Christine Dyer

Here’s what bugs me most about the cogsci purist perspective on pedagogy: it largely ignores the affective side of teaching AND learning, which can entirely tank efforts to just tell Ss what they need to know. For first year/struggling Ts, that affective stuff is often central to overcoming barriers

I partially blame Bloom’s Taxonomy but the (misguided) belief that expertise, discernment, criticality etc. magically emerge from accumulating of lots of facts is basically treated as common sense & contributes to a lot of these dubious claims.

From How People Learn: Mind, Experiences, & School ⤵️

Even the notion of free floating “clear explanations” that you can “just tell them” is maddening to me — there’s this set of universalist assumptions (rooted in EXTREMELY problematic first principles) underlying all of this discourse that fundamentally make it impossible to trust any of these ppl.

“[…] there’s no such thing as context-free evidence.” 👏👏👏👏

Exactly. My gripe with people’s focus on “evidence-based practices” is there’s no such thing as context-free evidence. And the range of factors that can make implementing a strategy to fidelity ranges to accounting for disability to class size to “did everyone eat this morning?”

That matters.

This piece is so smart! Please read it if you work in teaching the humanities or in curriculum development!

It frames the topic on AI in such an important way that’s about things much deeper and older than AI. Thanks @mraleosays.bsky.social for always making me think!

I agree, most students are not trying to cheat. Many students don't understand the benefits or the constraints of AI. I also do not want to police them for use. So here is my syllabus policy & we discuss in the first few weeks of class.

Please feel free to use, adapt & share, just cite!

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Opinion | I gained 20 pounds of muscle. Here’s what I learned. Three years and 20 pounds of muscle later, I’ve learned that everything — and nothing — changes.

My latest: I wrote about my journey to put on 20 pounds of muscle as a woman.

And how my life changed because of strength training/bodybuilding.

Someone sent me a voice memo of their kid talking about one of my Bucket and Friends books.

There's all sorts of metrics and blahblahblah that will try to tell you if a book is successful or not, but man do they feel silly and small next to the voice of a young reader.

"We have to acknowledge there can't be a therapist at all times in classrooms...We actually need educators to know how to reduce reactivity, and that’s going to help them feel better by the end of the day too."

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/cul... #EduSky #EdChat #K12

PSA for Millennials: new advice is that HRT can begin in early perimenopause. I had my first big hot flash when I was 39 - I'll be 48 in a week.

Talk to your doctor. We want you to have the information that we didn't get (and our mothers/grandmothers didn't have).

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"We're there to be humans in the room with other humans talking about ideas"

The case by @mattrkay.bsky.social in this conversation: never more than now have classroom discussions been needed, in both quantity and quality.

(And that quantity and quality? Not an easy thing.)

My Friends: A Novel My Friends: A Novel - Kindle edition by Backman, Fredrik. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Friends: A Novel.

If you’re a Kindle girlie, My Friends by Fredrik Backman is on sale for $1.99. It’s a brilliant book and reminds me that it is a privilege to work with the youth. a.co/d/hl7SImy

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better.

The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

Things I’ve learned teaching a 4 week summer course at a community college

1) ‘Velcro children’ can be grown & can attach in 4 weeks
2) all students act like you’ve never taught them anything when a paper’s due
3) differentiation is THE KEY
4) I’m an exceptional educator
5) I love teaching

3 Ways to Integrate SEL Into Classroom Practices Highlighting and modeling SEL practices can help teachers create an environment where disruptive behaviors are minimized.

As many of us return to the classroom, I thought this Edutopia article I wrote was worth sharing again: 3 Ways to Integrate SEL Into Classroom Practices. 💚

SEL isn’t extra—it’s essential.

🔗 www.edutopia.org/article/sel-...

#SEL #BackToSchool #Education #TeacherLife

I OVERstand why @marcusluther.bsky.social loves this so much.

MY GOODNESS, how this poem reminds me of being a teacher.

“until I yank the leash back to save her because / I want her to survive forever. Don’t die, I say.”

So much hope and heart and hurt in this poem.

#PoemADayJuly

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To the #PoemADayJuly crew, thank you for a great month of poetry reading together!

If you’re looking for more poetry writing activities that will not take entire class periods to integrate, Poetry Pauses is marked down on Amazon right now, and steeply on Kindle 🙂

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I’m so grateful to @borywrites.bsky.social; this interview shaped my entire year and started the ball rolling on some serious pedagogical conversations I need to have with myself, my students, and my communities.

I look forward to sharing how it went with everyone soon. 💛

two books on a bookstore shelf, both by Alex Shevrin Venet: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education and Becoming an Everyday Changemaker

Did you know that I wrote some books for teachers and you should read them? I wrote them as a call to take action and transform schools with mental health and wellbeing in mind. I'd love if you checked them out.

www.unconditionallearning.org/books

What Guess's AI model in Vogue means for beauty standards The first AI-generated model to appear in the pages of Vogue is seen in an advert for Guess.

What the actual fuck

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I leaned hard into this shift last year, like The Bear’s “Every second counts.” Rearranging and revising how we used classroom time was a fun puzzle for me and allowed me to model making mistakes and for us to discuss the relationship between time, process, and struggle. Like writing! 😁

Co-sign this 100%, very similar to what we do! #greatminds 😂

Bad ass!!!! 🥳 👏 👏 👏

2 part story of how @covingtonedu.bsky.social set me up to be great and I was funny and a lil ridiculous but also I AM RIGHT!

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YouTube video by Parents For Reading Justice Why Basic Needs, like Literacy, Must Come Before Resilience Training — and What Schools Get Wrong.

Really interesting convo here about SEL and how to best use our expertise as educators to support stress tolerance. This falls squarely within what I’ve been doing as an administrator …and a key point made: SEL should be more about building a disposition for educators than a set of lessons for Ss.

Teacher educators!

I will come yap with your preservice teachers! Invite me in and I’m there!