I spent most of the day compiling and cleaning data so I could make graphs like this for any NYC school.

#RStats
#ggplot
#EducationalResearch

Proud to share that my iPoster was the third "most popular" of more than a thousand shared during #AERA2025.

Thanks to everyone who engaged with this work, Division A for selecting it, and AERA for including a virtual participation option.

aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com?s=77-B3-8A-F...

Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute.

sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/subE...

#EduSky
#EducationalResearch

In lots of industries managers streamline workflows to improve performance... that's not necessarily the case in ours.

#edusky

Finished reading A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm. Can't remember how it ended up on my TBR, but glad it was.

The sort of science fiction that will haunt me in quiet moments for years to come. 5/5

My next non-digital book is David Rogers's (1968) 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureaucracy in the New York City Schools.

Reading it for wisdom and insight into the system I inhabit, how it became what it is, and what it might revert into.

#educationalresearch

Finished re-reading "So Much Reform, So Little Change" this morning.
Posting two final quotes that resonate with my own research.
#EduSky

"Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about urban schools or school districts is that most of them are trying to do too much too fast, initiating programs on the basis of what's needed rather than on the basis of what they are capable of." (173)

Here is his "School Reformers' Pledge of Good Conduct"
I will not overpromise
I will not disrespect teachers
I will not do anything behind the principal’s back
I will not take part in any partisan personal feuds
I will not equate disagreement with ‘resistance’
I will not put down other programs

"If we begin with the assumption that there are many smart, talented, hardworking people in schools ... Our energies would be better devoted to trying to understand the organizational and environmental characteristics leading people to do so much less than they can." (p. 64)
Full passage in alt text

Revisiting Charles M. Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change" (2008) feels timely. His insights into the limitations of neoliberal school reform are more relevant than ever.
#educationalresearch #edpolisky

Seeing my name on a list of speakers this close to Dan Meyer's is a career highlight.

Also, I get to share my school improvement research with some New York City school leaders at the CSA Leadership Conference.

#EduSky #EducationalResearch #LoadReductionLeadership