ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

@leeannjung 100%
#UDL and more specifically anti-racist UDL has been a central component to our teacher prep program for a few years now. We use Tesha Fitzgerald's book as a text, which students have found to be extremely helpful and useful when we think about meeting the needs of all our students, especially when we think more expansively about how we invite and engage students in learning (providing multiple representations and multiple modalities that are culturally responsive) and how we expect students to demonstrate learning (especially moving beyond traditional heavy and formal writing tasks) #Edutoot

https://publishing.cast.org/catalog/books-products/antiracism-universal-design-for-learning-fritzgerald

Making cranberry sauce has become a thing for me over the last few years.
There is a lot of great chemistry to be taught about food and different cultural traditions when we teach science.
Sugar to water ratios? Why and how do cranberries congeal?

@dtcampbe I have been inactive on there just checking on those who potentially migrate, but after this weekend will probably fully deactivate.

So I have been on here for a couple of weeks and there is so much to love.
Some of my favorite things...
No #Edutainers
Really enjoying the more international perspectives

@freemo appreciate you, your work, and continuing efforts. Sorry these are taking a toll on you :(

@ShanaVWhite
No

@ShanaVWhite I am increasingly convinced that many of the investors that backed the man (I don't think he even came up with the majority of the $44bil) did it to watch the place burn down to destroy the outlet of voices they didn't want to hear. And to open the space for more hate and violence. I think of how the Saudis were trying to suppress critics pre-takeover and how they are billions deep into this new version.

@funnymonkey is there a breakdown of the people who invested in this $44 billion dumpster fire. If I recall, he didn't have the liquidity for it all, and had some large investors including the Saudi Royals, Jack and others. At what point does that pressure come to bear or is it play money for all of them? I can imagine some of the investors considering the burning down of the bird app as money well spent to squelch the speech or opponents.

@cara__jackson I see the very small effect sizes, and really wish for a couple of things.
1) that some of these studies would also look at measures such as student well being, belongingness etc...
2) as someone who now co-teaches at the university level, there are nuances and a developmental trajectory to co-teaching. Co-teaching in some ways is extremely difficult and requires a partnership, planning time, and time to work through teaching styles and approaches. I wonder what outcomes are for say teachers who have been co-teaching for 2+ years.

@nadia_toronto we need to get a few more people from the bird app.

I have really appreciated and enjoyed my experience on here since moving from the bird app. There is something different about this community, and maybe that is because I have not found the doom scrolling yet 🤣
Thinking of the bird app and reading on the latest news is the bosses strategy to avoid losing $4 mil/week or day or whatever he claimed to lose $44 bil as soon as possible? 🤔

Working on preparing for my next cohort of aspiring STEM teachers and our yearlong methods course journey.
Revising my ungrading approach through this third iteration of going gradeless and finding myself seeing better the intertwined nature of key elements of humanizing ungrading with critical elements of
1) building a trusting community,
2) Transparency,
3) Contract grading with student agency,
4) Frequent and actionable feedback,
5) conferencing, and
6) adapting on the fly

Anything else that is missing from that list?

#ungrading