Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I work in IT. I spent all day reminding people we stopped using that system years ago.

One thing I learned during 30 years in education: while you are focusing on improving one thing, another becomes a crisis.

“There is a free tier” isn’t “open source.”

Classroom grades reflect one’s capacity to succeed in a social hierarchical situation. Let’s recognize that and teachers’ biases… it easier to call them out as they can’t hide behind “objectivity.”

Your data… that “evidence your interventions work" may well be the Hawthorne Effect.

I work in IT. I spend all days watching spinning icons.

Abandon topics and outcomes to focus lesson. Use questions or problems instead. It will improve your teaching and students’ learning.

“Explain you thinking” helps until it doesn’t. The trick is for teachers to know when to stop.

The more teachers talk about how they report only academic learning in their grades (whatever they are), the more “other stuff” is included in what they are evaluating.

If you can’t tell me what’s wrong with your data, I’m not interested in hearing what you think is right about it.