My brilliant bud JCH’s book out tomorrow! Check out the endorsements 😮

If I got to choose a public school district to work at, I think Watertown would be #1 on my list.

PLEASE PLEASE Remove tech from classrooms. It doesn't belong there to the extent we have gone with it.

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

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.

Cousin Planet

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.

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. 👇🔗

Like her, I am frightened by what I'm seeing. We should be very concerned.

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

"Teen languishing" — 3pm to 3am 🔥

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

Let's go, Buffalo!

What an amazing game!!! Way to go, Buffalo!!!

“….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.

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

This is the way

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.