Sweat to inspire: Recent Episodes

Todd Bloch

7th Grade science teacher sweating to inspire the next generation ...ideas about education to inspire thought and action.

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We need to make sure we hear others

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What are opportunities in our situation for learning

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Our schools aren’t closed! The building are but the staff is working diligently to shift services!

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Stop worrying about the letter on a piece of paper and focus on learning!

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Education is changing to a new normal.

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In this every changing world Now is the time for educators to shine, inspire and help move students towards the culture of learning

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Reflections on the world today!

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Thoughts on #24

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Pondering a twitter question

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We need to shift education into the 21st century.

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As I watch my 15 yo loose passion for education due to homework over the holiday I wonder: do we take ourselves too seriously?

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Students so often focus on the end result that they don’t worry about the steps to get there. Help them focus

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Reflections after day 1 of my son’s basketball tryouts

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Talking about types of PD

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Rethinking homework

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Why are students late

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Seems like so many fund raisers in schools today, are we limiting opportunities due to economics?

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Ideas to recruit and retain best and brightest in education

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There are huge inequities in funding for classrooms so many educators have gone to social media to publish lists of their needs. Time to fix educational funding this is sad!

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Reflection on attack’s on edutwitter

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It is important to allow our students the opportunity to develop a making mindset

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Teaching is a hard challenging job. Many feel teachers are saviors but we aren’t. Sure saving happens from great teaching but that is a side effect.

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Watched Netflix Queer Eye season 4 episode 1 and saw a familiar face. I grew up in Quincy IL. And Kathy Dooley was my choir director in church.

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Remember many innovations fail, how do we support innovations in our schools

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One size doesn’t fort all, remember tos mix up instructional styles for your students

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Why do some thrashers give extra credit? Is this practice outdated l, shouldn’t it be part of the past!

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Perceptions and ideas around college/ career training

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Pondering diversity being old and white.

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There are many question around the 2020 political platforms that propose debt free college.

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Present in spirit today

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Last day message to my students

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Data is important but be careful how we use it!

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When we are talking about classroom instruction, class size matters!

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Advice to recent school of education graduates on finding the best fit for them

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Considering how many different starting points exist in a classroom it is amazing what is accomplished in a classroom

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As PSAT and SAT are upon us, a few thoughts on high stakes tests

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Rethink Ed structure

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My reaction to DeVos budget

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Reflecting on my day 1 experience of #macul19

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3 tips for those attending MACUL

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Is choice good? Not always ! Students often struggle with making right choices and can have anxiety over them

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Teaching is a very hard job that has many rewards.

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Is this common expression around education helpful?

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How can educators get past students who use their free will not to learn content?

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Shout out to teaching on Valentine’s Day

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With all these snow days in Michigan it has many worried about extending the school year. What if learning was it measured in days and hours but targets meet!

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Lets remember that learning is hard work and students have free will whether to learn or not learn.

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The words we use when talking about education matters. We need to stop the use of superlatives.

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Twitter is so powerful for connections but be careful with judgements

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Tough decisions are made around snow day calls by districts.

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Message for state of education!

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So many awesome snow day announcement songs, but what really needs to go viral around education is the great things happening every day in schools!

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Schools have so many issues to focus on it helps when the social climate around education is positive!

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Some thought from AMLE conference

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Let rethink schools

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Students need to unleash the power of tech at their fingertips for learning

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Need for educated choices for our students

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What is happening in schools? Where is teacher prep time going?

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Busy education season

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Time to change the structure of school!

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Learning mentality

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Week one theme show up and try!

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Don’t over assume

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Stop teacher on teacher bashing

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Haters going to hate culture needs to end!

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Education needs to be our top priority

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All learning has to start with compliance then students can be engaged and grow to empowerment.

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Regaining passion

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Are these the messages we want parents hearing as the lead?

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Reflecting on Valentine’s Day shooting in Florida

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Advocacy #oneword

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Don’t get lost in the hustle and bustle of the season be intentional every day!

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It’s campaign season again in Michigan and education seems to be on everyone’s agenda, but where are the plans?

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Teaching in the moment not from a script!

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Let’s look at homework from a different perspective.

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Dear adults remember who made you into the success story you are today!

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Let’s fully fund education so teachers can focus one ONE job of educating our students!

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Quick morning after reflection on my experience

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Reminders for conference ... most of all slow down have fun and stay curious!

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We need a strong national brand of a public education, not competing branding of districts and schools.

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Schools need support from their communities

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Is our curriculum relevant to today’s students?

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Don’t be so quick to judge other’s teaching styles

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Getting past the frustrations of teaching to What matters!

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Why do we play games to fund schools?

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All students want to learn it is in our DNA but What and how do they want to learn matters to schools.

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Fun day with students looking at cells through microscopes!

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Time to rethink how we do PD. Conferences pull educators away from educating students. Time for an education week in Michigan!

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Have you every watched students take a test?

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FlipGrid is a good app to use in your classroom for formative assessment. Worth checking out.

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For our education system to improve society needs to value it like we value sports!

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Summary of week 1 2017-2018 school year

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Being a parent and a teacher creates interesting internal conflicts

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Reflecting on this morning's fire drill!

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1st day of school with students reflection

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Reflecting on Teacher day1 of 2017-2018 school year

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Nerves as the school year starts

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Where does time go?

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We are often stuck in park due to fears, get out of park!

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Discussing my journey to teaching remembering my Why.

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Discussing school of choice and how it negatively impacts schools.

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Thoughts on Teacher recruitment and retainment

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Reflecting on week NSA events and education

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Ideas on Professional Development and how education needs to move away from 1 size fits all!

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Talking about insecurity feeling as a chat moderator.

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Thoughts on Teacher pay Teacher #TpT

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TeamJxn Edtech Kick-off • Thank you! • Thanks! • 👍👍

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Introduction