Todd Finley

How to Keep Kids on Task (What the research says) edutopia.org/article/resear… #teachers #k12 #education #Edutopia

@curriculumblog Thanks!

@finleyt This is Gold!!

How to Decide What to Do After Your Formative Assessment | edutopia.org/article/what-d… #education #teacher #k12

ICE is occupying communities and shooting Americans. Now, former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested for covering what ICE is doing. Arresting journalists is what happens in tin-pot dictatorships. We must fight back against authoritarianism.

@MichaelARothman Let’s be real: No one is voting to 'protect criminals.' This is about refusing to sign a blank check for a bill with extreme policy riders that undermine due process. If the goal was safety, we’d be talking about funding more immigration judges and smarter border tech.

𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 ⁣⁣⁣ This is not spin. This is not interpretation. This is exactly what Chuck Schumer is doing. ⁣⁣⁣ Chuck Schumer just announced he is willing to 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐇𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 and 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓. ⁣⁣⁣ Why? To protect 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬. ⁣⁣⁣ Read that again. Slowly. ⁣⁣⁣ Moody laid it out plainly when asked about Democrats threatening a shutdown: ⁣⁣⁣ 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬, 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘏𝘚, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. ⁣⁣⁣ And then the part Democrats don’t want you to hear: ⁣⁣⁣ 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵? 𝘛𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘥, 𝘮*𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴? 𝘜𝘯𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. ⁣⁣⁣ This is the Democratic Party in 2026. They would rather 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 than back the men and women enforcing immigration law. ⁣⁣⁣ They don’t want ICE funded. They don’t want deportations. They don’t want consequences. ⁣⁣⁣ And if that means shutting down the federal government? They’re perfectly fine with it. ⁣⁣⁣ Remember this the next time they pretend to care about “democracy” or “public safety.” When given the choice between America and criminals — they chose the criminals.

NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street. They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."

12 Buddy Systems That Support Learning and Student Well-Being Encouraging students to “look out for each other on purpose” has a powerful impact. These classroom and schoolwide strategies will help you get started. edutopia.org/article/using-… #education #teachers

@Matt_Pinner Boomer.

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My interview on the new Edutopia Podcast (School of Practice) about Converting Fast Finishers into Self-Directed Learners. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con… #education #teachers #k12 #edutopia

13 Super-Quick Formative Assessments Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ahead. edutopia.org/article/quick-… #teachers #k12 #formativeassessment #assessment

@KeruboSk Cortisol is like poison to the hippocampus.

Nobody talks about the memory loss that comes with anxiety and depression.

Federal Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence…In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.” RETWEET to thank Judge Young for standing up for our democracy!

8 Questions New Teachers Often Ask—Answered Classroom management, projecting authority, dealing with parents, cell phone distractions, and more... edutopia.org/article/common… #edutopia #teacher

Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.

@HansMahncke Contrary to the claim that the FBI and NSA "admitted they had no evidence," multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluded with high confidence that Russia conducted an influence campaign to interfere in the 2016 election. This has been reaffirmed by subsequent investigations.

As Trump and Putin prepare to meet in Alaska, and as new hoaxes are already being spun to derail that meeting, it’s worth recalling the last time they met in a purely one-on-one setting. That was the Helsinki summit in 2018, when a so-called journalist demanded that Trump publicly denounce Russia’s supposed 2016 election interference. That story, as Tulsi Gabbard just revealed, was fabricated by Obama operatives, and even the FBI and NSA admitted they had no evidence. Looking back seven years later, it’s striking how Trump was 100% right and the entire political-media class was 100% wrong. He was smeared as a traitor for daring to question the intelligence agencies, yet he had every reason to. In reality, the reverse was true. They were the traitors, waging a years-long coup attempt against him. Keep that in mind, because they will try to sabotage him again this week.

@libsoftiktok There is no public record that Fannie Mae ever reached a firm conclusion about Senator Schiff’s mortgage filings.

HOLY SHLIT “Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud”

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

@lamdeinu There’s research on contrastive learning supporting gains in conceptual understanding and transfer, though more study is needed. I’ve used these in elem and HS when students needed a shot of novelty to get students through the Thursday doldrums.

@finleyt I can see that this type of activity, by introducing playfulness, can entertain students and possibly boost that elusive metric called "engagement". But what's the evidence that it will "boost learning"? There's an opportunity cost to the time spent on such things. Not convinced.

The Benefits of Anti-Models for Boosting Learning edutopia.org/article/power-… #EDU #teachers #edutopia #k12