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Tied a Record Low
A recent Gallup poll showed that Americans' satisfaction with the quality of K12 education has matched a record low from 2000 in a survey...
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Sep 5, 20232 min read
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Not One-Size-Fits-All
Have you followed any of the news about reading instruction and programs coming out of New York? TLDR: the state is ditching a...
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Jun 20, 20232 min read
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Top 5
As this school year comes to a close and eyes turn towards the next, here is my top five biggest challenges facing our educational...
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Jun 13, 20232 min read
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Old School
"I like to keep an old-school paper grade book because you never know when the system will crash and lose everything." Quote from a...
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Jun 6, 20232 min read
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Stranger Danger
The danger with artificial intelligence is not that machines will begin to think like people; rather, it is people who will begin to...
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May 11, 20232 min read
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How do we know?
How do you measure success? Is achievement success? Is aptitude an indicator of success? Is success a product of growth? Is success...
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Mar 28, 20232 min read
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Tests: The good and the bad
When you visit your physician, do you ask to see their MCAT scores or their college GPA? If you need an attorney, do you filter your...
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Mar 23, 20232 min read
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Throw Better
“Hey ChatGPT! Write me an authoritative argument on [insert topic] with reasoning and examples.” Guess what? ChatGPT can do EXACTLY...
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Mar 16, 20232 min read
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Push My Buttons
Let’s hit reset. No, let’s not reset to what we were before. Our education system is fundamentally broken. In the 2018 PISA results the...
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Mar 9, 20232 min read
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Recipe...Alarm Sounded
Two parts to a recipe...the ingredients and directions. Adjust either one of the two parts and you may have a delightfully wonderful new...
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Mar 7, 20232 min read
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The Main Thing
“Until our society dedicates itself more to the #SUBSTANTIVE rather than the #PERFORMATIVE, we will not advance at the pace required for...
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Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Can't Wait
Have you ever put doing something off because you unconsciously knew in your mind there would always be time to get to it in the future? ...
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Feb 24, 20232 min read
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What's Old is New Again. Maybe not.
As a young teacher who found herself seeking answers to all the things I never learned in my undergrad program or student teaching, I...
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Feb 21, 20232 min read
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Show Me the Money
Show Me the Money I remember vividly as a new mom a fellow teacher across the hallway asked if I had signed up for WIC (Women, Infants, &...
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Feb 14, 20233 min read
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Riddle Me This
If you want to improve the trait of patience, then you have to be placed in scenarios where you have to practice it, right? (My mom...
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Feb 8, 20232 min read
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Motivate Me
How's your New Year's Resolution going? Keeping those routines going? Forming those good habits? Maintaining that healthy diet? ...
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Feb 6, 20232 min read
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More or Less
There is a growing rise of discomfort, disruption, and disdain in the world of education—elementary through college. How will the...
suzanneconquest
Feb 3, 20232 min read
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Peaks & Valleys
#STEM, #ComputerScience, #education, #workforce Salesforce: 10% or 8,000 and more to come Amazon: 18,000 Soundcloud: 20% Tesla,...
suzanneconquest
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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Disaster Recovery for Education
August 2005. Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. I lived about 2 1/2 hours from the coast and the destruction was felt even...
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Dec 9, 20222 min read
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Ethics in Education
First, it was the basic calculator completing simple math expressions. Then came the scientific calculator capable of figuring...
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Dec 2, 20223 min read
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