I spoke to an old therapist friend today, and finally understood why everyone’s so exhausted after the video calls. It’s the plausible deniability of each other’s absence. Our minds tricked into the idea of being together when our bodies feel we’re not. Dissonance is exhausting.

Books Briefing: If your attention span is shrinking, read poetry. on.theatln.tc/bMfyrvZ

.Common Sense Media brings together dozens of big players in education, media & tech to create Wide Open School, a free resource hub for distance learning during #COVID19 The 74 the74million.org/putting-rivalr…

Fantastic ideas from my colleague Amy Syvertsen on how to use this moment of crisis to help your children become better people and better citizens: search-institute.org/social-respons…

Young Scientists PS41Q keep sharing how they’re Exploring Science in the home today! District 26 Nadya Awadallah NYC Elementary Science Leadership Team Amplify Kory Bennett

#poem #NationalPoetryMonth

You earned it, class of 2020! See you Saturday night at your graduation celebration! This is going to be great. graduatetogether2020.com

An educator from Oakland Unified Schools District shared this image with me. The air feels lighter as they start school this week. The future brighter. Our POTUS and VP elect will continue a path that’s been carved by the fortitude of others. Some even as young as six.

The Biden team may not be getting their transition briefings, but the students of American can at least get to work on some inaugural poems. #InaugurationDay2021 poets.org/academy-americ…

📣 ATTENTION TEACHERS 📣 We're building a new site for teachers where you can engage in conversations around teaching & learning, anti-racism edu, ed policy, mental health, etc. If you would like to be one of our first testers, DM/reply to this tweet.

Those first graders would be 14 & 15 year olds today. #SandyHook

In 1964 a Black and Jewish man fighting for civil rights in the south were murdered for their leadership. Today a Black and Jewish man fighting for civil rights in the south were made US Senators for their leadership. “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia” indeed

Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes that teach civics, democracy and American history?

what is with this tendency in the ed sector towards terrible, redundant modifiers? i.e., "strategic leadership," "transformational innovation," and "dramatically better?"

It's rare, but every once in a while one falls in love with an ed tech product. When it came to Mathigon, it was love at first polygon for me and the team at Amplify... I am so delighted we are joining forces. Expect big - and intricate little - things!

📣 Exciting news. Desmos Classroom—the team running our free activities, free Activity builder, and math curriculum—is joining forces with Amplify. desmos.link/desmos-amplify

Together, we can serve more students and teachers. Desmos has a proven model for creating delightful and humanizing interactions between teachers, students, computers, and math. Amplify knows how to support this work at scale.

This is, perhaps, #TheAbsoluteBest #MathEd themed tweet I’ve seen in the last 3 years! 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

NEW: An NYT investigation has found that scores of Hasidic Jewish schools in New York are purposely denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education – and have received $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the last 4 years. w/ Brian M. Rosenthal nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyr…

Kids Think Math Is Useless and Irrelevant and That Isn’t the Main Problem Here, by Dan Meyer open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer/p…