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Principal: I’ll get back to you on that.
Superintendent: There’s a lightbulb out? I’ll ask the Board of Education if we have any money for them.
Board of Education: The schools have enough lightbulbs. They don’t need any more.
State Department of Education: Teachers will fulfill measurable lightbulb-changing objectives based on a pre-assessment and post-assessment.
PD Coordinator: I need to develop a Lightbulb Theory Training with clip art lightbulbs and Comic Sans font. Can anyone tell me what Marzano said about lightbulbs?
Standardized Test: A) 2 B) 3 C) 3.14 D) Pineapple
Federal Government: “We see you have been changing lightbulbs but we don’t think you have been changing enough of them fast enough. All lightbulbs must be changed at a 100% rate each year or you will lose money for lightbulbs.”
Taxpayers: Why are our tax dollars being spent on things like lightbulbs?
Teach for America: The lightbulbs are going out, because the engineers are lazy slobs. Let’s replace them with someone who went through a month-long training course on engineering.
Parent: Why didn’t you call me two weeks ago to tell me the lightbulb was going to go out?
Union: This isn’t in the contract. It’s the custodian’s job.
Movie Tagline: Some lightbulbs, they said, would never be changed. She inspired them so they could be.
RT @participantname: We should think beyond the lightbulbs and inspire the light to light the bulb itself.
Education Conference Attendee: I just was so INSPIRED by that wonk’s keynote about changing lightbulbs!
Techie Reformy Post: Eventually lightbulbs will replace teachers. Kids can find the light. You don’t have to do it for them.
Student: [says nothing and doesn’t notice lightbulb is out because he/she is texting]
#stuvoice: Why is the teacher the one changing lightbulbs? Every kid should have their own lightbulb.
Maker Movement: Kids will make lightbulbs if you get out of the way and leave them alone.
Unschooler: We don’t need lightbulbs. That’s a part of factory/industrial mindset. Kids should be playing out in the sun all day.
Homeschooler: Even though the lightbulbs are exactly the same, the ones in my home are better than the ones at school.
#edchat: How do we change professional development so that teachers start changing lightbulbs instead of complaining that the bulbs are dead?
#edtech: Check out these 95 coolest, super-amazing, LED lightbulbs that will revolutionize classroom space.
2,000 retweet Twitter post: You have to think outside the bulb. #lightchat #bulbchat
TED Talk: Everything you thought you knew about light bulbs is wrong and I’m here to tell you why.
Tumblr Teacher Post: Here’s a .gif of a flashing lightbulb and a quote by Dewey about enlightening minds. Hope this helps.
This American Life: I’m not sure how many it takes, but I think we could learn something from a counterintuitive human interest story on lightbulbs. I’ll narrate it in a near-whisper.
Time Magazine: Why Teachers Are the Real Reason for Busted Lightbulbs and How Michelle Rhee Will Fix It
Internet Magazine: How An Amazing Way a 3rd World Teacher Changes Lightbulbs and Occasionally Refurbishes Lightbulbs from the Dump
Politician: Why do Finland’s lightbulbs work so much better than ours? I’ll ignore the evidence and assume that their bulbs and their entire electric grid must be decentralized.
Teacher: Actually, I did it 35 minutes ago.
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