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@HenMazzig That ad is so amateurishly stupid it's hard to imagine that 1-anyone takes it seriously or 2-that it's actually approved by that candidate's campaign.

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@JoshTBVO Sold a Story Season 1 focused on very young students learning to read. Season 2 started with preschool. I will be interested to see if any of her episodes deal with math (since my HS students struggle with it) as well as science and history for the upper grades.

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@JustLB @teachbk @blkgoldofthesun Who, me?

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@Spike_Mordant @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG She SAID they outperformed.

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@AbbyTeachesDSM No, west coast.

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@LJ198767 @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG Me? I teach science. The person who believed in "productive struggle" and who didn't work problems on the board once taught 8th grade math and now works for the state Ed department. I run my classroom in ways she'd criticize, I have no doubt.

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@midwestgal6383 One of the years (yes, the entire year) she taught 8th grade math before she started working for the state Ed department. She said (as someone else commented) that she didn't need to do the math because she already knew it.

I'm grateful to my own teachers who were different.

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@JohnQuinton3 @pauldrossi @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG Times tables mean you are ready for fractions, and fractions mean: proportions, ratios, probability, risk, patterns in data, scale, place value - all things my 10th graders struggle with currently in science. So it creates obstacles in science for them, too, not knowing them.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 "Your" being the general "you"; sorry you took it personally as it was not meant that way.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 I was generalizing to all students in that cohort, not being particular or doubting your assessment of your students or the context in which you teach.

Where I work, something is going to need to change K-8 before students arrive with the proficiency in HS that they once did.

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@JonMHenderson1 @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG Yes, and now she's helping set standards for instruction at the state level, and I disagreed with so much of what she had to say, but she was delivering her workshop via microphone in the cafeteria and we have had zero schoolwide followup since then.

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@pauldrossi @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG I was in a two-week summer professional development where paid consultants also said times tables were not necessary and kids could use calculators. So then I have HS students who don't understand scale, proportion, place value probability, data tables & so much more in science.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 I'm sorry, what are you referring to as odd? Where I work, my current students (Class of 2029) have little ability in math, their writing skills are poor, & they don't know geography or history. If the Class of 2033 is doing better post-COVID, great, I look forward to it.

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@JonMHenderson1 @BarryGarelick @rastokke @MrZachG It led to some interesting conversations after she left.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 Well, that's some good news, but I'll believe it when your 6th graders arrive in 10th grade in three years.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 Those big drops post-COVID are very noticeable in terms of their skills and abilities in the Classes of 2024-2029.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 Yes; my kid is in this graduating class (2029). School stopped for them in March 2020 (3rd) & then they were in distance learning on Zoom until March 2021 (4th grade), and in masks until March 2022 (5th grade), and middle school had not settled down yet for their 6th grade year.

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@RuthJoy96960173 We went from that PD (2 hrs) to another one provided by SpEd on "executive function" in which we learned how to teach HS students to tell time on an analog clock and "make a plan" for how to complete an assignment which included drawing a picture of the completed project.

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@h2sdrummer @jilltucker @tetheredtoed1 You have to look at the statewide data to see differences between states and the impact of curricular decisions at the elementary level. My state is 3rd from the bottom, and my 10th graders know next to nothing, and it is worse every year. K-5th and 6-8th needs to do better.