Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

No… I didn’t miss your cold sales call last week, I ignored it.

If you describe schools in terms used to describe businesses, you misunderstand school.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: if you move on as soon as students demonstrate they can recall the information you taught, it will be replaced with what you teach next.

Deming was focused on standard inputs, processes, outcomes, and the manufacturers had the option of closing. Anyone who sees school in a similar fashion has a misguided sense of school.

If you are a leader who can't be questioned, you are a questionable leader.

It might make us uncomfortable… so what if it does?

Yeah, it’s actually a significant barrier for many.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: PD fails because you can't teach someone something they think they already know.

"I can't even get them to work for grades, how can I do away with them?"

Stop read that again. You admit they are not the motivator you expect, yet you can't try something different.

To be truly intelligent, one must use their brain and the tools, spaces, and people around them.

One thing I learned during 35 years education: students will control something. You can use that in a productive manner or not.

“How you count” changes what your data show.

excuses approaches (I’m missing some) you want, but if your teachers don’t nurture relationships with students it’s all meaningless.

It’s interesting how compliance is often conflated with learning.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Share your evidence or stop making the claims

OK… can we at least agree that personal incredulity is not evidence?

Embodied cognition. Situated cognition. Distributed cognition.

These are all as real as what happens in your brain.

“The problem with irony is not everyone gets it.”

So true.

The best teachers define and prepare lessons that engage students, and instruct when appropriate. If you need always be instructing, you do not understand learning.

Scientists will actually tell you what they don’t know.

Just to be clear…

In science, to be a theory, it must be well established by fact.

In vernacular, any crackpot idea can be labeled a theory.