Science of Ed
@scienceofed.bsky.social
Using science to help make education a little bit better. For teachers. By teachers. they/them
scienceofed.com
scienceofed.com
Happy Halloween!
May your student be calm, and may your coffee be hot.
May your student be calm, and may your coffee be hot.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Happy Halloween!
May your student be calm, and may your coffee be hot.
May your student be calm, and may your coffee be hot.
Sending a whole lot of love to the teachers, students, and their families in Jamaica right now.
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sending a whole lot of love to the teachers, students, and their families in Jamaica right now.
Regulation has to happen before learning can happen.
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Regulation has to happen before learning can happen.
Science is a working body of knowledge not a set of facts. Science is a way of problem-solving and looking for patterns. Science is the never-ending quest to figure out how the world around us works. Perfect for teaching, if you think about it.
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Science is a working body of knowledge not a set of facts. Science is a way of problem-solving and looking for patterns. Science is the never-ending quest to figure out how the world around us works. Perfect for teaching, if you think about it.
Teaching is hard. Science can help.
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Teaching is hard. Science can help.
School business needs to be handled by the school. Teachers don’t need to be doing basic administrative tasks (like making copies or cutting up handouts) for school-wide things. Use office or support staff do them instead.
Let the teachers use their work time to support teaching and learning.
Let the teachers use their work time to support teaching and learning.
October 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
School business needs to be handled by the school. Teachers don’t need to be doing basic administrative tasks (like making copies or cutting up handouts) for school-wide things. Use office or support staff do them instead.
Let the teachers use their work time to support teaching and learning.
Let the teachers use their work time to support teaching and learning.
We can understand why the behavior happens, but that doesn’t mean it should be an excuse.
Excusing bad behavior sends the message that the behavior is tolerated.
Excusing bad behavior sends the message that the behavior is tolerated.
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We can understand why the behavior happens, but that doesn’t mean it should be an excuse.
Excusing bad behavior sends the message that the behavior is tolerated.
Excusing bad behavior sends the message that the behavior is tolerated.
We stand with our teachers in Alberta.
October 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We stand with our teachers in Alberta.
Some student behaviors can be corrected privately. However, there are times when a public student behavior needs to be corrected publicly. It isn’t about shaming. It’s about letting everybody know which lines are not to be crossed.
You pitched the tent. This is where we are going to camp.
You pitched the tent. This is where we are going to camp.
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Some student behaviors can be corrected privately. However, there are times when a public student behavior needs to be corrected publicly. It isn’t about shaming. It’s about letting everybody know which lines are not to be crossed.
You pitched the tent. This is where we are going to camp.
You pitched the tent. This is where we are going to camp.
We stand with our autistic students and colleagues.
“I am different, not less.” -Temple Grandin
“I am different, not less.” -Temple Grandin
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We stand with our autistic students and colleagues.
“I am different, not less.” -Temple Grandin
“I am different, not less.” -Temple Grandin
Three ingredients of intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
What does this look like for students? What does this look like for teachers?
What does this look like for students? What does this look like for teachers?
September 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Three ingredients of intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
What does this look like for students? What does this look like for teachers?
What does this look like for students? What does this look like for teachers?
🤦♀️
BOBODDY is a research-based, student-centered, synergistic system that will shift the paradigm of the self-contained classroom discipline model. Teachers must submit a BOBODDY matrix along with their annual goals.
Behavioral
Outcomes
By
Optimizing
Dynamic
Discipline
Yourself
Behavioral
Outcomes
By
Optimizing
Dynamic
Discipline
Yourself
September 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🤦♀️
Accommodations should be logical and easy for the teacher to meet. If not, we probably don’t have the best system in place to support the student. Either the system needs to change … or the placement.
Overburdening teachers with unrealistic accommodations in the name of inclusion isn’t the way.
Overburdening teachers with unrealistic accommodations in the name of inclusion isn’t the way.
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Accommodations should be logical and easy for the teacher to meet. If not, we probably don’t have the best system in place to support the student. Either the system needs to change … or the placement.
Overburdening teachers with unrealistic accommodations in the name of inclusion isn’t the way.
Overburdening teachers with unrealistic accommodations in the name of inclusion isn’t the way.
This.
Get curious. Teachers, with your students. Admin, with your staff.
Get curious. Teachers, with your students. Admin, with your staff.
We spend too much time arguing like we're right—and too little time listening like we're wrong.
Diatribes don't change minds. Productive disagreement depends on showing respect, curiosity, and humility.
The most compelling teachers are the ones who are most eager to learn.
Diatribes don't change minds. Productive disagreement depends on showing respect, curiosity, and humility.
The most compelling teachers are the ones who are most eager to learn.
September 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This.
Get curious. Teachers, with your students. Admin, with your staff.
Get curious. Teachers, with your students. Admin, with your staff.
September is National Deaf Awareness Month. Want to know how you can best support deaf and hard of hearing students? Check out a few of these easy strategies!
7 Teaching Strategies to Empower Deaf Students | Deaf Unity
These 7 teaching strategies will help empower your deaf students to do their best in school and set them up for success at university and in the workplace.
deafunity.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
September is National Deaf Awareness Month. Want to know how you can best support deaf and hard of hearing students? Check out a few of these easy strategies!
Cell phone bans are gaining nationwide traction. Currently, 31 states and the District of Columbia either have a statewide ban or require schools to have a restrictive cell phone policy. Seven other states have recommended a restrictive policy or offered incentives for district that adopt one.
Which States Ban or Restrict Cellphones in Schools?
See which states are requiring cellphone restrictions or bans in schools.
www.edweek.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cell phone bans are gaining nationwide traction. Currently, 31 states and the District of Columbia either have a statewide ban or require schools to have a restrictive cell phone policy. Seven other states have recommended a restrictive policy or offered incentives for district that adopt one.
Happy Labor Day, and thank you to all the hardworking teachers and teachers’ unions out there!
History of Labor Day
An official website of the United States government.
www.dol.gov
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Labor Day, and thank you to all the hardworking teachers and teachers’ unions out there!
When we don’t hold kids accountable for bad behavior, we send the message that the bad behavior is acceptable.
Accountability doesn’t have to be a punishment. It can be. But it definitely needs to be a response that has weight and consequence.
Accountability doesn’t have to be a punishment. It can be. But it definitely needs to be a response that has weight and consequence.
August 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When we don’t hold kids accountable for bad behavior, we send the message that the bad behavior is acceptable.
Accountability doesn’t have to be a punishment. It can be. But it definitely needs to be a response that has weight and consequence.
Accountability doesn’t have to be a punishment. It can be. But it definitely needs to be a response that has weight and consequence.
Kids deserve to be safe in schools.
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Kids deserve to be safe in schools.
In the United States, there are approximately 3.5 million full-time and part-time traditional public school teachers, 251,000 public charter school teachers, and 466,000 private school teachers (numbers from the 2020-2021 school year). That’s a lot of amazing experience and brainpower. Source below.
Fast Facts: Teacher characteristics and trends (28)
Question: What are the current characteristics of teachers and trends in the teaching profession?
nces.ed.gov
August 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In the United States, there are approximately 3.5 million full-time and part-time traditional public school teachers, 251,000 public charter school teachers, and 466,000 private school teachers (numbers from the 2020-2021 school year). That’s a lot of amazing experience and brainpower. Source below.
Tell me you’re a teacher without telling me you are a teacher. #firstweekofschool #iykyk #floorpencils
August 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tell me you’re a teacher without telling me you are a teacher. #firstweekofschool #iykyk #floorpencils
Consistency and conformity are not the same thing.
Consistency asks that everybody be on the same page. Conformity requires that everybody read the same script.
Most of the time in school, consistency works because it allows for cohesiveness with some wiggle room.
We need the wiggle room.
Consistency asks that everybody be on the same page. Conformity requires that everybody read the same script.
Most of the time in school, consistency works because it allows for cohesiveness with some wiggle room.
We need the wiggle room.
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Consistency and conformity are not the same thing.
Consistency asks that everybody be on the same page. Conformity requires that everybody read the same script.
Most of the time in school, consistency works because it allows for cohesiveness with some wiggle room.
We need the wiggle room.
Consistency asks that everybody be on the same page. Conformity requires that everybody read the same script.
Most of the time in school, consistency works because it allows for cohesiveness with some wiggle room.
We need the wiggle room.
So the first step to raising helpful kids can be summed up in a single phrase: Let them practice.
- Michaeleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Michaeleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
So the first step to raising helpful kids can be summed up in a single phrase: Let them practice.
- Michaeleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Michaeleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
They are always learning.
We are always teaching.
We are always teaching.
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
They are always learning.
We are always teaching.
We are always teaching.
Time in classrooms > ice breakers
Time in classrooms > guest speakers
Time in classrooms > training on new curriculum
Time in classrooms > turn and talk
Time in classrooms > explaining the new tracking system
Time in classrooms > meetings that should have been an email
Time in classrooms > guest speakers
Time in classrooms > training on new curriculum
Time in classrooms > turn and talk
Time in classrooms > explaining the new tracking system
Time in classrooms > meetings that should have been an email
August 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Time in classrooms > ice breakers
Time in classrooms > guest speakers
Time in classrooms > training on new curriculum
Time in classrooms > turn and talk
Time in classrooms > explaining the new tracking system
Time in classrooms > meetings that should have been an email
Time in classrooms > guest speakers
Time in classrooms > training on new curriculum
Time in classrooms > turn and talk
Time in classrooms > explaining the new tracking system
Time in classrooms > meetings that should have been an email