There’s no teaching strategy good enough to fix weak instructional design and materials. Turn and talks won’t save us from poorly written and poorly aligned curriculum. #EduSky

happy almost-end-of-the-year!

"However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results. As we’ve seen, that tool will rarely be digital in nature." substack.com/home/post/p-...

You don’t realize how reliant you are on technology until your screen breaks. Here’s to whiteboards and portable bluetooth speakers!

This: in 2025 and beyond, I am definitely reminding myself that "writing = job skill" needs to be de-centered in my own communication to students Instead: agency, thinking, understanding, reflection, joy. And so much more.

Reminders-to-self for 2025: 1️⃣ it's more important to be curious than efficient 2️⃣ it's more important to be curious than productive 3️⃣ it's more important to be curious than, well, most things

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150 cups of cocoa, five cans of whipped cream, and countless marshmallows later… final essays are done! This week was a reminder that we can do anything (even back-to-back projects) with a little sugary motivation.

In our busy, pressured world, you need the sounds of a forest more than ever. What a wonderful project this is! www.tree.fm

People will say that students need to be prepared for the real world as if the real world doesn't include joy, curiosity, self-discovery, and grace. #EduSky

During long independent work days, I love using this visual pacing for students to monitor their own progress (writing/erasing/rewriting their names as they move to each step)!

I really, really try hard to consume some of the same media my students do so I can use it as reference in class/for conversations, but I have tried to watch Outer Banks so many times and have yet again failed.

I usually have to take a year(s) long break in between reading Fredrik Backman books, and I’m finally reading “The Winners.” Backman’s focus on humanity as complex and evil and full of love and how all those ideas coexist is what I need right now.

The uncountable hours I spent reading and watching political coverage and at the end I had no idea what world I was living in, I just thought I did. If I'd spent that time reading about, say, birds, I would now know an awful lot about an awful lot of birds.