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The infallible free market has allocated all its eggs into one basket, historically the safest and most profitable way to store eggs
On the other site, I had saved a really great thread where I had asked T’s share their favorite resources as an alternative to TPT. Can we do that here? I’ll start some off in the comments ⬇️⬇️ #edusky #iteach #blackedusky
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moment of zen
Absolutely
oh no. hoping it departs quickly from your home
school should provide a scooter
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
there is no way this is what happened
Making the conscious decision to teach ethically again this year. This means fidelity to the kids & their learning, not a curriculum.
This looks fun- think I will try it out!
where is this same vigor for Black children on the Northside who are relentlessly traumatized by gun violence under his tenure? the teary-eyed police chief won’t even return the Hennepin County Attorney’s calls; who has done more for our city’s youth than both of these politicians.
Bronx man dies on Rikers Island 3 days after his arrest https://gothamist.com/news/bronx-man-dies-on-rikers-island-3-days-after-his-arrest
Teachers don’t need self care they need time to set up their classrooms
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
future historians are going to have a tough job combing through the Posting Archives to figure out the politics of our era
Stein was interviewed by Newsweek in July. I would like to see her out on the streets though www.newsweek.com/us-must-reco...
After a day most wearisome, spent in ceaseless correspondences multiplying without end, I seek retreat in computation, as though in research I might find sanctuary from such clamour. Here am I, in my chamber, attended by a glass of wine and the solemn company of Law & Order, embracing solitude.
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I’m beside myself
Update: they changed me back to 3rd
Yay
I'm impressed by the depth and complexity of these standards and the opportunities they provide for developing the content knowledge, criticality, social and organizing skills that seem to be in such short supply lately. So much possibility in these standards. Diving in
📌 Show respect in issues involving difference and conflict; participate in negotiating and compromising 📌 Identify situations in which social actions are required and suggest actions. 📌 Identify rights and responsibilities as a citizen of the community and the state.
📌 Demonstrate respect for the rights of others in discussions and classroom debates, regardless of whether one agrees with the other viewpoints. 📌 Participate in activities that focus on a classroom, school, community, state, or national issue or problem.
📌 Explain the ways that the government pays for the goods and services that it provides, including tax revenue. 📌 Identify opportunities for and the role of the individual in social and political participation in the school, local, and/or state community.
📌 Explain the ways that the government pays for the goods and services that it provides, including tax revenue. 📌 Explain the role of money in making exchange easier; examine the role of corporations and labor unions in an economy.
📌 Recognize relationships between patterns and processes. 📌 Describe how human activities alter places and regions. 📌 Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making; compare the costs and benefits of individual and economic decisions.
📌 Identify multiple perspectives from a historical event. 📌 Recognize the relationship between geography, economics, and history in social studies. 📌 Identify how environments affect human activities and how human activities affect physical environments.
📌 Identify and explain creation and /or authorship, purpose, and format of evidence. Where appropriate identify point of view and bias 📌 Distinguish between long-term and immediate causes and effects of an event from his/her life or current events or history.
📌 Recognize, use, and analyze different forms of evidence to make meaning in social studies (including primary and secondary sources, such as art and photographs, artifacts, oral histories, maps, and graphs). 📌 Explain how events are related chronologically to one another.
I typically plan my PBL units around social studies content. This year I'm writing all new units of study. Here are some highlights from the NYS 4th Grade SS Standards that stood out to me: 📌 Develop questions about New York State and its history, geography, economics, and/or government.
In this new blog post, Dr. Leah Q. Peoples outlines the findings of @metronyu's forthcoming study, Conversations that Shift The Ground: Exploring Outcomes Associated with the CRE #ELA and CRSE #STEAM Curriculum Evaluation Scorecards. 💜 Read more here: bit.ly/3GOxfF8 #Educators #Curriculum
i will
The more I consider it, the more grateful I am for this change. (Going from 3rd to 4th) After the initial processing time, and keeping in mind the unexpected curriculum writing I'll have to do, I'm realizing how excited I am to loop with my class, learn a new grade, and challenge myself again
I'm looping too, which is exciting
3rd to 4th
Sheesh. Any advice?
23 years in, had a teacher rite of passage moment finally happen today. They switched my grade assignment. We go back in one week
What the WH wants removed w/in 120 days. The American History Museum’s exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX includes biological men competing in women’s sports & argues in favor of “transgender” athletes competing in sports against the opposite biological sex. tinyurl.com/2wvntnct
Every high school and college in America should offer a mandatory course on the history of chattel slavery in this country. You can’t understand America if you don’t understand this.
References abound. if you wanted to find them you would
Incredible.
This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
NYC is getting ready for some major shifts with the upcoming mayoral transition. Educators need to be thinking now about how we can support and push positive change
noooo i have 12 more days of summer vacation
I was dismayed but unsurprised to see AI found its way into Google Classroom
It's okay to not know everything before speaking up, and never be afraid to ask questions. But avoid undermining your opportunity to have an impact by delivering misinformed, ill-hatched, or redundant plans.
Know how the system works before attempting to critique. Understand and be able to name the key players (in both formal & informal roles), committees, departments, basic timeline knowledge of recent history, structure, summarize current policies and key proposals that exist
I still have 12 MORE DAYS OF FREEDOM. WHY is this so HARD
I will, probably. But then I'll feel like I betrayed myself. I guess the guilt remains, no matter what.
While rank-and-file union members (such as teachers) absolutely deserve a seat at the table and a mic in hand, it's our responsibility to educate ourselves on the workings of the system we inhabit. Any and all proposals we put forth must be well-informed, reasonable, and actionable.
To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”
This is becoming increasingly more difficult. I am caving
NYPD looking for toddler and mom missing from Brooklyn home https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-looking-for-toddler-and-mom-missing-from-brooklyn-home
Right now, the joy may be the furthest thing from your mind. But that's exactly why we might need it more than ever. This week, I talked with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad (@gholdym.bsky.social) about practices you can use to bring joy into your classroom. www.cultofpedagogy.com/joy-gholdy-m...
This is true. While I-Ready data and analytics are easy to print and share with teachers and parents, anecdotal & observation data should also continue to provide valid, accurate, and reliable evidence for next steps
I decided I'm not checking school email until I actually go back to school. I work hard all year and I deserve to enjoy these last weeks of rest
Three key questions keep emerging in these conversations: What if we changed not the data but the data ecosystem itself? What would that change about the way we *use* data about school? What, if anything, would that change about school? 👀
What does a truly data-driven school look like and why is it NOT telling teachers they have to raise test scores 10% each year
Sometimes I think they (the professors) don't want us to know they have nothing to add to the conversation...
Also, don't ask students to comment just for the sake of commenting. There should be a reason you're eliciting their thoughts.
do you have an extra $20 but feel immobilized by the number of Gaza fundraisers you see in your feed that all deserve support? feel free to take this post as your sign to give the $20 to the next one you see
While I’m happy we’re implementing phonics instruction more consistently, I still worry that too many of us believe lockstep adherence to a curriculum is the solution, not high quality teacher training + increased instructional autonomy.
I’m suspicious because too often, small gains are turned into excuses not to question the plan, as if we would be better off waiting to see what happens before our critiques become relevant. Unfortunately our students don’t have the luxury of waiting around while we figure it out.
Even with these adjustments, these numbers are hardly an endorsement for any current program, and I’m frankly suspicious of anyone who would celebrate it.
I’m sorry but switching curriculums then dropping the standard for proficiency so students appear to score higher on state tests that don’t even align to the curriculum does NOT mean the curriculum is working www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
NYC child welfare agency illegally surveilled domestic violence survivors, court rules https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-child-welfare-agency-illegally-surveilled-domestic-violence-survivors-court-rules
I think it actually makes sense to learn 2 or more languages from the same family-- the most dominant language can act as a stepping stone for sentence structure, pronunciation, vocabulary, and more. medium.com/language-lab...
NYC teachers get a certain amount each year to purchase items for their classroom, starting August 1. I might mention this is the month all school supplies go on sale and teachers plan out their rooms for the coming year. We don't find out how much we get until well into September.
We are in a Covid wave and I know so many who don’t even know this is happening. This one is really getting around (it got me, boo!!). Kids are heading back to school, so please be prepared and take precautions. Stay safe and healthy.
I do think it’s really notable that @nytimes.com is parroting OpenAI talking points unchecked.
Attention middle school science teachers: a critical thinking exercise for your students
"We've been sold this idea that computers are going to make us more productive, that computers are going to unlock hyper-productivity and efficiency, and it just hasn't been the case. It takes up more of our life now." a must-listen from @haveyouheard.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
Mamdani on Cuomo "conspiring" with Trump: "It is time for us to make clear that what this city deserves is a mayor who when he sees Donald Trump attacking the people of this city will stand up and fight back against that vision, who will not get on the phone with the architect of that vision."
Fantastic idea. I'll get the petition going
My proposal is: another, second summer that begins at the end of the regular summer
At this point, anything short of a loud, immediate, and full fledged endorsement of Zohran Mamdani is an admission by establishment Democrats that they prefer Trump's candidate over the people's nominated candidate The fact that Est Dems are still silent is why the Dem Party has a 26% approval 2/2
"temporarily." Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website www.engadget.com/com...
They want teachers to be professional at all times but they refuse to treat us as professionals, pay us a professionals' salary, or seek our professional expertise. At what point do we demand more, because unless we're fully cared for, we can't fully care for our students.
Besides the automated racism, the "report also identified instances when AI teacher assistants generated lesson plans that relied on stereotypes, repeated misinformation, and sanitized controversial aspects of history." 🤖
in a world of AI and quick answers it shouldn’t be a surprise that more & more of us understand less & less there’s a reason we avoid mess, nuance, complexity, whatever you call it. stop asking for things to be explained to you like you’re five and make an effort
It's August and that means back-to-school shopping. This is a helpful explainer for parents from @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social on why teachers collect your kid's school supplies and how to plan accordingly www.cultofpedagogy.com/community-su...
There's no way Ron Swanson voted for Trump
This is why wealthy people are so uncomfortable, why hateful people are so angry, and why evil people are so threatened. This vision of a unified, loving, and just society is their worst nightmare. And this is why he will win. Good people want it & believe it can be true
"When we forget the poor, when we forget the stranger... it is not just those with the least among us who suffer, we all become smaller. For as Dr. King said, "We are caught in inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."" This. This is why.
Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god
August in Brooklyn. Free Palestine.
I don't think it's fair to micromanage it to that level. They're not you
Ooh good point. I never thought about that aspect of it. THANK YOU
Consistency is so important
Yes, I think a physical folder makes sense because how are you going to get it to a sub when you don't have their contact info?
Teachers: What's your system for supporting subs? Do you leave lesson plans? Do you have a communication method? What about a standard sub folder? I'm looking to develop a school-wide system for substitute teachers and open to advice. Substitute teachers especially please weigh in📝
When we truly want to engage in dialogue with young people, we have to let them talk. This means accepting how & when they express themselves and using language as a means of communication, not as a tool for exercising authority.
Speaking with children requires patience & understanding. They are still learning how to use language and their thoughts are not always fully developed, but they deserve the same respect and dignity we afford to adults with full autonomy over their language.
How often do we (including myself here) - interrupt to correct their grammar - dictate the word/s we want them to use - finish their sentences or cut them off mid-explanation - hush them bc it's not a convenient time for us - ignore their message bc we don't like their tone
I think adults should be more aware of how we limit children's language development by policing their grammar, tone, vocabulary, and timing. We also limit our own understanding of their insights. We learn more from them when we simply allow them to speak.
I also remember telling anyone who would listen that there is no magic program that will make kids learn to read. We need to empower teachers with strategies that address the specific learning needs of the individuals in our classes. Programs come & go. Train the teachers. 3/3