Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Deputy Tyler Stahl, who was accused in a viral video of letting an 18-year-old woman out of a DUI, had his name cleared by body camera video.

Thank you Bad Suns for spending 96 hours with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #spotifywrapped

1/3 “When you watch a child who is focused on learning, & you let them know you’re watching, & you let them know your opinion as though your opinion matters, you just took that thing away from them. You just made it yours. Your smell is all over it now”:

Recommended Reading: Strategies for Teaching Argument Writing

The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures - The New York Times

NEW! 24 Exit Ticket Questions! - Brain Blast #formativeassessment #goformative #engchat #ukedchat #ela #ncte #edchat #TLAP

Highly Recommended Reading: Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young

“Better instruction won’t come from more detailed information, but from changing what people do...Don’t try to turn teachers into data analysts; try, instead, to help them be better teachers.”

A metaphor is not merely “a way of comparing two things,” but rather a strategy for talking about complex things by claiming they are EQUAL TO simpler things. That’s why I invented @MetaphorDice, to make that purpose a little clearer (and a lot more fun)!

@goss_ms @ncte I have to go into with the mindset of helping them get better. I always have kids do reflections on my feedback. They summarize what I wrote then they make a plan on what they want to focus on for the next assignment. It helps me feel like my time is worth it.

I can't agree with this enough!

Growing up I didn't use my local library as much as I should have. This collection of narratives displays the many faces a library can have and I'm a bit sore I don't have one to contribute.

What educator David Page said many years ago about math is true across the disciplines: When kids give the wrong answer, they're often just answering a different question. And our challenge is to figure out what that question is.

Walk out of the house feeling light and cheery. Take the tube feeling unweighted by the world. Arrive at studio with a spring in my step. Realise I have left my heavy backpack at home.

@fastcrayon Reminds me of all the times my students would ask about “the real world” or “real life”! This is your real life now!

Each September for the last 20 years I've published a back-page opinion piece in Education Week. This year's is out this week: "It's Not About Behavior":

Great read on student-centered learning. How do we foster individuality, ownership, and inquiry?#ncte #engchat https://t.co/r5mSTHZiBp

A few years ago, someone uploaded my Oct. 1996 appearance on "Oprah" (about the detrimental effects of rewards). Now, online for the first time, here's my Jan. 1996 appearance (about what promotes - and what undermines - altruism):

Social justice belongs in schools as part of curricula and larger school culture. Teaching students to be activists. Cf. THE ACTIVIST LEARNER (TC PRESS) https://t.co/Qy6DJy5Jhu

NCTE has issued an updated position statement, A Call to Action: What We Know about Adolescent Literacy Instruction. Special thanks to members @Rehb31, @ctovani, @mattskillen, and @MisterMinor for their work on this revision. https://t.co/m4UmmDfoWp