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The solution to chronic absenteeism in schools isn’t more laws or law enforcement. It’s offering a better product so kids are engaged and want to be there.

@MrDanielBuck 100% this. Also, these kids who are behaving HATE group punishments. My 4th grader currently has a teacher who utilizes group punishments, and she's making him and many of his classmates grow to hate school.

You know who loves discipline in schools? The large majority of kids who aren’t misbehaving and just want to be able to focus

Ohio State is the latest domino to fall. Notice how it's the schools that conduct in-depth studies on the impacts of test-optional policies on student success that are the ones who return to requiring a test score? The schools who remain test-optional make sweeping, grandiose statements, but never have any data to back up said statements. Imagine that. #SAT #ACT #SATPrepTeacher #Attest dispatch.com/story/news/edu…

The mistake we have commonly seen in hiring is when it is done out of desperation. Namely, it's August, there is still an unfilled FTE for, say, a math position, and a teacher is hired so the school can fill the position out of fear of having an unfilled position. Administrators learn very quickly that it would have been better to have just started the year without a teacher and continue trying to find a quality educator than the headache that the disaster of a person they hired brings.

We waste too much time in schools trying to change the attitudes and behaviors of adults. They took decades to develop and you will not easily change them. A better ‘mouse-trap’ is to screen for them during interviews using situational questioning. Remove bad apples!

@cmcfarland77 Give them peppermints: they are performing-enhancing drugs on tests.

Teachers that teach state testing grades. What are the kids favorite snacks?! I’d like to help support a classroom this year in my building with some yummy snacks. What are the must haves?

Original command: "Show a bald eagle asleep at a student desk." Follow-up: "Put the eagle in comfortable pajamas" Um... 😮🤣 #grok3 #grok x.com/i/grok/share/l…

OpenAI's image generation is sooo painfully slow. Grok is much, much faster. #Grok #OpenAi

@JamieClass5 @LizStepan Hopefully, that gets the Prop 47 treatment and is repealed… insanity.

@AtTestLLC @LizStepan We can’t in California, by law. We can’t suspend a student for disruption or direct defiance.

Parents who send their respectful kids to school get no benefit. Their child gets no attention, no extra help to get above grade level. They have to deal with the misbehavior. Incentivize good behavior and achievement and stop blaming parents.

The smarter students have already learned to have AI write, say, the essay, put it into an AI checker, take the results from the AI checker and put that info back into the original AI creator requesting updates to avoid detection, and so on until the checkers can't detect it.

Technology has gone too far man. My roommate is logged out of his lightbulbs because he forgot his password

@ChefGruel We are rewatching all 5 seasons of Breaking Bad, but we have zero desire to use meth. #BreakingBad

Has anyone bought a drug because they saw an ad for it on TV?

@thismomloves "Random groups" = iXL modules

Not actually a flex… “Classrooms went from spaces where we, as teachers, pre-taught students how to do things like add two-digit numbers, multiply fractions & order decimals, to spaces where students figured this out on their own with the support of their random groups.” 🤔 1/2

@Resmond259106 @Eduventuring04 The school textbook industry is such a racket. This is truly one area where DOGE could make a massive difference.

@Eduventuring04 Gotta justify needing to buy all those new textbooks Budget must go up and all that

The most exhausting part about being a teacher is hearing “experts” come out every yr like “Everyone. The new science is out. You see. We must… teach kids. But not like in the past! What we do is… you know… teach them. Directly. In a new groundbreaking way called “teaching”

There are certain subjects where it's really absurd: take Calculus, for example. Calculus hasn't changed since Newton, but the state forces the school to adopt the new textbook that's the 43rd edition (you know, where the picture on page 212 has now been moved to page 343) and everything must now be updated (except, of course, for the content itself, which doesn't, and will never, require an update).

@Eduventuring04 Remember working on project in a resource room 1 yr when new curriculum had been adopted. The teachers were just absolutely frazzled at start of yr w/ how much revision they were going to need to be doing - as opposed to getting ready for their kiddos.

@askteacherzcom @Eduventuring04 We often say that the best PD is to visit other schools in other districts and simply observe how they run. It's truly enlightening.

@Eduventuring04 Missing in many schools is a collegial collaborative culture of learners. The best PD is often in the classroom next door. Administration needs to free-up educators to learn with one another, to build a team, and develop a culture of lifelong learning.

@Great3rdGrade @Eduventuring04 Yo... we're going to need the name of the school where you teach. Please tell your principal that we'll do a PD (even though we hate doing PD for teachers because they really are the worst students) for "only" $90,000. Imagine the savings! 🤣

@Eduventuring04 I disagree: the most exhausting part is having to sit through PD that I know cost upwards 100,000$ where the “speaker” tells teachers that they need to be ‘happy’, ‘charismatic’, or ‘remembered their why’. I would much rather have PD about how to teach

@Eduventuring04 This is the "research" that the Department of Ed produces. Send the money to our classrooms and quit reinventing the wheel!

Applying to multiple colleges is a great way to assess scholarship offers from multiple schools (same reason you should get at least 3 quotes on a car or HVAC system), but we do agree that 60 is ridiculous... other students are not receiving offers at their 1st choice schools because this student applied with little intent to attend most of them.

Applying to more than 60 colleges is absurd, wasteful, and selfish.

Applying to multiple colleges is a great way to assess scholarship offers from multiple schools (same reason you should get at least 3 quotes on a car or HVAC system), but we do agree that 60 is ridiculous... other students are not receiving offers at their 1st choice schools because this student applied with little intent to attend most of them.

@LizStepan The learning time of the 20-30 other students in class shouldn't be compromised because a student feels the need to act a fool. I'm not saying that the kid must automatically face harsh discipline, but that kid shouldn't be in the classroom first and foremost.

@AtTestLLC As an SLP grad student and tutor, I feel like every minute counts. I am constantly streamlining for efficiency and don't waste time doing anything that won't create impact. The teachers deserve to have their time respected so they can do the same thing. Time is too precious!