A 🧵: Came home from a trip this week to find my daughter reading The Scarlet Letter in the living room. Assumed it was for school. "Nope," she said. "Just wanted to read it. It's amazing..." I asked her if she would read it aloud & she said (a bit surprisingly) yes....

Touchdown Club of Atlanta definitely appreciate making this list! Congrats to all the others on here also. Rockmart Football Biff Parson Jesse Lynch

Carl Reiner gave Rob Reiner a copy of The Princess Bride, and Rob Reiner loved it and its father/son love story so much he turned it into a movie (with a grandfather and grandson). Three days before Carl’s death in 2020, he and Rob reenacted the final scene and “As you wish”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” — Voltaire

Teacher burnout isn’t mainly about kids; it’s about being held responsible for outcomes without being allowed to enforce basic conditions for learning.

Words to live by today—and every day.

Happy 66th birthday to Georgia basketball and Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins. 🙌🎉

Jacob LaFrance JMU Football Gavin Green 5’10 170lbs WR 2028 3.5 GPA hudl.com/profile/201672…

C/O 2028 Rockmart High School WR 5’10 170lbs 3.6 GPA Region 7AA Athlete of the Year Check out my end of season stats: 1,337 receiving yards 54 receptions Average 24.8 yard yards per catch 17 TDs 3 interceptions 22 tackles 1 punt return 1 kickoff return

Reality check: Some classrooms require a teacher to work relentlessly—carefully defining expectations and enforcing rules with total consistency—just to reach the baseline behavior that other classrooms start with. How a teacher manages and teaches is deeply dependent on the

I need AI to combine ice hockey with couples figure skating.

The central purpose of a school is learning. Teachers are not therapists, clergy, politicians, or stand in parents. Our role is to teach.

In his Nobel Prize lecture, Bob Dylan discusses three books that have stayed with him since he read them at school. One of them is Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’. “The Odyssey is a great book whose themes have worked its way into the ballads of a lot of songwriters: ‘Homeward Bound,’

George Orwell on writing:

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

True. This includes: 1. ‘Decide the consequence for yourself’ 2. ‘Use a restorative conversation’ MID LESSON 3. ‘Give them three warnings, then move them, then corridor, then chat then…’ 4. ‘Do all the detentions yourself, plus admin plus follow up plus escalation’

Nothing meandering here. He’s telling us a story abt a profound realization re: the reasons we outsource intellectual work. Stories are vital bc they help relate complex phenomena from one human to another in a form that is memorable, portable, replicable.

This is what ICE being at the Atlanta airport looks like. Doing NOTHING 😂 Donald J. Trump

How will it be enforced? What are the consequences for not enforcing it?

Schools don’t just transmit knowledge. They model norms. If students learn that rules are optional and consequences negotiable, we shouldn’t be surprised when disorder follows—first in classrooms, then everywhere else. thedispatch.com/article/public…