Tonight in parenting: The toothless wonder productively struggles with the ‘th’ and ‘ff’ sounds as he and Dad read “If You Give a Pig a Pancake.” It’s the hardest thing. And the best thing. (This applies to parenting. And teaching.)

The @eactl.bsky.social team has been w/ @flintk12.bsky.social from the start. They’re building AI that adds friction—the good kind that deepens thinking & helps teachers see learning more clearly. The tool’s evolved fast, the team listens deeply, & it’s been a privilege to collaborate along the way.

“That’s my little brother. Knock it off or we’ll have a problem.” —The unhinged 8 year old defending his capital I shaped 5 year old little brother during standard sideline shenanigans.

If you’re a parent yelling for an 80/20 handball at midfield in a U-10 town soccer game on a Wednesday night I am simply asking you to reevaluate your entire life.

Well-reasoned article on how to think about K-12 classroom assessment (higher ed to some degree) given #GenAI. Much to like here, including the authors' sober approach, detailing of history, and focus on promoting "assessment with integrity in the face of AI." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

It’s Rivalry Week at EA — a reminder that the best performances, on the field or in the classroom, come from preparation and care. Good coaching and good teaching share the same playbook: clear goals, calm under pressure, and care for the people doing the work. 🏅 #RivalryWeek #WDYNWednesday

Excited to read the book based on Berkeley's Sense and Sensibility and Science course (sensibility.berkeley.edu/index.php?ti...). If you enjoyed Calling Bullshit, you'll find this a real treat. Thanks, Saul!

Major voting issue in Downingtown (Chester County) PA where they’ve printed the primary book and not the general election book. So all unaffiliated voters need to complete a provisional ballot, per the poll workers. Stay hot, democracy.

Sure his team is getting rocked but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to be an absolute menace out there. Kid’s a problem. My sideline editing skills are not.

Me watching TRL after school in the late 90s

You mean to tell me a guy named Bieber on the Toronto Bluejays gave up the game winning homer in extra innings in game 7 of the World Series and you think we’re not living in a simulation?!?

B A S E B A L L

BASEBALL

Welp. Ohtani is going to hit a ball that wins the World Series, yes?

I’ve never told a lie online. Dad usually takes the Overs only. But he took the under tonight. And Dad won.

Now teaching the kids about gambling by betting on how long it takes for the cat to catch the mouse in the garage. It’s called range. Look it up.

Teaching the oldest how not to be a dusty man, because I refuse to raise pigeons in this house.

Let’s get after it folks.

I am simply going to perish.

Elbow deep in far too elaborate pumpkin carving while helping the 3rd grader with math homework. Welcome to Hell.

Tonight in parenting Me: “Fellas you’re so inept right now you couldn’t find water if you fell out of a rowboat in the middle of Lake Superior.” Child 1: “What’s inept mean?” Child 2: “Where’s my hat?” (While wearing the hat in question)

This week’s WDYN gets a little spooky. 👻 Behind every strong lesson is a bit of mystery, a well-placed trick, and a treat worth sharing. From Webb’s Depth of Knowledge to curiosity and AI design—peek behind the curtain with us.

If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

I've been sitting on a resource for weeks because I wanted to make a spider web pun for the Halloween edition of @eactl.bsky.social s WDYN. Tomorrow...it's time.

This hot take was brought to you by me using the ChatGPT Atlas browser a bunch this afternoon to blow the doors off of some seemingly solid and potentially useful speed bumps in learning design. I need to write this up this week.

We can’t win the AI arms race in schools—there’ll always be another tool that tests what we value most. Banning is unrealistic and arguably irresponsible. Careful exploration, mistakes and all, is the only way to truly understand how teaching and learning evolve in the AI era.

Oh God, Penn State is going to hire Brian Kelly aren’t they….

I know a ground ball hate to see him coming. Dude is locked in on game day. LEGGO.

3 kids. 3 distinct personalities. 1. Earnest but very goofy 2. Utterly unhinged & about to jump into the fire 3. Sweet on the surface but a burgeoning criminal mastermind. Being a dad makes me a way better teacher and so appreciative of K-8 folks. I am so tired.

Club lacrosse family loading. See you tomorrow in northern Maryland…literally all day long.

It’s a practice. There is endless open space. But my magnetic personality has once again drawn people irrationally close to me on the soccer sideline.

5 year old opened the garage door for me when I got home tonight. He then sprinted outside and gleefully informed me, “Butt starts with B!” Really crushing the whole Dad thing.

I’ve been long on @flintk12.bsky.social since the start, but just helped a teacher build a research tutor on the 2008 financial crisis that blew my mind. Tons of productive friction baked in. It’s the kind of AI use that actually strengthens thinking, not shortcuts it.

THE PHILLIES DIED SO TYRESE MAXEY & VJ EDGECOMBE COULD FLOURISH. (I know @stephenthompson.bsky.social hates to see this)

Lobbing a grenade into the kids’ lacrosse Team Snap parent chat. Let’s see where this goes. 👀

What do a pit crew, a Pixar co-founder, a Pomona professor, and the Principles of Instruction have in common? They all remind us that teaching gets better at the edges. 🧠 WDYN Wednesday: Small Moves for Bigger Learning

I like to fold laundry to the tune of Judas Priest’s ‘Breaking the Law’—but I change the lyrics to “Folding the Clothes, Folding the clothes” while I do it as a kind of little treat to myself. Like and subscribe for more middle age life hacks.

I love when my colleagues do good work & make that work public. That’s been happening more frequently via Substack of late. Here’s my @eactl.bsky.social colleague Andrew Shimrock doing so with a healthy dose of inspiration from Robert Talbert’s Grading for Growth work.

Students: Canvas is down! Me: Great! Go be in nature. You can write your answers and I can collect them on paper. Students: 🤯🤯🤯

‘Reading the Landscape Environmental History Field Exercise’ during long block in US History today inspired by the work of William Cronon. “What ideas about progress, beauty, or order seem built into this space?”

I don’t get to cook as frequently as I want to b/c of kids’ schedules but sometimes (usually Sundays) I get after it. Pork tenderloin with white bean ragu and fennel-apple slaw. We cooked with this one. Creative. Meditative. Restorative. Cooking is love.

It’s lit.

The haterz and the loserz said we could never. But they were WRONG. WRONG! #cinematic

“No one is here to watch you blow the whistle.” My 5 year old, quite loudly, to the U10 soccer referee, after another random call, parroting what his father has been muttering quietly, for the last 10 minutes.

Something I tell my kids (3 boys—10, 8, & 5) daily: There’s a better version of the thing you want to emulate. And it’s your responsibility to be that better version. That’s how progress happens. Copy? Yes. But remix for what is needed. Cut things. Add them. Make it better.

We regret to inform you that the Cerenzia boys (Dad, mostly) are at it again. There goes the neighborhood.

One of the really telling (equally parts impressive and depressing) is when the kids do more than the adults—coaches and officials—to regulate a game. Youth sports, still terrible.

Area Man Hydrates Once, Takes Existential Breath—Enters Halloween Décor Spiral Tracing Every Life Choice Back to This Exact Moment in Time. (Pearl Jam’s Better Man plays solemnly in his headphones)

Sketchplanations is one of my favorite things ever. Love seeing this collab.

Delighted to welcome students and teachers from Archmere Academy this morning to explore our Center for Teaching & Learning—diving into the Science of Learning, the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, and what it means to translate research into practice.