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LOL. I ordered it from Amazon. I assume this was filled by a machine, which makes you wonder...

I already checked the prices of black beans and split peas. Turns out the unit cost of black beans is cheaper.

Watch out for water and ice on the ground. I slipped on some ice last week and it was very painful!

Yes! But here's the thing - THE BAG IS UNOPENED.

Unopened bag of Yupik organic dried black turtle beans with green split peas inside

What do you notice? What do you wonder? (Look carefully.)

Pages from a 14th-century Arabic copy of Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar ti Hisab al-jabr w’al-muqabala, translated to, The Compendious Book on Calculation by Restoration and Reduction, showing geometric solutions to two quadratic equations. (Public Domain; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī via The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)

Yeah, definitely not new. 😉

MoMath Brings Prime Numbers to a Prime New Location

I’m on the advisory council of MoMath. I’ve heard talk about this move for years. It’s nice to see it finally happen! #MTBoS #ITeachMath www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/s...

Wait, I LOVE completing the square! But I don’t reduce it to a procedure. I use the area model. It’s beautiful! It connects to so much math (from multiplying numbers to dividing polynomials), and it has cultural connections too (al-Khwarizmi).

Also, ed reformers love to focus on discipline and criticize building relationships, just “teach like a champion” - these strategies maintain order and treating students and teachers as puppets to be controlled and bullied into submission.

At its heart, most education reform (“merit” pay, love of standardized testing, fidelity to scripted curriculum, “right to work,” direct instruction over exploration) is focused on subjugating students and teachers to preserve the privileged.

If it makes you feel better, scripted math is also pretty awful. 🙄

Sometimes they are delayed by a few days. I wouldn’t worry about it. The conference committee are volunteers doing this while working full time, so hopefully we’ll find out soon.

I saw this in NYC the day after Lunar New Year and it was awesome. Definitely worth seeing in a big screen!

Blades of the Guardians review: Yuen Woo-ping delivers another wuxia wonder A boisterous, but unhurried action-adventure that never feels sloppy.

BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS! Martial arts choreographer/director Yuen Woo-ping kicks off Lunar New Year with a splashy action fantasy featuring a ton of stars like Wu Jing, Tony Leung Ka Fai, and even Jet Li (briefly). Any good? Oh yeah. More @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blad...

Unfortunately, districts, admins, and ed reformers distrust teachers. They don't think we're competent enough to create or modify a curriculum. They use paternalistic language ("saving teachers time" so we can "focus on students") that kmplies wer're just caregivers instead of educational experts.

In theory, HQIM is only a resource, not a script. But that's not reality. Districts and admins use HQIM as a weapon to bully teachers into submission. I don't care about the intent of the curriculum authors. I get angry about the impact of this weaponization.

Lots of math curricula have good lessons and activities - Amplify comes to mind - and I don’t have a problem with a mandated curriculum. But I have a problem with requiring that teachers follow them exactly. If we can’t modify lessons based on our experience, then we’re nothing more than bots.

Scripted math curricula are not written by teachers, have no sense of realistic pacing, are not differentiated for language learners or anyone else, and are accompanied by terribly written tests.

I’ve written and spoken about how bad most scripted math curricula are. They’re all pretty bad.

Yeah, I’m definitely not endorsing Mulgrew by any stretch of the imagination! 😂 But it scares me to think that as frustrating as our union is, the alternative is much scarier!

And those pesky teacher unions! How dare they demand cumbersome work restrictions! Districts and admins should have the freedom to demand anything from anyone at any time! If you’re not willing to be exploited, you’re not putting children first! 🤦🏻

The ed-reformers often blame implementation for the failure of their reforms…usually the teachers get the blame for not being “trained” properly (i.e. they weren’t completely bullied into submission). The policies are always perfect! 🙄

One of the most insane things about ed-reform is that a very small collection of people are able to be wrong again and again and again with zero repercussions. In fact, every failure is a chance for them to come up with a new solution and write/sell a book about it.

HQIM is a total scam - not written by teachers and evaluated based on meeting state standards not written by teachers (see a pattern?), yet teachers are held accountable when HQIM inevitably go awry. Maybe students would do better if teachers were treated like professionals instead of bots.

Finally, don't blame unions like UFT for being reluctant to add more days to the calendar. We know how this works. You give us a little more time (but not enough to do it well), then you give us more responsibility...because we now have the time! /End

Making PD useful for teachers is a separate conversation. But don't blame the measly PD that we get for inequity. Blame the system that keeps teachers busy BY DESIGN so they can't improve themselves or the system that keeps us and our students oppressed. 5/

I'm all for starting school in NYC before Labor Day if we could have Regents Exams in late May and finish by Memorial Day. But don't blame the 4 PD days NYC teachers have - which are inadequate and often abused by admins. You want to take away the little PD we get? How do teachers grow? 4/

The number of school days isn't the issue. It's testing - not just the days spent administering the tests. It's all the time teachers spend preparing for tests that do a poor job of measuring student learning. I don't mind testing, but we should spend more time thinking about making better tests. 3/