Always love seeing isolated monsoon downpours this time of year… instagram.com/p/C-_gl42S1n9/… #ThePhotoHour #azwx

Morning in the orchards, evening in the desert… #azwx #ThePhotoHour instagram.com/p/C_FG3IkxD1Q/…

The prospect of students using AI to write essays should alarm everyone. The purpose of education isn’t to pass exams, it’s to become someone who can read deeply, who can communicate, who can think. We mustn’t farm out our minds to machines.

TIME (Palindrome by Word) Time keeps forever. It grows us in light. The unfurling days see shadows turn. In turn, shadows see days unfurling. The light in us grows. It forever keeps time.

"Learning styles" is one of those myths that has been scientifically debunked over and over again -- yet people not acquainted with the scientific literature continually conjure it up from the grave like a zombie. The "kernel of truth" is that people differ in the mode in which

Saturday evening in the desert: #azwx #ThePhotoHour Tucson AZ instagram.com/p/C_XEWHGx5Tl/… @apple #shotoniPhone

(Seriously: this essay is a must-read in so many classrooms this school year. The sooner the better.)

“—AND!!!” Kids&Schools need: skills AND knowledge practice AND play imagination AND facts discipline AND love routine AND spontaneity teachers AND parents —STOP with the tyranny of “either this OR that”— education should not be a bi-polar tyranny!

I went to HS and did my student-teaching in Georgia… more meaningless violence, and amidst the all-too-real grief, more performative ‘thoughtsandprayers’ among all the broken lives today…it’s just seemingly endless in this country… unbelievable-yet-all-too-believable. AGAIN.

The two teachers murdered today at Apalachee High School: Christina Irimie & Richard Aspinwall Atlanta News First

This. Is. “Normal.” ⁉️ Wish I could say “unbelievable,” but that would not be honest. How long…?!?!?! This teacher (went to HS in Georgia, did my student-teaching there) is beyond-tired…beyond-words…and beyond-disgusted at the performative-thoughts-&-prayers from politicians…

School shooter drills when the school shooter already attends the school just makes him a more deadly school shooter. That this is seen as the answer to gun violence, and not, idk, actual gun laws, is a reminder that sadly, very dumb and cruel people are in charge of our country.

It’s hard to be a teacher today after the news from yesterday But it’s harder still to be a student. So we’ll go do the best we can today. For them

Another morning-after-another-school-shooting: outrage, mourning—and cowardice—with seemingly no end in sight… 😣

This has been posted & reposted 37 times over the years. Thirty. Seven. Times.

BREAKING: Father of Georgia school shooter has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter