Mark Ureel

"Maybe if we underpaid politicians and overpaid teachers, there would be smarter people and less stupid laws."

Saw this on a video and thought it was clever:

Before you get into an argument, remember this quote, “A bee does not waste its energy trying to convince a fly that honey is better than crap.” Some minds are not meant to be changed. Save your energy for what matters.

When someone has to tear others down and stretch the truth to look good, they’re rarely the good guy.

If you have to constantly defend your beliefs and convince everyone you’re on the right side, you probably aren’t.

A good person doesn't need to convince anyone they’re good. People recognize it through what they do, not what they claim.

Grit is an easy word to throw around when you’re winning and everything feels effortless. But real grit shows up when you’re down, when the setbacks stack into a mountain that looks impossible to climb. True grit is defined in those moments — do you sit and sulk, or do you start climbing? #Lions

Grit is an easy word to throw around when you’re winning and everything feels effortless. But real grit shows up when you’re down, when the setbacks stack into a mountain that looks impossible to climb. True grit is defined in those moments — do you sit and sulk, or do you start climbing? #OnePride

@dkthomp.bsky.social I enjoy your podcast. On the episode about math skills & grade inflation—have you considered the role of “school choice”? Turning schools into businesses that compete for enrollment means keeping customers happy, and happy customers often expect higher grades.

YouTube video by May Sóc Montessori Education Why Finland has the Best Education by Michael Moore

I share many of the philosophies and ideals that Finland has in education and wish our schools would adopt them, first, eliminating standardized tests.

youtu.be/XQ_agxK6fLs?...

After reading an article on public education, I was curious where Oklahoma stood—and that led me down a rabbit hole into the bottom 20 rankings. Fascinating pattern: does anyone notice what nearly 90% of these states have in common?
www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...

#TLAP A4: I would design an AI, that would create a video or a mashup of videos based on a prompt, similar to an AI image generator. We already have the technology to create a personalized AI podcast, why can't we take it one step further and have an AI video generator?

#TLAP A3: I see AI creating personalized learning paths for my students based on their abilities, progress, and performance in my class. For example, if they score low on an assessment, it will provide articles, videos, & study guides to help them become proficient on their learning standard.

Is this replacing "Somebody's Gotta Win" or are you planning on doing both shows?

I'm watching President Trump's speech in my home state and he stated that egg prices are down 87%. If that is true, than my eggs would cost 82 cents per dozen as they were $6 a month ago. My eggs are nowhere close to being 82 cents.

Of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Proverbs 14:31: "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."

"The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition."

-Theodore Roosevelt
From The Big Stick

James 1:27: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

Being a PBL teacher means being a project manager to 8 different teams during a 50 min period repeated 6 times a day.

My brain is mush

TGIF

A3: Embody virtue and act as an exemplar of benevolence and integrity. #LeadLAP

A2: Staying impartial by respecting the political views of all our community's families and keeping quiet about what's going wrong in our country. #LeadLAP

Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Last time we put a businessman in charge in Michigan, our biggest city went bankrupt. Unelected officials, such as emergency managers, were appointed to oversee the city's finances, effectively taking power away from elected officials. And the cherry on top of this crap sundae, another major city faced a water crisis starting resulting in undrinkable water for years.

So yeah, I'm a little skeptical of businessmen running our federal government and making cuts to services our tax money pays for without our consent. #Michigan

I wish to make the rich man feel that I am not in the least against him because he is rich; that all I am striving to do is to protect him while he handles his wealth aright, and merely to prevent his using that wealth for sinister purposes.

Theodore Roosevelt
January 3, 1908

Whenever there is tyranny by the majority, I shall certainly fight it. But the tyrannies from which we have been suffering in this country have, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, been tyrannies by a minority; that is, tyranny by privilege.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have found the Brisk has better chat bots and you can customize them based on your Standards/Benchmarks or you can establish your own learning goals.

I was getting 10 a day ever since Musk took over the platform. I got tired of it and deleted my account. The sad reality is that those fake accounts make it seem like the platform has had an increase of users & provides an artificial metric for its worth.

What's funny is that certain people will tell you that Twitter/X is running just as well, if not better, when they cut 70% of their workforce to justify the same moves happening to the government.