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Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: A Sleepless Night (with upside?)Click here to reply to @kwa "And the kids that need the most help can get the assistance with an adult right there with them the whole time. So everybody's getting what they need. If the. The. And this is part of what I had did on. I did on today at Staples. But if I can, I'll edit and continue tomorrow, maybe in the morning, because I. Cause I want to update. Update some of them in color, whatever. It sounds extra, but it's."2025-07-0714 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Ask Me AnythingClick here to reply to @kwa "Spotify is not really doing it for me right now, and for whatever reason I'm more interested in what SWA has to say. But there's not much on what's it called, the feed. So just open it up to ask me anything. It doesn't even have to be about me could be my opinion on something outside of me just random hear your thoughts and just want a reaction Just looking for something interesting to for my mind that you are."2025-07-0600 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Alone time. A quiet place. Math Mind. Insights..Click here to reply to @kwa "I was going to have a discussion around that clip from the book or that part of the book, but because it talks about, like being in an advanced class, I think I want to save that towards the end. And I do want to get through some of this book so I can pull some other, like, shorter, simpler quotes from it. But anyway, on that spreadsheet, I'm thinking first of all what I am going to do today."2025-07-0514 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Payoff by Dan ArielyClick here to reply to @kwa "So I listened to some podcasts that were interesting and when I looked into reading about stuff I knew I wasn't going to. I'm not a computer expert, I'm not a tech expert and so I just looked for things that I think were relevant enough related to technology in general and some to AI specifically. So I started with a book on the psychology of AI. There's another thing on AI."2025-07-0509 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Early AM Journal. Time.Click here to reply to @kwa "Those take up a lot of time and sometimes I wonder if that's productive or not. I think the biggest trap is using the mornings to get work done. I've done that a lot and it's gotten tougher now because in the summers, in this summer program, it used to be I got there early and did it because I was, I was not the one responsible for dropping my son off to his, his program in the mornings."2025-07-0310 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Walk-In Warmups and Feelings CirclesClick here to reply to @kwa "Last year, I think math class was kind of fun to me because we, you know, we had the activities and stuff and I had them in individual groups and we vibed well together. We played music while we did it and, and you know, and the kids actually improved over that, that short six week period for the most part. It was crazy to watch though. One of my kids this year was like, yeah, you guys were loud. I was like, what?"2025-07-0314 minKwa NateKo@kwa | The Feel GoodsClick here to reply to @kwa "But if you want to get out and just do something and get a different mind space. There's a few that have really loud music. There's one that. There's a couple that are a little too. I'm not going to say posh, but it's just I have to be in the mood to go to those places. There's one that's really good drinks, but they're expensive. But this one is kind of like a neighborhood feel."2025-07-0207 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer Program UpdateClick here to reply to @kwa "And now this year is getting easier for kids to participate without thinking too much about it, because I used to plan so much for those things. And even in this first we have had. It's. The lessons are planned by day and it's day two that we've done the lit circles because we didn't do it last week. And we've done basically two and a quarters day of work. We probably could have gone a little bit further, but I wanted."2025-07-0114 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Magazine HuntingClick here to reply to @kwa "And it's not like I used to spend way too much time but this is when I was doing freelance writing too, like searching for different niche publications and which may have given me like a skewed view of what's available because I spend an ordinary amount of time like looking looking through that stuff and it's probably just not so too cost prohibitive for, like, libraries to have that many options available."2025-06-2813 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Learning How to Communicate at a Student’s LevelClick here to reply to @kwa "There's a lot of need there. Like some people focus on test prep, or you can go broad and cover a number of different things. I really started with math, so I covered. There were two Reasons I covered a very wide range of math from like all the way From K through 5 through early college because I got to, it allowed me to work with more, get more work, be guaranteed more work."2025-06-2814 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer Program Days 2-4Click here to reply to @kwa "Additionally, I let the kids more play the games with their friends today and it turns out at least a couple kids that I thought were shy or weren't as they weren't, you know, they were having a tough time with some of the material. Like they just do a lot better with those one or two kids in class that they get along with, which is okay."2025-06-2613 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer Program Day 1Click here to reply to @kwa "It was interesting to see that both like the kids that didn't talk a lot, what they put down, the discrepancies between what you saw and what the kids thought. But I was very proud of one kid who put one is very hard because one of the things I stress and I talked about in both classes, it is far more important than getting the right answers that you practice. Use this class as an opportunity to practice getter at both participating, asking questions and asking for assistance."2025-06-2414 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Ready for GrowthClick here to reply to @kwa "I can't just think that I need to. And I'm also working with a teacher who is not necessarily new but hasn't been with the program for three years. They're returning. I have to not just think about it, what am I doing, but I have to set it up in a way that at any time somebody can come in and do exactly what I'm doing. Regardless of how familiar they are with the curriculum, the kids, the program, etc."2025-06-2214 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Extended HoursClick here to reply to @kwa "And I also don't want to be in the mad rush of the crowd for like the weekend. The weekend weekend gym rest weekend warrior rush, though I haven't been going as consistently. I don't know that's a request to the a request or complaint to the powers that be, but it felt important."2025-06-2002 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Text PostsClick here to reply to @kwa "I know you guys at Swell recently made an update where there's an option to make text based posts. I did see it on on here a few times, but it's not showing up anymore. So I'm not sure how I post text instead of audio. If any of you could help me out."2025-06-2000 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Stuff Avoidant: I’m not the greatest receiver of gifts.Click here to reply to @kwa "Like, trivial stuff, they're harder to shop. For me, Like, I. Okay, so like the way if I buy somebody a gift, I tend to put a lot of time into finding a gift that's really. I'll spend days, you know, or even longer looking for the right gift for them. I will really put a lot of thought into a card that I write for."2025-06-1511 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Finding SpaceClick here to reply to @kwa "If I knew what it was before I went there and I kind of didn't do things on a whim, I probably might have not chose to go. But I was kind of amazed by some of the stuff they did. 3. It's interesting to see the performers bodies because I've been, I've seen a. I've seen dance things in person previously and I've seen you know, some shows at theater and, and at least on stage."2025-06-1513 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer Prep ShiftClick here to reply to @kwa "And I think that'll help serve the 11th grade team because the neither teacher there is really like STEM isn't their strength so they're good enough to be able to do it. And if I'm pulled in a few different directions to help support students, it's something that can be used to kind of like automate part of the process and help the students gain that independence. They can use that resource. Also we had an online platform that we used last year for this."2025-06-1312 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Learning How to SlackClick here to reply to @kwa "Like, maybe do it like they have at home work, doing homework and maybe a second day. That is something in between that. But I find I can be much better and more efficient as a teacher. Not if I'm doing everything every period or teaching material more days a week. But when I have that time to plan. You can put together things in a way that you can ensure that the kids get much more out of learning in less time."2025-06-1214 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Some Kind of InterventionClick here to reply to @kwa "I say, but it's Daddy's duty to make sure we do something fun if you don't have it with you. So if you get bored and you're at home, we could play a game. We can go somewhere, like to the playground of the movies or something. The first thing this boy says is, can we go to the gym? I was like. And I, I haven't been in a while in a couple months. And I'm like, so."2025-06-1002 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Socializing and Time CapacityClick here to reply to @kwa "Take a break from the conversation. And I think the most. Two interesting times in my life that I think were like I felt socially easy or in the moment. It's not like I didn't feel uneasy. I didn't feel unconfident or uneasy at any points at this time. But I. There were times where I had a lot of female attention. And it's not. I don't say that for."2025-06-0913 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Tutoring Stigma / MisconceptionClick here to reply to @kwa "It tends to be a lot of times kids that are already pushing ahead and want to do more, get more tutorators. It's interesting to see that misconception, I think, and it's not a bad thing because it could partially reflect what the parents see in whatever school systems they are in. But it's just interesting to hear and I've seen this before."2025-06-0908 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: STEM Learning, PlanningClick here to reply to @kwa "And that makes a huge difference. It really builds on that way. So I can see how like, just like math, if you are stuck in, stuck at a certain point and you didn't get comfortable with some of the material, how much harder it can get years in, years continued, or how much exponentially easier it can get if you've learned it really well, how much faster you go than your peers. I'm now starting to see like why that is in science."2025-06-0714 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Chosen RoadClick here to reply to @kwa "It's a foundation for me to like expand on my. It's a place to develop foundations that I could expand upon outside of school, you know, as I'm learning. So I don't get that part as much, but I do get to work on the teaching part. So. And I'm hoping if I can get things right, especially with this hour long commute, the time management piece gets easier because it has been so challenging to manage all of that."2025-06-0414 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next Read: "The Psychology of AI" by Tony PrescottClick here to reply to @kwa "My avenue to learning about technology and AI and maybe even coding and what is still relevant today will be more from the more things like this, like, like pop pop sign related stuff and then eventually get into this. Anyway, it's a short read. It's a very slim book. So a chapter day I'll probably go through. If anybody wants to join in, feel free."2025-06-0203 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Spring to SummerClick here to reply to @kwa "Speaking of which, there was one case in one of my classes on Friday where I'm not going to say I wasn't mean to the kids at all, but I think they could tell there's a little bit of agitation on my face. Like one kid was like, are you mad at me? Or whatever. And it was just. We had a day where we had mostly workshop, which is in."2025-06-0114 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next Read: Strong TownsClick here to reply to @kwa "The practice of city planning has largely been reduced to zoning, a way of categorizing the world into homogenous blocks, primarily for ease of regulation and transportation, the latter being the primary way we facilitate growth within our cities. What both professions have in common is that they view cities as complicated, but not complex. There is a massive difference, and it's critical to explaining why our modern cities are so fragile. Something that is complicated can have many moving parts."2025-05-2611 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Affirmation Cards: Deciding to ThriveClick here to reply to @kwa "That's what we're trying to do. So I'll just have him read these, I think as maybe part of a series. Okay. You ready to read it? Yeah. Read the card. 52. Thrive. I am deciding to thrive. I am deciding to look for. For situations and opportunities that benefit me. I am deciding to follow my path of least resistance toward. Toward my goals. I am deciding to enterprise. Enterprise circle as a sign to change course."2025-05-2302 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Personal health in stages.Click here to reply to @kwa "I'm seeing now like I know they were important before and I'm starting to see how overall how important they can be, where they need to be and how much age is starting to matter. And it's not like again I'm not at like this, this place where I'm completely debilitated or have severe issues all the time, but little things are starting to pop up. And I say this somebody who's mostly like eating healthy, you know, my, my."2025-05-2312 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Somebody to Lean OnClick here to reply to @kwa "But the same question that I posted on here before about like, what would you tell your parents to do differently? Something along those lines. The kids had really interesting responses the seventh grader. So that encouraged me. But I think I will also try this with them now. We do executive functioning related stuff at the school I'm at now. The school I'm at, I work full time right now is predominantly white."2025-05-2313 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Old Man Walking, What School Could Look LikeClick here to reply to @kwa "Because I find like sometimes with classes, you know, we do, I think it's structured in a way where we're teaching stuff, is often taught to teach to take up the time allotted for class. Now my school is slightly different that the high schoolers. A teacher can say to the high schoolers, we're just not going to have class today. You have this project, you can go anywhere on campus and do it, which I think is awesome."2025-05-2211 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Next School Year, STEM, Niche History, Modern History Looking BackwardsClick here to reply to @kwa "I'm going to be paired with a teacher that's new to the school, but I think has been teaching English for a while. And I had really made this big fuss over myself about really learning more of the humanities side of things. And I bought some history related books and I read through them and I noticed like one of the big challenges kids had was written responses related to prompts and essay assignments and historical assignments."2025-05-2214 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Time. Morning reading. High school science. Practical intersections.Click here to reply to @kwa "And also it takes you away from, if you really have reading set, it takes you away from social media so you're not like bouncing around the latest thing. You get some like separation from that. I recently, for the end of the, during the end of the year and towards, towards our current, the summer coming up, I've started doing like workbooks related to our science classes or STEM classes. I went through chemistry."2025-05-1914 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Student Influenced LearningClick here to reply to @kwa "Being able to visualize things is an important part of understanding the material. Social studies, reading. So there are ways to finagle intersecting math with that. But it may be a case where we just talk about the skills that are very important for those subjects. And science, maybe math and board of science, I don't know. But I like that idea. I like that they came up with that. The second I would say generally might be like habits in school, right?"2025-05-1714 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Building a ToolkitClick here to reply to @kwa "There, there are other options or other approaches for this. And you may see what works across disciplines like humanities. I'll probably eventually have a humanity section too, but not now, but math, whatever, et cetera. And we'll see, we'll see how it works. And also I can take notes as I'm sitting there in the classroom and say like it's a way to, a more structured way."2025-05-1609 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Toolkit vs. Process, Fluidity vs. Structure. Pattern recognition. Visibility and credibility.Click here to reply to @kwa "You certainly need it versus versus content knowledge versus experience. Working with. Working with the content as an educator, which is different than just understanding it, because you've seen different ways that this has been done. You've seen a lot of ways that different methods have worked for the same kind of math problem or not have worked. You have exposure to the difficulties and successes kids go through while they're sorting these things out in their head."2025-05-1613 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: A mixed bag. The unseen. Civil discourse.Click here to reply to @kwa "It's a lot of small things that just makes me want to be aware and probably of how I carry and present myself. I guess the other thing with the class that I subbed for, I just feel like I didn't teach the way I want. I more kind of tutored and went around and helped kids individually and I think on the outside looking in, kids might have not thought of it any particular way, but there's a certain way I know and like things run like a."2025-05-1514 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Economic History: Social Spending + Federal PurgesClick here to reply to @kwa "And then he said you can choose a third specialty and I like that idea because you're basically talking about data and context and this first podcast is so interesting because even though it's about two years old it's it's so closely relates to a lot of what is going on particularly like the decisions and being made right now and historical parallels to that decisions even though those decisions even though this is two years prior and wasn't really speaking to this specific administration specific U.S. administration's decision and its...2025-05-1501 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Jari Eloranta Discusses the Global EconomyClick here to reply to @kwa "I kind of took a pause to do some other reading, but I'm also listening to podcasts related to economic history and this, this app, this actually moves, this conversation actually really moves into more, more about current affairs and the current global economy and provide some historical context related to what's going to decisions being made and how that is likely to affect other things. I think it's a really, it's a really interesting listen."2025-05-1402 minKwa NateKo@kwa | My Son Asks Me To Talk About HimClick here to reply to @kwa "He kind of drooled sometimes into later ages and it turned out to be like some. Something with his. He had to go to speech therapy. Something with his like jar or something like that. But that was more to take care of because it turned out to be a chatterbox. All of a sudden around at 2 he was, he became the most unsy child. And I didn't know. I'm like who is this?"2025-05-1414 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Saturday love. Tutor the Teacher. Systems.Click here to reply to @kwa "And it was simple, but it was effective enough to make me think We've really done some good work this year here, this year, and me included. And I don't give myself a pat on the back enough, but I just feel if the goal is to be effective, and I'm watching the kids go over things we've learned five months ago or four months ago, however many months ago, and using some of those same."2025-05-1314 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | 7 Questions from Sole TiesClick here to reply to @kwa "List or share the expectations you set for yourself that you have had a difficult time living up to. Question number five. Describe a connection that you're currently nurturing and what makes it special. Question number 6. Reflect on a moment when you had to confront a deeply held belief. How did it change your perspective? Question number seven. Discuss a significant cultural or religious tradition that has played a role in your life. What does it mean to you?"2025-05-1202 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Back to summer school. Re-learning STEM. The right choice.Click here to reply to @kwa "For the most part, it's hard to tell why you were in it, but it's. And you know why? It's because I think I was sort of skeptical at the beginning of the year, but I put in a good bit of work and it came well enough. And then a lot of the kids who weren't necessarily getting it were, were certainly using my help, they found the reviews useful."2025-05-1214 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Soul Surfing through the shift in American ManfacturingClick here to reply to @kwa "The title of the podcast is called the Tapestry of American Manufacturing and it essentially talks about the. The emotional. You want to say emotional side related to the. I don't know if you want to call it decline but shift shift in the manufacturing sector and reliance on the manufacturing sector in the Northeast. And what's really interesting about it is the people, the people who are narrating it the location. I think if you are somebody for instance who is is in the Northeast or in."2025-05-0907 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Handling the unexpected. STEM for Dummies by analog. Outside resources for formal meets "real world."Click here to reply to @kwa "It covers broad swaths of things where, like, you get an entry point through something you're interested in and you have context, and that context is something you have to think less about when you come across the standard curriculum and you could focus more on the other things that are there. So, like, I think."2025-05-0914 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Where have you seen math help make sense of your world? Or your world help make sense of math?Click here to reply to @kwa "To give you some more additional clarity related to what you saw in the real world and vice versa, did what you saw in saw in the real world, whether it was through related to an assignment from school or not, or if it was just personally just walking through and seeing things or reading things or hearing or studying things on your own, did that provide more clarity and context of the math that you learned about in school or otherwise? So those are my two parting questions."2025-05-0712 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Land of Promise: Chapter 1 - Hamiltonian vs JeffersonianClick here to reply to @kwa "So in a previous post or previous collection of posts, I talked about three different books on economics I have read or was starting to read or plan to read. The first one was Small, Medium, Large. It was a book on the history of American manufacturing. A second one, and I'm looking to see if I can find the title was on the Global Economy. The History of the Global Economy."2025-05-0713 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Robotics. Exit plan. Break.Click here to reply to @kwa "But experience in that the sort of like workforce programs here and was saying like the like manufacturing isn't what it used to be. It's not necessarily like a dirty floor where you're putting together parts by hand is a lot of it is like programming stuff behind a computer so the machines can, can do what they need to do."2025-05-0209 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Gut check. Focus and thought. Trades and STEM.Click here to reply to @kwa "And then I had to stay home because my son was sick on Tuesday. And usually I had to catch up on some things. And I did. First thing I did was biology. And I was looking at some of the videos the students had reviewed, and I was like, this is actually coming very clearly. And I was like, I guess I'm focusing because I'm not multitasking, which is one thing. But Usually I'm much more like distracted."2025-05-0113 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Return to Work, Tutoring, History CyclesClick here to reply to @kwa "Today I had my first tutoring gig that I had in a while and it was with a young fifth grade girl, very local and who's a couple grade levels behind. And I very much enjoyed the experience. I've tutored a number of different ages before, but working with a younger kid feels just like such, more like such a fragile kind of thing, right?"2025-05-0110 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Future Reading: City PlanningClick here to reply to @kwa "And the second one, I picked urban planning and urban studies specifically because of the one. And also when I looked through the table of contents, it was more. A lot of it had to do with the kinds of things you would need to plan out a city. Like, what that. The, the moving parts of a city rather than the process itself. I really was more interested in, like, what that requires."2025-04-3004 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next Read: World economy. US economy. City politics and interest groups.Click here to reply to @kwa "And I like books like these because again, they're relevant regardless of what your political affiliation is. And so I think that's a interesting way to look at things. But of these three books, so one on the American economy and it can't be past roughly 2010 because the book was only published in 2012. One is the history of the global economy for the past thousands of years, past thousand years, and the other one is about local interest groups and politics and policy."2025-04-2903 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Small, Medium, Large by Coleen A. Dunlavy - Chapters 1-3Click here to reply to @kwa "On the contrary, formidable market forces block their diffusion. Another quote says that the free. That competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. In this, in this US Society, we've almost treated capitalism as its own kind of put it at a pedestal. And it's interesting to hear the idea that free market forces were blocking or no, not just capitalism."2025-04-2813 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Spring prep. Tutor marketing. Future rolesClick here to reply to @kwa "So I did my first return. Well, I do a summer, I've done a summer program. I've taught at a summer program, seventh grade math for the last two summers. And really it's a lot more than that. You know, we go with the kids to a lot of different extra stuff. I do reading. They call them reading circles. It's a really, really good program."2025-04-2704 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Reading and Teacher UpdatesClick here to reply to @kwa "All right. I finished this book, Law 101, and I think it's a phenomenal read. It's not because it says anything profound, but it gives me a layout of. I want to say it's how to think about law or. Or. Or it's a resource. So I actually think I might buy this book. I had."2025-04-2614 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Ask Me AnythingClick here to reply to @kwa "All right. It's kind of late, and I'm just restless, so I'll leave this up here. Ask me anything, so anything at all. I will. I'm off to bed. So I probably will not see this before tomorrow, but feel free. Um, maybe it. Maybe ask something you haven't seen me respond to or talk about on here. I like things that make me think."2025-04-2300 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Exploring History: Economic HistoryClick here to reply to @kwa "Now I talked about one of the potential subjects I go, I go through next might be economic history because I think economics and resources place such a large part of how we think about things and the motivations of nations and people, even if they don't say it, that I think if I can, if I were to pick, to learn about history in, in broad swaths."2025-04-2311 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Student-Generated Weekly SchedulesClick here to reply to @kwa "And like for each day the students will. Then every Monday the students themselves will. Will look at the weeklies and like if it's a bio class or do bio in bold. And then they'll say what's. What's expected to be covered in class. Then they'll look at the schedule and they'll say what assignment is there? And they'll do. And they'll put that all in one sheet as their regular Monday, Monday duty or what they're supposed to do on Mondays."2025-04-2112 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Exploring History: Entry into Economic HistoryClick here to reply to @kwa "Well, anyway, I said before I got into history, how much economy met, like economics matter, how much people are motivated by resources. And it turns out the more that I delve into history, the more that's true. The pursuit of resources and the pursuit of power often relates to the pursuit of resources and growing the economy."2025-04-1709 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Format. Preparing the uncertain.Click here to reply to @kwa "There's less structure and there's less of a focus in 11th grade on like explicitly teaching. Actually there's pretty much almost none like of teaching like an executive functioning lesson the way that we do in 10th grade. So that does take off a load. In a sense. The 12th grade is kind of like the kind of the question mark. Ideally the students are even more independent, but at that point they're still in the program for a reason. Right?"2025-04-1712 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Passive learning in science and history. History as a primer for law. Law 101.Click here to reply to @kwa "But what I've done has picked. I basically picked out things out the book, like the Commerce Clause or what is it? What is it that substance, substantive versus procedural law by extension, but not directly federalism. And one thing I'm stuck on now is that I don't completely understand, oh, the 14th Amendment. And I'm taking my time with these, like, these fundamental but smaller parts. And I like how this is kind of building on enumerated powers, the law."2025-04-1713 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Thinking Ahead for Next YearClick here to reply to @kwa "So if I can have like it doesn't have to be exact process but it means I can identify patterns and sort of like this is where like in the general process of solving for math problems in the high school level you need to. You could work on. And of course there's like specific content knowledge related to each math math class. But I think that's really something I can do."2025-04-1714 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Starting Law 101 by Jay M. FeinmanClick here to reply to @kwa "Like the significance of this or like or ways to explore it. All right. First things that stick out is that they talk about in chapter one they're talking about or chapter two they're talking about constitutional law. And they they talk about how states have just like the federal government has constitution, so do states and state law is tend to be much more specific. State constitutions tend to be much more longer and very specific related to federal law."2025-04-1510 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Ask me anything 4/13/25Click here to reply to @kwa "All right, so another. Go around and ask me anything I want to be asked. At least two things. One, something I probably could have a response to off the top of my head with or without a little. Without little additional information. And maybe one question where I'd have to go and do a little bit of homework to learn about that thing and what. What I might think about it. Give it a shot."2025-04-1400 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Reading List: Micro-ReadsClick here to reply to @kwa "I think I'll just take the next couple weeks to get ahead of my stuff at work, on the side gigs with the other programs and getting myself ready with other stuff. But having said all that for future reads, if anybody has any suggestions of things they want to read or things they think are interesting to read, fiction or nonfiction, feel free to share. I do have a list of things saved in. Like, I have a list, but I'm always open to one."2025-04-1304 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Practical Math for Grown-Ups: What would you include in a math class about the type of math you want to learn?Click here to reply to @kwa "Not who. Who would not be considered high falutin as Septima Put it would not act condescending to adults. We need a community worker to do it who cares for the people, who understands the people, who can communicate with. Who can communicate with the people, Clark and Horton maintained. Someone who has been to Highlander and knows Highlander's philosophy. Okay, and here. Here leads more. We're getting there to the more interesting parts. That leads to the math."2025-04-1213 minKwa NateKo@kwa | SAVE ActClick here to reply to @kwa "Boy, and I hope, I hope if you're, if you are seeing this, I can't believe that something like that passed in the House. See about the Senate. But like somebody else said, it's kind of like the, what's it called the, essentially the, the ways they found, the ways they got around not having black people vote after voting was legal through like literacy tests and other forms of other things."2025-04-1103 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Office Gossip and Letting the Small Stuff GoClick here to reply to @kwa "I now see gossip as potentially important information in the way that it's like. It lets me understand how to navigate, potentially navigate the environment that I'm in. And so it gives me an idea of like the structure or the political structure of the. The what's going on, so at least I can be aware. So when you gossip with me now, I consider it a favor. And I also consider that you."2025-04-1008 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer options. Volunteer. Writing.Click here to reply to @kwa "For a few reasons I, you know, I've ran, I did okay, I did pretty decent. I think last summer I framed it as if I can get that robotics, that skill, working with robotics, it's something I could bring back to that original summer program next year. And also the director of the program heard about, you know, my connection with the, the student's grandparents. I think all that may have to do something."2025-04-1014 minKwa NateKo@kwa | True or False: Being hot has become too accessible.Click here to reply to @kwa "But I got distracted and I. I found this random clip on Instagram and it's just a quest I never thought about. I. I don't know. The premise of the. The short video is. Is. Has being hot become too accessible? And I just wanted wanted your guys take on it. Take a look of the clip or take a look at the clip. Excuse me? Let me know what you think."2025-04-1000 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: What matters to parents. Summer scenarios.Click here to reply to @kwa "It just is so interesting to me that things keep coming back to that because as an educator, although I keep getting reminded that I'm never really thinking in that way, like, is the point, do I get their kid? I'm always thinking is. I'm thinking the point is to educate their kids. So I don't know if it's. We have more contact with parents in this role in a different way. It's smaller. It's. It's a limited."2025-04-0914 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next Read: The switch up (and why writing style matters even in historical nonfiction)Click here to reply to @kwa "I think of it like as an in between but it's known for its, its writing style. The point which is another kind of literary ish publication and literary hub but between. But if I read this book and I look at Black Fortunes, I think Black Forces was. The writing was far superior. Now back now Black Fortunes did have the, it did have the advantage of telling the story of six different black millionaires."2025-04-0808 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Why math matters. Law and stacked learning. AI in k-12 education. Volunteer tutoring.Click here to reply to @kwa "Students would see this math in the real world in a way that's very relevant to them. The issue with doing that with a lesson is very hard to put a lesson together that incorporates that. There's a lot of moving parts and people I don't think realize how difficult that actually is and how much effort that takes. But, but if I, what I think I want to do is start a series on here is really just as much for me as it is for anybod else listening."2025-04-0712 minKwa NateKo@kwa | CLEP Exams for College CreditsClick here to reply to @kwa "I think if you also prefer to take the AP test. The problem I think sometimes with, with, with the rap against standardized test is that if you're studying for a state, a standardized test, you're really studying the test. You're not really learning."2025-04-0602 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next ReadsClick here to reply to @kwa "And despite me being educated in finance, despite me having worked part time for a small accounting company, including helping with taxes for both individuals and small businesses, despite me being somebody who's good with numbers and a math teacher, I couldn't really help her on it. And I was like, this is not good. So I need to re educate myself on taxes. But I'm going to put that back in the Pile and return to something like that later."2025-04-0606 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | The American Private School by Lawrence R. SamuelClick here to reply to @kwa "And compared to what I see now, there were some shifts like when things happen nationally, they do affect private schools in some sense, like economic downturns of war more locally, like a teacher strike. Like that certainly shifted a large scale teacher strike. They talked about one in New York City that shifted more kids to private schools, at least temporarily. And I think the biggest lingering one was when the Brown versus the Board of Education decision happened."2025-04-0606 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Next Two Reads?Click here to reply to @kwa "All right, finished that book on world religions. I'm not gonna have another world religion book I read next, though I do have some down the pipeline I'll get to. But there were a trio of books on education I had. I went through one already. It's because it was a quick read. It was. What was it? It was high performing schools in high poverty areas. And I read it, but I only got a limited amount out of it."2025-04-0502 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: The regardless path, supplementary education, and national initiatives.Click here to reply to @kwa "And my thought is like if there's a supplementary education piece that provides the foundation that is more attuned to the individual students for a general academic setting and kind of raises the ability to have a higher ceiling no matter where they end up. But what if you can stack the sort of things they needed for the standardized test that will give them the opportunity to pursue any particular path."2025-04-0514 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | 12 Major World Religions by Jason BoyerClick here to reply to @kwa "But I just need to get this out before I move on to the other other things I need to do today. I would just say I think it's certainly worth the read. I think it serves as a great foundation for anybody who is interested in learning about religions in general. Certainly if you are seeking to potentially practice a religion and you want to get a feel for what."2025-04-0508 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Ask me anythingClick here to reply to @kwa "Ask me anything. Truly anything. Nothing is too shallow, too deep, too silly, too serious or too in between. Just ask me anything."2025-04-0400 minKwa NateKo@kwa | 10:15pm RambleClick here to reply to @kwa "A lot of these kids are kids that experience some of the same emotions, but the circumstances, I don't know if it makes it necessary to deal with it totally differently, but it is a different experience. And I just don't think I had the capacity and time to even address a lot of that in ways that I really wanted to now. Like, in hindsight, I realized getting a good bit done this past Wednesday, like I had a chemistry thing I was trying to get done."2025-04-0411 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Upward OnClick here to reply to @kwa "What I can possibly do. But after working with younger kids and doing reading in the summer, one of the summer programs, and working with even younger kids in the Saturday program I do now, and moving into other subject areas as a high school educator this year, I feel less. It feels less of a. I feel less worried about not being competent enough to correctly educate the kids in something that's kind of new to me."2025-04-0312 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Rethinking my process as a learner and a teacher.Click here to reply to @kwa "In math, I think the thing is knowing if it's harder to pinpoint if my students. Knowing whether my students are comprehending or understanding as I'm teaching the lesson, not once they're doing the problems because that's much easier to spot. But anyway, having said that, I think going into next year, assuming I'm still going to be here, which I think I think I will, that's what it's looking like. Biology, I really have to worry about just organizing things."2025-04-0114 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: All The FeelsClick here to reply to @kwa "Even if I can help all these students in these different content areas like Today in our 11th grade support class I did a quick math lesson and I don't know if the kids were all there. One kid who wasn't really studying the math I, I, I was teaching it was because I was doing it for a different class."2025-04-0114 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Science of Motivation: Thresholds over IncrementsClick here to reply to @kwa "Basically what the video says, if you have a like a mechanical or physical task or an algorithmic test, like something that is clear cut is this step, this step, this step, do this and then the reward and then you have incremental rewards to get. You get this based on if you do more of this then that works as motivation. But anytime a task becomes like cognitive or creative or something, you have to think more about things."2025-03-3103 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Link Dump: On LearningClick here to reply to @kwa "So of course, as somebody who teaches others for a living, or helps people help to learn for themselves, of course I listen to and read some things on how we learn and how we teach. And this is what these collection of videos were."2025-03-3101 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Back to school. Supplementary ed. Federal government. Home education.Click here to reply to @kwa "The problem is like coming in from the break when you're a group that really, when you're we are a program that supports students across the board and we kind of feed off what other teachers do, even if we teach ahead to do that. So we're not overburdening the kids with stuff they are not going to use. We essentially have to know what's coming ahead from the other teachers. And I don't know that I have a ton for that in 10th grade."2025-03-3013 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Swellcasts on Laptops / DesktopsClick here to reply to @kwa "Just an FYI to the Swell team, I tried to use to record a swellcast on Firefox and it seems there's there's an error there. You cannot do that, but it does seem to work on on at least a couple other browsers. Secondly, I I don't think you can delete Swell cache you make on the web version. At least that's what it seems. So just two things to keep note of."2025-03-3000 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Understanding Law for Laymen: Where to Start?Click here to reply to @kwa "And I was able to do it, but reading law felt very dense and like going through very dense material and isolated. And sometimes I was like, okay, I could help you with the assignment. But half the time I didn't know what was going on, and it did not give me any feeling that I understood law any better because of it."2025-03-2806 minKwa NateKo@kwa | History of American EducationClick here to reply to @kwa "But given what's going on now with the Department of Education and the conversations related to school and the federal school system in general or federal, I don't know how you say, whatever. This is interesting. So again, I have videos as primers. It has actually been harder than I thought to find videos on the history of education. Maybe I just haven't looked that long. But this is one that stood out and I'm listening to it now."2025-03-2803 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Link Dump: Data, Thinking, DoingClick here to reply to @kwa "First video is on US Federal government spending by agency come from US USA Facts. I think it's a nonprofit, I guess you call it run by Steve Ballmer. He's a guy who used to run be the CEO of Microsoft and he was a part owner of I think the LA Clippers, one of the basketball teams. But anyway, we talk so much about like government spending and it's one of those conversations where data is out there and well, government efficiency and spending. Right."2025-03-2802 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Exploring World Religions: A Digital SupplementClick here to reply to @kwa "And he talks about like the different approaches and you know, when, when world religions became a kind of like serious endeavor in academic circles and all that stuff. So I think it puts things into perspective before you start take into the information. I like that a lot. On a side note, let's see these videos add up to, let's see, 15, 35, 40, 60, 70ish, 85, let's say 100 minutes total. So a little less than under two hours."2025-03-2805 minKwa NateKo@kwa | RepliesClick here to reply to @kwa "Additionally, going forward I've I have made a thing and I say this as a teacher and a parent. I really emphasize the idea of reducing screen time for my my own son who is 6 years old. When I was home with him, let's say in preschool and I I managed my part time schedule around him, that was much easier. I just kind of slipped on that."2025-03-2703 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Just Another LinkClick here to reply to @kwa "But the more that is done that it with less you having to say, the more room it makes for things to run smoothly generally and the more room you do have to actually talk out the important things with students. So I don't know if I said that right but I like the direction of this this post in general. Just seeing what I see."2025-03-2701 min
Kwa NateKo@kwa | Learning Lab: World religions. City boards and councils. Supplementary education.Click here to reply to @kwa "But it also is very interesting to see like what distinguishes one denomination of a religion from another one and like how that in some ways can make that denomination closer to another religion and say. It's just really interesting. The, the book that I have covers 12 religions. Let me see. And some of them I'd even really consider. I'd even know were considered religions. Confucianism I didn't really. I. I remember considering that more of like a."2025-03-2712 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Just Another ClipClick here to reply to @kwa "This just came across my Instagram feed. It's just a clip I thought was interesting on school food in Japan."2025-03-2700 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Leaning Lab: Focus. History. Different subjects. Supplementary education.Click here to reply to @kwa "I don't know if he's still alive, but this is the second of two YouTube videos I've listened to from him and I haven't got through the whole thing yet. Now I know if you look at the image, it says dumbing us down. The hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling. So to start with context, I kind of believe it like when I'm looking at a subject to look at things from different angles."2025-03-2613 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Arrogance: The Anti-HumilityClick here to reply to @kwa "What are also some other places you've seen people succeed more because of their arrogance, their show of arrogance than anything else and what I mean than anything else by other people who are just as deserving or qualified as them? Like when did you see arrogance push them over, whether it was in one instance or it's just something they use on a regular basis to kind of get what they want."2025-03-2402 minKwa NateKo@kwa | On ParentingClick here to reply to @kwa "Maybe it's just me, but I think. I'm not going to say a number of people have the wrong idea of parenting, but I think what I see is important both as a parent, a son, a son who was fortunate enough to have more than one person be his. Well, I'm going to say male role models. Like, at the same time, there's at least three people I could pretty much call dad. And I had. And I had a pretty."2025-03-2404 minKwa NateKo@kwa | Nope! No mom! Delete that!Click here to reply to @kwa "Okay, first of all, if my mom can ball like this, and I know it, she is never playing me one on one in front of my friends, not ever, let alone on camera. You know, as soon as she. They talk about the pump fake in the comments, but as soon as he did that little hesi with the cross, I was like, oh, she can play a little bit."2025-03-2401 min