J. Hall

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

A child reading a book about football tactics is reading. A child reading a recipe book is reading. A child reading the back of a cereal box is reading. We have an extraordinary habit of deciding which reading counts as real reading. And an equally extraordinary habit of doing it in front of the child. Every book counts. Every page counts. Stop gatekeeping.

Here’s a new one. Today, during an assessment, a student asked me why I even need to give formal assessments. I asked him why he was asking that, and he responded, “You already know everything we know.” So I asked him why he thought that, and he said, not in these exact words, but making reference to, my use of active observation, high-frequency questioning, and mini whiteboards every day. He pointed out that through those practices, I’m constantly checking everyone’s knowledge and thinking while providing in-the-moment feedback, making a formal assessment feel almost unnecessary. I mean, the kid kind of has a point. He then went on to say that other teachers rarely engage in those types of practices, so it makes more sense why they need to give assessments. From moment to moment, day to day, and lesson to lesson, they don’t really know what he knows. That’s a problem. A big problem.

VIDEO: 2 minutes 15 seconds of Shai/OKC flops & flails. It’s only halftime of Game 1!! 😭😭

When a non-parent says they’re tired at any point of their day/life

🎶Bone Thugs-n-Harmony released 'Tha Crossroads' 30 years ago, April 30, 1996