Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If the speaker says "slides on Slide Share," why do people take pictures on their phones? Maybe pay attention and take good notes.

Does a bell curve mean your course is rigorous, or that it was ineffective for a large proportion of the students? #edchat #education

"Chaos is inevitable," says the insightful #teacher at the faculty meeting.

Tensions exist between political desires and scientific reality. May we have the wisdom to trust #science

To the financial "expert" who recommended saving #money by not buying #books Um... No.

Gotta wonder about the student who complains about the grade earned on a self-assessed project.

Richard Feynman's father valued "process over fact" (James Gleick) as he explored with his son

Frustration that focuses inquiry vs. that which causes shutdown. You must know the difference to succeed in teaching.

Be the expert, but take care of everyone's thinking. #teaching

Can students recognize and solve similar problems, but it is different problems that matter the most in learning.

If you delay action until you get perfect #data you will never do anything.

We sell kids short when we think #curriculum must be linear. Engaged #students can fill in blanks.

When "obvious" strategies are founded in be myths.

#education allows us to understand beyond our experience. True at all levels.

A blog post focusing on Bolman & Deal's organizational frames; audio deep-dive added!
https://buff.ly/42GTNAf
#leadership

Let wrong #ideas live in your #classrooms little longer than you are comfortable with. #edchat #teaching

How would you measure the size of rain drops?

"Many people are not only incompetent, they are in denial about how incompetent they are." David Brooks in The Social Animal made me smile.

"What we call rational grounds are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts." - Thomas Henry Huxley

I used to take covert pleasure in seeing short-sighted leaders fail, then I realized it is other who are affected by it.