My Most Popular Tweets Of The Year

 

Here’s one of my final “Best” of 2020 posts….

The first post is my most popular one, and it goes from there.

I’m adding this post to ALL END-OF-YEAR “BEST” LISTS FOR 2020 IN ONE PLACE!:

I get frustrated when I see school boards who continue to meet in Zoom vote to open schools, journalists who continue to work from home demand that schools open & college professors who continue to teach remotely complain about K-12 schools being closed.

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) November 13, 2020

A student wrote this in an anonymous survey: "Mr. Ferlazzo is a wonderful teacher. Although he looks old, he acts and seems young when you get to know him."

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) November 12, 2020

It's been a rough 5 weeks of full-time virtual learning, but I now can say I think students r learning a lot. Clearly physical f-2-f would be better, but our online classes r nothing to sneeze at. Still, big ? is if amount of required planning time to make it work is sustainable

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 10, 2020

Because I'm bald,I generally wear a fedora 2 school. Today, in middle of our online ELL class, spooky music started blaring, & a bunch of students (most who know me from previous years) turned on cameras to reveal themselves as costumed ghosts wearing fedoras. The kids r alright

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 30, 2020

I say hello & wave 2 every student in every class when I let them into Zoom. 2day,I was momentarily distracted by email as I was letting 1 class in. 1 student yelled out, "U didn't say hello 2 me, Mr. Ferlazzo!" Everyone wants to be acknowledged & they notice when they're not.

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 8, 2020

I made a grading error and sent an apology to a student via Google Classroom. She immediately replied, "That's okay. I make mistakes, too." 🙂

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 25, 2020

I think it's bad practice in general to fail a student who is trying in class, and I write that I think it's now immoral to give that student an F during the pandemic https://t.co/qYX1ebQTND

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 4, 2020

"Author Interview: ‘No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching’" with @soutomanning is NEW @educationweek post https://t.co/aSkOpTNHK4 cc @HeinemannPub pic.twitter.com/UQivMkSJDm

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 14, 2020

How can any teacher support this man? https://t.co/uz9q8KosdY

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 24, 2020

I'm sorry, Doug, I have to strongly disagree with you here. There are SO many other ways to engage w/students. Plus, if I required cameras on, nearly 1/2 of my students would be inaudible because of bandwidth issues.

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 2, 2020

Biden goes on record not wanting teachers to die from the coronavirus. Sounds good to me.

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 23, 2020

"One of the big problems is that lots of students feel that school is optional this year" – comment from one of my students today

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 9, 2020

I, too, hereby claim that I am King Of Education, and from now on all education policy should flow from me and my mind https://t.co/zHByAbfvme

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) November 4, 2020

Me on a 'good' day in Zoom when I'm admitting students, putting them into breakout rooms,moving in-between breakout rooms while admitting latecomers (& those who have been kicked out of Zoom b/c of Internet issues) & responding to student texts who are having Internet problems https://t.co/DqnFdtWyAD

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) November 4, 2020