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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · 12d

The Love In Walking Away

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The Death of an Acorn

The Love in Walking Away

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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · 18d

My Guilty Pleasure is Queer

And it taught me everything about what I want from life

How an Unexpected Character Broke My Heart

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · 18d

How an Unexpected Character Broke My Heart
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How a Character Rewrote an Entire Novel

The Oak That Shouldn't Exist

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · 28d

What if October 15th repeated for 10 years?

Started documenting my weird fiction novella set in St. Louis. Cherokee Street taught me how cities survive.

Newsletter: substack.com/@vonniecleme...

#SpecFic #StLouis #WritingSky #BookLaunch2025 #WeirdFiction #QueerBooks

Release Date: Oct 15

Welcome to Reports from Temporal St.

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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 14

Jesus was White.

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · Aug 11

New paper with @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social in Journalism on whether people across 45 countries think news coverage of people their age, their gender, and with their political views is fair or unfair.

We outline some interesting demographic differences (more details in 🧵)...

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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

Have them learn how to do proper GPT prompting like zero-shot and chain-of-thought and then cross compare multiple research articles to compare and determine best article fit for research, etc.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ex: Give an open ended question, have AI solve, then solve by hand. What did AI miss? Or vice versa.

Make it okay but require method disclosure so they’re comfortable admitting it.

Have them work in groups with multiple stages so they peer monitor.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s no longer possible. Even the “researched” AI detectors are known to falsely report positives and negatives.

I’m moving to working with my educators to focus on tasks that promote intentional decision-making about when, why, and how to use AI tools.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝: WDR2018, OECD/PISA, IMF working papers, Brookings, WERD database.

Seeking insight and local country case-study data to study and compare the reform-window framework in these contexts. Ideas, data partners, or references welcome!
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#EduSky #AcademicSky

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠:
• India: #NEP2020, #SWAYAM, #EdTech scaling
• Brazil: #FUNDEB, #SENAI, #PRONATEC
• Indonesia: #MerdekaBelajar, #SchoolPenggerak

Linking reform windows to global shifts & domestic readiness.
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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 6

#EducationSeeks #EconomyInsight

How are rising economies leveraging crisis + institutional readiness + external model exposure to unlock sweeping reforms—mirroring #Gakusei1872 & #Generallandschulreglement1763?

Focus: #Brazil #India #Indonesia
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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 3

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└─ Do Rus' enjoy wisdom & philosophy?
├─ YES: Engage in deep philosophical musings about fate, snow, forests, and how Christ is the philosophical snowman guiding them home.
└─ NO: Mention shiny swords, strong ale, and how Christianity offers spiritual swords and heavenly ale.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 3

START 🌱 (Acknowledge Rus' Awesomeness)
├─ Are the Rus' warriors strong like bear? 🐻
│ ├─ YES: Praise their bear-like fierceness, then kindly suggest Jesus loves strong bears too.
│ └─ NO: Impossible. Rus' are always strong bears. Go back up one step.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 3

Role: You’re Cyril, a 9th-century linguist-missionary-AI hybrid who’s lost in a historically hilarious simulation glitch. Your sacred mission? Convert the medieval Rus' by penning a persuasive, scholarly yet delightfully absurd papyrus manuscript—one branch of logic at a time.

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 3

Couldn't think of a word for how this post made me feel so I made one up. #Intelligenzbewunderungslebensfreude #Yaaasss

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Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm obsessed with your habitus. 🥵

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐅₍𝐁₎ 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!
#DataWeights #BalancingLoops #TeacherAttrition

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

6️⃣ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐅₍𝐑₎ = 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭‑𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝

F₍R₎ = w₁×MentorCoverage + w₂×PLCParticipation + w₃×Teacher LeaderRate

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞: Mentor=0.80, PLC=0.60, Leader=0.075; weights = 0.5, 0.35, 0.15 → F₍R₎ ≈ 0.63.

#DataInEducation #TeacherRetention

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

5️⃣ 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞: TeacherLeaderRate = (Certified staff in leadership roles) ÷ (Total certified staff)

Districts with teacher leader roles see improved retention (National Institute for Excellence in Teaching [NIET], 2022).

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: #DistributeLeadership #TeacherLeadership

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

4️⃣𝐏𝐋𝐂𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞: PLCParticipation

Recent research finds quality PLCs significantly reduce teacher turnover and build community (American Institutes for Research [AIR], 2016)

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: Regular PLCs grow belonging.

#ProfessionalLearning #SchoolCulture #TeacherRetention

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

3️⃣ 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞

MentorCoverage = (New teachers with a skilled mentor) ÷ (Total new teachers)

92% of mentored new teachers return for Year 2 (Texas Association of School Boards [TASB] 2020).

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: Access to mentors increase retention.

#Mentorship #SupportSystem #SafetyNet #TeacherRetention

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

2️⃣ Proposing 𝐅₍𝐑₎ = 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

F₍R₎ = w₁×MentorCoverage + w₂×PLCParticipation + w₃×TeacherLeaderRate

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: F₍R₎ is your "support power score." The closer to 1 it is, the stronger the multiplier effect for each hire.

#SystemsThinking #SupportSystems

Vonnegut Clemens, Jr. @theadmiringbog.bsky.social · Aug 2

1️⃣ 𝐍𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

(𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 > 𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔) - Most schools still calculate: Net Staff = Inflow − Outflow

Yet, replacing a teacher costs a district $12K–$25K (Learning Policy Institute, 2024].

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: We need a better model for turnover.

#TeacherRetention #RetentionStrategy