Erica Sandberg

Intermediate elementary teacher. Passionate about explicit instruction and dodging edu-trends.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

“They were so occupied with whether or not they *could*, no-one stopped to ask if they *should*” - Jurassic Park

This is how I feel about AI.

[Erica Sandberg @sandstorms]

@oldcanadaseries We all miss the Bay!
My second would be Eaton’s.

[Erica Sandberg @sandstorms]

Good point!

[John Rosemond @JohnKRosemond]

A child who is always rescued from consequences never learns how to avoid them.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Trauma Informed Practice is extremely common in school discourse, particularly around behaviour. But it’s another area where extreme caution is advised, because the evidence for its effectiveness is still very thin. It *sounds* right (who wouldn’t want to be ‘trauma informed’?) but that doesn’t mean it works.

A recent study funded by the @YouthEndowFund and the Home Office looked at the connection between TIP and children's behaviour and involvement in crime.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This super myth buster from Steplab about evidence-informed approaches to SEN/ additional needs provision. Summary: lots of things we sometimes think are useful, have no evidence to back them up, or weak evidence. In some cases they may even harm. Fidget spinners, Zones of Regulation, Mindfulness…just because we want something to work doesn’t mean that it does.

[Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD @nsachdeva2019]

@researchEDCan proposals due June 15, 2026. Be sure to submit your entry by June 15, 2026, can't wait to read it.

https://t.co/vZnEYBNElS
@researchED1 @JimHewittOISE

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

really missing the days when people understood sarcasm without an explanation and actually enjoyed it

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

*NEW* Why the curriculum is probably not responsible for student attendance issues.
Link in reply...

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Jo Facer makes this point beautifully in her book. Students who are impulsive, rude and self-centered in school don’t somehow magically transform into the sorts of valued employees who are considerate, collaborative and helpful. And of course almost everything we accomplish in our professional lives will be accomplished in groups serving the needs of some institution. The valorization of rule-less-ness is a lie and a disservice to students.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

"Observers found the project method to be the least effective mode of pedagogy...but the terminology shifted and the practice remained in different forms under different names such as 'discovery learning', 'hands-on learning',..."

[Erica Sandberg @sandstorms]

Couldn’t agree more.

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

Using inquiry learning to teach early literacy or numeracy is educational malpractice.

[Erica Sandberg @sandstorms]

@CatherineCook58 @rastokke Good to hear! Hope you have a speedy recovery ❤️‍🩹

[Bennie🕊️ @Bennieeexyz]

My high school math teacher Mr D was known for one thing.

He reused the same exam questions every year. Just changed the numbers. Everyone knew it. He also made a very big deal of collecting every paper back after we reviewed our scores so nobody could pass them to the next year's class.

Of course some of my classmates got their hands on a full set of tests from the previous year.

Within a week everyone had a copy.

Before every exam we'd sit together and work through every problem on the old test until we could solve them in our sleep. When the real exam landed the numbers were different but the logic was identical.

We thought we were geniuses.

Years later I became a teacher myself. Ran into Mr D at a funeral.

Me: I have to confess something.

Me: We had a copy of your old tests the whole time.

Me: Full set. Every exam.

Him: (smirked)

Him: Who do you think leaked them?

Me: (stared at him)

Him: Kids won't study if a teacher tells them to.

Him: But if they think they're getting away with something?

Him: (shrugged)

Him: They study all night.

Me: (stood there)

Me: (replayed four years of feeling clever)

Me: (we were never clever)

Me: (he played us perfectly)

Me: (I became a teacher and I still got played)

Me: (Mr D was built different)

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

Schools haven’t changed all that much in 4000 years. In this post I discuss evolution, evolutionary psychology, culture and make the claim that schools are the first — and most important — educational technology.
https://t.co/CUhe7QDJBG

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Do you know who dislikes the lack of accountability for misbehaved students in schools even more than teachers?

The good kids who actually want to learn.

They’re often the ones being silently bullied, distracted, intimidated, or forced to sit in chaos every day while administrators let it continue.

When a severely misbehaved student is suspended, it’s often a relief for the students trying to do the right thing, too.

[Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty]

A top education expert just testified before Congress:

This is the first generation in human history that is getting DUMBER after being educated. 📉

Every generation before us got smarter.
This one is declining fast!

Our schools aren’t failing by accident.

They’re producing exactly what they were designed to produce — a weaker, stupider population.

This should terrify every parent in America.

#DumbingDownAmerica

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is thoughtful, useful and probably important. Well worth reading.

[Ling Huang @FightFuzzyMath]

16/20
The damage starts early — in elementary school.

Kids waste time on scissors, drawings, and group projects instead of building real math skills.

Mr. Xu explains: “Mathematics is a deeply internal and independent thinking process. Group activities often become distractions. Once the individual mind is interrupted, it is very difficult to resume.”

[Dyslexia Canada @dyslexia_canada]

Ontario’s Auditor General found that 90%+ of IEP goals lacked measurable criteria.

Without measurable goals and progress monitoring, students can spend years in ineffective interventions.

Ontario now needs a clear reading intervention policy: https://t.co/EWkYrW7fRb

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

Ed Tech has destroyed education by diminishing teachers abilities to teach, wrecking student attention spans, and pilfering district coffers.