Evonne Hackett

Listen to learn not just listen to reply - take advantage of training and mentor groups - don’t just gripe, get involved with an open mind to find solutions.

@theTSIN @NorthGaEMC

@ElonMuskAOC What are the symbols running down the left side?

Do you see it? Took me a second, but now I do.

Early bday present for Boone - you have a fan coming your way next Sunday @SpencerSTRIDer #ForTheA

Great resources at everfi.com/k-12 - They have stuff for all grade and skill levels. Perfect for reinforcing digital citizenship and helpful for backup and sub plans as well. Thanks @everfi

In baseball, there's an entirely useless statistic called Runs Batted In (RBI). When I was a kid, we would often hear about the RBI leaders and I immediately noticed two trends in RBI leaders. 1. They nearly all played for teams with a really good offense. 2. They nearly all hit at the 4th or 5th spot in the line-up. I was a nerdy little kid who didn't know anything but I knew this was a bogus statistic. See, RBI measures how many runners a batter knocks in. Sounds important, right? Definitely something worth measuring. But it turns out that it's highly skewed. Not every batter is in the position to knock in a run. If you are the lead-off hitter (batting #1 in the line-up) you often bat with no runners on. Also, if you're on a crappy team, you run into the same challenge. So it turns out that RBI count doesn't really tell you how well someone hits for power. For that, you need a stat called slugging percentage. If you want to see how consistent a batter is, go with on-base percentage. If you're looking for balance, go with OPS (on-based plus slugging percentage). In pitching the equivalent is a win-loss record or an ERA compared to WHIP. Total wins is a metric based on a team's overall performance. But the things is, our world is full of seriously flawed statistics. BMI is useless compared to measuring one's actual vitals. Plus, BMI has a really negative history connected to eugenics. Go look it up. It's disgusting. And even today, it's often weaponized against perfectly healthy people when they don't fit the stereotype of "average" that doesn't actually exist. I run 5 days a week. I eat healthy food. My body fat percentage is low to moderate but based on BMI I'm obese. I share all of this because the same thing exists in education. When we use standardized test scores to measure a student's learning (or worse, still, a teacher's effectiveness) we're often running into the same trap as the RBI. We're measuring privilege and positionality while ignoring the data that actually matters. We're running into the BMI trap and failing to embrace neurodiversity. And, like BMI, there's a dark side of psychometric history rooted in eugenics. I'm not opposed to data. I love data. But my love for data is precisely why I hate bad data. My love for data is precisely why I am so opposed to nearly every policy that uses standardized tests to measure learning.

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Engaging Primary Learners with @mospillman @edcampGigCity - great tools and resources. Thanks Monica

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@jrflorentine Me, I can review and use with middle school

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Have you gotten your ticket for #edcampgigcity - same great FREE conference - different location -change to East Ridge Elementary- Get your ticket at edcampGigcity.com today! March 25th- 9am to 12pm- ERE Come be a part!

Congrats to Team Catoosa-Student Tech Competition Winners. CCPS had 8 winning entries from HMS (2), HHS, Woodstation, West Side (2) and RHS (2). The 8 winners will represent CCPS on March 11th at the State Competition! Congratulations to all of our students who competed today.

@MeehanEDU @EliPupovac No problem with giving students the tools they need for completing an assignment, but to simply answer the question asked, no reading took place. If you ask who was more efficient with time or show evidence of scoring higher due to reading vs. listening or opposite it’s different

@ehlmstech @EliPupovac Fair point. But if a blind student were to use an audiobook instead of a Braille text, for example, surely we'd say that they did the work, no? If that holds for sight impairment, couldn't it logically extend to students with learning disabilities / dyslexia / etc.?

Thought experiment for teachers: Pretend you assign a non-fiction text for at-home reading. It should take about an hour to read. A student chooses to listen to it as an audiobook. At 2x speed. How many hours of reading did they do?

@EliPupovac @MeehanEDU This is me. No one gained any practice of reading. So the question becomes did the student do the work?

@MeehanEDU However, no actual “reading” took place. Lots of listening did.

@KevinRickard4 @jsnhubbard @SpheroEdu I did not realize either. What am I going to do with all those spheros? @SpheroEdu

@jsnhubbard @SpheroEdu Only newer chromebooks are capable of google play store apps. And then the district has to enable it.

Wait…@SpheroEdu app no longer available for Chromebooks (that aren’t Android)? Am I last one to know on this?

It’s official- LMS Georgia Gold winner of $50k donation. Thanks to everyone that voted for us. @WarriorsLMS @CatoosaSchools

@ms_keown @AndrewHardy @emilymariehurst @scratch @GaETConf @FCSVanguard @FCS_InstrTech Great for a first masterpiece. Think of all the storytelling possibilities. @scratch @scratchpals

Really fun STEAM night at RES @CatoosaSchools well over 250 attending and I think they had every teacher in the building helping. Super organized and fun for kids and family.

@MsHolter @csteachersgb @RuthFarmery @csteachersorg Me too - please send a link

@csteachersgb @RuthFarmery @csteachersorg Will this be posted somewhere? This is info I need.

You don’t want to miss this. @RuthFarmery is sharing “How to Host a Hackathon” #MassCUE R69 starting soon. @csteachersorg