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@FixingEducation This is called value alignment. Schools shouldn’t be one size fits all. No organizational strategy would say : be all things to all people. If you could gather people who agreed with these values and then hold them accountable- u would have something exceptional

As a teacher, this is what I want to say to SOME parents: Stop making excuses for your kids. STOP IT. Teach them to earn things, not demand things. Hold them to a higher standard. Challenge them. That way, when I try to challenge them, they’ll know we both expect it.

@flowidealism Sounds like our Studios!

My strategy for raising curious kids is to create an incredibly rich environment with cool stuff, limit technology use, model being interested, and engage them in conversation about it all. Magazines. Science fiction. DK books. Magnets, magnifying glasses, bug collections. Logic games. Surround them with invitations. A home full of interesting objects and a parent who finds them genuinely fascinating does more than any curriculum. The environment teaches. Your attention signals what matters.

@BTRowland We needed to move on but folks were in denial about how good capela was. Complaining he wasn’t an offensive threat but not understanding how he affected the game.

The most predictable thing of all-time was the Knicks dominating the offensive glass in this matchup, but that is what happened. 19 offensive rebounds. 23 second-chance points. NYK ends up with 8 extra possessions overall in a 3-point game.

@HermitFather Give replacement behavior (smile/warm comment) and only respond to that

What am I supposed to do to discipline a 3 year old who is INCESSANTLY whining. I’m talking about almost every single waking second of the day. Do you guys (PARENTS ONLY) have any tips for me?

@UnrulySonne @Beanie0597 Share more about what this is!

@Beanie0597 Used to play “Silent Running” with secondary classes to break bad habits, explaining wartime submarine protocols and using a sonar ping sound effect. I rewarded those who “played well” for half an hour before discussing why silence and concentration sometimes matter.

@into_happy @Beanie0597 I have literally been looking for games to teach this! Any direction u can point or share (besides putting a piece of food/candy in front of them and making them wait)?

Impulse control games are a key to developing delayed gratification skills (which tons of research says predicts all kinds of future success). Here’s what almost no parents know: You can start teaching a 2 month old to delay gratification. Through gentle, fun games! Why wait until kids are 4 or 5?

@mcalistp @ChadAldeman This is true. When playing the narrow game of school- not life. How crazy for folks to b so lazy in approach. Can the short kid in 3rd grade grow?

If a child starts behind in reading, the odds of catching up fall fast: • 49% in kindergarten • 29% in first grade • 18% in second • 5% in third We don’t have a third-grade reading crisis. We have an early learning problem. Great take, @ChadAldeman. chadaldeman.com/p/do-not-wait

Never once in my adult life has someone asked me in a job interview what my grades were in elementary school. Or what my GPA was in high school. Or for any other metric of my K-12 performance. Once you reach adulthood, you realize chasing grades is a total waste of time.

@realEstateTrent U need to come to our school!

The cool kids at my high school were failing their classes and skipping school. After freshman year, my family then moved across town and I went to a different public high school. At that school, the cool kids got good grades and took AP classes. It changed my life completely.

@FixingEducation Different

What do schools need most right now? Use one word.

@JamesAFurey For instance, you consider this construct, IQ, to be factual/have value because you have been told you have a high IQ. That is where you were led astray. It is human to want to be “better” than others- but u played yourself

@JamesAFurey But the tests can’t measure abilities crucial to making good judgements in real-life situations. That's because they are unable to assess things such as a person's ability to critically weigh up information, or whether an individual can override the intuitive cognitive bias.

Of the things we don’t talk about in education, the following may be the most consequential: Some students are inherently more intelligent than others. And the uncomfortable part of it is this: Some kids are inherently less intelligent than others.

@_cturner Has been our experience too!

One thing I’ve learned at Moonrise is that the best parents think they know nothing and the worst parents think they know everything.

@JamesAFurey The state of education in this country is beyond insane. Doing the same thing year after year and expecting something different. New year? New reading program. Lip stick on a pig 🐷

I taught my 4 year old son to read with a book that cost less than $20. I probably could have done it for free if I wasn't so lazy. So why, with *billions* of dollars spent on literacy initiatives in America, can't half the country read proficiently?

@HannahFrankman Preach!

The thing I love about public school spending is that it keeps getting more expensive while the results stay the same.

@MrDanielBuck People continuing to think teaching is more important than learning

Other than school closures, what's been the most damaging education policy/trend of the past 5 years?

@sbabmarks Great stuff- as always!

WSS: Bruce, I am currently under LOI to buy a business that did $535,000 in EBITDA in 2022 and $978,000 in 2023. How does your bank look at this? Can we model this deal to see if it pencils? What should I be looking for? Well, read here 👇

@Beanie0597 Study after study has shown what your son is feeling ( short term success) is actually not linked with learning. Check out “over correction” effect and how much more you learn even if u r wrong. This is at best short term memorization for a test. Sad.

@SMB_Attorney Learning and human development!!!

I am obsessed with small business buying and selling. If you handed me a mic and pushed me out on stage right now, I could give a 5 hour plus Ted Talk without notes or a single pause. What’s your obsession?