Drew Daudelin
@drewdaudelin
Dropping “fuck yeah” in department meetings since 1999. Outdoorsy, bookish, teaching-adjacent. Maryland.
The more I think about this extruded-text (thanks @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social and “The AI Con” for a great precise term) slop button atop my emails, the stupider it becomes. People already don’t read their emails at work! This button is an excuse to ignore more emails!
No Star Wars, No Star Trek, name a favorite Sci-Fi franchise. (Any expanse gif should include Avasarala cussing).
This is over 800 pages of speeches, manifestos, and more. Working on my revised and revamped syllabus for next year. Adding to a bunch of my units: rhetoric of politics and resistance, occasions/commemorations, and more,
This is where the real work will be: navigating an ungrading kind of pedagogy (see @jessifer.bsky.social www.jessestommel.com/ungrading-an...). While I still gotta put those letter grades in the LMS.
Expanded list of texts. Most of these are in an anthology of one sort or another. Really wanna do the Adrienne Rich / James Baldwin pairing.
This is draft #1 of it. The “no dead white guy curriculum.” Right now the organizational focus is thematic / topical; it sort of looks like the anthology we’ve used, but with a different range of writers. I’ll re-map it by correlating texts as models, to the major essays, I think
I like planning units, pairing texts, getting ideas rolling. I don’t like the way “school” and its needs constrain “learning”. 🧵🪡🧵🪡
This is “keep things from bothering admin, and don’t let things leave campus.” No paper trails.
I’m not really surprised that a Catholic church did this in Chicago. But I couldn’t help making this.
Age Verification? I played “Stunts” on an MS Dos computer. Before Stunts, my video games came on 5 1/4” floppy disks.
There’s this: NO DUH. See my last tweet about student profiles. This is not CAUSATION, bros. And next, the basic structure of HS pretty much guarantees more instructional time than college. HS classes are often daily, 50-minutes to 90 minutes long, or every other day, 90 minutes, for whole year.
Now let’s look at this. Again, maybe there’s a lot of elided statistical work that is actually good research. But that doesn’t appear in this argument. The comparison here is between AP exam takers and students in a college class. AP exam takers are ATYPICAL.
Next up, this. CB boasts that only 60-75% of students earn the “c” credit or better on exams, vs 75-90% of college students in courses. Now maybe there’s some fancy stats going on here, or maybe this is bullshit. Because you’re comparing HS students (sometimes sophomores! Juniors!) to college
Imma start here: I would never call the AP EngLang rubrics “detailed.” They merely gesture at objectivity. “Has a line of reasoning” and “uses evidence to support ideas” are basic things; there is little language about the actual quality of that line of reasoning or that evidence.
Not my 9th grader calling Romeo a fuck boy in a literary analysis essay for class 😜😜😜😜😜
Total student loads at a small public high school. 118 will increase as we enroll 9th grade. 147. 110 for dept chair. 128 will increase as we add 9th graders. 167 won’t change. 42 for a teacher we share with another building. 127 might creep up. 50-60 for the librarian…
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Post a movie character who you think would be an anti-vaxxer— hard mode no villians. Both of these dudes:
Friends, you can vote with your wallet too. It would be swell if everyone joined completely at every step, but do whatever you can personally. Do your best to send the message to corporations that they ain’t people
Whose brilliant fucking idea was it to give 82 juniors in AP English a practice test complete with 3 essays? Oh. Mine. Fuck me. Pictured: the collected works of my students, all approximately 500-ish pages, to be graded by Wednesday. (82 students.x 3 essays x average 2ish pages) #iteachela 📖