It’s time to END standardized testing in Texas and across the country! High-stakes exams place crushing stress on students, teachers, and admins year after year. As a public school teacher with 25 years in the classroom, I have a proven vision to fix our schools. My 5-point plan: ✅ End the testing madness ✅ Focus on the basics (Reading/Math) ✅ Improve classroom discipline where needed ✅ Implement excellent curriculum ✅ Slash bureaucratic paperwork for teachers We need a teacher's perspective in leadership. 🍎📚 #EducationReform #EndStandardizedTesting #TexasSchools #TxEd #TX34

The government's obsession with standardized testing is what's really holding back our education system. Students are taught to regurgitate facts instead of critical thinking skills, creativity, and problem-solving abilities. It's time for a change! #EndStandardizedTesting

Deb McCarthy is the coolest and I’m so grateful to @neatoday that I was able to make her acquaintance today at the #NEAleadershipsummit @massteacher #endstandardizedtesting

Standardized Test makers want you to believe that a random bunch of multiple choice questions can tell you what a child knows. Trust me, it can't. #EndStandardizedTesting #TeachMoreTestLess #education #TBATs #BadassTeachersAssociation

Standardized Test makers want you to believe that a random bunch of multiple choice questions can tell you what a child knows. Trust me, it can't. #EndStandardizedTesting #TeachMoreTestLess #education #TBATs #BadassTeachersAssociation

The standardized testing needs to become differentiated then too. Until that happens classroom testing will not. #endstandardizedtesting #differentiationforall #individualizedlearning

End-of-the-year standardized tests are all but useless. We don't get the results until mid- to late October, and the data is not disaggregated. #EndStandardizedTesting

END STANDARDIZED TESTING! #EndStandardizedTesting #edchat #K12 #edleadership @usedgov

Million dollar question!!! It’s time to push the system from inside. Let’s our voices! Where is the evidence that standardize tests have improved what we do? #KidsDeserveIt #EndStandardizedTesting #teachers

I have 15 in-person and 7 virtual 1st graders. Yesterday we started our testing. I've never placed much emphasis on this to them & try to make them feel relaxed & good abt themselves. 2 of them cried Yesterday because of past traumas. #EndStandardizedTesting @ArkansasEd

On this morning of STAAR, with my fourth grader who will be emotionally abused today because of a test, I realize that part of the reason that students lose curiosity is these ridiculous demands that we put on their shoulders. #endstandardizedtesting

This yr, given the pandemic & the pushback from so many, it feels particularly offensive that a President who promised to #EndStandardizedTesting 4 grades 3-8 made an affirmative choice to plow ahead, helped by a teacher (so much hubbub abt having a teacher as SecEd!) at @usedgov

Good 🧵 #EndStandardizedTesting I cannot think of a benefit to state testing.

VP Biden pushed corp ed reform & Race to the Top, both of which include a strong focus on standardized testing. I'm certainly not surprised the guy who still consults w Arne Duncan broke his promise to #EndStandardizedTesting & is mandating it during a pandemic. #BrokenPromises

Educators are busting it to navigate this school year & continue the learning. Meanwhile, they are being forced to continue standardized testing & test ALL on-site, even those students who feel unsafe at school. It does NOT work & will NEVER work. #EndStandardizedTesting @usedgov

#EndACT #EndSAT #ACT #ACTfail #ACTcovid #EndStandardizedTesting We're sorry for the inconvenience and will communicate an update at 12:00 p.m. CT Wednesday, July 29.

ACT publicized it was adding test dates in September &October, but most test centers didnt add those dates, so most students will not see those dates when they register.Most students will just see September 12 and October 24 testing dates #ACT #EndStandardizedTesting #ACTCovid19

Maybe instead of making this year “test optional” it is time to make it #NOTEST #ACT disaster. #ENDSTANDARDIZEDTESTING #ACTCOVID19 cnn.com/2020/07/25/us/act-co…