Duane Habecker

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I’ve been doing math education in California since 1989. Math is a civil right ALL students deserve. I will occasionally post about my children or my chickens. #TapeDiagramTuesday #iTeachMath #RecreationalMath

Have you registered or encouraged a mathematics educator, school/district leader to attend CMC-South's Designing Mathematical Futures in Palm Springs Nov 5-7, 2026? Great educators to learn from and with along with some in between fun! web.cvent.com/event/01e30a...

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A math publisher was given 30 minutes to guide teachers where they will find the information in the product to make it easier to fill out the rubrics. Also to help the adoption committee log into the online platform. Instead the publisher used the entire time on a sales pitch. #iTeachMath

"In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues." From "A Dozen Essential Guidelines for Educators" by Alfie Kohn

A Dozen Essential Guidelines for Educators

October 29, 2013  A Dozen Essential Guidelines for Educators By Alfie Kohn To create the schools our children deserve, it’s probably not necessary to devise specific policies and practices for every occasion. Rather, these will…

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“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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As I see it, the diagram of the gears seems to be suggesting that when we try to combine curriculum, leadership, and professional learning communities, then the gears won't work and the system comes to a standstill. Can we just fix the image please?

Three gears arranged too closely together that they will not actually spin. One gear is curriculum and assessment. The second gear is instructional leadership. Third gear is professional learning communities. As I see it, the diagram of the gears is unwittingly suggesting that when we try to combine curriculum leadership and professional learning communities, then there is gridlock and the gears won't work.

Musk openly supports white nationalism, remigration, and fascist ideologies. When you purchase a Tesla, no cute or witty bumper sticker absolves you of your complicity in his poor behavior. Just sayin’. </rant>