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Partnership is Key

Larry Cuban shares this perspective... In short, I learned that any successful district reform was as much building political coalitions within the system while mobilizing public

Supporting Stephen's Web

If you've missed this fount of ideas and info, then you are missing out! Be sure to explores Stephen's Web, and [drop a few dollars](

The Window is Open. It Won't Stay That Way.

Note: I set up a Claude Project that combines StoryMaker, SlideMaker, and BlogAssembler (sets of custom instructions) to help me decipher the Anthropic labor research report

Critical Thinking Made Simple

Need a way to teach critical thinking and problem solving? Learn to tackle problems and make decisions. This session offers strategies to assess ideas and arguments. Discover resou

MyNotes: AI Job Impact Potential

This is fascinating. People losing their jobs over the POTENTIAL of GenAi's ability to do that work: ...findings suggest that the phenomenon of AI taking jobs and reducing hiring

Get the Latest Curated Content

Ever find yourself wanting to share what you've read or podcasts you listened to with others? I know I have. I'll be in the middle of a conversation, and want to point somewhere on

#TCEA Meeting Old Friends #EduSky

How happy to run into wonderful folks you only get to see once a year. In this case it was Dr. Stacey Flinner from Crowley ISD, who was kind enough to snap this picture: [![](https

An AI in K12 Panel

Someone asked if I might consider serving on a panel discussing AI in K12 education. It occurred to me to as

MyNotes: Writing by Hand

The verdict is in…again? it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross talk between brain areas, to wri

SAnews: Alamo Colleges Offer Bachelor Degrees

Great announcement: Exciting news! You will soon be able to earn your Bachelor’s degree at any of the five colleges in the Alamo Colleges District. These programs are tailored to

The Budgetary Cliff: 2025

This has to be the scariest article ever…what will the impact be on all those pro

Moving Files Around

Interested in moving large files from one device to another? I know I was after setting up an obsolete Win10 machine with Linux Mint to give it new life. One of the things I want t

Converting RSS Feed to OPML with Claude.ai

Perhaps, I'm easily amazed at how AI makes hard things easy. I stumbled across a micro.blog RSS feed file earlier this morning, saved it to my phone, then, maybe, went back to slee

MyNotes: Pew Research on Teaching

Yep. Accurate. More than half (52%) of educators tell Pew Research Center that “they would not advise a young person starting out today to become a teacher,” according to a surve

MyNotes: Teacher Pay Incentives Research

\ …researchers studied what happened in…Dallas, Texas, – when teachers were offered significant pay hikes, ranging from $6,000 to $18,000 a year, to take hard to fill jobs. In D

Systematic Disconfirmation: Smartphones in Schools

This is an AI generated post that applies the process of systematic disconfirmation to smartphones in schools. Mainly, the claim that smartphones enhance rather than detract from l

Pencil and Paper...Rules?

Earlier this week, I had a chance to revisit my thoughts on educational technology in the classroom. "We need to get back to pen and paper," said a colleague today. The statement w

3-2-1: Book Banning

Here's a 3 2 1 on book bans in libraries, which [National Public Radio (NPR) reported](

Sorting through Bias

We're coming up on a ton of political campaigns, and it was those that spurred me to take a look again at SIFT, which others have mentioned, but I had only briefly explored. After

Implications for PD Facilitators

Figuring out what to present on is always fun for conferences and events. In educational technology, it's easy to pick the tech tool of the week and do a session on that. Right now

How To Survive the AI Job Apocalypse

How do you survive the AI Job Apocalypse that's coming? For many of us in education or related fields, it's clear that there's a shift coming. I have often heard about how AI is go

MyNotes: Cassandra Speaks

Note: This is one of my most cherished MyNotes on a book. It really shifted my perspective on this topic. Image Credit: [Good News Planet](

A Few More Formula Writing Ideas

Every few years, I revisit or reshare the list article. The reason why is simple. I don't want to lose a reminder of how I got my start in publishing my writing. But there are othe

AI Expertise Over Tech Jobs

This was an eye opener… Firms in the tech sector and beyond went on a hiring spree after the onset of the pandemic before pivoting to a focus on efficiency through layoffs and ot

MyNotes: Phonics Instruction

As much as I loved my graduate level professors, I have found their approach to teaching reading...problematic. I remember beginning my year teaching third grade bilingual, working

The List Article Revisited

My favorite approach to writing? It’s pretty easy to follow. When I walked into the bookstore–whi

Writing Outside: A Resource

Looking for writing prompts for nature? These YpsiWrites folks have put together a series of prompts or writing resources

A Cemetery of Ideas: Dead Blogs Walk

\ “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Starting a new blog, goofing up the domain name for an established

A New Blog Space - MGBlog.org

\ Personal development is the idea that people constantly strive to improve themselves, whether intell

MyNotes: Powerful Teaching

These are my notes on Powerful Teaching . I'd like to say I finished the book, but I only made it 3/4ths of the way through before

MyNotes: Writing in Middle School Science CER CERCA

Looking for an easy way to introduce students to CER, or Claim Evidence Reasoning approach? You may want to check out Scott Phillips slim text, [Writing in Middle School Science