This is important at all times. Being encouraged by each other is crucial to remain passionate about our students’ learning. Danny Steele Todd Whitaker #essentialtruths

When people say 'a couple of housekeeping things before we get started' I always hope they're going to tell me how to deal with pantry moths

Check out my 2 cents on AI in math teaching! We must create student reasoners, not mimickers. Otherwise AI will mimic teachers and students out of relevance. More here! yhoo.it/3E8shyt #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathIsFigureOutAble #Elemmathchat #MSmathchat #HSmathchat

“The longer you [teacher] talk, and the longer they [students] listen, the less likely you are going to be able to get them to think.” Peter Liljedahl #BuildingThinkingClassrooms #ThinkingClassroom

You need to watch truly extraordinary teachers carefully to figure out how they do what they do, but to appreciate the quality of their teaching I recommend watching their students.

Why Schools Need to Spend Less Time Thinking About Students (and More Time Thinking About Culture) Dr Helen Street linkedin.com/pulse/why-scho… via LinkedIn

Heard a few times how students must use verbal memory for multiplication facts. "6 times 8 is 48". But this ignores division/factors. No-one chants "48 divided by 6 is 8" or "the factors of 48 are 2,3,4,6,8,12, 16 & 24". Verbal memory helps, but maths practice must come first.

We don’t get anything cool down here 😭

The late James Moffett suggested this slogan for elite, selective schools: "Send us winners and we'll make winners out of them!"

It's time for #MathStratChat! Rules: post your favorite or a clever solution! It's also fun to comment on other's strategies. Tell us about your reasoning. Like/Retweet so others can see! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathIsFigureOutAble #Elemmathchat #MSmathchat #HSmath

How the standards-and-testing juggernaut has soured children on reading for pleasure: "There's a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment now." A book is seen not as fun but as something to be "analyz[ed] within an inch of its life": is.gd/YTGUK6

Wow, just convinced an amazing, supremely just person to get on to Twitter because it was so inspiring. Then, realised what a weird shit show it has become recently. Elon Musk - why?

Math education ruined mathematics by making it about memorizing useless facts/formulas, applying rarely explained algorithms, and testing ad nauseam. It doesn't even "prepare" you for the outside world. It's dated, obsolete, and thoroughly inconsequential.

Not sure I've ever read a better short take on the fatal flaw of accountability-based school reform - "the most efficient tool ever devised to destroy a student’s interest in learning" - as this one by David Labaree. He zeroes in on the difference between effectiveness and efficiency

The Law of Data & Distance: One's enthusiasm about reducing teaching and learning to "data" is directly proportional to how far removed one is from actual children (teacher < principal < central-office administrator < consultant or state official).

FAILED. Thought being a HALT would give a voice for teachers who are leaders but choose to stay on class. It does not. Just another way to make those outstanding teachers feel like crap. Sorry to those amazing teacher colleagues. You deserve so much more.

1/5 Bad teaching doesn't just happen. Nor is it usually due to defects in individual teachers. Rather, it is driven - indeed, practically demanded - by systemic factors. For example...

"Learning should be seen as a qualitative change in a person's way of seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing something in the real world - rather than as a quantitative change in the amount of knowledge someone possesses." -Paul Ramsden (Australian educator)

The late Martin Haberman observed that the students most of us teach best - and the ones that selective schools are most eager to admit - are those who need us least.