Math teacher with a law degree #factsmatter #CenterLeft #ObamaBidenDem #KnowledgeRich #CogSci DSA = MAGA
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Does direct instruction work? Some claimed Stockard et al. (2018) meta-analysis didn't compare DI to inquiry-based teaching for math. We reanalyzed the data. DI was significantly MORE effective than inquiry-based (d = 0.60, 95% CI = 0.49 to 0.70). @CECMembership @NCTM @ehanford
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Abdul’s base is white liberals
Abdul’s problem is Black Democrats
So he asked Obama to come in
And this is the crowd
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I’ve been preaching this for years! If attention is the starting point for learning, why are we designing our seating arrangements in ways that compromise a student’s ability to pay attention!?
At a stadium, the seats are in rows facing the field so people can pay attention to the game. At a concert, they’re in rows facing the stage so people can pay attention to the show. At a movie theater, they’re in rows facing the screen so people can pay attention to the movie. At a church, they’re in rows facing the pulpit so people can pay attention to the service.
Teachers,
Why are you putting kids in pods with seats that don’t face you? Don't you want them paying attention to you?
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
People don't believe me when I tell them that curriculum companies and educational consultants are actively undermining teachers' attempts to teach novels but here you go.
2-3 WEEKS to teach an entire novel is absurd!
heinemann.com/blog/a-student…
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
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"Despite their appeal, many of the most popular ideas in math education are unsupported by high-quality evidence, are applied at the wrong stage of learning, or work against learning." @rastokke
@ToddTruitt76508 @oliviajune82 @smarterparrot @TriciaBurt
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Anyone who dare says memorization is not necessary in education, is not a credible educator. There is nothing to dispute the importance of memorization despite many attempts to downplay it in contemporary public education.
Ben Solomon: Memorization should not be a dirty word in math. Adults are the problem, NOT kids. Kids are proud when they memorize math facts. This is essential for later math.
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Non-examples of fluency from Ben Solomon
As I have said before vague definitions that can’t be measured are often cover for bad ideas.
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Socialists be like, "Westerners don't understand; Muslim countries cut people's heads off as a deterrent to others so they won't commit crimes. Also, abolish prisons adn the police; punishment is not a deterrent to crime"
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
When we make life a little harder for kids now, we make it easier for them in the future.
Now, none of this means we should stop protecting kids. We just need to be careful not to OVER-protect them. Because in the end, it really doesn't help.
Co-written with smart gal @jen_barker_
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Them: "Getting the right answer in math is a Western construct!"
Me: "Say that again, slowly, and ask yourself who is the real racist here..."
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a conference session on unpacking eurocentrism in math class and ethnomathematics
Are we still doing this?!
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Anita Archer: “We cannot afford to use methods that do not make children smarter”
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Twitter/X broke the education schools’ stranglehold on teachers’ minds in the US. I am grateful.
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
But why would you call it 'oracy'? It's like calling mathematics 'numeracy'. Why swap out perfectly serviceable everyday words and replace them with pretentious ones?
You can call it oracy. It’s ok! And there’s plenty of evidence. ‘Ofsted anything’ isn’t an argument . Concerns are one thing .. wild trashing is another . It’s been mental. .
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Seeing our friends in the edu fauxgressive community react to @ehanford’s Sold a Story 2 the same way a possessed person reacts to holy water has put me in quite the festive Halloween mood…
features.apmreports.org/sold…
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Adult literacy/GED students debating the meanings of the words preclude and exclude.
Included in the discussion were the specific meanings of the prefixes and the shared base word. 🤯
The Word Mapping Project continues to blow our minds!
(Thoughts? Can you preclude the use of a calculator on a test? Can you exclude calculators from the test?)
@wordmappingproject
@smorrisey
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
We have been overdue for a conversation about math curriculum, and every teacher I know sounds like this RN.
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
He says Israel is NOT our ally. NOT our ally. Look, hate Netanyahu all you want, oppose the current Israeli government all you want, but if you don’t believe Israel is our ally, you don’t belong in the U.S. Senate. No Jew in Michigan who supports the state of Israel should vote for him. He just plain hates Israel. Fuck him.
Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed shared his views on U.S.-Israel relations, saying he does not consider Israel an American ally: “I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is not actually our friend.”
Watch the full conversation tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC News Live Prime’s “All Access with Linsey Davis” streaming on @disneyplus and @hulu.
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Mike Sullivan🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Any American who believes that the Jewish inhabitants of Israel are there illegitimately should also be prepared themselves to pack their bags and go back to wherever their ancestors came from. Anything less is hypocrisy. Put your money where your mouth is.
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