Attendance matters. Due dates and punctuality matters. Behavior matters. Why any of this has become questionable in 21st century schools is beyond me.

You know what I miss? Turning on something and having it just work. No registering on another device. No signing into an account. No downloading an app. Just plug it in and it does the thing it's supposed to do.

The best education begins in the lap of a parent, long before the desk of a teacher.

Bringing home the 1 rating from Central States Marching Band Festival. Ark City Athletics Ark City USD 470

A little WW2 candy knowledge this Halloween 🎃 Smarties candy was originally made with machines built to make gunpowder pellets for ammunition during World War I| 🍬🍭

I am convinced you could replace every PD day with a teacher work day and it would be ten times more productive.

Retweet if your college basketball team is still undefeated.

The way the College Football season shaped up, the CFP Committee had an opportunity to do the most right thing with the smallest backlash. Alabama and BYU getting blown out in their conference championship games opened the door to put both Notre Dame and Miami in. Instead

Nothing is wrong with changing your opinion on something after learning new information. It's a sign of intelligence.

We are excited to announce Dr. Alex Wimmer as our next Director of Bands and Director of the Marching Band! Read more: k-state.edu/news/articles/…

Dear parents, Most children do not read books anymore. If you get your child to read just ONE BOOK PER MONTH (canonical, classic) from age 10-18, they will be so far ahead of their peers by the time they reach college. Sincerely, A Teacher

Reminder that there is ZERO evidence that shows 1-1 computing does anything to improve academic performance or learning. None. It’s the biggest con in the history of public education.

Can we please kill QR codes forever? I don’t want to scam a code to look at the menu. I don’t want to fill out a medical form or immigration form or any other form via QR code. For the love of god just hand me a piece of paper.

i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a lamborghini. i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday. sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon. so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients. spend on my family

Ark City Boys 60 Goddard 57 Final in 3OT #ArkCitySTRONG

If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student. The students have changed. Teaching has changed. You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.

Muhammad Ali once said: “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life”

In the last 50years, special education has shifted from “despite my child’s severe disability, he has a right to an education” to “my little boy struggles to focus sometimes so I demand that he gets double time on tests and no penalties for late work”

An educational system that ties funding to metrics like attendance and graduation rates actively incentivizes dishonesty. With these incentives in place, a school that enforces standards by removing disruptive or dangerous students or fails kids who don’t put in effort loses