Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Yeah, if your contribution is just restating what has already been shared, don’t bother.

Avoid “leading by buzzword.” Some of us can recognize it and we know what it means.

The older I get, the less tolerance I have for hypocrisy.

I believe diagramming sentences helped me understand how to construct good sentences.

What if we replaced "delivering the curriculum" with "teaching?" #education

Your “steam of consciousness” presentation is likely worse than you prepared talk.

“Lecturing is really just making noise.” This is an Interesting, and maybe not inaccurate, interpretation.

Someone somewhere needs to read this before you attend conference this fall: Your rambling reflection on the keynote is not a question... we know it got you thinking.. and your mind is swimming... please avoid grabbing the microphone to prove you have incomplete (but energizing) thoughts. We believe you.

What changed your mind about students?

Yeah... those “trends in the data” you are touting or bemoaning are probably just regression to the mean.

If your primary role is to prevent problems from reaching your boss, you are not “part of the team."

All generalizations (including those that are contradictory) are always accurate for a minority sub-population.

If you think every teaching problem can be solved with one tool, you don’t understand teaching.

Yeah... have your corporate trainers be prepared to answer questions about tracking and privacy... even a "corporate line" response is better than struggling to answer.

Just because you experienced it in school, does not mean every one did... or should.

Yeah... if you attend the "advanced" training, please avoid asking the presenter to show how to do "stuff" done in the "basic" training.

Ignorance is preferable to error….
-Thomas Jefferson

Uncertainty equals dissent.

I can’t argue with that.

Consensus matters, except when we are trying to get to the truth.

“You don’t measure what you think you measure.”

Brian Christian sure was correct about that!