Brent Mischnick

Almost time! Only 3 days till ACE!

My Best Advice; Pray instead of worrying. Pray instead of stressing. Pray instead of panicking. Pray instead of overthinking. Pray instead of assuming. Pray instead of controlling. Pray instead of wondering. In every situation: just Pray.

Today we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

PCA!!!

A teacher had a folder full of photos and needed a way to turn them into a slideshow video with music for the last day of school. No time to resize and arrange dozens of images in a video editor. She asked if I had a solution, so I vibe coded Reel Fast. teacherhive.app/info/reel-fast

Nico makes the play by going between his legs 🤯

💎 New EduGem: edugems.ai/gem/letrs-less… 📖 LETRS Lesson Plan - Build a comprehensive, 4-day ELA lesson plan for any book rooted in the science of reading and the LETRS framework. #edtech #GoogleEDU @GeminiApp @GoogleForEdu

Standardized tests are not age appropriate for elementary students.

What a teacher evaluation should look like. Because great teaching is built through relationships, not rubrics. @SolutionTree @NAESP @NASSP @AASAHQ

Save the date! Mark your calendars for creativity! learninginhand.com/issue59 🆕 Latest features inside Canva 🧑‍💻 Build tools with Canva Code 📈 Top trending tech tools list 🍯 New apps on Teacher Hive 📅 AI school calendar conversion 🏕️ Camp Plug and Play 20.0

Thanks for attending! #ESC11ACE

Student turns in a paper. Send it to AI, generate a 5 question quiz on the content. Student takes the quiz next day on their own paper. If they wrote it, easy. If they didn't, obvious. No detection software. No accusations. Just quiet accountability.

John 11:25

Accurate. 💯

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Parents, as testing season comes to an end, remember this: a test score measures a small slice of performance on one particular day. It does not measure your child’s intelligence, potential, creativity, character, work ethic, kindness, resilience, or future success. Some kids will score high. Some won’t. But years from now, nobody is going to ask the mechanic fixing your brakes… The lineman restoring power during a storm… The construction worker building homes… The farmer… The welder… The truck driver… The firefighter… Or the nurse… “What did you score on your standardized test?” Because the world has always needed more than test takers. It needs people who can build things. Fix things. Lead people. Work hard. Care about others. And make a difference. A test measures a moment. It does not measure a life, a future, or the greatness a child may one day bring to the world

💎 New EduGem: edugems.ai/gem/writing-el… 🌱 Writing Elaboration - Help student expand their ideas and add strong elaboration to their writing by posing highly targeted questions to prompt deeper thinking #edtech #GoogleEDU @GeminiApp @GoogleForEdu

Hard truth: Schools cannot fully overcome poor parenting. Teachers are burning out trying to do the jobs of educator, counselor, disciplinarian, and parent all at once. At some point, accountability has to return to the home.