Adapt And Thrive
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Adapt And Thrive
@SciAdapt
Husband, father, grandfather, 2 time spinal cord injury thriver, adaptive athlete, old house framer, special education teacher.
Katılım Aralık 2014
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This is not a new phenomenon because of NIL. Parents have been holding their kids back to gain an athletic advantage for decades.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Boy athletes are repeating eighth grade in a "holdback" year to grow ahead of recruitment for college NIL packages potentially worth millions on.wsj.com/4rAVtEQ
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@rpondiscio He's selling something. There's no agenda. Big government buearocracy is incompetent. Not necessarily individually, but collectively the incentives favor incompetence. No one spends other people's money well. That just not a thing.
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You’re not going to find many people in education more pro-phonics than me. But this is a wild oversimplification. Anytime someone tells you what “they” did to every school it’s a safe bet it’s an exaggeration or a sales pitch. With 14k districts in 50 states no practice is common to all.
Brett Pike@ClassicLearner
There is not a literacy crisis, there is an anti-literacy agenda in American schools. Did you know that about 30-40 years ago schools decided to stop teaching phonics? & they act surprised that the average American reads below a sixth grade level.
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@nonstabIe I'd have no issue with making $4Gs a month. I make more than that but if someone told me they'd give $4Gs a month if I quit my job, I'd be all over it.
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@ClayTravis I grew up in the Washington DC suburbs of MD. Our rec leagues had intramural that had no cuts, but also teams that played other cities in our county. We called those teams "county teams". You had to tryout for those teams.
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Well said. If you live in a decent sized town I refuse to believe it’s necessary to travel for games for kids under high school age. There are plenty of teams to play in your city.
Joe Kinsey@JoeKinseyexp
@ClayTravis @WSJ Clay, thank you for supporting my Make Rec Sports Great Again initiative. I've tried to tell parents over and over to stop destroying their communities so they can get blackout drunk in a Hampton Inn lobby four times a summer.
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@ClayTravis @WSJ Clay, thank you for supporting my Make Rec Sports Great Again initiative.
I've tried to tell parents over and over to stop destroying their communities so they can get blackout drunk in a Hampton Inn lobby four times a summer.
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If you’re a parent and you think — spending on kids sports is out of control — you’re not wrong. Look at spending on youth sports since 2019. Graphic via @wsj.
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I'm feeling like if we don't come out of this with control of the Straits of Hormuz, this will be a failure. We can't allow Iran to control that anymore.
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@avidseries War is already a crime. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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@educator4ever36 @teachthemx3 This is the same way they support the 80% or more inclusion model for sped. They cherry pick overall outcomes over academic. So we decided good "outcomes" are what we're concerned about rather than the education. And absolutely no one knows that. Crazy.
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@educator4ever36 @teachthemx3 Very good piece. Here's the grand irony. Now the new thing is suggesting trying to catch them up leads to worse outcomes. I'd love to see the data they suggest supports this take. My question is what kind of outcomes? Academic or overall?
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@Oceanbreeze473 The legal justification for self doesn't change depending on where you are. The use of force (deadly or otherwise) requires innocence, imminence, reasonableness, and proportionality. Some states require avoidance, but that wouldn't apply inside your home.
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Should you be allowed to SHOOT a person who has broken into your house .. even if they are UNARMED?
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@drantbradley @remnant1613 Where did Johnston claim Jesus cares who won?
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@remnant1613 That's a non-sequitur reply. Yeah, I'm also a theologian and take "taking the Lord's name in vain" very seriously. Show me in the Bible where God cares about the outcome of secular sporting events.
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The syncretism of sports and Christianity is getting a bit troubling. Would Johnston had said the exact same thing if his team had lost? Is Jesus just a good luck charm?
Fox News@FoxNews
'UNBELIEVABLE SEASON': High Point guard Chase Johnston delivered the game-winning basket in a historic March Madness upset over No. 5 Wisconsin — then used the spotlight to share his faith: “First and foremost, I wanna give all glory to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." "This is a group of guys that’s built on John 15:13. We serve each other, we love each other, and we’d die for each other. I’m so grateful."
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@glbaumann Where in the Bible does it teach that God cares about the outcomes of secular sporting events, as if he’s on the side in team that wins.
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Dammmm. Father time always wins.
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@TolentinoTeach I was actually thinking about this on my way to work today. Written language was the biggest advancement humankind has ever seen. It allows reflection. It spurs on metacognition. It advanced our consciousness. I couldn't agree with you more.
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My students who are poor writers are also poor thinkers.
Many are smart, but their ideas are sporadic, unfocused, and weak.
This is why students MUST learn how to write clear and focused arguments.
Writing trains the mind to think clearly and rationally.
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@LeeMcClymont @MsEscoTeaches This is not logical. It's actually a non sequitur. It absolutely doesn't follow that you can type as efficiently as writing if you don't practice. State testing is timed + if you're struggling to find the keys, you'll have less cognitive room to think.
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@MsEscoTeaches I am not there so don't understand but it seems logical that if you can write with a pen you can also type for an online test too. Our guys don't seem to have an issue with our online tests and most of my lessons are pen and paper.
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Many teachers are already doing this. The issue why we can’t only do pencil and paper…. state testing.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
Schools should go back to pen-and-paper only (and everyone knows it).
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@rpondiscio You know, I never got the best grades while I was in school (until college). Never thought to blame the teachers. By and large, they weren't responsible for my learning and grades. I was. A teacher is essentially a facilitator
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If teachers are held disproportionately accountable for student learning, it's not possible to "get tougher on grade inflation."
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
We need to be much tougher on grade inflation "The cumulative impact is economically significant: a teacher with one standard deviation higher average grade inflation reduces the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of their students by $213,872 per year."
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@ModestTeacher Taking notes for retention isn't really supported by the data. If it's for future review, then option 1 is actually best.
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Good - Teacher provided notes
Better - Student typed notes on laptop
Best - Student writes notes by hand
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