Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

When you start questioning your assumptions, you are starting to learn,

Remembering is fine, its just not that useful by itself.

When framing a problem, we define what we believe its cause to be along with the conditions that will indicate the problem has been solved. This is often more import than our solutions.

"Everyone is bringing beer..." sounds good to me.

An applicant mentioned "learning styles" in an interview. I recommended they move on... I think they mentioned it without thinking,

There are libraries filed with advice about how best to teach, many are contradictory to each other.

If you are a leader who must always issue clarifications to your emails to the organization , maybe its time to get some help on your messaging.

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If you want to succeed , you must become smart. You can pass school without becoming smart;

Leaders who alienate individual in the organization who then seek to regain trust must understand some will not trust them again... ever... not matter how must contrition they claim.

Hey teachers... the lesson you intend is not always the lesson learned

Decision Making and Truth https://hackscience.education/2024/06/12/decision-making-and-truth/

"I made the mistake I have been warned against" is not going to convince me you are qualified.

Some folks are too quick to forgive major mistakes.

Numbers don't make it true, Not even if they are precise, highly analyzed, and well-displayed.

Tearful apologies are fine, but they do little to resolve problems.

"Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing."
— Carl Sagan

"It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness."
— Carl Sagan

In education, our research gets better when we look to practitioners. We learn more about relevant questions, the changing nature of students and the social milieu in which they live, the curriculum challenges they face, and the changing nature of teachers.

Yeah, don’t suggest mathematics isn’t political. What and how we count is among the most politicized things we do when making decisions.