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Ale Checka
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HGSE, Middlebury Bread Loaf, Dartmouth alumna. cranky. https://t.co/0PcmiSu0H6
Nov 19, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The simultaneous advocacy for and complete misunderstanding of the way state standardized testing works never ceased to amaze me. Here's an explainer. I am a seventh grade English teacher in Texas. That means my students have two state tests for my class - reading and writing. Allow me to explain just the writing test data, and how and why it is useless to me for any practical purpose.
Nov 17, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Things in schools right now are very, very, bad. Here's a thread of a few things I wish the general public would know:
1. There is no good Covid data. No entity is collecting data on students & staff getting sick in the US, so every article you've read is based on a shaky guess 2. Since there's no central guidance or plan or data gathering for schools, each of the states is doing their own thing. Gathering data, or not. Some record students and staff, some just students.
3. Within many states, each school district is doing it's own thing.
Nov 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The questions were always terrible - but this year it would actually have been helpful for teachers to have a survey where we could have shared what we've been doing and what our tech needs are. BECAUSE WE HAVE TECH NEEDS RIGHT NOW, IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ASK. Even in a normal year, the current questions are all *at* us - assumes tech is pedagogically good for everything, demands to know if we're doing it *enough*. More useful: ask us what is working, what's helpful, what's not working.
Sep 4, 2019 • 18 tweets • 2 min read
Adding a gardening component to the Coding class may be the most genius idea I’ve ever had. Four days in front of a screen, Wednesday outside. Today was SO HOT, but kid, snacking on carrot he pulled up as we weeded and tilled, “this tastes so good, like I earned it” PS, that vegetable garden is one of the most satisfying things in the world. Every school and every grade should grow food.
Jul 31, 2019 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I’m in the mood to share lesson ideas, so: thread Last year, I tried something new and started with a picture book. It was a great community builder and fantastic for writing. I used @bottomshelfbks @dsantat amazon.com/Drawn-Together…
May 4, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
True story, and this will be a thread. I’m a teacher at a middle school in Texas. My school is broke, my district is broke, I’m broke. So, last month I go in person to the state capitol in Austin with my little empty bowl to ask for gruel. Am in a state rep’s office, and the chief of staff grills me on how much teachers pay out of pocket for supplies, on average. I explain that an average is hard to pull out of a hat. Max to report to IRS is $250, and that’s the only place we report that kind of spending to