elementary teacher, writer/editor, co-founder @mndebate. it’s easier to critique than to create. he/him
Minneapolis, MN
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Andrew Urevig retweeted
Random take: I think the education community has a problem with building narratives around individuals rather than research. There is way too much focus on which influencers are good or bad and way too little discussion of the actual research.
Read The Hobbit to some of my 5th graders this year. Rough start! Gnashing of teeth over the pacing & syntax.
Then they got hooked.
Soon I had my most struggling readers—including kids new to the country, kids just learning English—asking me for copies to read on their own.
Have you ever read it??? It’s 100% not a children’s book and whoever says that is lying to you. Not only is the vernacular dated and elaborate but the sentence structure and lengthy writing is often hard to get your head around as an adult. Love that book! but it’s not for kids
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Tolkien explicitly described The Hobbit as "a fairy-story for children" in a letter written to publisher Milton Walden. This letter has been published in The Letters of JRR Tolkein and is letter #131
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_131
booktrust.org.uk/book-recommend…
I’m excited to present at the Teaching That Succeeds Symposium on June 30! I’ll talk about closing opportunity gaps in word problem instruction. Hosted by
@HKorbey, @goyenfoundation, & @mommagordon2!
→ Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
→ Schedule: bit.ly/4eGCJPc
Andrew Urevig retweeted
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis. appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
The @StarTribune has identified the man shot and killed by ICE agents Saturday as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and American citizen.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has confirmed he had a legal permit to carry.
startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
Andrew Urevig retweeted
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
Andrew Urevig retweeted
New video shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.
"The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation ... State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026." startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
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On Instagram, Minneapolis journalist and anchor Jana Shortal of @kare11 - clearly wearing a press credentials - says she was pepper sprayed and punched in the eye by federal agents while trying to capture the aftermath of today’s fatal shooting.
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HOME FREE AFTER MORE THAN TWO DAYS: Nasra Ahmed, 23, a St. Paul woman and U.S. citizen who was born in Minnesota, was released to her family without charges on Friday night after being detained by federal immigration enforcement agents and spending more than two days in detention.
“She went home traumatized, not eating, not talking, pissed off,” said state Rep. Samakab Hussein, who helped her family locate her in federal detention at the Sherburne County Jail and Fort Snelling. “She feels that she got kidnapped. The law is not protecting her. She was humiliated.”
twincities.com/2026/01/17/st…
Andrew Urevig retweeted
There are no words. ICE agents ate lunch at a small local Mexican restaurant in Minnesota, enjoyed their meal, then came back later that night as the restaurant was closing down and arrested the people who had served them.
The fact that any Minnesota schools are adopting Building Thinking Classrooms as an instructional approach for math shows a… profound lack of adult thinking. We’ve got to do better. minnesotareformer.com/2025/1…
Andrew Urevig retweeted
“Teachers need to be more entertaining than phones.” No teacher can compete with the dark wizards of tech and their addictive amusement devices. And frankly, not everything SHOULD be entertaining. Learning is hard but ultimately brings more joy than a life of ten-second videos.
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1 in 3. One in every three students can’t read at a basic level—a stat that’s worse for the most marginalized students in our society, for the children already denied a fair shot at opportunity.
Yet a professor of education cites this number to claim there’s no reading crisis.
Andrew Urevig retweeted
My granny's grandfather had a teacher-mom who was caught teaching enslaved people to read. Her husband (James) paid with his life. Happy Juneteenth, from my brother James and me, "They've killed the old lion, but his cubs still run free".
Until all can read.
Andrew Urevig retweeted
New study in @CanadianJSP found that instructional level (93% to 97% known words) and interest predicted time on task with kids in middle school. @jonie__welland @reading_league @nasponline @CECMembership @ILAToday @leadforliteracy researchgate.net/publication…
Andrew Urevig retweeted
And how universal is the notion that grades should only reflect content mastery? I really reject that idea. When you are in a classroom you are part of a community and it is valid for grades to reflect how you contribute to - or detract from - that community.
Andrew Urevig retweeted
If you are concerned about the dismantling of the @usedgov, here is a link that you can use to email your members of congress to voice your concern. @NEAToday @educationweek @AERA_EdResearch nea.org/advocating-for-chang…!
Andrew Urevig retweeted
They sent a guy to a Salvadoran torture camp because he had an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his brother
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grabbed off the street by plain clothes agents thrown into an unmarked car and disappeared with no charges simply for criticizing a foreign government. Textbook fascism.
Andrew Urevig retweeted
I do this a lot, but I’m always mindful of how the first condition I set any ‘bad’ child is that they cannot under any circumstances derail the learning of anyone else in the class. Then I begin the work of repairing their relationship with their own learning
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