I blend pedagogy with education technology to support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy skills.
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Morning, #sunchat. Long time, no see as I'm mostly a Twitter ghost nowadays, I'm Brian. I support MS students & staff at a K-12 public charter school in CO to grow our literacy skills. Anyone else amused by today's inadvertently connected threads: class mgmt & caring for strays?
Look at Jozette practicing what she preaches: reading the room where she is &, nimbly, flexibly, being willing to change. #sunchat
My toddler awakes... I have to go. My takeaways from today: know your content, know your students, stay up to date with what's happening in educational research, organizations, debates, etc., and be willing to change based on any of the aforementioned! #sunchat
Recent advice re: lecture from the always practical @cultofpedagogy: cultofpedagogy.com/better-le… Whatever tool a teacher might pull from their bag of tricks, that move is well done when it's purposeful. And best done when we look back to see the extent to which it worked. #sunchat
Ratio? As much as possible. Yet: Readiness of learners to carry that load independently or as part of a group varies, so planning for different & multiple on- & off-ramps, supports & extensions, is tricky best practice that relies on all other practices. #sunchat
Lecture/Notes has its place, but daily can be tedious UNLESS the lecturer has the personality to carry it (like storytelling to toddlers, you need to add to the show!). Not all people do. How much class time do we need to turn over to students each day? Ratio? #sunchat
Greetings, #sunchat. I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacies. And just like that last plural noun, pedagogies, practices, & ways to teach are similarly multiple in my experience.
In November, I got back into a YA reading groove. Among my favorites to recommend: Everything Sad is Untrue (Nayeri), We Are Okay (Lacour), Airborn (Oppel). I'm currently ~100 pages into Librarian of Auschwitz (Iturbe), which is simultaneously gripping & harrowing. #pd4uandme
Greetings, #pd4uandme. I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy skills. While I'm not big on holiday observations myself, I do appreciate gifts of time often bestowed when holidays are marked.
Echoing a post inviting data for student research. Just four questions. Thanks for helping out if you can.
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And not just *would* they, but how might that community's makeup change if it were behind a paywall?
Anyone done research on that?? (i.e., Demographics of free, freemium, and pay-for online services) I suspect the data set qualifies as proprietary.
#satchat
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Irony alert: Several people touting a platform named after an extinct animal (Mastodon!) as a hedge against fears that a little blue bird may someday no longer exist. #satchat
Greetings, #satchat. I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy skills. A1 I subscribe to old saw about smartest person in the room being the room, so Twitter has helpfully put me in a bigger room.
Greetings, #sunchat. I give this chat an A+ 😉 I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy schools -- which sometimes includes sense-making in the domain of grades.
Time for me to slip out the side door, #sunchat. Thanks as always for the reflective virtual space & double-gratitude for those who turn ideas into actions. Best to you for your Sundays.
Greetings, #sunchat. I'm Brian. I support MS students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy skills. As someone intrigued by words, I'm caught by the phrase 'pre-service.' Isn't someone in this role *actually* serving - perhaps as an apprentice?
Thanks for sharing your thinking & wondering, #sunchat. Maybe we can all give ourselves gold stars or A-pluses for participation, assuming we can justify such high marks :)
Morning, #sunchat. I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff to grow our literacy skills at a public charter school in Colorado. I'm part of a group of 8th-grade teachers piloting (slightly) alternative grading practices: only summative results count, practice=ungraded.
Updates where I am: Our school schedule has stayed the same for 1st time in probably 5 years. So (irony alert!) that's a change. For back-to-school night, we're scrapping whirlwind of parents following kids' class schedules for <10 minutes per period for an open house. #sunchat
FYI: the schedule that's settled for now iwhere I teach is all block (90-minute periods) for MS & HS, four blocks per day, with alternating odd- and even-period days. #sunchat
Morning, #sunchat. I'm Brian. I support middle-school students & staff at a public charter school in Colorado to grow our literacy skills. Tomorrow, we start our 3rd week of classes, including a revamped back-to-school night for grown-ups.
I'll parry Q2 w/another Q: How might we counteract education's long-lived siloing systems by sifting, sharing, & acting on information in ways that serve more students more effectively? #satchat