@educator4ever36 Impressive how many contradictions and jibberish they were able to weave together in so few words. . .
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Dr. Bill Tozzo
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Dr. Bill Tozzo
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Cut the Fluff. Teach What Works. 🏫 Married to an amazing woman 💁♀️Dad to two great boys 🏃♂️➡️🏃♀️➡️Author 📚RVer 🚌 hiker 🥾
Connecticut Katılım Nisan 2024
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Parents - if your public school has an approach like this, pull your child out. When equity becomes more important than learning, your child will learn nothing.
Trish 🐻@themetresgained
This is not actually a coherent instructional approach
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@educator4ever36 I thought that was what you meant. I completely agree. It’s industry wide - whatever they have to donto get them across the stage. Many student’s don’t even know they can get a job and drop out at 16.
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@educator4ever36 But as far as I know, it’s nowhere in writing or board policy.
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Once again for those in the back - TEACHERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FAIL OR RETAIN STUDENTS.
Lenny@NoSpinZoneX
@educator4ever36 I have been a teacher. Parents share responsibility, but schools also need to stop passing kids along who can’t read or do basic math.
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@educator4ever36 @tiredmommy1010 Yeah, but the pressure and subsequent harassment in NY schools is real. Graduation rates, as ridiculous a metric as they are, drive poor decisions and politics.
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@tiredmommy1010 I thought Regents became voluntary.
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Here’s an idea! 💡💡💡
Elementary School: PreK 4 through Year 6 with PreK optional.
Secondary School: Years 7-10
Post Secondary: Trade School, Community College or a 4 year College/University. Students not on grade level after 10th which would be the close equivalent of trad high school minus fluff classes, free access to any classes they need until the age of 19 if continuously enrolled.
Homeschool Life LLC | Jonathan Prescott@Homeschool_LLC
"What do you mean you can cover all of middle school in 8-9 months?!" Yes, you can - and in about 2-3 hours per day. This should tell you how much time in wasted in brick & mortar government schools. Homeschooling is efficient. Want to know more? Read our book, link in profile
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Dr. Bill Tozzo retweetledi
Still hear this justification re: AI in classrooms: “It’s out there & we can't be left behind.”
Friendly challenge: which happens more often?
1. Schools regretted waiting too long to adopt a technology.
2. Schools regretted adopting a technology before they knew how to use it.
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Dr. Bill Tozzo retweetledi
Teaching reading for pleasure is like teaching driving for pleasure. If you can’t drive, it’s no fun at all. Function precedes appreciation, and competence precedes confidence.
Tes magazine@tes
Should schools stop focusing on reading for pleasure? The widely held belief that the strategy improves attainment has been called into question by research, finds @jon_severs tes.com/magazine/teach…
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Dr. Bill Tozzo retweetledi
Do schools kill creativity?”
It’s a seductive story. But creativity isn’t a free-floating spark waiting to be protected from schooling. It grows from knowledge, constraint, revision and judgement.
Far from killing creativity, schools breathe life into it.
Link below ⬇️
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I’d be interested to understand what variables are at play here.
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Dr. Bill Tozzo retweetledi
ResearchED Calgary, May 9
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/researche…
@rastokke @tombennett71 @researchEDCan @researchED_US
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@rastokke @dylanwiliam @greg_ashman I agree. He’s one of the few I subscribe to on substack.
I have been catching up on your podcast lately, and you’ve crushing it. You’re great as well. 😁
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Have I mentioned how great @greg_ashman is? “It is common for people to think about math teaching for a few minutes & decide that it should focus on things they think are important, but that's no way to design a curriculum..little kids don't need lectures about credit card debt”
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@HippyMomPhD My wife taught in Yonkers, NY in 1993 and used Saxon. She loved it.
Some folks may not want to hear this, but K-5 teachers that aren’t specialists should be using a scripted program such as DI, or Saxon.
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You won't like to hear this, but Saxon was the first math program that helped my struggling math student.
It's not flashy, it's not colorful. It is slow, practice-heavy, procedural program. And it works.
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@educator4ever36 “Latus Rectum” I can’t pronounce it differently so I just warn them it’s coming, and tell them to get it out of their system. 🤣
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Happy Friday! A rare funny post from me - Teachers - what words do you pronounce differently or change to avoid the entire class laughing hysterically and losing all focus? Mine were always the planet Uranus and the term Pianist. Can’t wait to hear yours! 😂😂😂
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@MrDanielBuck Try it in NotebookLM. It’s better referring to only the documents you load into it.
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Ok, I had my first "woah" moment with an LLM
I fed it Title II of the Higher Education Act. It read the whole thing and is answering my questions about it
Typically, that's the kind of information that only a policy wonk or career bureaucrat could provide
It did it in seconds
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Innovations Academy, the charter school I cofounded in in San Diego in 2006, had a district site visit last week.
We were told *by the district officials* that it was so nice to see children working on projects and working together in the classroom. Every other visit they'd done was nothing but Chromebooks.
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
NBC: Parents are opting kids out of school laptops, returning them to pen and paper - Parents are forming a loose network teaching one another how to get their children off school-issued Chromebooks and iPads. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
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@educatedandfree @MrZachG Sysphean. I love that word! Thank you.
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@MrZachG It’s not miraculous.
It’s Sisyphean.
It’s insane people carrying more than is possible and never, never, never giving up.
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I’m of the view lately that early successes are tied to the quality and efforts of miracle leaders - and there just aren’t enough of them to go around.
Excellent post by Pondiscio.
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@edudissenter @Doug_Lemov Too much of a disturbance to the educational process. Taze, ducttape, and drag.🤣
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@DrTozzo @Doug_Lemov It’s pathetic. I support sending in the National Guard 🤣
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@edudissenter @Doug_Lemov Oh, so that’s how librarians are waving the white flag when faced with behavior issues.
So halls, cafeterias, outdoors and now libraries are community areas, where the hell do kids go to read and think?
So sad.
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@Doug_Lemov The librarian here just explained to me that libraries are “community spaces” now; i.e. the activist librarians decided that quiet was an oppressive Western norm that needed to be dismantled.
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@edudissenter They aren't even that curious about what other states in this country are doing right!
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Why aren’t American teachers curious about other countries’ education systems? Do they really think we have nothing to learn?
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@ImColbyLyons @greg_ashman Alright, but countless people
are helping young people find something meaningful and helping them achieve it - every caring, hard working, teacher on the planet, for a start.
How is this the one thing that is going well in education?
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@DrTozzo @greg_ashman He might say something else, but I think the best thing he is doing is helping young people find something meaningful to them right now and helping them achieve it.
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According to the New Theory of Disuse, this is not how memory works. If the adults actually learned it the first time, the retrieval pathways for calculus have weakened but the knowledge is still in there. If they studied it again it would ‘all come back’ to them.
Michael Strong@flowidealism
Many adults learned calculus in school. Most of them don't remember any of it. It's gone. They spent a year or more on the subject and retained nothing useful. Meanwhile they never learned personal finance or basic business accounting or how to evaluate a contract. The curriculum covered one and ignored the other. The problem isn't that school doesn't teach certain things. The problem is the fundamental approach of forcing people to learn whatever someone else decided is important. Any time you force people to learn something, they're less likely to actually absorb it and less likely to ever use it.
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