tetheredtoed
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Science teacher. Education advocate. Evidence Gatherer.
Joined October 2020
I recently got to see a handwriting app in development that Yiran is working on. Really impressed. The focus on explicit instruction of high leverage components of FMS/writing with spaced retrieval could be a game-changer. @AlphaSchoolATX @gauntletai
"Keep the hands in mind" — indeed. Fine motor skills (FMS) have been largely overlooked in the era of the internet. A new meta-analysis identified a positive correlation between FMS and academic success, and the details are fascinating. The study aggregated 118 articles to
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I have in the last 10 mins completed using the @PADeptofEd @GovernorShapiro TIMS (Teacher Information Mgmt Sys) and I am here to tell you that all this PR re IT upgrades was bullsh*t Shapiro is all hat no cattle.
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The same goes for periodic trend graphs. They can’t “analyze” it if they don’t know what effective nuclear charge is and what atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity mean.
Students can’t “analyze” a graph of declining global birth rates without prior knowledge: what fertility rate means, why education access matters, what urbanization does. Without that conceptual base, they’re not analyzing—they’re eyeballing lines. Knowledge drives the thinking.
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By storing your little one's umbilical cord blood, you're opening doors to potentially life-saving treatments for nearly 80 different conditions and the possibilities of breakthroughs in regenerative medicine. One easy step can safeguard your family's potential future health.💙
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Here is a 2025 slide show from WSRA denying Dyslexia again. Contrast to this publication from Yale… teachers deserve better then an outdated teacher group whose mission is to keep them in the dark on best practices.
In Wisconsin Even Dyslexia Is Political This article from 2018 shows WSRA’s position on Dyslexia. Basically it’s not real. @WisconsinDPI by the way Barb Novak who is charge of Wi literacy initiative was president of WSRA the year before. https://t.co/8KpZt3n3TE
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Experts ponder the causes of the rise in ADHD diagnoses, but this is the expected consequence of treating distressing or aggravating habits as if they are medical conditions
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I need to revisit @ReadingRockets webpage more. So much really great stuff on there. I’ve been reading about sentence combining. I like how they suggest using old @FountasPinnell leveled readers to do just that. https://t.co/ioqj7WZhkH Those materials are just collecting dust.
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The decline in English-class book reading is very real. We did a deep dive, and found many teens assigned just 1 or 2 books per year. Instead, they're reading excerpts on a screen, like this one, 859 words of "Beloved."
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President Trump says it perfectly. A patchwork of 50 different state systems creates a maze of conflicting regulations, resulting in chaos. Follow me to join the conversation on leading the AI revolution.
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@RaisingMoxie is celebrating the holidays and getting excited about changes that are underway. High Standards. Ethical Principles. High quality PD. Research informed Teacher prep. And we are singing about it! A heartfelt thank you to colleagues and friends who keep
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Much like Santa, I have a Nice List of teachers who lead my PDs, praise me and my leadership at every faculty meeting, look to me as a mentor, and of course, receive excellent evaluations without having to be observed.
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This Schill on teaching is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/9XUSBWjbvy
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Given there's been 15 years of criticizing the ACA I would have expected Republicans to have a better health care idea than $1500 HSA accounts. The healthcare system has significant problems but this isn't a solution to any of them.
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Really good list
Reading education blogs changed my life, so I want to do everything I can to share and amplify recent blogs. Here's this week's list of some I've really enjoyed, and I'll try and get some suggestions of quality free blogs out regularly. Caiti Wade here preaching about how so
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Jesus son of Maryam "Peace be upon him" is one of the most important and very revered prophets mentioned in the Quran and hadith. There’s even a chapter in the Quran named "Maryam". Before the Day of Judgement it's not Muhammed SAW that descends from the sky, it's Jesus as
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A school board shouldn’t be chosen by single digit turnout. And yet… 36 states.
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We are defrauding these kids by allowing them to think they’re prepared for college.
Deep nauseous pit in my stomach watching school guidance office let (extremely desperate for bodies) colleges in to tell unprepared low income kids they are “instantly accepted” and then promoting their pics and “signings” on social media. Manipulating and shaming kids into debt
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Every word of this
@rpondiscio Yes! 👏 I, too, observe that adults make judgments about the causes of children’s behavior without adequate assessment—and frequently without the credentials to do so. Presuming trauma in a student is, in effect, practicing as a health service provider without a license. In
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Deep nauseous pit in my stomach watching school guidance office let (extremely desperate for bodies) colleges in to tell unprepared low income kids they are “instantly accepted” and then promoting their pics and “signings” on social media. Manipulating and shaming kids into debt
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This is the biggest issue in US K-12 Ed right now no one is paying attention to. Science Ed is way way off the rails and no one (in a leadership position) is even attempting to fix it.
We don't really know how much of a balance of explicit teaching and inquiry we need in science because science education people don't do the right studies. I don't know when it's appropriate to try inquiry with 1st graders or really even how to do it.
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