Rick Pardo

Teacher, learner, reader. Tweets are mine and don’t represent any affiliated organization or institution. [email protected]

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

Re-Imagine schools without Subjects or Periods. @TVInnovates is. Check out the full interview with @KimberliteENT
https://t.co/QU72kz3jFq

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@MJonSP @ONT_Dad In terms of the Cdn government's pandemic response, you seem to be confusing stupidity and incompetence with compassion and morality.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@ONT_Dad Trudeau navigated Canada through a global pandemic with civility and compassion. Money to people to prevent much personal hardship. If some took unfair advantage of that . That's unCanadian behaviour and that's on them.
Conservative 1%ers want the other 99% to blame each other.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@natabasso Lookd like lots of edu accounts on Threads. Not many of these accounts are posting yet.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

No. The policy that you support starts with the false assumption that children are chattel - possessions of their parents with no rights of their own.
Religion needs 'father knows best' to survive.
State institutions strive to protect individuals from ALL FORMS of indoctrination.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

@pcembleton This policy you support starts with the false assumption that all parents are abusers.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@brianlilley “papier-mâché Mephistopheles” with “nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe”

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@realJ_Mitchell Congrats to the graduating class. All the best in your new adventure. All about the journey.

[Ms. Briscoe @BriscoeClass]

Such a fun day with our first @tvdsb system #TreeTeam 140 Gr7s #EcoPark planting trees. Thank you @H3ELPLeaders Gr10s for co-facilitating with GreenhouseAcademy! @Stoney_CreekPS @cedarhollowps @StoneyBSharks

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

We need to meet them where they are, and help them see a way forward. Even if that doesn’t include school.
Our young people are listening, and they believe us. Let’s tell them something worth hearing. School isn't the only way to get an education. 7/

[Misty Paterson @PatersonMisty]

After learning more about learning disabilities from a psychologist today, I Googled "neurodiversity". If you are a teacher, please read this article. It reminds me that we need #creative + #inclusive education, which starts with our view of learning: https://t.co/VOmy2IydLF

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

Create change and lead,
Accept change and thrive,
Reject change and perish.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

Learning is infectious. Kids are more likely to catch the learning virus from each other than they will from teachers.
Teachers, when it comes to learning, give kids a chance to infect each other.
Make learning go viral!

[TCEA @TCEA]

⚡🪜⬆Level Up! Think-Pair-Share⚡🪜⬆

https://t.co/Fx2SJ77DpV via @scholarlyteach1
#teachertwitter #edutwitter #k12

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Statistics can never be completely objective.

This is not just my opinion. It's a *mathematical* fact.

Read on if you want to learn a deep fundamental truth about data and its relationship to the universe we live in.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Not sure I've ever read a better short take on the fatal flaw of accountability-based school reform - "the most efficient tool ever devised to destroy a student’s interest in learning" - as this one by @DLabaree. He zeroes in on the difference between effectiveness and efficiency

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@natabasso Success criteria for Change Agents in education:

Your work ...
- makes life and learning better,
- builds Community,
- builds Agency, and
- builds Expertise.

These impacts are for people across the educational community but successful Change Agents start where they are.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@natabasso Anyone can be a change agent in education:
Observe
- the current situation
Reflect
- check inference & bias
- know what +ve and -ve change look like
Plan
- prioritize actions - pick one 'doable'
Act
- no waiting for permission
- start wiggling
- monitor results
- adjust
Repeat

[Lauren Barr @Lauren_M_Barr]

Everyone has their purpose, the thing that gets them up and keeps them moving forward. This is mine. Finding proactive, human-centred, positive and effective ways to make life better.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

@MrHambley I agree that many Ss don't know what's good for them. Ts gotta be careful. Parents determine what's "good".
"In loco parentis" means Ts act in Ps' absence. Doesn't extend to excusing Ss from class activities.
P's can't tell T's what or how to teach but they can pull their kids.

[Rick Pardo @rickpardo]

Those looking for kindred spirits check-out Going Gradeless @TG2Chat

[Danika Tipping @DanikaTipping]

Struggling today to shift some student thinking from valuing a number to valuing the learning. We spend so long drilling into their heads that the goal is number. We do a huge disservice to them when we get them to association their self-worth with a number. #UNgrading