Bill Waychunas

#PhD in #TeacherPrep and history teacher educator at BradleyU

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

Wow! I just had the chance to talk about my dissertation with two titans of teacher education scholarship!

@deborah_ball and Sharon Feiman-Nemser!

[wint @dril]

its fucked up how there are like 1000 christmas songs but only 1 song aboutr the boys being back in town

[Jefferson Donovan @JDonovanWx]

I may have just stumbled upon the greatest YouTube comment I've ever seen 😭😂

@SickosCommittee @CFBHome

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

I'm co-editing a special sssue on Practice-based Teacher Education!

Submissions Due: October 1st, 2025

The full call can be found here: https://t.co/fUCDOBzgEm

Please share with any scholars who might be interested!

#edchat #PhD #teacherprep #teachered

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

@rpondiscio Hazing you say? Well you might like my article about the treatment of new teachers:

https://t.co/mwTfZW26qV

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

This is pretty cool.

[Bradley Basketball @BradleyUMBB]

Coach Wardle is making the calls - are you answering? ☎️🏀

Secure your seats for the 2025-26 Bradley Basketball season by placing your deposit before Friday, May 30!

VISIT 🎟️: https://t.co/c7pDA7eDcF

[rust belt roadtrip @gmoult]

how did they find a chicago catholic who isn’t even a little bit polish

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

I'm co-editing a special sssue on Practice-based Teacher Education!

Submissions Due: October 1st, 2025

The full call can be found here: https://t.co/fUCDOBzgEm

Please share with any scholars who might be interested!

#edchat #PhD #teacherprep #teachered

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

My latest article dropped today!

The paper highlights challenges facing new secondary teachers while suggesting ways that schools and districts might create systems of support that cultivate, rather than deteriorate, the next generation of teachers.

https://t.co/Z0i0wJNgrK

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

This is nuts

[Senator Dayna Polehanki @SenPolehanki]

If you’re Education Secretary Linda McMahon, how do you rip $40M from Michigan schools?

You announce that a March 28, 2026 deadline has been changed to March 28, 2025 — and you send the announcement three minutes AFTER 5:00 pm end-of-work day on March 28, 2025.

It’s shameful.

[Bruce Robertson @BruceNextLevel]

1. Are pupils being taught a broad, deep body of subject knowledge, including subject-specific vocabulary?
2. Are pupils reading (silently and aloud)?
3. Are pupils articulating their understanding/thinking in writing and talk?

If ‘yes’ to all three, you’re teaching literacy.

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

Well, this seems a bit harsh for a editor desk-rejection email…

I’m going to have to have this one framed and hung in my office once it gets published!

#phdlife #academia #teacherprep #teachered #highereducation

[NIT @NITMBB]

The Braves hang on! @BradleyUMBB advances for the second straight year! #NIT2025

[Mid-Major Madness @mid_madness]

Every time I watch a Bradley game, I marvel over how amazing of a crowd they get.

The way it’s supposed to be in mid-major basketball.

Braves got hot to end the half, lead by nine over UNI in a battle for the #2 seed.

[Mid-Major Madness @mid_madness]

I’m telling y’all about this Bradley team.

I don’t care what the metrics tell you.

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

Published by Dr. Seuss in 1941

[IllinoisCSS @IllinoisCSS]

Earn P D Hours!
2025 Illinois Council for the Social Studies
Spring Conference

Telling Our Stories: Social Studies Education
Eastern Illinois University
Thursday, April 10, 2024

REGISTRATION
https://t.co/hhgBg91tvp
IS OPEN

Registration closes Friday, April 4, 2025. 11:59 pm

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

@JamesTroupis Wait, he STARTED at 28% 😱

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

Yikes

[Dan Goldhaber @CEDR_US]

Among the most alarming results: students at the bottom of the achievement distribution are struggling the most. The distance between the highest/lowest performing students is a chasm & achievement gaps are at historic highs.
4/n

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Ban mobile phones in schools. Gate to gate, first bell to last. Successful options include:
1. Complete physical ban
2. Turned off, never visible
3. Handed in (office, pouches, teacher desk)
All of these need exceptions for exceptional circumstances.
All of these need to be systematic, whole-school and patrolled, with consequences. It’s not easy but it’s not complex either. And the benefits are enormous. Especially weighed against the harms.

I hear people saying ‘this is too hard to do’. Which is news to the hundreds of schools I’ve seen do this successfully. And you know what? They never regret it. Not one of them would reverse the policy.

[Bill Waychunas @waychunas]

You don’t have take down your Xmas lights when you just convert them into Valentines Day/Bradley Basketball lights 🤣