Keith Derrick

“Everything but instruction” is the water many schools swim in. It is an invisible disease that some managerial type principals don’t even recognize they have. Every lever and mechanism available to you should be directed towards improving teaching and learning. It’s the job.

@MrZachG Years ago, I had my math department chair walk classes with me. After the day, he said, "oh my, these are my colleagues and some I call friends, but yikes."

Teachers’ impressions of who is “good” among their colleagues often do not match my, or others’, observations. Some quiet, anti-social teachers are top-tier teachers, and yet they’re overlooked. My take: Without observing lessons, teachers must rely on superficial, social cues.

@rheajason99 @realDonaldTrump Such a bad take.

@realDonaldTrump Man why couldn't it be california???

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@sage_stage The important thing is whether students know and understand the learning objectives...not whether you wrote them down or on the board.

Year in review- Even though I did write objectives every day, then it just turned into a longer discussion on whether I used the right words, or how I could make them better. Would have been better off not writing them at all and doing the other things.

@JakeCowling Very few words and a picture to visualize the point.

Hot take: “Death by PowerPoint” is lazy criticism. It’s not about the tool, it’s about the delivery. I’ve seen 1-slide and 50+ slide lessons both be amazing.

@Beanie0597 Engagement is not entertainment.

@sage_stage You can control what they are doing in your classes during this time, right?

These end of the school year days actually get a little bit boring for me. Kids are mostly just working on their final projects or not. I'm mostly grading and giving feedback, but there's large stretches of time where I just have nothing to do. Going to start packing I guess

@NUCLRGOLF Water coolers on multiple holes.

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@MrZachG Engagement is students on-task, thinking, and sharing ideas.

The “compliance is not engagement” trope is so tired. It was the theory of everything back in the 2010’s and earlier. It’s not profound, and at its worst it encourages teachers to eschew strategies that insist that 100% of students attend, think, and share their ideas.

@educator4ever36 @fcpsnews In California, that would be illegal per Ed Code 49066.

How many of you work in districts with this nonsense. Last year, when I taught in @fcpsnews this was the rule. Surprising to no one, everyone basically passed every class.

@LIVGolfNation Is this a serious post?

LIV golfers Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau are thriving under pressure and the corrupt golf media HATES it!

@sage_stage Is your class a grad requirement? If so, and she has failed then no. Unless your board policy allows students to walk if they only need to make up two classes in summer school...then she walks but doesn't get a diploma until she passes the class.

Got a senior who started off the year ok, but then stopped showing up. Haven't seen her more than a half dozen times since Christmas. Still turns in the daily assignments online, but doesn't take the tests, and those she has taken haven't been good. Think they will let her walk?

@Backslider79 @NUCLRGOLF Oops...39 putts...really bad

@Backslider79 @NUCLRGOLF I got my butt kicked. 89 with 18 putts and I was an 8 at the time. But well worth it!

@PGA How much uphill or downhill...wind, degree of club...so much more than 121.

121 to the pin… what’s the club?

Pretty simple process...for example, I have 200 students enrolled in Chemistry for the next year and only have 180 books, then we are short and the librarian let's the District know the shortage...the shortage is padded slightly to accommodate students who enter the school new over the summer. Conversely, if I have only 180 chemistry students enrolled but 200 books then 20 relative new books sit on the shelf. The numbers fluctuate with enrollment from year to year.

I know it’s generally accepted by many that schools are underfunded, but I also know that nearly every school I’ve worked at has had brand new textbook sets just sitting in a cupboard somewhere barely ever used. Maybe a mismanagement of funds more than a lack of funds? Just a theory.

@PGATUOR Couples.

If you could have one pro golfer’s swing from all-time, whose swing would you draft at #1?

@educator4ever36 Back the next day? As a high school Principal of 17 years this is not my experience. Not even close to my experience.

Teachers are NOT security and should never have to explain why they chose not to engage in a student fight. Bet that teacher knows exactly what happens when students fight at that school. Students are likely back the next day.

@OfficialTourPro Depends on the degree of the club.