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Kirk Weber
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Husband and proud father of three. District Data Specialist/Testing Coordinator. Former social studies teacher. Opinions are my own.
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A One-Page Chart to Support Every Student Every Day
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A One-Page Chart to Support Every Student Every Day
Teachers can use this spreadsheet—free template included—to track accommodations and strengths to keep students on track and motivated.
www.edutopia.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Should Schools Teach That America Is Good? www.educationnext.org/should-schoo...
Should Schools Teach That America Is Good?
Polling finds that teachers, more than the general public, believe schools should
www.educationnext.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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A Smarter Way to Disagree hbr.org/2025/11/a-sm...
A Smarter Way to Disagree
To foster constructive disagreements, organizations should encourage individuals to modify their observable behaviors during conflicts. More specifically, the authors’ research has shown that employee...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Chronic Absenteeism Still a Struggle in 2024–2025: Selected Findings from the American School District Panel and the American Youth Panel www.rand.org/pubs/researc... via @RANDCorporation
Chronic Absenteeism Is Still a Struggle
It remains unclear why, but several years after the COVID-19 pandemic chronic absenteeism is still a problem. In roughly half of urban school districts, more than 30 percent of students were chronical...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Power of Asking ‘How?’ behavioralscientist.org/the-power-of... via @behscientist
The Power of Asking ‘How?’ - by Rene Almeling - Behavioral Scientist
Humans love to ask, “Why?” But when it comes to our behavior, it can often be more productive and compelling to ask, “How?”
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September 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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23 books that shaped you in high school : NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator hbr.org/2025/09/ever...
Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator
Most of us have met super-facilitators —people with a talent for bringing individual group members together, combining each one’s unique strengths to promote optimal team performance. Super-facilitato...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Parents are struggling to figure out what to say to their children after another school shooting. We talked to some experts, who offered these guidelines.
Talking to kids about school shootings. Be truthful and follow their lead
Parents are struggling to figure out what to say to their children after another school shooting. We talked to some experts, who offered these guidelines.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good - "...lower-SES teens are spending two hours more a day on their devices than their more-affluent peers, resulting in less-developed working memories, processing speed, attention levels, language skills, and executive function." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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August 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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✍️ New article: “$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why?” 🧵
A line chart showing the global number of people living in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as living below the International Poverty Line (IPL), which is $2.15 per day in 2017 prices (shown as a red line on the chart) and $3 per day in 2021 prices (shown as a blue line). 125 million people who would not have been counted as extremely poor before June 2025 (when the IPL was raised to $3 per day) are now included. This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries. The data source is the World Bank (2024 and 2025). The chart is CC BY Our World in Data.
August 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Both parents and teens see social media as the top threat to teen mental health, but teens cite bullying and pressure more often. www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-... via @visualcap
Charted: The Biggest Threats to Teens’ Mental Health
Both parents and teens see social media as the top threat to teen mental health.
www.visualcapitalist.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Back to School With AI, Year Three
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Back to School With AI, Year Three
Let's try leading with questions we can explore ourselves, not with someone else's answers
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August 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance www.future-ed.org/quality-chec...
Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance
This report presents a new model for measuring school performance, grounded in what research shows matters most for learning.
www.future-ed.org
July 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Do you want to live a long and healthy life but walking 10,000 steps a day feels too hard? In this Weekly Chart, our designer Alex takes a closer look at the data behind this number. 🔍 Will he convince you to go for a walk? 🚶 🍃

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The most important steps to a longer life | Datawrapper Blog
We should aim to walk around 10,000 steps per day to live a healthier and longer life. While this sounds like a logical thing to do — we humans were built to move, not to sit all day — we always…
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June 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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How schools can get teens to read more full-length books fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
How schools can get teens to read more full-length books
In an earlier post, I explained why high school teachers need more support to increase reading assignment length. So how might district and school leaders provide this support? Here are four suggestio...
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June 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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7 Research-Backed Tech Tips You Can Use Today
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7 Research-Backed Tech Tips You Can Use Today
From AI tutors that actually work to a simple trick for beating back digital distractions.
www.edutopia.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Building Our AI Capacity: A Playlist for Educators
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Building Our AI Capacity: A Playlist for Educators
Some suggested resources and activities
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June 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Datawrapper Webinars: Get the most out of our tool
Attend one of our webinars to quickly learn how to create the best charts, maps, and tables with Datawrapper.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...
Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start
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June 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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datawrapper.de
❤️‍🩹 How is everyone feeling? Where are far-right politics gaining traction? How many more ways of self-sabotage is the Trump administration going to discover?
📨 All this and more in our latest Data Vis Dispatch!

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A flow diagram illustrating shares of U.S. citizens on Medicaid, splitting them into categories such as age and working status. Published by The New York Times. A map of the United States showing weather forecasting office vacancy rates across hurricane warning areas, making dangerous staff cuts visible. Published by The Wall Street Journal. Two bar charts showing the age distribution of mental health related disease burden. They show that more than half of the primary burden is attributed to people under the age of 40, while over half non-mental-health burden is present in those older than 60. Published by McKinsey & Company. Multiple stacked bar charts showing the shares of different political orientations by corresponding party votes since the 1980s across a selection of European countries. A recent rise in far-right votes can be observed in almost all of them. Published by elDiario.es.
May 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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"How College and Career Readiness Can Help Address Chronic Absenteeism" tinyurl.com/4b3b95xm
How College and Career Readiness Can Help Address Chronic Absenteeism
When students are disengaged, their attendance often suffers, which is why it’s critical to help students see the connection between school and their future.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Evidence-Based Practices for Algebra 1 Access, Placement, and Success edresearchforaction.org/research-bri...
Evidence-Based Practices for Algebra 1 Access, Placement, and Success - EdResearch for Action
This research brief focuses on school- and district-level policy decisions that shape Algebra I pathways and outcomes, such as when students take the course, how they’re placed, and what supports prom...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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1 in 4 Students Are Chronically Absent. 3 Tools to Change That www.edweek.org/leadership/1...
1 in 4 Students Are Chronically Absent. 3 Tools to Change That
Chronic absenteeism is a daunting problem. But district leaders aren't alone in facing it, and there are ways they can fight it.
www.edweek.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Neuroscience Says Music Is an Emotion Regulation Machine. Here’s What to Play for Happiness, Productivity, or Deep Thinking www.inc.com/jessica-stil...
Neuroscience Says Music Is an Emotion Regulation Machine. Here’s What to Play for Happiness, Productivity, or Deep Thinking
Neuroscience shows music has big effects on our productivity, performance, and state of mind. Use that to your advantage.
www.inc.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM