Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If you are not clear about why you should not proceed with your your plans, then you are not prepared to do it. #leadership

Make a decision. It may not be optimal, but at least it allows you organization to plan.

If your classroom is designed to focus on you-the teacher-it needs a redesign.

I thought we had all agreed that using a word to define itself was not a good practice.

“Don’t mess with people smarter than you,” is the best advice I’ve heard today.

Let’s be clear on this: Teaching and education is a political act. The decision to not teach something is as political as the decision to teach something.

Those in adversarial roles or situations where they are overworked or exploited, are probably not learning... no matter that the test scores indicate. #teaching #schools

A note from an IT insider: Listening to you say multiple times "I really don't want to add more to your 'to do' list" during a meeting often takes more time than it will take to do what you want. Just be clear and skip the apologies!

I’ve concluded ethics must be deeply embedded into every learning activity.

When you cannot question an initiative without raising indignation that uses the language to make you look indefensible...

(e. g. “What? You want to leave children behind?” when criticizing NCLB in the early 2000’s)

... you can be sure the initiative is intended for other purposes.

Learning makes you a different person both internally(what you say to yourself, how you say it, what you perceive) and externally (how you act and react to your environment, especially the social environment).

Technology is not neutral; it actively influences human cognition, social organizations, and societal norms.

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand." - Archibald Putt was right

When an individual owns knowledge, it is fully integrated into their thought process, leading to a literal change in how they perceive the world.

If you do not see the world differently, then you didn't really learn anything.

A crucial insight from the MIT article: the data given "the least space in the paper is the most important"—interviews about essay writers' "sense of ownership." This shifts the focus for educators.

If you can use “deliver” and “teach” interchangeably, you do not understand learning. #teach #teaching #remotelearning #instructionalcoach #highschool #highered #edchat

Is #learning transmitted, discovered, experienced? Your answer tells us much about you as a #teacher.

“Writing” and “replacing words so it sounds good” are different activities.

Test scores are useful for measuring the variation of learning in a large population. For individuals, it can only estimate their value.

Can we stop treating individuals’ scores as precise and meaningful?