Timothy D. Walker

@c708682c1cf6480 Aww, thanks so much! Hope you're doing well.

@timdwalk I wanted to let you know that your book is STILL my favorite book about education! A friend of mine shared the preface of the new edition and asked if I was quoted! What a wonderful surprise! I feel like we are old friends! Congratulations on the new edition!

Cannot wait to start reading these! @timdwalk

My new favorite word: sonder. It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know. Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

@MikeHynes5 Congratulations, Mike! Well done.

@CoryAsbury Hey, Cory! It was great to meet you and your family at The Factory a couple of weekends ago. (We're the family that moved from Finland. 😀)

I've reached out to several teachers for interviews in the past couple of days who have said, "Oh yeah, I read The Bell Ringer," which is...not a bad feeling at all 😉 (And hey you can read it, too, subscribe at the link in my bio!)

If you want to predict kids' screen time, look to their parents. Children spend less time on devices when their parents use them less often—and ban them at meals & bedtime. Kids internalize the values they observe. A key to being a good role model is setting healthy boundaries.

OPINION: There are lessons to be learned from Finland, but giving smartphones to young children isn’t one of them - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/opinion-there-…

Emotion regulation is like other skills: it takes practice. After 2 weeks of daily journaling to reframe unpleasant events, depression dropped, life satisfaction rose, and the benefits lasted at least a month. The best way to improve at managing emotions is to do it more often.

⁦@jillbarshay⁩ writes, “Recent studies have begun to document salient differences in brain activity when reading on paper versus screens,” including ⁦@MaryanneWolf_⁩’s idea that we do “deeper” reading from paper compared to screens. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-n…

Three of my last GEPA cohort (a teacher, a deputy head and a school-group leader) independently and without prompting said it was the best CPD they've ever had. I have 2 spots left for my next cohort, running July-November every other Weds at 9.30 BST: lucycrehan.com/gepa/

@lucy_crehan The course looks excellent! :)

@timdwalk Yes! And Tim, you would be a dream participant, we'd all learn tons from you!

What stands out is how much teens are turning to AI for information and to ask questions, not just to do their homework for them: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t… via @jillbarshay

@JonHaidt A Finn here. Finland invested heavily in the digitalization of schools, because at the turn of the millennium the tech company Nokia was a great success. Politicians wishfully hoped that the digitalization of schools would lead the new generations to success.

New evidence from Finland and Japan’s PISA scores: Smartphones are bad for kids. We need to reverse course as quickly as possible.

Don’t mistake burnout for laziness. When people show a steady decline in effort and output, it’s often a sign of exhaustion. They don't need carrots and sticks to motivate them. They need people to demand less of them and provide more support to them.

Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week. Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work -Increased satisfaction -Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters) -No costs for performance or promotion rates

@timdwalk @pasi_sahlberg @williamdoylenyc @Crof @jillbarshay @HKorbey @L_willen @JonHaidt @alexstubb Finland took a wrong turn with going digital in classrooms, replacing a play-based childhood with a phone-based childhood. But Tim Walker suggests they may be learning from their mistakes and correcting the problem. Yet one more thing we can learn from the Finns!

What Happened When Finland Gave Kids Smartphones dlvr.it/T8DFww