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Ultimately, this study makes explicit something many teachers likely already sense. Experienced teachers differ from novices, but not primarily because they know more. They differ mainly in how they look at what is happening in the classroom, and in what they do next.

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“To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, are only valuable in so far as they prolong and multiply such scenes.” C.S. Lewis

Source: Mere Christianity (edited lightly for clarity)

Via 3-2-1: On reducing fear, what matters most, and how life responds to us - James Clear

On Giving Teachers Enough Time

Today’s Unjammed episode is built around a simple-if-implausible idea: what happens when teachers are given enough time to do their work. It’s not just about having enough time to complete all the items off the to-do list, either. (Though that does matter!) More importantly, it’s about what it means for teachers to step into a classroom as their best selves—a win for teachers, yes, but more importantly a win for students.

I feel this one, in my bones. There’s the to do list, but there’s also the deeper worker (spending time thinking, looking after myself, etc etc) and there just ain’t enough time for both.

Day 2 going to the gym in the morning. I think I need to move faster or get up earlier. Got home around 6:40. Which I think doesn’t leave me enough time.

First time having a go at going to the gym at 5am. Getting up and there was fine but need to work on a routine for it I think.

A colleague added the tones for me…

Managed to get Genius on Spelling Bee today and yet still were words I missed. It’s becoming my favourite NYTimes game.

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

We’re All Bad At Being Human | Simon Sinek - YouTube

Connections
Puzzle #972
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Did this one with the kids while they didn’t do their homework.

The automatic mechanism from the 🀄️ machine is just cool.

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牛肉刀削面. So good. New favourite place.

On average, almost one-quarter of what teachers say in class is directly related to classroom management.

Something I will try and notice tomorrow.

https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2026/01/25/almost-a-quarter-of-what-teachers-say-in-the-classroom-is-about-classroom-management/

Apparently, it started with an accident. This coming year will be the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. Except, the mouth was added the wrong way around… I kind of like them, hence buying a couple that arrived today.

20 back squats at 84kg (12/10)
9600m on the Assault Bike
20 back squats at 84kg (10/10)

21:11. (5 second pb)

Heart rate went up and stayed up. Though those little dips are where I moved from bar to bike and bike to bar.

It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/21/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/

Moby & Jacob Lusk - ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die’ (Live from Moby’s living room) - YouTube

I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
Haim G. Ginott

Clearly got the taste for it. Ordered this for dinner.

When your colleagues bring in chilli and they say it’s spicy. And considering that we live in a place famous for their spicy food. You believe them. This stuff was potent but amazing.