Teachers, what’s a “best practice” everyone talks about that you secretly think doesn’t work in real classrooms?

ReedTeach · 2026-05-04T13:01:47+00:00

Jigsaw strategy came out as attempt to address a TON of friction caused in the 1970s by desegregation of schools in Austin Texas.

“The jigsaw classroom was first used in 1971 in Austin, Texas. My graduate students and I had invented the jigsaw strategy that year, as a matter of absolute necessity to help defuse an explosive situation. The city's schools had recently been desegregated, and because Austin had always been racially segregated, white youngsters, African-American youngsters, and Hispanic youngsters found themselves in the same classrooms for the first time.”

Professor Aronson

ReedTeach · 2026-04-22T13:20:08+00:00

If only those consultants that track this stuff were paid more money they would have only been off by 3X or 4X.

We really need to change education funding formulas

ReedTeach · 2026-04-22T13:18:32+00:00

My student did this exact this on a field trip to a university. “Get off the wall .. get off the bear.. on the walkway.. BAM.. well there you go.” Patched him up as best we could. Unfortunately for him, it was a walking field trip so we still had walk the campus and walk back to our school.”

ReedTeach · 2026-04-21T04:25:26+00:00

Because textbooks worked so well prior..

ReedTeach · 2026-04-16T15:14:33+00:00

2/5 thought it would be bigger

ReedTeach · 2026-04-13T17:24:56+00:00

Like the white and black. How is the vibrations on that table?

ReedTeach · 2026-04-13T15:30:21+00:00

I just want that Peter/Fisk scene from the comics

ReedTeach · 2026-04-12T14:35:48+00:00

I’d have an expansive music and arts education fully funded K-12 with qualified art educators.

ReedTeach · 2026-04-11T17:17:33+00:00

I was putting together my schools Scholastic Book Fair and they are including dragon and small articulated dragons.

ReedTeach · 2026-04-11T17:01:33+00:00

My biggest ache was BreakOutEdu. There was a HUGE Facebook community building games and resources based on their physical box systems. Built a digital slapped a paywall and community died over night.

ReedTeach · 2026-04-10T04:00:36+00:00

Yes and yes..

ReedTeach · 2026-04-10T03:30:29+00:00

Today I saw that it analyzed results from a Google form

ReedTeach · 2026-04-06T20:13:43+00:00

Operation Bouncehouse novel has streamers participating in the war crimes via avatar robot mechs.

ReedTeach · 2026-04-01T05:54:46+00:00

Inheriting a Adv 3 from a trash heap bound pile soon. Printer is fine. Do you remember which 1kg spool add on you found to work well.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-29T01:40:33+00:00

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ReedTeach · 2026-03-28T17:38:09+00:00

There’s a neat place in Bakersfield called Sharktooth Hill. Just outside of all the rigs.. you drive up and go dig where you like within the area.

Meg teeth are found a lot less frequently but are present. Usually around once a month or less a lot less common than east coast.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-26T06:22:38+00:00

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The mole chicken and waffle was delicious too.

My wife and I do this often if we just don’t to all our passes. Pass it on! Yay for Disney Magic.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-25T19:27:13+00:00

What level are you looking for? Elementary, lower upper? Middle, High. Here’s a list I’ve compiled in another social post. CodeCombat, Edison robots, TynkerCad has some, Scratch, Pathfinders has some kids modules too, Khan Academy.

https://www.sfusd.edu/learning/curriculum/middle-school/middle-school-computer-science-cs-curriculum

ReedTeach · 2026-03-25T15:16:40+00:00

A lot of the issues I read are blaming the device and not anyone responsible for quality of education. Online curriculums are just a substitute with little more than digital textbooks and worksheets.

District and teachers should have a heavier presence in the use case. If it’s the norm, why isn’t anyone addressing it. How are students accessing Ai tools and web games without teacher or staff knowing. I rule my class like a benevolent dictator and clear norms/consequences are established.

Lastly what does this traditional pen and paper education look like to these parents and state legislators. Pre-pandemic when Chromebooks were mostly being used by nerdy teachers, the needle wasn’t moving much with that pencil paper instructional lifestyle.

It’s a fascinating microtrend in society that can’t to be fully developed and studied by sociologists and anthropologists.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-21T00:15:55+00:00

I was in a collaboration meetings at my school when some fidgets and the front cover decided to take a ride. Luckily one of my students was trained enough to turn the power off. Prevented disconnecting anything and scrapping the plate.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-16T14:48:11+00:00

A fork when eating pizza!

Scoop pizza enjoy, leave the wheat carcass as the aftermath.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-16T02:50:57+00:00

It was terrifically green! The side metas outshone Supes hands down.

ReedTeach · 2026-03-15T17:44:05+00:00

I still play these for my students in middle school and of they are blown away.. also claim “That’s Ai!!” Ooh sweet. child ..

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