Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

When writing marginalia, #3 pencil is the only acceptable instrument.

Telling folks to “stay in your lane” is really telling them “plan and act as if your plans and actions do not affect anyone else.” Sorry, but I don’t see this as a message #leaders should be communicating.

Saying learning styles are "BS" may be a extreme, but it is not inaccurate. #education #teaching #highered #highschool #middlegrade #elementary #schools

Your beliefs and opinions quantified are not data.

As an educational technology leader, I use teachers’ “complaints” as my cues as to what to “fix” first. Turns out those are often excuses, and they really don’t want ‘em fixed.

Science takes a deep look at an intuitive thought and questions it. Quackery finds proof intuition is right. Scientists understand the difference. Quacks do not.

One of the greatest lessons one learns as a doctoral student is to seriously question assumptions. This is not understood by those who haven’t gone through the experience (IMHO). It is also one of the least valued contributions those with doctorates can make to organizations.

“It was actually haunted.” No. No it wasn’t.

Just schedule your meeting... I'd rather prioritize if I'm double booked than play "when are you available tag" or compare my schedule to times you added to the "when are you available? survey."

So many complex and long-term problems are “solved” by simple short-term solutions and then denial they were made worse.

Adding indignation to your requests for IT help doesn’t help you get to the top of the list.

Yeah, those "free times" you just asked me to provide... someone else claimed them in the time you were deciding the best time to schedule our meeting.

Listen carefully and you will hear IT say words that mean, “Yeah, I know that is a problem, but I told you how to fix it last week, so others whose problems have not been fixed are higher priority right now.”

You know those people who hang signs in their offices that say, “your failure to plan is not my emergency?” I get it.

The first step is analyzing data is recognizing your self-delusions.

Seems time for a reminder: If your solution is simple, you do not understand the problem.

Good science happens when scientists change their ideas as needed; quackery happens when advocates cling to bad ideas.

There is comfort in the problems with known solutions.

Without #students, #classrooms are empty-physically, culturally, contextually, pedagogically. The idea one can meaningfully plan a class before meeting the students seems disingenuous.

Teachers find the space between what students know and what they don’t know and help them fill that gap... if requires the active intervention of both.