Don’t just keep the faith. Spread it.

Happy Tuesday!!!

It’s time to clean the Reflecting Pool.

I'm close to having score results to begin sharing for this year's AP Exams. Here's a quick overview of how this will unfold. The scoring of AP essays and free-response questions by ~30,000 professors and teachers - this year's AP Readers - runs throughout the first three weeks of June, with some make-up exam scoring continuing thereafter. Once scoring is complete, the psychometric work begins. These annual processes ensure that this year's students are neither disadvantaged by tougher questions or stricter grading, nor advantaged by easier questions or easier grading. Statistical analysis identifies the precise difficulty and scoring stringency of each question in comparison to prior years. If a given exam version proves to be easier, a higher number of points is required to earn scores of 5, 4, 3, or 2 on that version; if harder, a lower number is required. This work is led for the AP Program by the current president of the National Council on Measurement in Education. After Readers have finished scoring and psychometricians have set the specific "cut scores" (points required) for each exam version, I'll be able to start sharing key findings as we collectively wait for this work to be completed across all 40 AP subjects so that scores can be sent to colleges, students, and educators in early July. Here's what I'll be covering as results come in: • The focus areas of the free-response questions. (This year's exam questions were crafted by educators from virtually every state and DC; each question is worked on by a minimum of 15 professors and teachers before appearing on the test. I'll use this opportunity to pay tribute to their superb work.) • Any statistically significant increases or decreases in the difficulty of this year's questions or scoring rigor. • Particular content areas within the multiple-choice section where students scored especially well, or particularly struggled. • Specific components of the free-response questions where students scored especially well, or particularly struggled. All of this is very much an attempt to share in real time the data I'm receiving, to tide us all over until scores are released in a few weeks. A few reminders: • I'll report each subject as it's completed, and that timing will depend on how long it takes to score this year’s questions, so I can’t publish a schedule for sharing these updates. But I will have this info for all subjects no later than June 30. • Because these score distributions include all students worldwide, individual classrooms will often have score distributions that are either higher or lower than this aggregation. • AP Exams aren't scored on a curve. Rather, as many students as earn the points necessary for college credit receive a score of 3 or higher. • If you're an AP student, here's information about how to make sure you're able to view your AP scores starting July 6: apstudents.collegeboard.org/… • You have until June 20 to indicate which college should receive your free score send: apstudents.collegeboard.org/… • If you're an AP educator, here's information about how to view your students' AP scores starting July 6: apcentral.collegeboard.org/e…

Good morning.

Hell exists and it’s this Hallway. iykyk

I would have enjoyed this post a lot more if I had gotten my CUP OF COFFEE!

Love my @PlanetFitness !!

This is what happens when we abdicate our role as teachers to technology.

After 24 years, a teacher says the biggest change isn’t the job… it’s parents, students, and accountability. More pushback. More debate. Less alignment. Teachers: Is this accurate?

Who we imagine is behind all these spam calls:

I wanna be a lunar scientist now

Couldn’t Starbucks just pay them more?

Teachers don't quit because they don't care. They quit because they're asked to do the work of five professionals for the pay of less than one. And then they're told they didn't do enough.

Me just one hour into my shift today

If you’re a teacher and your first thought walking into school is “what is going to happen today” or “I just have to get through today”—instead of what you’ll be teaching—something isn’t right in your school culture. And you deserve better.

60% of teachers in new Ed Week survey say student behavior has worsened over the past two years: “We’ve seen a large increase in the inability for students to cope when things don’t go their way. We see a lot of crying, yelling, shutting down, gross overreactions”

Beware the Ides of March. 🔪

Catching up with family today

Space mountain with the lights on 👀

Happy Pi Day! 🥧 A day to celebrate circles, curiosity, and the beauty of math that we can figure out. π = 3.14159… and it just keeps going! #piday #mathisfigureoutable