Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If you don’t even try to pronounce students’ names properly, it’s time to quit teaching.

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What do you mean it isn’t accessible?

Cool graphs. No, they don’t really show what you claim, but congratulations on using the template.

Can we all agree that events that are correlated does not mean the first caused the second.

I’m sorry, but if you refer to students as “kiddos,” I’m unfollowing you.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. - Carl Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. - Carl Sagan

Your data… that evidence your interventions work… may well be the Hawthorne Effect.

Hate to break the news, but books, notebooks, chalkboards are all technologies… and teachers rejected them when they were first introduced.

One thing I learned during 30 years in education: teachers vastly underestimate the quality of their tests.

Average is a meaningless measure. Variation is the reality of life.

The problem, of course, is that too much teacher education is about meeting regulations and teaching the latest “next big thing.”

IMO standard tests (which must be improved) give us insight into a small part of “being educated” (how we compare to similar folks). How students create polished products matters more. How students navigate hierarchical social organizations matters more.

Superficiality characterizes a particular approach to teaching. It has been under attack since long before ChatGPT by some educators. If education it threatened, it is that brand.

“Open access” for a limited time isn’t really open is it?

I’m quite certain students’ futures cannot be predicted by a test score.

As a leader, you don’t have to understand how everything works, but you should understand how some things work.

Ya gotta wonder… are apathetic students the result of a system that tells them what to learn all the time and care only about test scores?

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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. - W. Edwards Deming