Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

“Be skeptical. But when you get proof, accept proof.” –Michael Specter

"Root causes." Are these based on perspective? I think, "yes."

Go ahead and define success and measure how well you are meeting it. Folks who disagree with your definition will not buy it, but go ahead and congratulate yourself anyways.

If you are the person who always must speak at the meetings... always... and immediately... and your “questions” are "not really questions." No one is listening, not even the presenters.

The reason people don’t get behind your cause usually isn’t apathy or indifference or ignorance. They hear and understand your point, but they have their own problems and priorities which are more pressing... or they think you are full of bullshit (used in the technical sense, of course).

"Brain skip or sign of aging?"

I did search today... wanted to limit to the last 5 years... typed 1996 in the "from" box.

I usually don't let such things bother me (certainly they don't bother me enough to post about it), but the misuse of "myself" is really grating my ear (and the voice that reads in my head) recently.

Hey software publishers... don’t tell us you are committed to accessibility when your templates and recommended themes are full of pastel colors and light colored font styles.

The fact that standards are rewritten regularly should be reason enough for everyone to look at them in a critical manner. Ask “should we do this?” rather than state “we should do this.”

Kind of thinking the “log in from an unrecognized device” warning arising from setting up the new tablet that arrives at the inbox 90 minutes later would be too late “if it had been a real emergency.”

Can you learn to research in a single workshop?

If you want to learn something, “taking a class” is sometimes the least efficient and effective strategy.

Yeah... if it is a "research library" that is designed to curate the work that supports your preferences, then you need to give it a different name.

Technology is rarely the answer... but it can facilitate the implementation of a good plan.

Yeah, just because it is your grading system does not mean it is objective, valid, reliable... even reasonable. #teacher #edchat #teacherlife

If you are thanking colleagues, please don’t send a long email telling everyone how “f... ing” amazing they are. Seriously. Don’t.

You cannot claim to be both visionary and standards-based in education.

Some leaders’ real strength is alienating folks in their organization.

“You know what you can recall.” Yeah, no. Knowledge requires so much more than recall. Let’s not confuse the two.

That “trend” about which you are so excited/ depressed—you know that change since you last checked—is probably regression to the mean.