Wild that Ted Cruz is such an uncultured doorknob that he thinks of Dominos when he's searching for a pizza place in Illinois.
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Wild that Ted Cruz is such an uncultured doorknob that he thinks of Dominos when he's searching for a pizza place in Illinois.
Finally got away for the summer. #CapeCod
HEP author Tim Shanahan recently sat down for an interview with the Science of Reading podcast and spoke about research and takeaways from his new book, LEVELED READING, LEVELED LIVES. Listen to this conversation here:
We're about to see how well that works on a mass scale🤷🏻♂️. And if it doesn't lead to disproportionate discipline against students of color/students with disabilities, I'll happily admit I was wrong about it, but I will still miss opportunities to teach appropriate tech use.
No, no it's not.
Unless those ads were also Malcolm Gladwell telling me about Very Important Things, or someone else telling me about AI. Those I would also dislike intensely. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Attention podcast ad producers. I hate ads. I don't want to hear them. But I have to be honest. I SO VERY MUCH don't want to hear Malcolm Gladwell telling me about" AI agents & assistants automating workflows & streamlining data" that I would happily listen to 100 other ads if you just shut him up.
I get the appeal. I just worry about it being consistently applied, & lost opportunities to teach appropriate use. And what we know about zero tolerance policies for anything is they usually mean inconsistent discipline & OVER disciplining of the most marginalized students in a given school.
I absolutely agree that phones can present a huge distraction and that limiting access in schools is a good idea. Just stating that I think a total ban isn't a good idea, & also isn't really feasible without wasting a lot of resources enforcing it & lots of kids losing instructional time b/c of it.
What we can't quantify now is how much instructional/admin time will be lost enforcing bans. Based on my experience in a lot of different schools w/ varying levels of allowing access to devices, the answer will be: a whole lot.
I don't agree abt phone bans (and it's possible to reduce distractions in some settings while teaching responsible use in others...also possible to restrict use entirely for some kids & allow limited use for others), but like I said, that ship has sailed, at least in NY....
I am very comfortable saying younger kids don't need phones. But teens? It's nuanced, and they have excellent uses.
I think the basically American tendency to just try to regulate/ban things that *might* get kids in trouble, that adults do/use all the time, as opposed to thinking thru how to gradually teach responsible/moderate use, is troubling. And kind of lazy.
ban in schools, either (but that ship has sailed). It's a nuanced issue & I'd rather invest in A) teaching teens healthy online habits/moderate use and B) investing in other things for them to do (ideally outside!) Too often we confuse symptom w/ cause.
Full disclosure I haven't listened to that particular episode... but I will & I've been suspicious of The Anx Gen book, just as I am of most pop-psych attempts to reduce adolescent development to single "big" causes. I don't love adolescents spending hours on phone. I'm also not in favor of a full
Fully endorse If Books Could Kill. Great pod.
Also, tips o' the hat to @sunynewpaltz.bsky.social's SoR microcredential program, @ehanford.bsky.social for her brilliant Sold A Story podcast, and, of course, @thereadingleague.org.
Read more for the Simple and Active Views of Reading, the dual deficit hypothesis of dyslexia, and implications for instruction and evaluation at all three tiers.
"The Science of Reading (SoR) encompasses over 50 years of research related to how children most effectively learn how to read and write. This research spans multiple disciplines, and is not specific to education or psychology." IT'S NOT A FAD.
School psychologists are uniquely qualified to help schools implement quality reading instruction & evaluate students for dyslexia. School psychologists are highly trained in psychology, education, & evaluation & both federal & state law allows certified school psychologists to diagnose dyslexia...
Hey, #schoolpsychologists, did you know @nyaspsych.bsky.social just published a new practice document on the #scienceofreading and #dyslexia? Check it out! nyasp.wildapricot.org/Practice-Doc...
YES! Yet another reason I am PROUD to live in New York State.
Yale, which is one of the most well-resourced institutions in the world, has the resources to FIGHT this. This action will cause kids to kill themselves. Full stop. Trump is a fascist, and fascists win when you comply in advance. Yale New Haven is complying in advance. Kids deserve better.
I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
Signed!
I hope blue states rewrite voting districts if Texas does it. Sorry, but it's time to respond. Enough of this Republican-Trumpism bullshit.
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
Hey, #schoolpsychologists, did you see the #scienceofreading overview from @nasponline.bsky.social? Tip o' the hat to @burnsm1.bsky.social ... it's very well done. www.nasponline.org/x68588.xml
Can't say I blame them. All I can say is, I'm sorry. Lots of us are.
Shocked crypto isn't at 125%.
Looking forward to some light beach reading.
I need a hug, followed by a plate of poutine...
Bluebeard is the only novel I can think of that starts with genocide & moves to the total, humiliating loss of one's professional output...and ends beautifully, even happily.
oh, and you too, @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social
Fuckkkkkk you, @nytimes.com
Oh God, Vonnegut is my favorite author. One of my personal heroes. "The purpose of a human life is to love whoever is around to be loved." Have you read his son's book, Eden Express?
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Yeah I'm eyeing Canada jealously right now. That said I have also been fortunate, like you, in that I've always been able to say "I have the coolest job ever," and mean it.
Resign, @johnfetterman.com
So, it turns out we're treating fascism just like we've been treating climate change: – ignore warnings of experts – buy into bullshit "alternative explanations" - read "don't worry" media op-eds – deny it will really be that bad – start seeing major evidence – hope somebody does something
Beautiful. I'm jealous right now.
I knew I loved this song already but for some reason, it's especially beautiful to me today. I'm sitting here writing reports and just basically have it on repeat. "Do the dead believe in ghosts?" Good g-d damn, #JasonIsbell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKi...
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Adding this to my reading list on the strength of that quote alone.
‘Apparently it’s only Jim Crow if it comes from the Bull Connor region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling election integrity.’ @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social I Howled 🔥. Cant put it down 💙📚
I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping
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A prof in grad school used to say that school psychologists should be "generally useful," meaning, helpful however we can be in a given situation. I think he credited Tom Fagan with that observation. Anyway, it was nice to be generally useful today.
After that, I went in and asked the facility director to put a big sign on the front door directing ENT patients to the new address. And thus, I taught my new colleagues about #universaldesignforlearning, and #tier1 interventions 😃
He was thoroughly flustered, so I looked up directions on Mapquest (because my network was blocking Google Maps🙄), printed them out, walked him out of the building, and pointed him in the right direction. /7
Turns out he had the correct address written down (but he'd spelled the name of the road incorrectly), but Google still has the old address (ours), so the well-meaning person at the gas station sent him in the wrong direction. /6
"Can I help you?" "Are you the ENT?" "No, I'm sorry, they've moved." "Oh no. I have their address here, but I got lost, and stopped at a gas station, and someone looked them up and gave me this address. Are you a doctor?" "Well, yeah, but not the kind you're looking for." /5
Today I was sitting in a conference room, talking on the phone with a parent, and an elderly man walked into the room. That, alone, is weird, because we're on the second story, and the door to that wing is supposed to be secure. But he just wanders in, looking lost..../4
I spend one or two days a week working out of a local regional office. We rent one floor of a 3-story office building. There used to be an ENT doc on the first floor, and occasionally I run into people in the parking lot looking for his office. .../3
It's been interesting to learn new things from other non-school-psychs, and to contribute in unique ways. Funny story from today... /2.
Once a #schoolpsychologist, always a #schoolpsychologist. A 🧵 I work for a state agency as a licensed psychologist, providing services to adjudicated and incarcerated youth. I am the only one in my agency who is also a school psychologist... /1
I was hopeful for pictures of goldfish contributing to research. Still a cool paper, tho.
The sunset over the #Gunks did not disappoint tonight.
Addendum, because on another forum someone recommended it, so it may come up here... I'm working on integrating the Coventry Grid into my work here, to better differentiate b/w trauma & Autism. Sometimes it's challenging to get ahold of caregivers. But I'm working on it.
So, what am I missing, when it comes to the ADOS and special populations? TIA.
Also reading Kerns et al. (2023) Expert consensus regarding indicators of a traumatic rxn in Autistic youth. I am also well aware that trauma isn't a R/O for Autism & that neurodiverg. individuals are often at + risk of traumatic stress so I'm not trying to deny an important dx. b/c of trauma. /6
Maddox et al. (2017) Accuracy of ADOS-2 in identifying Autism among adults w/ complex psychiatric conditions. Adamou et al. (2021) Predicting diagnostic outcome in adult ASD using the ADOS-2. Langmann et al. (2017)DIagnostic utility of ADOS in clinical sample of adolescents & adults. /5
I am doing a comprehensive eval (not just the ADOS) but this still has me thinking about ADOS specifically. I'm trying to put together a lit review of ADOS sensitivity/specificity w/ specific populations... this is what I have so far: /4
w/ what one might expect to observe in a youth who has experienced complex trauma & is from a minoritized background when he encounters a white male authority figure (me). This youth's profile exceeds the Autism cutoffs using the original & revised algorithms for module 4. /3
Here's why I'm asking: I work with adjudicated & incarcerated youth. I have been trained on the ADOS and have admin'd it three times now to youth in secure facilities. I am struggling, in 1 particular case, to differentiate b/w the social communication differences observed during the session... /2
Ok, #schoolpsychology, #clinicalpsychology, and #autism friends, I have a request... Is anyone aware of any studies showing the sensitivity & specificity of the ADOS module 4 with a pop. of individuals who have experienced complex trauma &/or those who are from historically marginalized groups? /1
In which Scott Adams demonstrates the power of the collective. Hm.
Solid point! He should have stuck to that approach.
Before it became clear that Scott Adams was Nazi-adjacent, I taught in a school psychology program, and this was my favorite stats comic.
Or correlation and causation.
Amazing book. Actually, come to think of it, due for a re-read.
This: "Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas."
As a result, that is an *extremely* fringe view that you don't come across in the wild all that much. There's nothing illiberal about treating people with contempt when they express odious, discredited views. Empathy is good as a general principle but it needs limits.
Consider the way we treat people who want to get rid of age of consent laws. Do we publish op-eds proposing that view in major newspapers? Do we produce humanizing documentaries about how they came to that belief? No. We laugh in their faces and tell them to shut up if they bring it up.
The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.
I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs. Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.
"Autism isn’t a disease or epidemic, and it sure as hell isn’t a predictor of violence—but to a Kennedy who shot up enough heroin over 16 yrs to kill the whale whose head he palled around with, facts are inconvenient speed bumps on the road to perdition" More Here! www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jrs-da...
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Without missing a beat, and much to her consternation, I exclaimed "look, a pig flying!" then felt immediate regret my kids weren't there to hear it. #wasteddadjoke
While driving home from the grocery store this morning with my wife, I took a sharp turn and the ham we bought flew out of the bag in the back seat and rolled to the other side...
As a pediatrician, I am horrified that "we" would treat children who commit crimes as adults. Why not instead address root causes (e.g., trauma) & provide opportunities for positive change (e.g., education, skill development)? Kudos to Louisiana residents for rejecting this ballot measure #PedSky
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Congratulations!
Hillbilly Eyeliner is just.. so perfect. Well done.
This. And, honestly, if we had hanged a LOT more Confederates and never rehabilitated their veterans, we might have avoided a lot of this awfulness. Ending Reconstruction /neo-confederates-> Jim Crow/reaction to New Deal -> Southern Strategy, Reagan, and Bush. Just a tiny hop from there to MAGA.
Nor mine. Sorry!
Fucking yes. @governor.ca.gov take note.
"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
"Fascism, especially the 21st-Century version practiced by the MAGA movement, is at war with reality. The hyperreality of the MAGA aesthetic is about power. Unable to create good or beautiful things, they express dominance by turning everything ugly." www.alternet.org/maga-look-tr...
Right. Of course due process only applies when it's convenient. Pretty sure that's in the Constitution, right?
Given his wealth and prominence, I think it's more than fair to assign him some blame for this outbreak.
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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