PLEASE SHARE/RETWEET: Why is teaching so difficult? What reasons surface to the top for you/colleagues? I ask bc: 1. It is 2. Hoping we can help each other w targeted & real solutions 3. None of us is alone in our struggles, but fewer of these & more rewards would be nice! 🙏

Florida House leaders are touting legislation that would result in a big expansion of Florida's school voucher program. This is an issue my Orlando Sentinel colleagues and I have spent a great deal of time writing about and researching. Here's what we've found:

Once again Cobb County Schools is fulfilling its commitment to make Cobb the best place to teach, lead, and learn. What a great investment in its teachers!

Here's What Teachers Say They Need Most to Manage Stress, Mental Health hubs.ly/Q01YbmhH0

My biggest pet peeve with schools and curriculum is that most only offer full training for teachers in the 1st year adoption. There should be built-in PAID training days for any incoming teachers to be fully trained on all of the curriculum that they are new to.

**Update on teacher shortages** @JoshBleiberg , @ArmstrongSaenz , Chanh and I are updating our teachershortages.com website. We find there are at least 55,000 vacant teaching positions and 270,000 underqual in the US compared to 36,000 and 160,000 positions last year.

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I’ve worked in two different states where I’ve had 90 minutes of planning each day and at least 26-30 minutes duty free lunch. Districts/systems need to prioritize teacher time if we even want to START making teaching more sustainable.

Soo funny!

Just as Iowa classrooms have transformed over the past 50 years, so have our programs and services. The proposed bill aims to bring significant shifts to the education landscape; it's crucial to keep an eye on how it will impact our programs and services. ow.ly/4kz750Qqc9B

This is your reminder that school administrators are human, too. WHEN they get it wrong, which they will, please be ready to show them the same grace you would want to receive.

Preach!

Excellent leadership from HS team in Des Moines, Iowa. Thank you Jonathan Haidt for bringing these issues to the fore.

My 5 year old likes to practice math facts during our bedtime routine. She is pretty solid on addition facts using numbers 0-5. She then proudly stated that booger + 0 = booger, which makes me feel like she really does understand the additive identity.

As a Christian, I want to share a lament with you. What we Christians get outraged about and what we don’t says a lot about our Christian reputation in the world. This last week was a prime example.🧵

Here’s a fun math puzzle!

Okay, I think it's important we push back on this regular talking point and show why the "funds should follow students, not schools" line sounds reasonable to those uninformed on education policy, but is actually fundamentally flawed (1/16)

In January I published an episode with Ben Solomon about research in education and he came up with a list of "red flags in education research," to help people sort reliable education research from the unreliable kind. Here's that list.