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Abbott is celebrating $40 million for 411 Texas school systems. That is about $97,000 per system. You do not fix a teacher shortage or underfunded schools with a press release and couch-cushion money. Call it what it is: a photo op, not a plan. #txed #Teachers #ScienceEd

Read the sign, then check the budget. #ScienceEd #txed #PublicSchools

If a parent built the science fair project, the kid learned nothing except that adults panic about grades. Messy, lopsided, and theirs beats perfect and borrowed every time. Let them own the flop too. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

My 5th graders can look up any science fact in 10 seconds. What they can't look up is whether to believe it. School still tests the lookup and skips the judgment. Facts are cheap now. Knowing how to test one is the whole job, and it is a very different skill. #ScienceEd #EdChat #txed

A loud science lab is not a class out of control. It is 25 5th graders noticing, arguing, and figuring things out out loud. Worry when the lab goes quiet. That usually means they stopped exploring and started complying. Noise can be evidence of learning. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

The Orionids peak this week, but this shower makes you earn it. 🌠 The moon hogs the sky until about 3 AM Thursday, Oct 22. After it sets, look up until dawn: fast meteors from Halley's Comet debris, 10 to 20 an hour in dark skies. Set the alarm. Worth it. #Orionids #MeteorShower #ScienceEd

My quietest 5th grader on paper can talk through a whole lab like a real scientist. If we only grade the worksheet, we miss the scientist entirely. Let them talk it out first. Science started as conversation, not fill in the blank. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

We have spent years arguing about an imaginary danger in our schools while the real one keeps taking kids. No school is secretly operating on children. Too many schools have had to plan funerals. Protect kids from the real threat. #ProtectKids #GunSafety #txed

A science demo where my 5th graders just watch me is not a lab. It is live TV with safety goggles. Kids remember what their hands did, not what my hands showed them. Let them touch it, test it, break it, fix it. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

Early voting in Texas starts Monday, Oct 19. Democrats are the ones fighting for public schools: funding, no voucher scams, a State Board of Education that respects teachers. 90% of Texas kids are in public schools. Vote blue, and vote Gina Hinojosa for governor. #PublicEducation #txed #VoteBlue

If your 5th grader is scared to make a prediction before the lab, we taught science backwards. A wrong prediction is not a wrong answer. It is data. The kids who guess boldly learn more than the kids who wait to copy the right one. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

The US doesn't have a science problem. It has a priorities problem. We treat science like trivia, test it late, cut it first, then act stunned when adults can't tell evidence from a headline. Kids are born curious. We school it out of them. Not an accident. #ScienceEd #PublicEducation #txed

Texas doesn't test science until 5th grade. So for six years it gets treated like recess. Then the state tests my 5th graders on it and acts surprised at the scores. You don't get to ignore a subject for six years and then grade us on it. #txed #PublicEducation #STAAR

Private schools are not required to follow an IEP. That is the part that gets left out of the sales pitch, and families find out after they have already switched. Private schools can accept who they want and send away who they don't. #txed #PublicSchools #SpecialEducation

The slow-motion meteor shower is here. The Draconids peak Oct 8 - 9 under a moonless sky. Only about 5 an hour, but they're famously slow and graceful, and best right after dark. Look north, be patient, thank Comet 21P for the dust. #ScienceEd #Astronomy #MeteorShower

Give a 5th grader a battery, a wire, and a bulb and they'll troubleshoot for 30 minutes straight. Give them a worksheet about circuits and they're bored in 2. Kids don't have an attention problem. They have a worksheet problem. Real problems hold attention. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

It always comes down to priorities. We find the money for the things we value. Public schools serve everybody, so they should be at the top of the list, not an afterthought. Funding is a choice. So is shortchanging the schools that take every kid. #PublicEducation #FundOurSchools #txed

Nobody falls in love with evaporation from a glossary. We hand 5th graders the vocabulary before they ever see the thing, then wonder why they don't care. Let them watch the puddle shrink first. Wonder before words. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

As a father, the Cornell 7 story in the news hits me hard. We have to do a better job raising our sons to understand what consent means. No means no, silence is not yes, and we are all accountable for our actions. #ConsentEducation #Parenting #Accountability

My 5th graders walk in asking 'why' about everything. By spring, we're proud they can stop asking and start bubbling. Somewhere along the way, school trains the curiosity out of the scientist. The 'why' is the science, the rest is just paperwork. #ScienceEd #HandsOnScience #txed

The legislature doesn't write my lesson plans, but it sure loves telling me which science I'm allowed to teach. Funny how the people furthest from my classroom have the strongest opinions about it. The kids are doing science. The adults are doing politics. #txed #TeachersOfBluesky #EduTwitter

Fuel moves cars. Effort moves lives. What's one thing you only pulled off because you refused to quit? #Motivation #GrowthMindset #TeachersOfBluesky

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If every lab group gets identical results, nobody did science. Real science is messy data and kids arguing about why. The 'wrong' answer with good reasoning beats the copied right one. Hands-on or it didn't happen. #TeachersOfBluesky #ScienceEd #txed

We test reading and math for four years, then act shocked when 5th graders can't think like scientists. You don't build science brains with worksheets in the grades that don't count. #TeachersOfBluesky #ScienceEducation #txed

5 science activities your 5th graders will actually remember. Easy, cheap, zero boring worksheets. Which one are your kids begging to try first? 👇 DM me for details. #TeachersOfInstagram #ScienceTeacher #STEMeducation

That water in your bottle? Older than the dinosaurs. Every drop cycles through oceans, clouds, rivers, and yeah, probably a T. rex at some point. The water cycle wastes nothing. 💧🦕 #TeacherVoice #EduSky #Science

Nobody lectures a pilot from seat 34B. But everyone who once sat in a classroom thinks they can run a school. #TeacherVoice #EduSky #Education

🔥 434-day Duolingo streak and counting! Spanish practice is baked into my day now — even the long teacher days. Small habits compound. Here’s to the next 62 weeks. #Duolingo #LanguageLearning #EduSky

Duolingo gave Duo a Keys suit for completing my daily lessons and honestly? The fit goes hard 🕶️ My Spanish teacher dresses better than I do. #Duolingo #LanguageLearning #Streak

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97% accuracy on my Spanish lessons today. 432-day streak still alive and paying off. Small wins, every single day. #Duolingo #LanguageLearning #EduSky