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Secret passageways, a cursed magic necklace, & a flying city? Only Maya can uncover the secrets of the ancient city & save her friends. cyram.org/books/tempered #mglit #scifibooks

@AddressingLife And define "just fine." So many neuro divergent people look like they're doing just fine, but are merely hiding their struggles until they burn out.

Yep. And yep. I'll add that there is a level of minimising by some people, including some school staff/teachers, as to how neurodiversity affects some students. 'Oh but so-and-so has this and does just fine' etc. Every child is different. Listen to the parent. Accommodate.

@MAC_Arms @Strandjunker Saying that a war should maybe end and civilians shouldn't be targeted is not pro-terrorist and antisemitic. It's moral. Saying that kids in school should have food is not communist. The fact that you have to rely on exaggeration just proves the point the OP was trying to make.

@Strandjunker Says the person backing the campaign that segregates people, hates Jews, is communist, backs terrorists (Hamas/Iran), and is running a candidate that not a single person voted for in the primaries. You don't have the moral high ground you think you do.

If you vote for Donald Trump in November, I will not judge you for your choice of political party. I will judge you for your lack of morals, ethics and humanity. I will judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, and fascism. So will others. So will history.

Fantastic #Physics hands-on learning during @WOMADfestival 2024 delivered by @CERN and various universities. 🌟👍🎪

@DurantJc Well, zombies ARE happy when they're eating brains so you're not far off there.

@DurantJc That sounds great! Good luck with it. Looking forward to hearing more.

@KojiADae Amazing! Congrats!

Contract signed so I can let it out: And Someone Has To Do It, a short story about expectations and motherhood, will be appearing in a future issue of Apex Magazine. :) :) :) I'm thrilled!

@HFLane_writing I'm around your age and have suspected autism, but never felt the need to properly diagnose or where to even begin if I wanted to. How did you find the process? Any tips for someone just starting out in thinking I should maybe try?

@DanNeidle I believe it's in case the glue fails, it can find the right application again. 🤷‍♂️

OK. Perhaps I’m thick. But why am I writing a citizenship applicant’s name on the back of a photo, and then gluing it in? Does the Home Office read the back of the photo with an X-ray machine?

@KBCox_15 Doing this, I took a book that was 100k words down to 40k (book for young teens). I had another book that was an underdeveloped 10k mess and slowly filled in gaps to get to 40k. Either way, it was a ton of work.

@KBCox_15 Why do you think it's bad? Start with the big things first (plot structure, character journey, etc). Slowly work through, throwing away or changing what isn't working. Make your edits more narrow in scope with each edit. Sentence-level stuff last.

I'm feeling really insecure about how bad my draft is. Turning it from this to something good feels so out of reach... anyone have any stories of how they turned a bad draft into a polished book?

@secretHT1 When I was a head of department, I timed out everything they asked me to do and it came to 75 hours per week. When I showed this to the head teacher, she eyed it over, nodded and said, "Yeah, that's the job. You're a bad teacher if you can't do it." I resigned the following day.

I’m in A&E (not for me). There is teacher in front of me asking for pain relief as she waits. How do I know she’s a teacher? She’s planning lessons and prepping work while she sits in what seems like a lot of pain waiting to be seen. That’s why we have retention issues.

@gfreeman2012 @AnnaFazack1 How can LAs increase funding when they have been cut to the bone as well? This isn't as straight forward as you make it sound. local.gov.uk/about/news/fun….

Heads warn schools will soon be “unsafe” as having to cut crucial staff to deal with deficit. One head told me: “You have to do it to make your budget work, but what about the impact on the children? We keep asking ‘can the children cope?’” Sad stories. theguardian.com/education/2024…

@KeeperGarrett @FriendsOScience @Climatologist49 It also ignores everything after 1950. 🙄

@MedBennett @Climatologist49 What a great idea, removing everything after 1950 and pretending it doesn't exist. Unless you think 1950 is "today" as you stated, then you have other problems.

@Climatologist49 False. The planet was warmer than today for most of the Holocene.

@RobertW1ck5 @Climatologist49 @Jamessa06882966 Great. If you zoom out far enough, you can pretend the current situation doesn't exist and ignore current science. That chart only proves that you don't know what you're talking about. Put simply:

@Climatologist49 @Jamessa06882966 Climate change denier? That graph shows 450,000 years of the climate constantly changing...

@wgnixpodcasts @FixingEducation They said nothing about common assessment. This is about standard curriculum requirements (what should be taught) & how badly it's implemented at the moment which is different. Teaching to the test is a big problem, but not what's being discussed here.

@FixingEducation Keep your common assessments out of my classrooms. Designing lessons that match the needs or your students should be essential to educators. This isn’t what is driving teachers out. What you suggest is!

Can states share a common curriculum for each of their required K-12 classes? For example, let’s look at an Algebra curriculum. Do we need EVERY district from the same state to take on the burden of using their time, money and resources to develop an Algebra curriculum based on the same state standards? Curriculum committees include teachers, consultants and administrators, all of which use tons of days each year to develop similar looking classes.✏️ 🤔#EdUnity

Warning on a box of LEGO: "Do NOT Microwave" Well, what if I like my LEGO warm?!?!

I only eat baby bell cheese at Christmas, but always have to make crude sculptures with the wax. Anyone else do strange things with the Christmas cast offs?

@TruthAintSilent @K12EdReform @FixingEducation Coms often break down in schools (e.g. typos when copying phone numbers from forms, saying they tried to contact but they didn't, emails going to spam due to bad IT setups, etc). My point is, it's easy to blame one side in a hypothetical. Reality is often much more complex.

@pughmds @K12EdReform @FixingEducation The key for me is the statement from the teacher "I've been trying to reach you." Correlation is not causation, but caregivers not responding to emails sent to addresses they've provided, or to phone calls to numbers they've provided often corresponds to students who struggle.

PARENT: Why is my child failing? TEACHER: They don’t pay attention to anything we do in class. In fact, I’ve been trying to reach you to see how we can work together to solve this issue. ADMIN TO TEACHER: How can you motivate this student to pay attention in your class? 😔🙄😡