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Alison Stone

@alisonstonebio.bsky.social

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High school life science teacher in Doylestown, PA. West is best! 80% explicit instruction/20% inquiry, #MCP mentor #NBCT #APBiology #anatomy, runner, opinions are my own

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi, I’m new here, hoping to engage with #edusky, hoping we can recreate the bird site a few years ago with lots of great chats. Here’s a blog so you can see what I’m about in education www.learningpartnerships.org/resources/tr...

How Brain Science Transformed the Way I Teach | Professional Learning Partnerships

Teaching students about how their brains work and then developing lessons around retrieval, spaced practice, and metacognition shifts the burden of learning from the teacher to the learner in the most...

www.learningpartnerships.org

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely horrifying. These teachers should not be fearing for their lives or their jobs. Just being a teacher is a risk factor now. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway

Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes moc...

www.kjzz.org

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 3d

Whiteboards, whiteboards, whiteboards, turn and talks followed by cold call

Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 3d

Corporatization is one of the biggest problems in education in the US. Districts pay $$$ for devices, LMS software, curriculums (that have plenty of bells and whistles but very little substance), textbooks and testing. Now add AI into the mix and there seems to be no end in sight. #edusky

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 11d

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 12d

This is a great idea!

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 12d

"Mr. Luther, it's like my mom knew EXACTLY what to ask me!"

Easiest + most-impactful shift I've made communicating home about what we're doing in the classroom?

Adding a "questions to ask your student" for families/supporting adults section.

Easy win! (And some fun student reactions, too)

message home to families with questions for their student highlighted

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 21d

A1: Maintaining Ss attention and using a variety of questioning techniques, lots of whiteboard work, turn and talks and cold calling with warmth. My students are engaged and learning a ton #T2Tchat #Edusky

Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 21d

Q1. What’s something that’s been working well in your classroom this year? #T2Tchat #EduSky

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 21d

#T2Tchat #Edusku A2: Teaching anatomy as a HS elective is so much fun b\c Ss can share their life experiences. For example, I always set aside time for Ss to tell their broken bone stories, and of course I share mine. Ss also get to listen to and see their own heartbeats and measure muscle activity.

Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 21d

Q2. Share one way you bring your subject matter to life for your students! #T2Tchat #EduSky

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 21d

#T2Tchat #Edusky Q4: I use different types of grouping to encourage collaboration. I use compass partners, students pick their West and East partners and I make north partners heterogeneous and south partners homogeneous. I can be very intentional about my partner pairing using this system.

Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 21d

Q4. What’s your favorite way to encourage student collaboration in class? #T2Tchat #EduSky

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 22d

Wow! Utter nonsense. Does Jim Short even understand the science of reading? Teaching an inquiry based science curriculum and expecting students to think critically when they have no foundational knowledge is exactly what Calkins touted. I just can’t with this.

www.the74million.org/article/youv...

You’ve Heard of Science of Reading? The Nation Needs Science of Teaching Science

Short: High-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning are starting points for addressing this education crisis

www.the74million.org

Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 25d

I use AI occasionally to brainstorm, craft emails (only I’ve written my version first) and help me create excel macros. I have deep reservations about using AI to grade student work. Even if I’m using our districts supposedly closed system, I think my students deserve more than AI feedback.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 26d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 26d

This seems like a bad idea on so many levels.

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Dr Nathaniel Swain @nathanielswain.bsky.social · 28d

“ The great danger of comfortable fictions is not that they are wrong, but that they make us feel right. “ - Dr Carl Hendrick — a #mustread post! open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · 28d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Oct 7

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Oct 2

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Sit Up, Look, Listen: The Controversial Classroom Method

YouTube video by emitheteacher

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Sep 29

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · Sep 24

— @mrrablin.bsky.social

#EduSky

“When I was a new teacher, everyone was like, ‘Give students autonomy! They’ll love it and be motivated!’

What no one mentioned was that autonomy only builds motivation when students have a sense of self-efficacy first, requiring evidence to believe success is possible.” —Tyler Rablin, Teacher

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Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Sep 24

Something needs to be done. I think we need to take a hard look at the educational industrial complex in this country, especially those selling discovery and inquiry learning. The research just doesn’t support these strategies for novice learners. #edusky #wednesdayWisdom

Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Sep 22

I have a little trouble at the beginning of the year because we are still in the relationship building stage, it can be a little draining. I know in a few weeks we will all feel more comfortable and start to really have fun learning together.

Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Sep 13

Don’t think we are safe. Pay is better here but the pension for teachers now is nothing what it was. I was lucky enough to get in before that change. If we were to get a republican governor in the next election we are screwed.

Alison Stone @alisonstonebio.bsky.social · Sep 13

I’m so sorry but also worried that it could become the reality for many more teachers and students. Here in PA there is really just a governor standing between us and this reality.

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Joyce Whitby @joywhitby.bsky.social · Sep 12

Happy #FollowFriday #edChat #EduSky educators - here are some amazing educators to follow. Add your own to the list and pass it on! Happy Back to School season one and all!
@rdene915.bsky.social
@timneedles.bsky.social
@lieberrian.bsky.social
@baggaleymr.bsky.social
@alisonstonebio.bsky.social

"I touch the future, I teach.
- Christa McAuliffe

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