Amy W Pento (@amypento) 's Twitter Profile
Amy W Pento

@amypento

Instructional Specialist, Spanish teacher, CAS holder, news junkie, SU fan, dabbler in cognitive psychology, wife, mom o' 2. Sleep matters; start school later.

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calendar_today01-03-2009 02:12:08

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Jonathan Haidt (@jonhaidt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To be clear, about ed tech: --I think teachers should have a computer in the classroom and way to show images and videos, if they choose to. --I think Khan Academy has proven its worth, abundantly. I wish it could be offered on a dedicated device, with no distractions. --In my

Amy W Pento (@amypento) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kudos to Watertown👏 For the record, Lynn Gaffney, the driving force of change at Watertown, is one of the very few educators from Central New York I've ever seen at ResearchED conferences.

liemandt (@jliemandt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Private schools have discovered the perfect grift: charge $30k+/year, hand out 99s like candy, then let the SAT tutor explain why their kid can't do 7th grade math.

Brett Benson (@mrbensonnms) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Poor lessons don’t fall apart all at once. They slowly leak attention. Sloppy transitions, long explanations, and idle time drain momentum gradually. Brisk pacing seals the leaks. Here’s how I keep attention high and the lesson brisk with cycles of Read–Write–Discuss–Revise. 👇🔗

Poor lessons don’t fall apart all at once. They slowly leak attention. Sloppy transitions, long explanations, and idle time drain momentum gradually. Brisk pacing seals the leaks. Here’s how I keep attention high and the lesson brisk with cycles of Read–Write–Discuss–Revise. 👇🔗
Ms. Benison- (@benisonmrs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Teaching writing is hard. Most teacher preparation programs do a poor job of equipping teachers to teach writing to novice writers, just as they have struggled to prepare teachers to teach reading. The hard truth is that while we have begun to address the reading instructional

Teaching writing is hard.

Most teacher preparation programs do a poor job of equipping teachers to teach writing to novice writers, just as they have struggled to prepare teachers to teach reading.

The hard truth is that while we have begun to address the reading instructional
Paul W. Swaney III (@privateinequity) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kitchen phone rule is elite parenting IMO I have heard copius pushback. One parent confessed to me: “If I don’t give my daughter IG she will vanish from the social orbit” This demonstrates how parental FOMO drives choices well before kids start asking for things What one

Brett Benson (@mrbensonnms) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“….the spread of cognitive science knowledge among the country’s teaching force has been dramatic. Ten years ago, concepts like cognitive load theory were almost unknown.“ This was me up until year ago but that only changed due to my independent study. That has to change here.

𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓊𝓂𝒷𝒶 🕊️ (@sosotxt_love) 's Twitter Profile Photo

there're so many studies all agreeing that just starting school later benefits students by increasing the amount of sleep they get and people just ignore it so they dont have to deal with changing their current transportation logistics

Amy W Pento (@amypento) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Same! 5 minutes before the final exam began, the room would fall quiet, & each student received one blank paper on which they would recreate their study guide from memory. I kept them because the next year, students would be convinced it was impossible—until they saw the proof.