Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The degree to which teachers reject interventions that are really just good teaching methods because of the name applied to them (UDL is an example) is shameful.

“What do we mean by x?” It gets tiresome to answer this question all the time, but it is necessary that we do.

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Facts can be corrected. Myths cannot.

“Things went just as expected” is my favorite response to that question.

I’ve never started a game of credential poker, but I’ve never lost one either.

I started listening to Jimmy Buffet after hearing Warren Zevon reference him during a concert in 1983.

Hey IT: If you make major changes to systems just before classes start, don’t get snotty when people complain.

I work in education. Verschlimmbesserung is so common it must be purposeful.

The best lessons are designed not planned.

Hypocrisy is so tiresome.

“We are developing instruction that scales” is a signal they don’t understand teaching.

“We are not dealing with a thinker” is my new favorite observation.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of having a scientific mindset is the curiosity and mystery. We actually admit when we don't now something.

When it comes to IT, the best leaders are the folks who have been on the first line of IT support.

Sure, your intervention may coincide with a change in what you are measuring, but causation requires much more than that.

I work with someone who inserts snarky criticisms into others’ presentations. I’ve started pausing until I count to 15 when she does it to me. I cool off and it adds an uncomfortable break in the flow.

Evolution gives the illusion of design. Life works that way. Much culture works that way. Humans see design where none existed.

Let’s normalize dismissing folks whose evidence they are not ready to share.

Hey IT: Don’t undertake widespread maintenance work or changes less than a week before classes start. Seriously, just don’t.