Aristocratic Educator
@TradamWest
Teacher/Hoosiers/Golf/Amateur Chef
Teachers pay union dues so that they don’t have to be activists for the profession. That’s what all union bosses do, including police unions.
"students spend a total of just two hours a day on subjects like reading and math, using A.I.-driven software." Son of a biscuit, people, how many times do you have to see this movie before you know how it ends? nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/…
“Hot Priests” is a solid band name.
Vatican to host ‘hot priests’ influencers who spread word of God to younger faithful as numbers slump trib.al/hP6MjxX
Every child learns differently is true in a trivial sense. —@DTWillingham It’s false in a meaningful sense because we learn through the same processes (spaced retrieval opportunities, motivation, etc) which allows for best practices.
Me in front of the students Monday morning 😆
Q: Can I ask why you're in a bad mood? Was it a bad morning of golf? Trump: “No, the golf was beautiful. Golf can never be bad even if you play badly”
Look, this is a stupid idea in a losing PR campaign. But it’s got the accounts on here all riled up, which may have been its purpose all along.
Randi Weingarten just announced "a partnership with the World Economic Forum to create a curriculum.."
The most common question I'm asked is "What else?" If not project-based learning and Dewey, what should teachers read? You've convinced me direction instruction works. So how do I do it well? Here are 5 resources to get teachers started A mini-🧵
“When we hand a ten-year-old a smartphone with access to infinite content streams, we are not liberating them; we are subjecting them to thousands of micro-decisions every day about what to watch, whom to follow, how to respond, and whether to keep scrolling.”
NEW POST: A lot of the evidence on smartphones and kids is correlational but what does that mean for parents and schools? Link in reply ⬇️
The only rule for PD should be that it should be incredibly useful for most teachers. Fun/entertainment is meaningless.
SCHOOL LEADERS: Professional development should NEVER be boring!!! 📚 With August and fall booking up fast let’s set up a back to school keynote, workshop on engagement, or day of breakouts for your teachers or school leaders! Reach Out Today ⬇️ jonathanalsheimer.com
The best tweets ever on this app, for wildly different reasons: 1. Perfection. I don’t think this can ever be topped. Two sentence, concise. Not a single unnecessary word.
He means some OTHER names besides Trump.
Trump just dropped some names on the Epstein list Bill Clinton Former President of Harvard Hedge Fund exexutives This is news
New reporting reveals Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name appeared "multiple times" in the Epstein files.
New reporting reveals Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name appeared "multiple times" in the Epstein files.
New teacher-first-day-of-school outfit just dropped
Attire for Beef O Brady’s tonight White counterfeit Jeff Blauser jersey, white wraparound Oakleys, white jeans, white LA gear lights, letter jacket, and 17 pumps of McGraw Southern Blend cologne
There are very few “bad schools.”
Republican governors are cracking down on soda and candy bought with SNAP dollars. Checker Finn asks: Will they apply the same scrutiny to low-quality schools and shady providers funded by school choice programs? fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
They have no new ideas. Just take money away from kids’ schools again and again. It’s all they’ve got. It’s 2010 all over again.
Charter schools, microschools, and other kinds of schools that aren’t considered underperforming could benefit. chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/0…
Respectfully, this number exists to see if you’re stupid. There’s no “we.” The amount spent on students is different in every state because the cost of living changes, among other things. Using an average is insane.
We spend $19,999 per child per year in public schools. Imagine if that money went directly to families. A teacher could set up a microschool with just 12 students and pull in $239,988 in revenue each year.
My district, which I love, has far too many administrators. Especially in the front office.
Cool. Now do how much all the useless admin staff makes compared to teachers. Because that's where too much tax money gets set on fire instead of paying their salary.