reasons to interrupt:
Barf (someone’s sick)
Blood (someone’s hurt)
Bears (something catastrophic)
Buble (Mr Buble comes to to the door saying “I hear Ms Pindar works here”)
#ifonly

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@OntTeacherTracy @JamesAFurey Another option could be UDL, which is much different than differentiation.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Some of the biggest challenges the majority of schools and teachers face everyday from our students…

•They don’t get enough sleep
•They eat like crap
•And they don’t nearly get enough exercise

Maslow before Bloom
#EdChat #MaslowBeforeBloom

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

One more time for the back row please?

[Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser]

Music, music, and more music. That’s what our schools and education system need. Music, music, and more music.

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

It’s like you took the moustache right off @Cmdr_Hadfield’s face! 😍

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Chris Hadfield: Astronaut
Birthday: August 29

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

Changing over your wardrobe between seasons gives two lovely feelings:
1) a sense of accomplishment ✅
2) looking forward to hanging out with good friends you haven’t seen in a long time 🥰👏🏻🎉

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@PaulWeb35767741 @newsdurham @CityofPickering Other way around. Anyone who loves/looks/lives outside of white Christian norms has been and is continually silenced and vilified by “family values.”

Why can’t we make space for EVERYone to live safely, without fear of hate or violence from “regular people?”

[durhamregion.com @newsdurham]

VIDEO: One Pickering councillor has chosen not to join her colleagues in supporting upcoming PRIDE events in the city. @CityofPickering
https://t.co/x2j8CyR9KG

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

Things are really soaring in #TheFalconsNest here at @fallingbrookps
Ultimate season is afoot. Future recruits #DUC?

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

THIS!
Having worked in schools where students come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds and have seriously different #EQAO results. Same school, same teachers, wide gaps in results.

Standardized test data is only ONE piece of the whole picture.

[Dr. John Spencer @spencerideas]

In baseball, there's an entirely useless statistic called Runs Batted In (RBI). When I was a kid, we would often hear about the RBI leaders and I immediately noticed two trends in RBI leaders.

1. They nearly all played for teams with a really good offense.
2. They nearly all hit at the 4th or 5th spot in the line-up.

I was a nerdy little kid who didn't know anything but I knew this was a bogus statistic.

See, RBI measures how many runners a batter knocks in. Sounds important, right? Definitely something worth measuring. But it turns out that it's highly skewed. Not every batter is in the position to knock in a run. If you are the lead-off hitter (batting #1 in the line-up) you often bat with no runners on. Also, if you're on a crappy team, you run into the same challenge.

So it turns out that RBI count doesn't really tell you how well someone hits for power. For that, you need a stat called slugging percentage. If you want to see how consistent a batter is, go with on-base percentage. If you're looking for balance, go with OPS (on-based plus slugging percentage).

In pitching the equivalent is a win-loss record or an ERA compared to WHIP. Total wins is a metric based on a team's overall performance.

But the things is, our world is full of seriously flawed statistics. BMI is useless compared to measuring one's actual vitals. Plus, BMI has a really negative history connected to eugenics. Go look it up. It's disgusting. And even today, it's often weaponized against perfectly healthy people when they don't fit the stereotype of "average" that doesn't actually exist. I run 5 days a week. I eat healthy food. My body fat percentage is low to moderate but based on BMI I'm obese.

I share all of this because the same thing exists in education. When we use standardized test scores to measure a student's learning (or worse, still, a teacher's effectiveness) we're often running into the same trap as the RBI. We're measuring privilege and positionality while ignoring the data that actually matters. We're running into the BMI trap and failing to embrace neurodiversity. And, like BMI, there's a dark side of psychometric history rooted in eugenics.

I'm not opposed to data. I love data. But my love for data is precisely why I hate bad data. My love for data is precisely why I am so opposed to nearly every policy that uses standardized tests to measure learning.

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@MrsStoneRocks That’s the sun, not the moon, and the haze is because of the smoke from the wildfires in Alberta.

[ONTSpecialNeeds @ONTSpecialNeeds]

Students AND Parents:
Choosing to attend college instead of university does not indicate a lesser intelligence or academic ability.

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

Dang! Some great topics here, but I’ll be with 72 of my favourite Falcons
from @fallingbrookps while we present our first show together - The Moon Thieves. While I’m bummed to miss this, I wouldn’t trade this week for anything!

[Dr. Diana Petrarca @_DrDi]

Check out these FREE mini workshops hosted by our @OT_FED . The sessions are short and sweet and take place in the evening this coming week! Register now! https://t.co/7ErtpEv77m

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@N8Holder They couldn’t even represent different musics from all nations still in the commonwealth…

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@Mathgarden Any more info on its release date? 🤞🏻
(Went looking to buy for Hubby’s birthday in June, alas not out until “fall?”)

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

THIS!

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

Who learned more?

The kid who crammed to get a 100%, or the kid who retook to get a 100%?

#Project180

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

This lil’ baby ride felt so good. I felt strong on the hills and fast on the flats.
Now to do this 20x. In a row. And raise $4000 for an important and life-changing cause:

https://t.co/qa7e2IcjRf

https://t.co/0BdEmKt97w

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

@MrTrinidadTeach @fallingbrookps Bought from @MusicplayTV a long time ago. But still useful. Bought #rhythmdice too so students roll and count beats not squares.

[Alycia Pindar (she/her) @mspindar]

When the internet goes down in #TheFalconsNest ⁦@fallingbrookps⁩ , you play board games!
#ScreenFreeEducation
#Improvise
#TeacherLife
#MusicPlay #ThemesVariations

[Laura Walton @waltonmom]

Tomorrow is the last day of Education week. So far we have seen @Sflecce celebrating firefighters, veterans, police, the king, skilled trades & mental health orgs
All of these deserve celebration in one way or another but would it kill him to recognize Ed workers & teachers ?