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The Best PD…
is the one that not only speaks to you in the moment but also stays with you and becomes part of your process.
I first heard of John Antonetti and his work in the 2020-2021 school year. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it hit me this week just how much his work has become part of my planning.
John is the author/co-author of several books: Writing as a Measure and Model of Thinking, 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Powerful Task Design, and the upcoming The Architecture of Thinking, which I am anxiously awaiting.
I was introduced to his work through the Missouri Teacher Development System’s Teachers Academy. I’ve read all three of his existing books at least twice. I’ve now been fortunate enough to see him speak virtually twice and in person five times, soon to be six. I’ve presented PD sessions on his work twice.
His rigor matrix lives in my head. I find myself asking how I can +1 this task at least once a week. My partner and I were creating a connections game on Flippity after the history teachers introduced us to it. I loved the idea, but I started thinking about where it would fall on the rigor matrix, and since there are set answers, obviously it’s below the rigor divide. My next thought was: how can I +1 the activity? My first thought was to give the kids the terms only on paper rather than on the computer and let them sort the words and create their own categories. Almost immediately afterwards, I decided the kids could make their own connections board. So, I created a doc with a table for them to do just that. We’re going to try that either later this week or next.
This week we’re doing hexagonal thinking. I’ve seen it but hadn’t actually used it in class. I think I was hesitant because all of the examples I’d seen required providing all of the words for the kids. Then, this summer at a PD session, we did HT, but we were given a prompt first and wrote a word or phrase on a blank hex. That sparked my interest. So my partner and I are doing HT on superheroes this week. We are including a blank for each student. She then suggested that kids each get an additional word or two and go add them to another group’s layout. Both the blank and adding to someone else’s raise the rigor.
I love that I’ve found something that means I can often make a small change and increase the rigor and engagement of thinking. I can’t wait to see John in a few weeks and learn from him again. I can’t wait to read the new book he’s writing with Terri Stice and see what else I can add to my classroom routines to help my students improve their thinking.
#education #engagement #hexagonalThinking #JohnAntonetti #learning #professionalDevelopment #rigor #RigorMatrix #studentEngagement #teacher #teachers #teaching #writing -
The Best PD…
is the one that not only speaks to you in the moment but also stays with you and becomes part of your process.
I first heard of John Antonetti and his work in the 2020-2021 school year. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it hit me this week just how much his work has become part of my planning.
John is the author/co-author of several books: Writing as a Measure and Model of Thinking, 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Powerful Task Design, and the upcoming The Architecture of Thinking, which I am anxiously awaiting.
I was introduced to his work through the Missouri Teacher Development System’s Teachers Academy. I’ve read all three of his existing books at least twice. I’ve now been fortunate enough to see him speak virtually twice and in person five times, soon to be six. I’ve presented PD sessions on his work twice.
His rigor matrix lives in my head. I find myself asking how I can +1 this task at least once a week. My partner and I were creating a connections game on Flippity after the history teachers introduced us to it. I loved the idea, but I started thinking about where it would fall on the rigor matrix, and since there are set answers, obviously it’s below the rigor divide. My next thought was: how can I +1 the activity? My first thought was to give the kids the terms only on paper rather than on the computer and let them sort the words and create their own categories. Almost immediately afterwards, I decided the kids could make their own connections board. So, I created a doc with a table for them to do just that. We’re going to try that either later this week or next.
This week we’re doing hexagonal thinking. I’ve seen it but hadn’t actually used it in class. I think I was hesitant because all of the examples I’d seen required providing all of the words for the kids. Then, this summer at a PD session, we did HT, but we were given a prompt first and wrote a word or phrase on a blank hex. That sparked my interest. So my partner and I are doing HT on superheroes this week. We are including a blank for each student. She then suggested that kids each get an additional word or two and go add them to another group’s layout. Both the blank and adding to someone else’s raise the rigor.
I love that I’ve found something that means I can often make a small change and increase the rigor and engagement of thinking. I can’t wait to see John in a few weeks and learn from him again. I can’t wait to read the new book he’s writing with Terri Stice and see what else I can add to my classroom routines to help my students improve their thinking.
#education #engagement #hexagonalThinking #JohnAntonetti #learning #professionalDevelopment #rigor #RigorMatrix #studentEngagement #teacher #teachers #teaching #writing -
The Best PD…
is the one that not only speaks to you in the moment but also stays with you and becomes part of your process.
I first heard of John Antonetti and his work in the 2020-2021 school year. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it hit me this week just how much his work has become part of my planning.
John is the author/co-author of several books: Writing as a Measure and Model of Thinking, 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Powerful Task Design, and the upcoming The Architecture of Thinking, which I am anxiously awaiting.
I was introduced to his work through the Missouri Teacher Development System’s Teachers Academy. I’ve read all three of his existing books at least twice. I’ve now been fortunate enough to see him speak virtually twice and in person five times, soon to be six. I’ve presented PD sessions on his work twice.
His rigor matrix lives in my head. I find myself asking how I can +1 this task at least once a week. My partner and I were creating a connections game on Flippity after the history teachers introduced us to it. I loved the idea, but I started thinking about where it would fall on the rigor matrix, and since there are set answers, obviously it’s below the rigor divide. My next thought was: how can I +1 the activity? My first thought was to give the kids the terms only on paper rather than on the computer and let them sort the words and create their own categories. Almost immediately afterwards, I decided the kids could make their own connections board. So, I created a doc with a table for them to do just that. We’re going to try that either later this week or next.
This week we’re doing hexagonal thinking. I’ve seen it but hadn’t actually used it in class. I think I was hesitant because all of the examples I’d seen required providing all of the words for the kids. Then, this summer at a PD session, we did HT, but we were given a prompt first and wrote a word or phrase on a blank hex. That sparked my interest. So my partner and I are doing HT on superheroes this week. We are including a blank for each student. She then suggested that kids each get an additional word or two and go add them to another group’s layout. Both the blank and adding to someone else’s raise the rigor.
I love that I’ve found something that means I can often make a small change and increase the rigor and engagement of thinking. I can’t wait to see John in a few weeks and learn from him again. I can’t wait to read the new book he’s writing with Terri Stice and see what else I can add to my classroom routines to help my students improve their thinking.
#education #engagement #hexagonalThinking #JohnAntonetti #learning #professionalDevelopment #rigor #RigorMatrix #studentEngagement #teacher #teachers #teaching #writing -
The Best PD…
is the one that not only speaks to you in the moment but also stays with you and becomes part of your process.
I first heard of John Antonetti and his work in the 2020-2021 school year. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it hit me this week just how much his work has become part of my planning.
John is the author/co-author of several books: Writing as a Measure and Model of Thinking, 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Powerful Task Design, and the upcoming The Architecture of Thinking, which I am anxiously awaiting.
I was introduced to his work through the Missouri Teacher Development System’s Teachers Academy. I’ve read all three of his existing books at least twice. I’ve now been fortunate enough to see him speak virtually twice and in person five times, soon to be six. I’ve presented PD sessions on his work twice.
His rigor matrix lives in my head. I find myself asking how I can +1 this task at least once a week. My partner and I were creating a connections game on Flippity after the history teachers introduced us to it. I loved the idea, but I started thinking about where it would fall on the rigor matrix, and since there are set answers, obviously it’s below the rigor divide. My next thought was: how can I +1 the activity? My first thought was to give the kids the terms only on paper rather than on the computer and let them sort the words and create their own categories. Almost immediately afterwards, I decided the kids could make their own connections board. So, I created a doc with a table for them to do just that. We’re going to try that either later this week or next.
This week we’re doing hexagonal thinking. I’ve seen it but hadn’t actually used it in class. I think I was hesitant because all of the examples I’d seen required providing all of the words for the kids. Then, this summer at a PD session, we did HT, but we were given a prompt first and wrote a word or phrase on a blank hex. That sparked my interest. So my partner and I are doing HT on superheroes this week. We are including a blank for each student. She then suggested that kids each get an additional word or two and go add them to another group’s layout. Both the blank and adding to someone else’s raise the rigor.
I love that I’ve found something that means I can often make a small change and increase the rigor and engagement of thinking. I can’t wait to see John in a few weeks and learn from him again. I can’t wait to read the new book he’s writing with Terri Stice and see what else I can add to my classroom routines to help my students improve their thinking.
#education #engagement #hexagonalThinking #JohnAntonetti #learning #professionalDevelopment #rigor #RigorMatrix #studentEngagement #teacher #teachers #teaching #writing -
The Best PD…
is the one that not only speaks to you in the moment but also stays with you and becomes part of your process.
I first heard of John Antonetti and his work in the 2020-2021 school year. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it hit me this week just how much his work has become part of my planning.
John is the author/co-author of several books: Writing as a Measure and Model of Thinking, 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Powerful Task Design, and the upcoming The Architecture of Thinking, which I am anxiously awaiting.
I was introduced to his work through the Missouri Teacher Development System’s Teachers Academy. I’ve read all three of his existing books at least twice. I’ve now been fortunate enough to see him speak virtually twice and in person five times, soon to be six. I’ve presented PD sessions on his work twice.
His rigor matrix lives in my head. I find myself asking how I can +1 this task at least once a week. My partner and I were creating a connections game on Flippity after the history teachers introduced us to it. I loved the idea, but I started thinking about where it would fall on the rigor matrix, and since there are set answers, obviously it’s below the rigor divide. My next thought was: how can I +1 the activity? My first thought was to give the kids the terms only on paper rather than on the computer and let them sort the words and create their own categories. Almost immediately afterwards, I decided the kids could make their own connections board. So, I created a doc with a table for them to do just that. We’re going to try that either later this week or next.
This week we’re doing hexagonal thinking. I’ve seen it but hadn’t actually used it in class. I think I was hesitant because all of the examples I’d seen required providing all of the words for the kids. Then, this summer at a PD session, we did HT, but we were given a prompt first and wrote a word or phrase on a blank hex. That sparked my interest. So my partner and I are doing HT on superheroes this week. We are including a blank for each student. She then suggested that kids each get an additional word or two and go add them to another group’s layout. Both the blank and adding to someone else’s raise the rigor.
I love that I’ve found something that means I can often make a small change and increase the rigor and engagement of thinking. I can’t wait to see John in a few weeks and learn from him again. I can’t wait to read the new book he’s writing with Terri Stice and see what else I can add to my classroom routines to help my students improve their thinking.
#education #engagement #hexagonalThinking #JohnAntonetti #learning #professionalDevelopment #rigor #RigorMatrix #studentEngagement #teacher #teachers #teaching #writing -
Every teacher has a story.
#studentmentalhealth #teachers #mentalhealthawareness #ymhc -
Save the date! Learn how Cultural Products (songs, postcards, art, fashion items, etc.) can be powerful classroom tools to boost student engagement in our new free Professional Development Webinar series. We'll be joined by the Silkroad Project. Don't miss it!
September 22, 2026, 4–6 pm PT / 7-9 pm ET
* Boosts Appreciated *
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/cultural-products-as-historical-narrative/
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Save the date! Learn how Cultural Products (songs, postcards, art, fashion items, etc.) can be powerful classroom tools to boost student engagement in our new free Professional Development Webinar series. We'll be joined by the Silkroad Project. Don't miss it!
September 22, 2026, 4–6 pm PT / 7-9 pm ET
* Boosts Appreciated *
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/cultural-products-as-historical-narrative/
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Save the date! Learn how Cultural Products (songs, postcards, art, fashion items, etc.) can be powerful classroom tools to boost student engagement in our new free Professional Development Webinar series. We'll be joined by the Silkroad Project. Don't miss it!
September 22, 2026, 4–6 pm PT / 7-9 pm ET
* Boosts Appreciated *
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/cultural-products-as-historical-narrative/
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Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a #teacher somewhat more catchy.
Many countries do have such an appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Appreciation_Day but not here in Austria.
Germany has its upcoming day on Oct 5th. Are schools closed on that day? 🤔
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Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a #teacher somewhat more catchy.
Many countries do have such an appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Appreciation_Day but not here in Austria.
Germany has its upcoming day on Oct 5th. Are schools closed on that day? 🤔
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Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a #teacher somewhat more catchy.
Many countries do have such an appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Appreciation_Day but not here in Austria.
Germany has its upcoming day on Oct 5th. Are schools closed on that day? 🤔
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Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a #teacher somewhat more catchy.
Many countries do have such an appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Appreciation_Day but not here in Austria.
Germany has its upcoming day on Oct 5th. Are schools closed on that day? 🤔
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Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a #teacher somewhat more catchy.
Many countries do have such an appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Appreciation_Day but not here in Austria.
Germany has its upcoming day on Oct 5th. Are schools closed on that day? 🤔
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My Chaos Demon
Every teacher has had them: that one child who changes the entire class. I’ve only ever had one who did it intentionally. Usually, they don’t know. They’re just being themselves.
This year, he’s a kiddo who clearly has been hand-held through everything. He also has clearly gotten away with more than he should through the years. When called out on his behavior, he smiles, and it’s clearly a “but I’m so cute” smile. Nope, sorry, kiddo, not gonna work on me. He wants someone to read everything to him and then give him the answers as well. Also not gonna happen.
This child avoids independent work at all costs, then wants to come to my room during other times to “work,” and then distracts that group and does no more work. Currently, he has a checklist he has to read to me and check off. This is 8th grade. These kids have to get ready for high school. This child is capable of independent work. There is no reason he can’t, except that he doesn’t want to. It’s going to be an interesting year trying to help him develop self-sufficiency.
#education #independentLearning #independentWork #learning #studentBehavior #teacher #teachers #teaching #workAvoidance -
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment. What utter nonsense is this? Yet another burden on #primary #School #teachers, another #fallacy in the "thinking" of #Labour #Ministers - namely that it's possible to identify #children aged 5-11 who might become #unemployed as #adults. Are we to "write off" entire #classes of #kids because of their #socioeconomic #backgrounds, is that it? And this from a "Labour" #Government!
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THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔
I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.
Teachers.
Masters.
People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.
I truly believed they knew something I did not.
Usually, they did.
They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.
Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.
Some discouraged it.
Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.
That should probably have told me something.
The arrangement was simple.
They were special.
And I became special by recognising how special they were.
Everybody won.
Except sanity.
A Course in Miracles does not do that.
Jesus does not need a fan club.
Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.
Truth does not make me special.
It does not ask me to become impressive.
It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.
It simply removes the need for the whole performance.
Everyone leaves this world.
Some leave quickly.
Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.
But everyone leaves.
So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.
I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.
I do not want anyone to be mine.
That sounds exhausting now anyway.
I want the ordinary love of Atonement.
No pedestal.
No inner circle.
No one pretending to be the answer.
Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.
Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.
Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.
Still, I am here now.
And the souvenir shop is closed.
#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎
When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.
I read all the books.
I listened to all the teachers.
I really tried to meditate.
I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.
I had tried hard to become peaceful.
Ha!
Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.
Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.
It was not real yet.
I was too busy being young.
Too hungry.
Too frightened.
Too unhappy.
Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.
Preferably by Friday.
Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.
That was a mistake.
Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.
They should be f**king each other.
Making new art.
Creating new music.
Building new things.
Making old mistakes.
Loving badly, then better.
Getting their hearts broken.
Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.
Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.
That is practically the entire curriculum.
The practice came later for me.
Much later.
Not because I finally became spiritually special.
Because I finally became ready.
The body changed.
Appetite changed.
The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.
Life had already had its way with me.
Repeatedly.
Profoundly.
Without asking anybody’s permission.
And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.
There is no white robe.
No celestial choir.
No soft lighting.
It feels simple.
I am already halfway there.
I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.
#truth #books #teachers #meditate #forgiveness #peaceful #practice #pride #young #world #choir #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
My teacher told me to put my books down for one week. I thought it would be easy.
It wasn't. Without my concepts, I had to feel what I'd been studying instead.
What has your body taught you that books couldn't?
#yoga #embodiedwisdom #teachers
#rishikesh #spiritualpractice #movementasmedicine
#yogaretreat #guruwisdom #bodywisdom -
A total of 281 teachers and staff at kindergartens, public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/sexual-misconduct-educators/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mext #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools #children #sexcrimes #kindergartens #teachers #surveys
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For anyone who hasn’t been following, the province hasn’t offered anything new beyond an offer that teachers already rejected months ago. They are counting on angry parents inconvenienced by a strike to turn on teachers. Let’s make sure we show our support for teachers loudly and often.
We’re on the same side - the side of our children.
Solidarity! -
Premier Smith thinks kids can continue learning in the event of a strike. Not sure how that’s going to work…
“I hope we don't have to roll out our contingency plan. Uh but we're doing active planning to make sure that that kids continue to have seamless education in the event that the teachers do go on strike” - Smith
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Alberta Teachers’ Association announces deadline: strike will commence on Monday Oct 6 if an agreement has not been reached.
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Industrial disputes & news - 30 July 2025
SA #doctors; QLD #nurses; #Komatsu; #Schindler; QLD #teachers; #BoomLogistics; QLD Dept of Transport & Roads; #GEAerospace; SA #healthcareworkers; #Infrabuild; Townsville City Council; #Glencore & more
(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-30-july?
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Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/us/missouri-lawmakers-felony-transgender-students-reaj/index.html #lgbt #transrights #Christiannationalism #education #teachers #transyouth #k12schools #k12education -
More Arkansas school districts hiring unlicensed teachers to cope with staff shortage - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/03/04/more-arkansas-school-districts-hiring-unlicensed-teachers-to-cope-with-staff-shortage
#arkansas #education #k12schools #schools #k12education #teachers #teaching #Teacherpay #teachershortage #arpx #arpolitics #ArkansasPolitics -
To Fix U.S. Education, Free Our Teachers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2024/02/23/to-fix-us-education-free-our-teachers/ #education #k12education #k12learning #k12 #learning #teachers #teacherstrike #teaching -
Cool thing about the #teachersStrike is seeing them out at restaurants this past week, eating together and enjoying their freedom.
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You know how weird things are these days? I repeatedly find myself rooting for the #CollegeBoard as defenders of #academic honesty and critical thinking.
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It Takes Practice to Become an Expert
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanTo become an expert at something, you have to practice that something.
Doctors and lawyers often use the term "practice" to describe their daily work.
Educators are the same. We practice every day. And we get a little better ever
https://mikepaul.com/2023/05/17/it-takes-practice-to-become-an-expert/
#books #DeeperLearning #education #EducationPolicy #StudentAgency #StudentCentered #students #teachers
