Desiree Kiesel

In case you were wondering...Circus Historian is a real job. If you need me, I will be in the fetal position questioning some life choices.

The new approach? All discipline needs to include Restorative...Reflective...Instructional components. #dontsuspendme!

“The light bulb wasn’t build by continually improving the candle. It came from completely approaching the problem differently.” #dontsuspendme

Disciple can be about teaching executive functioning skills, supporting, providing opportunities to make amends, and build relationships! #dontsuspendme

Hattie’s research shows us that suspensions have negative growth on student learning. Our job is to teach...all kids...all the time! It is our only purpose! Why would we willingly take actions to undo that? #dontsuspendme

How can we, as a school, define our why behind reducing suspensions...keeping them in class, ending the school to prison pipeline, being the reason they come to school? #dontsuspendme

Do we see suspension as a choice that potentially paved a future path for a student, or as merely as a consequence? #dontsuspendme

We wouldn’t send a student struggling to read home, and expect he would return a reader. Why do we do we expect that with behavior? #dontsuspendme

Never send a test to do a curriculum's job. - @PDavidPearson

Too many times we try and measure student engagement by quantity of work produced rather than quality of work produced.

There is a big difference between writing and assigning writing! #TeachersAsWriters

To target hopeful young strivers who grew up here is wrong, because they’ve done nothing wrong. My statement: facebook.com/barackobama/

Fantastic reminder as the school year starts. Especially since we adults sometimes don't set the best example! npr.org/sections/healt…

Guidelines for PLCs from Michael McNeff, superintendent of Rugby Public Schools in North Dakota. blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learnin… via @educationweek

😪 4th Graders Are Getting 'Thin' Diet of Science Instruction, Analysis Shows blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curricu… via @educationweek @PaulLiabenow

This Differentiated Literacy Instruction Kindergarten to Grade Three document is at: sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/nk… Thanks @sewardstephen twitter.com/sewardstephen/…

Research Rev.: "Kids who attend public preschool programs are better prepared for kindergarten than kids who don't." n.pr/2oZLIUo

Let the inspiration begin..."Be The Change You Want to See By Shifting Traditional High School" ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017…