The place to discuss education
Hello everyone. Welcome back to the occasional education discussion, where someone throws up an education discussion, occasionally. Most of you know I teach elementary special ed. Most of you know I returned to teaching this year and had a whole … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: the occasional educational thread
How are things going for y’all in education land? This thread invites all stakeholders or other parties interested in the educational systems of our various homes to discuss things as they stand. Students, teachers, parents, community members. Everyone except guidance … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: The Occasional Education Thread Calls it Quits
Hi everyone. Welcome to the occasional education thread! This is a space for anyone interested in discussing the topic of education (particularly K-12, but whatevs) in whatever parts of the world we hail from. Particularly, we’d like to give various … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom, the Occasional Education Thread: This is the End
It’s the occasional education thread, where teachers, students, parents, and anyone else with a stake in education can share their thoughts. It seemed a good time to post this, as it’s been a while, and we’ve all had about half … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: What’s Going On?
Welcome back to this probably weekly feature I was hoping wouldn’t have to be a thing again a few months ago. Now that school is back in session for most of the country in some way… let’s talk and vent … Continue reading Back to School. What now?
It’s the occasional education thread, where teachers, parents, and anyone else with a stake in education can share their thoughts. I wanted to put one of these up now because the end of the summer is nigh and I am … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom: What’s The Plan?
Hi everyone. Welcome to the occasional education thread! This is a space for anyone interested in discussing the topic of education (particularly K-12, but whatevs) in whatever parts of the world we hail from. Particularly, we’d like to give various … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: The Occasional Education Thread: Back to… oh Hell.
The school year is wrapping up in most states. There’s no particular consensus on if, when, and how to open up schools for the next academic year. Here’s what the principal of my son’s K- 5 school said: -in NYC, … Continue reading Home and Distance Learning: The Summer and Beyond
So, did you hear that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is going to “reimagine education?” This is not good news. According to my favorite education blogger Diane Ravitch : The pandemic is turning into a grand opportunity for … Continue reading Home and distance learning: Week 7
Welcome to the weekly home and distance learning thread. Here’s a place to vent, ask for and share advice and talk about education in the time of Covid-19. Optional Discussion topic : losing steam I’ve definitely lost steam, and I … Continue reading Home and Distance Learning: Week 6…I think
Hello everyone! This thread is for parents and educators and education – adjacent discussions during this pandemic. I’ll try to post on Monday. ( I am a day late this week.) Here is where we can discuss what’s working, what’s … Continue reading Home and Distance Learning: Week 4
Hi all – I thought it would be useful to make a weekly thread dedicated to this topic for parents and educators, I’ll try to do it every Monday. How’s it going? Successes? Challenges? Bullshit jargon? Optional topic; special educators … Continue reading Home and Distance Learning: Week 3
Hi teachers and parents! Now that many of us are about 2 weeks into radically altering education….how’s it going? Challenges? Successes? Hints? Complaints? Continue reading Home and Distance Learning – how’s it going so far?
Hello, welcome to a special joint edition of the occasional parent and teacher thread! With so many schools closed, districts and teachers are challenged to throw together online curriculum, parents will have to do homeschooling. It will be like building … Continue reading Parental Guidance / Dark Sarcasm in The Classroom: Home and Distance Learning
Hello, and welcome to the occasional education thread! Any educational discussion is welcome in the comments! Today, I’ve decided to give a primer on what all is with education in the US the last 20 years or so with the … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom – How We Got Here
Yesterday Kamala Harris proposed a bill that would mandate that schools stay open from at least 8 am to 6 pm in order to more closely align with the average parent’s work schedule. Supposedly educators would not been required to … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Family Friendly Schools Act
Hello and welcome to the occasional Parental Guidance thread, where parents and parental adjacent caregivers can talk about How To Bring Kid Up Good And Stuff. There will usually be a topic for prompting, but any parental stuff is welcome here. This discussion is open to non parents who work in education or child care! I chose the back to school topic, because it’s that time of year. I am both a teacher and a parent, so this is a topic near and dear to me. Every year, there’s always a THING about why your kid’s school supply list is … Continue reading Parental Guidance: Back to School
I hope I’m not stepping on TheDivineMsRim’s toes by posting this, but it is back to school time and it has been nearly a year since we have done one of these. It’s ironic that I am the one who … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Back to School 2019
Welcome to the first “Parent / Teacher Conference,” I guess. I’m posting a Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom / Parental Guidance thread to discuss teaching kids about touching and consent. OBVIOUSLY, the Kavanaugh hearing is the inspiration for this. How do you teach this sort of thing to your children/ students? Are there good and bad ways to do so? What have you taken away from this….event…that will influence your future teaching and / or parenting? I personally have and teach young children- there’s a natural curiosity to explore and touch and wonder about bodies and tons of equally good … Continue reading Parental Guidance / Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Teaching Touching and Consent
Welcome to the Occasional Avocado Education discussion. Since is probably the biggest issue in education today, let’s talk a little about it. The governing board of the NAEP Assessments – what is commonly referred to as “the Nations Report Card” – is considering redefining the definitions of its levels. (Basic, Proficient, Advanced) Diane Ravitch, an education historian who worked for the Dept of Educaion in the Bush Administration, is the author of The Life and Death of the Great American School System. Here is her letter to the governing board about rethinking the way these tests are assessed: Iam writing … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Let’s Talk About Testing
It’s September 1st, so seems like a good time for another edition of the Avocado’s occasional education discussion. About 5 years ago, the LA Unified School District spent about a billion-with-a-b dollars on ipads for about a 650,000 students. The … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Technology in the Classroom
