Timothy D. Walker

teacher, speaker, & author of Teach Like Finland ( and co-author of In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools (

[Timothy D. Walker @timdwalk]

@c708682c1cf6480 Aww, thanks so much! Hope you're doing well.

[lisa cutting @lisajean9]

Cannot wait to start reading these! @timdwalk

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

My new favorite word: sonder.

It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.

Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

[Timothy D. Walker @timdwalk]

@MikeHynes5 Congratulations, Mike! Well done.

[Timothy D. Walker @timdwalk]

@CoryAsbury Hey, Cory! It was great to meet you and your family at The Factory a couple of weekends ago. (We're the family that moved from Finland. 😀)

[Holly Korbey @HKorbey]

I've reached out to several teachers for interviews in the past couple of days who have said, "Oh yeah, I read The Bell Ringer," which is...not a bad feeling at all 😉 (And hey you can read it, too, subscribe at the link in my bio!)

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

If you want to predict kids' screen time, look to their parents.

Children spend less time on devices when their parents use them less often—and ban them at meals & bedtime.

Kids internalize the values they observe. A key to being a good role model is setting healthy boundaries.

[The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport]

OPINION: There are lessons to be learned from Finland, but giving smartphones to young children isn’t one of them - The Hechinger Report https://t.co/brJBEgoPf9

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Emotion regulation is like other skills: it takes practice.

After 2 weeks of daily journaling to reframe unpleasant events, depression dropped, life satisfaction rose, and the benefits lasted at least a month.

The best way to improve at managing emotions is to do it more often.

[Holly Korbey @HKorbey]

⁦@jillbarshay⁩ writes, “Recent studies have begun to document salient differences in brain activity when reading on paper versus screens,” including ⁦@MaryanneWolf_⁩’s idea that we do “deeper” reading from paper compared to screens. https://t.co/8KpwPsmTzN

[Lucy Crehan @lucy_crehan]

Three of my last GEPA cohort (a teacher, a deputy head and a school-group leader) independently and without prompting said it was the best CPD they've ever had.

I have 2 spots left for my next cohort, running July-November every other Weds at 9.30 BST:

https://t.co/GHqNAEO3vF

[Timothy D. Walker @timdwalk]

@lucy_crehan The course looks excellent! :)

[Liz Willen @L_willen]

What stands out is how much teens are turning to AI for information and to ask questions, not just to do their homework for them: https://t.co/eb1lj3Yk6f via @jillbarshay

[Juhana Harju @JuhanaHarju]

@JonHaidt A Finn here. Finland invested heavily in the digitalization of schools, because at the turn of the millennium the tech company Nokia was a great success. Politicians wishfully hoped that the digitalization of schools would lead the new generations to success.

[Justin Baeder, PhD @eduleadership]

New evidence from Finland and Japan’s PISA scores:

Smartphones are bad for kids.

We need to reverse course as quickly as possible.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Don’t mistake burnout for laziness.

When people show a steady decline in effort and output, it’s often a sign of exhaustion.

They don't need carrots and sticks to motivate them. They need people to demand less of them and provide more support to them.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week.

Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work
-Increased satisfaction
-Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters)
-No costs for performance or promotion rates

[Tony Wagner @DrTonyWagner]

@timdwalk @pasi_sahlberg @williamdoylenyc @Crof @jillbarshay @HKorbey @L_willen @JonHaidt @alexstubb Finland took a wrong turn with going digital in classrooms, replacing a play-based childhood with a phone-based childhood. But Tim Walker suggests they may be learning from their mistakes and correcting the problem. Yet one more thing we can learn from the Finns!

[RealClearEducation @RealClearEd]

What Happened When Finland Gave Kids Smartphones https://t.co/sOWO5TB77n