Mark Gilson 🌱
@markwgilson
Engineer, data scientist, data researcher, data visualization specialist.
Thank you to Minnesota Partnership For Achievement for nominating local ISDFA Kits for the national EdPrize innovation in education competition. Check out their submission video here:
The MN Dept of Education just released a video praising restorative practices at Oak Ridge Elementary in ISD 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan), here's a summary. Instead of focusing on academics, staff and students now spend significant time in circles, talking about feelings,…
School districts will start to feel this enrollment strain and it's important they adapt. It's not the district's fault they can't afford their current staff and infrastructure, but they will be responsible to scale accordingly... without demanding more $$$.
The birth rate - which has steadily fallen for 30+ yrs - is the leading indicator of the fin sustainability of U.S. public schools. ~75% of $s for pub schools is determined by enrollment; these funding mechanisms were created during the baby boom & most haven't been modernized.
Tomorrow @EdAlliesMN is hosting a "State of Education 2025" event (x.com/EdAlliesMN/sta…) where one of the guest speakers is Brenda Lewis, superintendent of @FPS_District14. Earlier this year, Brenda and some members of the board engaged in political rhetoric and loyalty…
What’s the state of education in Minnesota—and where do we go from here? Join us 7/24 at 11AM at UROC for State of Education 2025 to unpack new data, recent legislation, and the future of learning in our state. Lunch included! #mnleg RSVP at eventbrite.com/e/state-of-edu…
While returning home after a long vacation, my wife captured me staring out a window of the S.S. Badger into the abyss that is lake Michigan, contemplating its vastness and my general insignificance. I do love the Midwest. Back to the grind.
I appreciate her honesty. @bluesky is definitely an echo chamber.
I can't emphasize enough that I grok this frustration, and yes, public school teachers should opt out of union dues and turn their backs on what is now an ideologically captured, well funded entity (x.com/markwgilson/st…) that has turned their back on them. It's time…
Good Lord, if you haven’t already, take your kids out of public school. I know there are still good teachers out there in public schools, but until they rise up and stop supporting this brain dead mental illness nonsense, they all need to be put out of jobs.
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but…
Marx was a political philosopher of the late 1800s reckoning with the Industrial Revolution. He died before any communist, totalitarian governing regimes came into practical existence. The Communist Manifesto is an incisive critique of capitalism and everyone should read it. Just…