OpenLI

Mom, educator, proud member of GenX

[Red Pilled Teacher @BasedRedWolf]

Helping my child with math homework opened my eyes. Schools screwed kids over by dropping rote memorization. No more drilled facts. Just inefficient alternative strategies. We taught him multiplication at home, but the curriculum works against that in some respects.

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

A student-centered piece of advice about inquiry-based learning: the knowledge you spent a few days building in students by having them read an article or chapter before sending them off on a two-week role-play inquiry project, you know the one where they pretend to be a biologist, historian, or geographer, is nowhere near enough.

We are constantly trivializing expert-level knowledge by assuming students can meaningfully engage in inquiry after only brief exposure to content and believing they will simply pick up the rest along the way. Experts can do that. Novices cannot. A few days spent reading an article or chapter does not provide enough background knowledge for students to authentically think and work like a economist or chemist.

Here’s what you should do instead: spend those two weeks building far more knowledge. Give students repeated exposure to the concepts, vocabulary, examples, explanations, and models within the discipline.

Two weeks spent building accessible knowledge in long-term memory through explicit instruction will help students think and inquire more like a mathematician, poet, or engineer than two weeks spent pretending to be one ever will.

[OpenLI @OpenLI4]

@rpondiscio 1. Eliminate the high value placed on metrics for high school graduation. When everyone graduates, a degree means little. 2.Allow districts to suspend without penalties. Suspensions improve school safety.

[OpenLI @OpenLI4]

@naomirwolf The man is an egomaniacal evil “genius” like a villain in a superhero movie.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Limiting school suspensions is not the answer.

When people argue that suspensions “don’t help the student who misbehaves,” they often forget about the students who are there to learn.

Negative behavior impacts the entire class, not just the one student causing the disruption.

[OpenLI @OpenLI4]

@AllisonETEC Admins, please stop with the strategy based reading programs. Middle school students NEED vocabulary and to build background knowledge. And NO not all books are the same. Why waste class time on the equivalent of “beach” reads. Children need fine literature.

[OpenLI @OpenLI4]

@FixingEducation Metrics. Keep suspension rates nonexistent and high school graduation rates 💯. Screen abuse in and outside of school.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Let teachers remove kids who make it impossible for everyone else to learn.

[Alex & Books ��� @AlexAndBooks_]

We are officially in a reading crisis.

Kids of all ages are reading less and enjoying it less.

Kids who said they enjoyed reading:

• In 2005: 51%
• In 2025: 32%

Kids who said they read daily:

• In 2005: 38%
• In 2025: 18%

This is concerning.

[AJZ @ajzeigler]

I want to write an essay titled The Bastardization of Grace discussing the trend in schools to sacrifice the classroom environment & general school culture on the altar of alleged attempts to show absolute misfits grace.

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🚨🇮🇪BREAKING: Irish patriots are sounding the alarm as the pro-WEF government is preparing possible arrests for social media posts backing the fuel protests!

They're cracking down hard to crush all resistance against their globalist agenda.

[Sarah BBeverly @SarahBBeverly]

@BarryGarelick @greg_ashman I teach SS and inquiry in 6th is absurd. These kids don’t know their continents, have no concept of timelines and no understanding of major world events. They have no basis upon which to inquire. Most high school students lack this basis too. They need content.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

WOW. The IRISH GOVERNMENT is OBSTRUCTING their INTERNET CONNECTIONS…

As Patriots become louder…the TREASONOUS REGIME CUTS THE WEB like the DESPERATE TRAITORS THEY ARE to hide the uprising.

HOLD THE LINE
THEY’RE LOSING

[IRISH PATRIOT @irishpatriot91]

🚨 WORLD, OPEN YOUR EYES!

Irish Gardaí are pepper spraying CHILDREN as young as 12 to crush peaceful protests by hard working farmers, truckers & families at Whitegate refinery. They’re fighting back against insane globalist fuel taxes that are destroying livelihoods.

This is the globalist government declaring war on its own people the very ones who keep Ireland running.

America & the free world SEE THIS TYRANNY!

@realDonaldTrump @JDVance

Stand with Ireland before this nightmare hits every nation! 🇮🇪💪 https://t.co/UPsGHneKaI

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

Once again for those in the back - TEACHERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FAIL OR RETAIN STUDENTS.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

UCLA appears to have made its choice, and it has chosen to stand by Dr. Mark Tramo, a neurologist, medical doctor, and professor entrusted with the care, education, and safety of students and patients.

This decision is disturbing in light of revelations from the Epstein files. According to those records, Dr. Tramo continued communicating with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s 2007 conviction for soliciting prostitution. In those communications, he reportedly told Epstein that he would “check to see if his students were cute.” Even more troubling, he discussed how newborn babies will suck on a pacifier more vigorously when it triggers a recording of their mother’s voice instead of another woman’s voice, describing how to manipulate an infant’s behavior using emotional and biological attachment.

Coming from a licensed physician and neurologist, this is not an abstract academic comment. It is medical knowledge about infant development being shared with a convicted sex offender. Providing this kind of information to someone with Epstein’s history is reckless, unethical, and potentially dangerous. It amounts to advising someone on how to influence and exploit vulnerable infants.

Despite knowing Epstein’s criminal past, Dr. Tramo continued corresponding with him and repeatedly used his official UCLA email account to do so, tying these interactions directly from the university.

Last Thursday, after many people,including myself, exposed Tramo and contacted UCLA, the university removed his faculty page from its website. At the time, this appeared to be a small but good step towards SOME accountability.

I was going to recognize this as progress. But shortly afterward, UCLA quietly restored his page, as if nothing had happened.

I don’t think that any arrests are going to happen, but I had hoped that real life consequences would occur. But even the institutions are protecting these people. Sick.

[Jeff Carlson @themarketswork]

When Thomas Massie tried to get signatures from GOP members of Congress only MTG, Nancy Mace & Lauren Boebert were willing to sign.

The @HouseGOP was complicit in protecting these predators.

[Sarah Oberle, Ed.D. @S_Oberle]

The easier question these days is: “How many students do not struggle to regulate attention?”.

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

Another brilliant Cathy Wilcox cartoon … so much said in one little image…

#EpsteinFiles