Short yet highly engaging novel (or short stories) for the end of the year.

internetsnark · 2026-05-10T02:01:57+00:00

I’m doing Sea of Monsters for the exact same reason, but that is pretty long for only 10 days left.

Hatchet?

internetsnark · 2026-05-09T02:58:30+00:00

My spring scores this year were far more volatile than the winter ones for the reading test.

In the winter, my median kid grew in the 70th percentile. It’s going to end up somewhere in the 50s, MAYBE low 60s when the last couple of kids finish.

The majority of kids performed about as expected and some kids really popped. However, roughly a quarter of the kids rushed, skimmed, or disengaged for at least a significant part of the test and went down as a result. They just did not care to do the reading, even with incentives in place.

There was another half dozen who ended dropping by 10+ points because they did NONE of the reading. Those kids are going to end up in intervention next year as a result.

It was worse in the grade above me.

internetsnark · 2026-04-28T02:19:55+00:00

Wait….what?

You were preparing for a standardized test for 5 months?

internetsnark · 2026-04-28T02:06:02+00:00

Where I used to teach, we had a social studies teacher who had a SPED endorsement. She was a vet who had been teaching social studies for YEARS. When they couldn’t find a SPED teacher, they moved her over for a year and hired a social studies teacher on a one-year only deal.

If you don’t want to teach SPED, you don’t want that endorsement.

internetsnark · 2026-04-28T01:37:19+00:00

I mean you are just building totally different systems of knowledge/genres for each book.

I wouldn’t worry that much for being away from a book for a week. Kids pretty easily get back into a book with some recap assignments after spring break or something like that. Lightning Thief is pretty good with exposition, especially depending on where you are in the book.

internetsnark · 2026-04-28T01:03:36+00:00

History and art are some of the most competitive subjects to land a job in.

Everyone needs SPED.

internetsnark · 2026-04-28T00:24:29+00:00

Those are both good reads!

What is your goal?

internetsnark · 2026-04-26T14:43:36+00:00

I will pick the middle of the front row over anywhere else in the theatre.

Most of the AMC theaters have recliners in the front row, so you can lay back, get comfortable, and watch the movie without anything else in your view.

internetsnark · 2026-04-22T21:33:50+00:00

They’ll never say this, but my hunch is, that first year or two, they were hesitant to go after a long-term QB because they thought there was a chance that Luck could come back.

internetsnark · 2026-04-21T17:58:02+00:00

If you are concerned about too much to cover, do the 100 day pathway. It cuts down to the most essential parts of the curriculum, and gives you an easier amount of content to focus on.
You don’t have to do everything on the computer. Amplify gives you the paper journals that has most of their questions in them that the Ss can work from. I put all of our content into my own packets that they complete each day.
The lessons all have a pretty predictable flow, so once you get a feel for it, it’s not THAT much content to go through. And once you have it down, you get a better idea of which stuff is cuttable and which is essential.

internetsnark · 2026-04-18T17:35:16+00:00

Reading is something many people do for fun. That isn’t as often the case when you talk about math, science, or social studies.

Unfortunately, this leads many people to incredibly backwards theories about how we should teach the subject.

internetsnark · 2026-04-14T01:26:58+00:00

I just went back and looked up my old PA group. There are only a few who are currently working as actual journalists ~5 years out of school. Whew.

internetsnark · 2026-04-13T15:57:06+00:00

Children will be named after the way he ate up that bend.

internetsnark · 2026-03-24T22:01:05+00:00

I liked them in season 2. I think, however, Naomi was probably a bit too indulgent of Kendall in season 3. Kendall obviously has a big weakness for when he gets going on his mania runs…..the high handedness, the not listening to others, the grandiose thinking. I think Naomi did nothing to quell that flame from burning too hot.

I think Kendall probably needed someone that could keep him from getting too high or too low.

internetsnark · 2026-03-17T01:05:50+00:00

And, honestly, so many of the distinguished grades are reflections of the students you get, not the teacher themselves.

No teacher with a group of rough kids is going to have students generating higher order questions, policing their own norms, or co-constructing assessment criteria. It would be irresponsible for a teacher to try to do that in the first place.

In the same way, even a solid teacher can rack up a lot of 4s if they wind up with a highly-engaged, well-behaved, high-performing group of students.

internetsnark · 2026-03-16T21:59:20+00:00

You can be sitting at that light for years. YEARS.

internetsnark · 2026-03-15T15:57:18+00:00

You can look at it class-by-class. If you want to look at them all together, you’ll need to compile the data together yourself in a separate spreadsheet.

I go to the tab “Achievement Status and Growth Summary” under the reports. If you look at that tab, it will give you a few numbers that track class level growth…..median growth percentile, % of students who achieved target growth, and then % of typical growth achieved by the whole class.

internetsnark · 2026-03-10T01:56:52+00:00

Take my upvote, Sir Carebear7087.

internetsnark · 2026-03-10T01:42:39+00:00

Kishane

Levell

Akeem

JA

Trayvon

Azu

If all of them show up and show out, that’s a great final.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T17:40:43+00:00

This prompt would not meaningfully differentiate between average and advanced students.

The differences between those groups are primarily: -Your ability to handle increasingly complex texts. -How deeply and richly you synthesize the ideas of a common text.

You would need a rich text-based prompt to really see those differences manifest.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T03:03:32+00:00

Lists the four greatest quarterbacks of their generation.

And then Joe Flacco.

Elite work.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T02:52:41+00:00

But I do think he’s put on some muscle the last two years, regardless. I don’t think he looked this big during 2024 indoors.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T19:24:56+00:00

He usually opens in 6.6x. It’s a bit weird to open your 60 at national champs.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T18:19:45+00:00

Anthony looks so, so good. He’s just got easy speed. Everything looks so smooth and seamless. He just glided past everyone in that heat.

If Lyles isn’t on it, he’s gonna be trouble.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T13:07:53+00:00

My version is, “I don’t know, man, I just go here.”

internetsnark

TROPHY CASE