Teachers, Use your summer wisely: Rest, recover, and prepare your argument for banning phones. The classroom you want doesn’t exist until they’re gone.

People that ask Grok “is this true” are the reason our society is getting dumber by the minute.

MartinCothran As annoying as lesson planning can be, being handed everything from a “curriculum department” and being told you had to use it would be even worse.

We need to fight for equitable, well-funded public schools for every child, not fragmented systems that exacerbate inequality.

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Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Identify noise and stay above it

They are eliminating IPERS, the most important tool for recruiting public employees (including local law enforcement)…meanwhile not a word about the over $300 million per year wasted on private school vouchers for the wealthiest.

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When it comes to creating classroom content, it is really, really helpful to be in the room where it happens.

Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?

*Knowing more about people who are different from us* activates empathy.

I just read a student paper that was insightful & distinct but grammatically clumsy (a ton of sentences with coordinating conjunctions). my first thought was, “I can help them with this. no big deal.” grammar matters but if you grade for grammar I think you’re missing the point.

Relatable.

Funny how we still think we’re going to somehow finally arrive at a place of objective purity with grading, like some new arithmetical (or alphabetical) alchemy will gild for good our mark of measure, “golding,” if you will, our standard. A fool’s errand for fool’s gold.

A next-level frame to change the game. Their learning to guide our teaching. Frames matter. #Project180

Until. Until it’s their kid. Many on the outside talk a big game about tough love and high expectations (“teaching responsibility”) in the classroom, bemoaning the “coddling” of kids with grace. Until it’s their kid who needs the grace, and then all the sudden, it is our job.

It’s a reckoning. At some point in every teacher’s career comes the realization that grades aren’t necessary for learning. But, too, comes the reality that the world outside can’t fathom such a thing. And so, we are forced to live out an existence of doing the unnecessary for

1)Maybe their apathy is our apathy. No, hear me out. For 30 years now, I have worked in a system where I’ve believed that we can do better than we’re doing, but we won’t because we can’t get away from what we’ve always done. And we are forced to accept what we can’t accept.