Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

There is a difference between “listening to those with opposite views” and “wasting time listening to quacks with tired arguments.” One is worth the time, the other is not.

I’ve had reason to chat with folks about my childhood lately. Back when my father who was a high school graduate and drove a truck for a living could afford to raise a family.

Incremental change in organizations takes so long that it is abandoned before any effects are observed.

If you allow folks (students included) to set their own goals, you must accept them

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.