Tim Dowling

School Psychologists: 1:500-700 Social Workers: 1:400 Guidance Counselors: 1:250 Nurses: 1:750 These are the ratios required for schools to adequately help their students. Most are NOWHERE close! If needs are met, more personal connections are made—and tragedies are prevented.

In July, two (!!) meta analyses about phonemic awareness came out. What does the latest research tell us about teaching phonemic awareness? 🧵 on a few important things to know:

Across the country, states have already passed bills restricting choice. If you're looking for ways to respond, @PPFA, @USOWomen, and many other groups have been sounding the alarm on this issue for years—and will continue to be on the front lines of this fight.

Kermit (1979) boldly asserts that there are “so many” songs about rainbows but provides no evidence to back up this claim. In reality, the average person may struggle to identify more than 1–2 rainbow-centric songs. In this essay, I will

I’ve been waiting a long time for someone with the courage to call out Kermit the Frog’s deficiency of data-driven songwriting

@TheSimpsons writers always like unsolicited ideas from 6-year-olds, right? Because my daughter came up with a pretty killer couch gag this week. [Everyone is miffed to discover that five Maggie clones of various sizes have usurped their couch]

@AkiyoshiKitaoka The 1st image is made with variations of the green and blue lines (red is static), while the 2nd is variations of the red and blue lines (green is static).

Is there any difference between the two pictures?

@Robert_Taterka1 Exciting news… congrats, Bob! Such a loss for MMS and D118, but a huge gain for SEDOL. Hope to cross paths again sometime soon!

Honored to be joining the exceptional team serving exceptional students, as the new Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for SEDOL. Forever grateful to the amazing staff & families of MMS and thankful for 18 wonderful years and opportunities in Wauconda D118.

A little parenting advice from a neuroscientist.🙂 (Disclaimer: The title misidentifies me as a "Harvard psychologist." I'm a Northeastern University professor with teaching & research appointments at Harvard Medical School & Mass General Hospital.) cnbc.com/2020/12/08/har…

@mariolanderos @cdecaux @PoweredbyOWC You probably had some flavor of Apple II then. Macs didn’t read 5.25” floppies unless they were emulating an Apple II or a PC (which wasn’t a thing in 1984).

What was the first version of MacOS you used?

@Dictionarycom Something seems broken, @Dictionarycom! Broken, broken, broken!

No, epizeuxis isn't the result of a keyboard smash. It's the #WordOfTheDay. Wondering how to say it? Listen here:dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-…

He moves too swiftly to effectively capture on film, but after decades of patience, I finally encountered @alyankovic in the wild tonight; I maintained a cautious distance.

One of the first questions I'll ask parents when their child is experiencing problems in school: How well is he/she sleeping?

@FrinkiacApp Yeah, that was a scary couple of hours

On a lighter note, Morbo has been banished and Frinkiac is back to normal.

@policedoghogan @susank2 @JamesStudholme @dangerdonnyb I still managed to squeeze out a few tears

@susank2 @JamesStudholme @dangerdonnyb @timdow I think you have the wrong tim dowling 😉

@JamesStudholme @dangerdonnyb this is the pub to make @policedoghogan s @timdow weep!

Our 2-year-old pointed at an air vent today and yelled, “Look, there’s Grover!” Still deciding if I should be terrified or hyped at the thought of seeing this in the middle of the night. @Grover

Waiting an extra 3-5 seconds after asking a question seems like a small thing to do, but it could have large outcomes @middleweb @ValentinaESL owl.li/a2i130jqfeW #edchat #teachchat #ELL #ESL

@MickRoner On behalf of @IAmTimDowling (probably?), you’re welcome!

@timdow even more brilliant than usual. Not sure that your wife is happy to read that though. Thank you.

This infographic outlines the issue of shortages in school psychology, identifies strategies to remedy the problem, and has a corresponding FAQs document. bit.ly/2GsHWJx #NASP2018 #NASPadvocates

Hey Chicago, if you need someone to talk to—or if you simply want some help in developing an effective FBA data collection system—you only have one more day before thousands of school psychologists suddenly leave town! #NASP2018