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public middle school assistant principal
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What are educators’ thoughts on restricting student participation in extracurricular activities based in response to low academic achievement and/or impactful behavior? At the elementary, middle, and upper secondary levels? #EduSky

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A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #27,742!

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In elementary school other kids and I traded and shared Atari 2600 game cartridges.

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Considering how widespread chronic absenteeism is right now, why don't more school leaders identify it as a top problem? My colleague @jillbarshay.bsky.social explains why absenteeism can be genuinely hard to identify: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... #edusky

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Today is an important day A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages. The truth mattered today.

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Why Duke University Libraries is Dropping Basecamp. blogs.library.duke.edu

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“You can’t get hurt skiing, unless you fall.” - Warren Miller

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Thinking a lot this weekend on how to engage some teachers in conversation and hopefully critical reflection around some ways I have heard them speaking to and about students. #EduSky

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Hmm…

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Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13. They’re charging $1390 for it. Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high. Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.

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“I want to do something good every day of my life. I want to leave the Earth better than I found it.” - Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Great start of the week with the release of the episode 1 of season 3 of Degrees of Freedom! Marco Carvalho guided @tsarampalis and me through a heartfelt exploration of Freire’s critical pedagogy and the role of education as a mean for liberation. Don’t miss it: soundcloud.com/degrees_of_f...

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A good time to revisit the @techwontsave.us episode "Abolish Venture Capital" with @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social: techwontsave.us/episode/180_...

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Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible. niemanreports.org

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So many thoughts today after visiting a highly selective college with our daughter that we all believe is the place for her. I know she has the stuff to be a valuable member of that learning community. I know she has the stuff to get in. The question is, will she? So many thoughts. #EduSky

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Went to the laundromat this morning for blankets, left w/ powerful learning about the work needed. A woman working there also drives a school bus, doesn’t feel supported in addressing impactful student behavior. Driver shortage or not, we must support our staff, teach our students. #EduSky

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The reasoning this conflict needs.

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Looking for suggestions and best practices on how to activate students in mass lecture setting (~200 students) #EduSky

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My latest blog post, my thoughts on Ibram Kendi and the demise or anti racism work.

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Ended the week w/ a professionally nourishing post-observation follow-up w/ a teacher. Our district admin are in PD w/ a consultant to improve & calibrate feedback. I hosted a team of 7, incl our superintendent. Of all our commendations & recommendations, teacher found mine the best in a blind read.

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