Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

So much that is “data driven” turns out to be “myth driven.”

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and we were probably jerks back then.

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and you were probably jerks back then.

Wondering why we need to keep putting volume, issue, page numbers in citations when we have a doi.

It is always strange when deceased colleague’s work anniversaries, birthdays, and other dates arrive in social media notifications.

Avoid “leading by buzzword.” Some of us can recognize it and we know what it means.

The older I get, the less tolerance I have for hypocrisy.

believe diagramming sentences helped me understand how to construct good sentences.

I really think essays are an under-appreciated genre.

What if we replaced "delivering the curriculum" with "teaching?" #education

Your “steam of consciousness” presentation is likely worse than your prepared talk.

“Lecturing is really just making noise.” Interesting, and maybe not inaccurate, interpretation.

Someone somewhere needs to read this right now: Your rambling reflection in the keynote is not a question... we know it got you thinking.. and your mind is swimming... please avoid grabbing the microphone (real or virtual) to prove you have incomplete (but energizing) thoughts.

What changed your mind about students?

Does anyone else get distracted by the books behind participants in Zoom meetings? I just want to go and browse and chat with ‘em about what is there and why.

Yeah... those “trends in the data” you are touting or bemoaning are probably just regression to the mean.

asks "why were you late," you need to resign. If you are a principal who observers it, you must call the teacher out... yes... in front of students.

Just because you experienced it in school, does not mean every one did... or should... or even that you did it at all. Human memory is that bad.

"But my field is content-rich! I need to cover all of this!" Many teachers adopt a "fill their brains" approach to prepare students for the next year, but this method is no longer tenable. #Education #Teaching

Competition drives both business (fighting for market share) and politics (winners take office, losers return to the citizenry). Should this same competitive metric be applied to our schools?
No.