Stephen Reich

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Debut of my new arrangment of Min Hameitzar from Hallel for the City Shul. youtube.com/live/yWTCst9JS…

My new arrangement of Ma Lecha Hayam from Hallel, debuted at the City Shul on Shabbat Shavuot. youtube.com/live/yWTCst9JS…

@FixingEducation Transformative. Transformational. Excellence. Decolonization. Student voice. Co-learning. Unlearning. These are all pretty much meaningless.

Hey Educators. What word/phrase annoys you the second you hear it? I’ll start…”PBIS”

@DaveOakes2022 @TheHubCanada I don’t think any society was treating women particularly well in 600 CE.

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'Mental health improves when you have an actual goal and children have boundaries': @StephenReich on why the education system's obsession with mental health is making kids worse, not better

@TawnyBea @TheHubCanada Jewish civilization artifacts have been attested to 2500 BCE, so approximately.

@TheHubCanada @StephenReich Hmmmm 5000 yrs ????

'Judaism is a literate culture with 5,000 years of emphasis on education and argumentation': @StephenReich on why Jewish achievement gets weaponized into conspiracy theory

Truth. And diaogue.

This is exhibit A of why project based learning is terrible. There’s a whole alphabet of other reasons too. It’s just busy work. Little content will be remembered and therefore, critical thinking about this topic will never take place. Has it dawned on the teacher that experts with degrees and work experience debate this very issue and are divided? If so, how is a school age child going to give an (uninformed) opinion. Teach the history, warts and all; don’t subcontract it out to novices.

Typical WRDSB assignment. Always only from one side, always undermining the West. Is it any wonder kids are aimless and throwing soup on paintings? How about 'Stuff the British Gifted'? Magna Carta and common law, free expression and property rights, Jane Austen and abolition.

While I will never give up my optimism, the reality is undoubtedly depressing. Most Israelis would be willing to compromise to have real secure peace with the Palestinians. Palestinians: Would you compromise for real peace with Israel? youtu.be/u89ZY7Q-wS8?si… via @YouTube

Who knows? But studying a good novel or poem, or learning about history all over the world, or learning how geometry is applied, or learning chord theory/how to read music or how to capture light in a drawing, is a far better way to spend school hours than struggling to understand how to see the whole world through a noxious racial lens that has delivered nothing but misery.

@joansview @StephenReich @TheHubCanada Or they were incapable of defining 'whiteness' because to them it just means possessing qualities, and 'whiteness' is all about resentment of 'better' people. So carping on about, and vilifying whiteness just means you have internalized white supremacy then, right?

'No one could actually give me an answer': @StephenReich on the moment a room full of future teachers couldn't define the very lessons of identity politics they're being trained to teach

The concept of genocide was first coined to precisely describe a targeted campaign to destroy a people on a mass industrial scale. So, yes, it came about because of the uniqueness of the Holocaust. Now, the term has been degraded to a facile blood libel for what is actually more accurately described as the consequences of war brought about by a captigon-enhanced, religiously justified mass murder/rape/torture/kidnapping event.

@HorsmanGeoff @StephenReich Genocide and denial are not terms that are unique to the Holocaust.

Guys he’s doing the meme.

@bidello1300 @TheHubCanada The key is improved access to mental healthcare. The most teachers should do is talk to students and parents and direct them toward resources. They themselves should not be practising clinical psychology unless properly trained and certified.

@StephenReich @TheHubCanada a bad egg who was lazy and uninterested. Only later in life I learnt I had adhd and some of my symtoms may have been manageable. It is a bad idea to overdo it sure, but there has been too little of an emphasis and understanding of it in the past.

Over-focus on “mental health” when one is experiencing the normal vicissitudes of life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kind of like Munchhausen syndrome. Having goals and being busy and productive, along with life balance is far better for one’s mental health than obsessing about mental health. Plus, educators are usually not trained clinical therapists.

@TheHubCanada @StephenReich Hub what the actual fk are you talking about??? Caring about Children’s mental health makes it worse? How stupid do you have to be to make a claim like that

Jamie, it’s not very civil or mature to call Dr. Geoff Horsman a conspiracy theorist. He hasn’t talked about any conspiracy. He’s a scientist. Sometimes people won’t agree with you. That doesn’t make them crazy. It should make you curious. At least that’s what a knowledge-lover would do. I think you owe him an apology.

There is a popular conspiracy theory that the moon landings were faked. I don’t need to speak directly to an astronaut who visited the moon to know that the conspiracy is bananas. Engaging in good faith conversations with conspiracy theorists gives their position legitimacy.

@realJ_Mitchell @HorsmanGeoff Can you leave the Jews alone, please. We’d all appreciate it.

@joansview @TheHubCanada Most were silent. Out of fear. That’s not good. But that’s where identity politics takes you.

@StephenReich @TheHubCanada How many were there? Did they all - every last one of them - insist it had nothing to do with colour? Hard to believe.

@joansview @TheHubCanada Yes. And no one could give an answer. They insisted it didn’t have to do with skin colour.

@StephenReich @TheHubCanada Isn't that where you put the question to them?

@joansview @TheHubCanada That’s right. There isn’t. And it’s far afield of what teachers have time to do and what students need to learn in order to think about the world. This is for a university class in racial theory.

@TheHubCanada @StephenReich A teacher putting down teachers, how sad. I'm quite sure someone in the room could have given him a good answer. What Reich is saying, I think, is that he thinks there is no valid reason to support the concept.