Seth Hull

Adjunct @Hunter_College 📚 15+ yrs in Urban Ed 🌇 EdD in Instr Leadership 🎓 SoR, SoL, & CSP 📈 Husband to @s_kumar_hull ❤️ Baseball nerd ⚾️

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

One more time for this one: https://t.co/bTJUJMsh38

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@mkraju What a disingenuous loser.

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

@MartinCothran One of the biggest mistakes in education has been turning everything into a false choice. Memorization vs. understanding. Phonics vs. comprehension. Knowledge vs. inquiry. In 30 years as an elementary teacher, the most successful students needed both.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

If you want to turbocharge vocabulary acquisition, you must boost volume of reading.

Via instruction, and also independent reading.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

“We wanted to purposefully exclude as many things as we were going to purposefully include.”
@HollyLanePhD on UFLI.

Seriously, read this article.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

A handy cheat sheet. Also, advice: make sure you have sources who can tell the 13-years-ago origin story, not just the “what the current administration did” story.

https://t.co/1DmdVNLgg3

[Sean Morrisey @smorrisey]

Unpopular opinion: We would get better reading outcomes by skipping fall benchmark assessments for first graders and up. Here me out. Most school districts get benchmark testing all wrong. The assessment team and the reading interventionists are one and the same. So students don't receive intervention until all the fall benchmark testing gets completed. Then the testing/intervention team spend days pouring over the data and setting up groups. In many schools intervention begins way too late (5 weeks or more after the school year starts). Why not just start on day #2 of the school year, seriously. Spring to Fall data doesn't generally change much. Please don't come after me about regression. Yes, some students may regress more than others, but I wonder how many schools and districts actually analyze spring to fall data by rank ordering students based on need. I've done this and generally nothing changes. There is so much opportunity cost to delaying intervention. Just look at spring data. If you want to look at yearly growth look at spring to spring data. This is as good or even better measure than fall to spring data.

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@JayWamsted Why do they have their phones with them?

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

Proximal versus distal

The further away your intervention is from the thing you are trying to change, the less likely it is to work. Distal — far away — interventions rely on a long chain of cause and effect and this both dilutes the intervention and provides many potential failure points.

Do you want to improve students’ facility with arithmetic? An intervention that involves students doing arithmetic is likely to be more effective than one involving yoga.

This is a seemingly obvious principle that is routinely ignored in education.

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@MrZachG @SamAltarac @mdroush @Doug_Lemov @adamboxer1 Unintended outcome: the simplification of GRR to a series of strict sequential moves rather than using formative assessment to inform decisions. Shanahan has described GRR as *I do, we do, you do, we do, you do again, I do again (as needed), you do again, etc.*

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@MrZachG @SamAltarac @mdroush @Doug_Lemov @adamboxer1 The missing piece for many people is an understanding of what gradual release looks like. Fisher (2008): “the gradual release of responsibility model is not linear. Students move back and forth between each of the components as they master skills, strategies, and standards.”

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@yonkersbball A systematic program utilizing pre-testing to create instructional groupings for on-level learning, unambiguous wording, small step presentations, corrective feedback, high volume of practice/active responses/review, and gradual release of responsibility.

[Sarah Cottinghatt @SCottinghatt]

Can teachers who already have quite a lot of expertise in teaching benefit from coaching?

I think so for three reasons 🧵:

(A thread that should have been a blog - please stick with me!)

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@msankey86_570 @TeddyLetterman @Bananaballs187 @ASJ_42 @SAlfinInteriors @gabekapler @SFGiants @RacismDog Not to mention it doesn’t work anyway

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@msankey86_570 @TeddyLetterman @Bananaballs187 @ASJ_42 @SAlfinInteriors @gabekapler @SFGiants A) Those guns overwhelming come from states w/ gun control.

B) @RacismDog woof woof 🐶

C) I’ve been a pub school teacher going on 12 yrs, and I love it. The day my Ss have to walk by armed guards at the entrance to their school would be the saddest fucking day of my life.

[Seth Hull @schull88]

@CSchwarz23 @CollegeBallNat Not likely. Which is the point of the original post. If ECU happens to lose the conference tourney, they would likely still get an at large bid, which “steals” a bid from a hopeful bubble team.