Pamella Signore

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

“Students learn best by discovery."

“Be the guide on the side, not the sage on the stage."

“The person doing the talking is doing the learning.”

These ideas have become edu-homilies, repeated and passed along without scrutiny.

https://t.co/EZdGvHz2Re

[Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎 @MarvelTeacher2]

Things #Teachers don’t talk about:

The amount of "social engineering" that goes into a seating chart to keep the peace.

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@JoAnneSimonBK52 @350brooklyn Reminder: increasing taxes on New Yorkers will not and cannot change the global weather. To think otherwise would be worthy of a skit on SNL.

[Pamella Signore @PamSpringer3]

Always.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God always wins.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Your child's school has an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an assistant superintendent for instruction, a director of teaching and learning, and a coordinator of academic services. Your child's teacher has thirty-two kids and no copy paper. This is not a funding problem. It is a priority problem.

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

A man saw his phone storage was ''full'' after 18 months but he barely had any photos.

He had deleted apps. Cleared messages. Removed downloads. The warning kept coming back every two weeks:

"Storage Almost Full.''

He went to the Apple Store ready to buy a new iPhone.

The employee at the Genius Bar held up a hand: *"Before you spend a thousand dollars, let me show you something."*

She opened Settings → General → iPhone Storage and shook her head.

"There are 7 things eating your storage right now. Apple ships every iPhone with all of them turned on. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's go through them."

Here's what she showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵

[Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD @nsachdeva2019]

No, explicit instruction does not cause Learned Helplessness.
*New Post*

[RP Long 🆓️ @RPLongSW]

This year I moved my kids from the Texas public school system into a local “classical academy.” The difference is astounding. She went from a school that spent its time reviewing vowel sounds to one where they read 4 classic novels, studied the ancient world, and learned Latin.

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

"You can't steal the light from someone who carries a galaxy of stars in their heart." - Rumi

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

🚨New paper released today:

10 Common SEN Mis(Interventions)—An Evidence Summary

https://t.co/8lQNH00Co4

Supporting students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) is a vital and growing challenge for schools. But it’s not straightforward. Learning is complex, marketing claims are confident, and the evidence is often hard to access. As a result, we can sometimes end up adopting approaches which are less effective than we initially think.

For some, this may well be uncomfortable reading. As a profession, many of us have put time, effort and belief into these things, and lots will have seen students who looked like they were getting something from it. However, it’s essential that we temper our intuition with evidence, because ultimately: our most vulnerable students deserve it.

This new paper co-authored with @Barker_J is an attempt to raise the visibility of the best available evidence around several commonly used SEN interventions. For each, we provide an overview of what the research says, offer a more informed approach, and provide a suite of rigorous links to help you get started.

We hope it will serve as a useful resource and over time: push us to be even more 'evidence demanding' as a profession.

As ever, let me know what you think. If you have pushes or suggestions for how this paper could be better, hit reply and give it to me straight.

👊

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

In my teaching experience…

Teachers who never question administrators’ decisions often get labeled as “good teachers.”

Teachers who do ask questions often get labeled as “difficult.”

Have you seen this too?

[Dennis Prager @DennisPrager]

There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

For the first time in 41 years Mitch McConnell will not be a GOP Senator from Kentucky.

Over 4 decades…

Andy Barr just won the GOP nomination replacing McConnell.

McConnell is everything wrong with politics.

He would have kept going if he was even close to capable…

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

I keep hearing people refer to Marco Rubio as a millennial and I just want to note he was born in 1971 so he is clearly Gen X. LET US HAVE THIS.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

Adult life is realizing that an empty evening, a stocked fridge, clean sheets, and nobody asking anything from you can feel wildly luxurious.

[mayerr @ymmayerr]

My greatest adult disappointment was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

I'm reminded--yet again--of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. who famously said "I'm practically a socialist" but became (again, his words) "an education conservative" because that's what it actually takes to advance equity.

Shame on you, @washingtonpost for this ignorant tripe.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Neuroscientist explains how the SAT is redefining education

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

Teachers drawn to classical schools "are seeking not lighter expectations but higher ones: deeper subject-matter knowledge, clearer classroom norms, moral seriousness, and an unapologetic commitment to an intellectual tradition."

https://t.co/P6ctzSwAPf

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Stoic Mindset:

"I will do good no matter what happens to me."