Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Unpopular opinion: All flags are designed to exclude people.

According to the biography of Albert Einstein, he graduated from one school with a 4.25 in math on a scale that went to 6. I can hear the question in the teacher meeting… “So what was his real grade?”

I work in educational technology. I have for decades. I still spend most of my time showing folks how to use search tools and how to use ctrl-F.

Whenever the ice breaker calls for me to share I place I visited recently I say, “Roswell, NM” and raise my hands and start humming.

Here is your regular reminder that “standards” were sold to education as “high quality for all,” but it became something much different.

One of the most depressing parts of education is the degree to which school leaders (folks with advanced degrees) accept and parrot the sales pitches as they introduce “paradigm-changing innovations."