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• August 04, 2025@kwa | Coffee: $1.80 vs $5.50

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  "But I'm curious like so well, do you find coffee at coffee shops that much better that the same size cup of coffee will charge, will cost 551 place versus 180 at, like, a sandwich shop, a deli, or a shop that's really more about, like, something not quite fast food, but closer to it, like one of the local neighborhood, like, food places."

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• August 03, 2025@kwa | Ask Me Anything

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  "I tried throwing this out there last time. I didn't get any responses, but I'll try again because I really am interested in exchange, but I don't have anything to talk about. I guess it's probably because I didn't send out the I don't send out the like contact reach out notifications when you post your stuff. But anyway, just to ask me anything post. Maybe something will come of it."

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• August 02, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Summer Program Comparative Results

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  "And part of that is we were allowed to have the students retest if they just really didn't do up to par like between pre and post test. One day, one student was supposed to retest. I was out. They didn't want to. And the second, there was a second one who actually got near perfect on the paper test, but on the retest drop and because they were out one day, just didn't have time to retake it the last day."

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• August 01, 2025@kwa | Small Joys: Connecticut Army Band, 1928 Cocktail Club, and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

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  "And they did pretty well for themselves for a bit. So it was cool to come across a band. Have you just see like at this. At the steps of the subway. I forgot. Was it that. Was it like Times Square? It was somewhere on the street where. By the subway. I don't remember. Matter of fact, no. I saw them more than once. And this. And this kind of thing."

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• August 01, 2025@kwa | What Textbooks Teach Us - And What They Don’t

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  "I hope this comes off. I wanted to use a text post for this but for some reason when I go to the talk section the option to post as the text isn't there anymore, the talk icon in the middle. But this is a post from I think it's see, it's from the Harvard Ed cast and the title is what Textbooks Teaches and what they Don't. And it's a little broader than that."

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• July 29, 2025@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Resullts. Process. Delegation.

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  "But again, another reoccurring pattern is the lowest scoring students have the lowest growth or in this case negative growth, save for one student who's at the very top. So the students at the extremes. So between the two of these assessments, what it tells me that it's generally working for the upper side of the lower performing students to the middle students working for the majority of students in the class. Whatever process we're doing it seems to be save for the lowest performing students."

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• July 28, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: End of summer program. Looking forward. Calculus and STEM.

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  "Having the answer keys prepared ahead of time so that my interns and volunteers can just grade the test as they collect them so I don't have to worry about them later. And as I'm going through this, you know, we have the, we have the paper based assessment and we have the digital assessment."

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• July 27, 2025@kwa | 3 Educators Walk Into a House

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  "Scared of confronting things that may feel uncomfortable to you. In fact, I think we see that as part of the process, like, it being important to be able to do that and therefore be able to, like, incorporate different. Understand different ideas and context and incorporate those in your thinking and like, build off of that rather than just be stuck in your own silo. That's part of the point of education."

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• July 27, 2025@kwa | YouTube Select 1: How Lawyers Read Case Law

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  "You get enough of these, like, over time, and it gives you a toolbox to really create your own entryway into understand, understanding how the law works. So I thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share this one first."

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• July 25, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: I ❤️ Structure

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  "They came off the bus, we collected their phones as usual and they went straight onto their bus, onto the coach bus that they were going to the to field trip for where their breakfast was waiting. And they had, they put on their shirts before they went onto the bus. They usually throw their shirts over it or like over their own clothing is how they usually do it. Some have this soccer style player thing where they like undress underneath the shirt."

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