Yearly Archives: 2022

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To what things do we as teachers in classrooms tend to be blind? Where should we look to better understand what is happening in our class?

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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in February 2022…

• The World Becomes What We Teach, Zoe Weil (education)
• The Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
• Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
• Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
• Santiago, Mike Resnick (sci fi)
• The Crimson Queen, Alec Hutson (fantasy)
• The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley (fantasy)

Hope you’re reading something fun too!

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We believe in thanking our sources! This post was sourced from the following blog/website: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2022/03/doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again.html

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Hechinger Report just published an article on how having teachers study student data doesn’t actually result in better student learning outcomes.

Think about that for a minute. That finding is pretty counterintuitive, right? For at least two decades now we have been asking teachers to take summative and formative data and analyze the heck out of them. We create data teams and data walls. We implement benchmarking assessments and professional learning communities (PLCs). We make graphs and charts and tables. We sort and rank students and we flag and color code their data… And yet, research study after research study confirms that all of it has no positive impact on student learning:

[Heather Hill, professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education] “reviewed 23 student outcomes from 10 different data programs used in schools and found that the majority showed no benefits for students” . . . . Similarly, “another pair of researchers also reviewed studies on the use of data analysis in schools, much of which is produced by assessments throughout the school year, and reached the same conclusion. ‘Research does not show that using interim assessments improves student learning,’ said Susan Brookhart, professor emerita at Duquesne University and associate editor of the journal Applied Measurement in Education.” 

All of that time. All of that energy. All of that effort. Most of it for nothing. NOTHING.

No wonder the long-term reviews of standards-, testing-, and data-oriented educational policy and reform efforts have concluded that they are mostly a complete waste. We’re not closing gaps with other countries on international assessments. Instead, our own country’s achievement gaps are widening. The same patterns are occurring with our own national assessments here in the United States. Similarly, our efforts to ‘toughen’ teacher evaluations also show no positive impact on students. It’s all pointless. POINTLESS.

The past two decades have been incredibly maddening and demoralizing for millions of educators and students. And for what? NOTHING.

Are school administrators even paying attention? Or are they still leaning into outdated, unproductive paradigms of school reform?

This was the line in the article that really stood out for me:

Most commonly, teachers review or re-teach the topic the way they did the first time or they give a student a worksheet for more practice drills.

In other words, in school after school, across all of these different studies, our response to students who are struggling is to… do the same thing again. Good grief.

Make school different.

 

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The relationship between learning goals & empathy may be unclear. What and why we choose to study are deeply human pursuits.

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Basketball players on the Wind River Reservation say masks keep them healthy and on the court. They're thankful the mandates won't be lifted anytime soon.

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Covering content and preparing students for life success are not the same thing.

 

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The universal language of data is a great way to let students explore the diversity of customs, traditions, and ever-changing trends during the holiday season. Discover Data resources incorporate real-world data that connects classroom experiences to what’s current in students’ lives today. 

Created in partnership between the Nielsen Foundation, the National Afterschool Association and Discovery Education, the recently redesigned Discover Data program provides standards-aligned, no-cost resources that support educators, students, and communities in timely learning and valuable skill-building. 

Celebrate the diversity of student perspectives on the holidays and discover exciting new common ground with the Data During the Holidays curriculum connector. This interactive resource offers a variety of activities that make it easy for students to apply a data lens beyond the classroom—including opportunities to involve family and friends in a fun data dive into personal traditions and national consumer trends during the holidays. 

Learn more about each of the hands-on activities designed to engage middle and high school students in data-driven STEM learning during the holidays. 

A Feast of Data
Inspire student and family connections over the holidays using the simple power of data. Giving Thanks – A Holiday Tradition explores family food preferences during the holidays along with historical trends in America when it comes to Thanksgiving meal. 

Holiday Powerup
Highlight a common item on many kids’ gift wish list with an activity exploring the most popular video games purchased during the holiday shopping season. Power Up – Video Games During the Holidays lets students use graphic representations of data to recognize emerging trends. 

Holiday Sweet Spots
Get a taste for seasonal candy buying habits with this delectable data activity. In Sweet Treats – Exploring the Candy Aisle, students use national data to learn more about the connection between seasonal consumer trends and holiday advertising strategies. 

Snowballing Data
Take students’ data investigations to the next level by combining different insights from the previous activities. Collecting Data gets students thinking creatively about how they can utilize data learning to successfully connect with others. 

You can expand on the Data During the Holidays curriculum connector with a companion data set handout, along with key vocabulary terms to support conversation. Visit Discover Data to take holiday learning even further with additional ready-to-use resources, including an empowering career profile with a female professional who uses data to make sense of the seasonal consumer shopping habits she observes. 

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School resources are always limited, whether they be time, money, attention, energy, or personnel. Before you hire an outside helper for your school(s), here are some questions you might ask…

• Are we bringing in this person to actually help us do something?
• Or do we just want to dabble and/or pretend that we care about the topic? 
• Or are we just doing it because others are / it’s a hot topic right now?
• How does this work fit in with our other current initiatives?
• How will we help our employees, students, and families understand the connections with our other work?
• How much of a priority is this work compared to our other initiatives?
• What will we do beforehand to optimize our employees’ chances of being successful with this?
• What’s our follow-up plan afterward?
• What additional support structures, leadership behaviors, professional learning, expectations, timelines, deadlines, financial and time resources, personnel, monitoring mechanisms, etc. will be put into place to support this work?
• Will this work be supported at the very highest levels of the school organization? How?
• Are these new supports adequate for the work to be successful?
• Do we have a fighting chance to actually do this right now?
• Or are we just fooling ourselves?
• Do we have both the will and capacity to actually make this happen?
• What are we currently doing that conflicts with or will obstruct our success with this new work?
• What concerns will our employees, students, and families raise about this work?
• What is our plan for addressing those?

Some questions to ask the outside helper (before you hire them) include…

• Can you actually help us do something? (i.e., can you help us with the WHAT and the HOW, not just the WHY?)
• Or are you just going to tell us we should do something and then leave?
• What should we do beforehand to optimize our employees’ chances of being successful with this?
• How much time do we need with you to get started successfully on this?
• What will that work look like (and why)?
• How much time do we need after you work with us to get started successfully on this?
• What does that work look like (and why)?
• What barriers, challenges, and other concerns should we expect as we head into this work?
• How can you help us with those?
• What kinds of follow-up resources and supports can you provide us?
• What do those look like (and why)?

These are just a few to get started… What else would you add here?

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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2022…

• Escape Pod, Mur Lafferty & S.B. Divya (Eds.) (sci fi)
• Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
• A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
• The Bone Ships, RJ Barker (fantasy)
• A King’s Bargain, J. D. L. Rosell (fantasy)
• A Queen’s Command, J. D. L. Rosell (fantasy)
• Cities in Space, Jerry Pournelle & John Carr (sci fi)
• Legend, David Gemmell (fantasy)

Hope you’re reading something fun too!

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