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Pat McCormick's avatar

Positively good work boys! get me that vibrator thing.,,,,

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Hari Nair's avatar

Brilliant take on optimism !!

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Joey Padgett's avatar

Re: the Meissner effect making an end-of-year comeback -- I also think that with binary outcomes (did we do the thing or not?), it’s easy to forget that attention and investment can grow... even when we fail! Loved the write up

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Leopold's avatar

Great post

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Dale Simonson's avatar

Sorry, have to disagree on the LNG plug... let's not waste more resources on destructive technologies. We don't have to buy into their "transition energy"spin, let's put all our focus straight to renewables. (Otherwise, very optimistic! Nice work.)

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Packy McCormick's avatar

I hear you, but we need affordable energy, LNG is the best of the fossil fuels bunch, and the more renewables we put on the grid, the more natural gas we need! Bring on the battery breakthroughs or more nuclear and I'll agree with you.

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Packy McCormick's avatar

who said this was a financial/investment newsletter?

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Thomas Semko's avatar

Bechem, I think that format is a huge issue for teacher PD in the US K12 system. The scarcity of substitutes, and the structure of the work day makes the types of PD you are recommending more challenging to produce.

We need highly skilled presenters and some shifting in the frequency/duration of PD to create buy-in for teachers who are often exposed to one and done training. I see this as an education culture issue that impedes some meaningful progress. In keeping with the optimism of this post, I truly do believe it is possible to reshape with some creative problem solving.

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