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Students cannot be allowed to act however they want in classrooms. There must be accountability for actions. We are not preparing students for the workforce if they are allowed to be disrespectful in classrooms. This is also true at home. Parents must be parents.

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No matter what goes down on Tuesday, Jesus will still be on the throne on Wednesday. Put your hope and trust in Him.

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Education isn’t broken because of teachers. It’s broken because we ask teachers to be counselors, social workers, parents, and miracle workers—while still demanding perfect test scores. Fix the system, not the people holding it together.

To the outside observer, STEM learning often looks messy and chaotic… but that’s because it usually is. As teachers we have to focus & guide that messy & chaotic process to help kids learn valuable skills.

If the goal is to create readers, then let them read what they want at home/free-time, even comics. Comic books average 53.5 rare words per thousand, compared with an average of 30.9 rare words per thousand in children's books, and also higher than the adult average of 52.7

Teaching capillary actions by making coffee filter flowers. #kindergarten #1stgrade #stem Lee County Schools

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Paul Cottle And just like we encourage parents to Read to their kids, parents need to join in to encourage STEM learning… And STEM can be as simple as visiting science & industry museums, cooking together, playing games like Yahtzee or Battleship, fixing a bike, & so much more

Finland studied U.S. schools in the 1970s. They loved our focus on play, the whole child, and teacher/ school control. So they built their system on it. We replaced it with tests. They kept the soul of education. We sold ours for standardized testing.

Here's an example with 3rd grade math standard. Standard: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1 Interpret products of whole numbers (e.g., 5 × 7 as 5 groups of 7). teacher generated test: 5 × 7 = ? → 80–90% would get correct as written. standardized test: Mrs. Lopez sets up 3 rows

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