My professor called my question smart in class today so I guess I'll be riding that compliment for the rest of the week.

Listening to my lecture this week and Dr. Jim Downs just stated "The point of a classroom experience is to be generative, not encyclopedic," and man if that doesn't sum up so well what we should aim to do!

anyone who comes to my Promethean Board model class tomorrow is getting a surprise 20 minute lesson on yellow fever in the 1800s!!!

I just located my school’s adults only, $1, non-diet soda vending machine and it’s like Christmas came early.

Great job by the cast, crew, and directors of McGavock High School ‘s fall play R.U.R. Fun fact: this play introduced the word “robot” to the English language! 🤖🎭

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I keep seeing supporters of the TN 3rd grade retention law say they just want our kids reading 'on grade level' and 'retention is a last resort with several ways to avoid it written into the law' as reasons to keep it as is. I'm going to address that flawed thinking here. 🧵:

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Nerded out making an example slide for a colleague. Might just have to use this in my own classroom soon. Who out there has done soundtrack projects before? #sschat #teaching #socialstudies

I organized a faculty SOUP-er Bowl today and honestly it has been one of the highlights of my year. It doesn't take much to create some collective joy!

This is why we need geography education.

Can anyone point me to research or data showing the efficacy of instructional coaches? I know some great individuals in these roles but I’m wondering why we have a lot of coaching jobs alongside classrooms without teachers…

Having to blast a Spotify brown noise playlist in my headphones because they've decided to do a FIFTEEN MINUTE intercom test with zero warning that includes playing a random interview that I can't even place? Please tell me how this is functional.

I thought being a historian would be cool but I'm just giving myself a headache trying to decipher cursive from 1717...

Someone asked me why is Black history, specifically, being targeted. I said it's because our history has always been political *by definition*: Our very presence on these lands is the greatest rebuke to the narrative of American exceptionalism. We give lie to the lie.

Shoutout to my Lenten promise to severely limit Tik Tok consumption for being the only reason why I’ve graded all my AICE History essays in one night.

My mantra in May: remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like your job remember you like y