Former tech/product exec → now building a school. Focused on education, technology, + raising capable humans.
Mount Dora, FL
Joined May 2013
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Liz Robuck retweeted
A little girl told the bus driver it was her favorite song, so he turned up the music and they danced together. ❤️
12 yo: Ms. Liz, I got 100% on my math assessment!
Me: Right on dude!! You like math, yeah?
12 yo: I love math. It’s everywhere. [Points to the photograph of an elephant on my wall] That right there? That’s math.
🤯
Kid’s going places.
Weeks ago a child with a deep interest in cats was trying (and unable) to find a book about feline behavior in the school library
Yesterday I brought him one I’d found on Amazon and folks, there is no greater privilege than seeing the light in the eyes of a child when they feel empowered to learn something new.
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IMO debate should become mandatory in schools - it's going to become one of the only ways to demonstrate critical thinking when you need to
1) respond live without looking at an LLM
2) respond to arguments that can come from any direction
You can use AI tools now to do a lot of research before hand, which is actually a great use of them
And the desire to not be publicly embarrassed is a great motivator to be prepared (vs. just filling out and handing in assignments where it's easy to use LLMs and everything is private)
Liz Robuck retweeted
Children averaging 5,000 to more than 12,000 steps per day day had fewer mental health symptoms than those taking less than 5,000.
Mental health symptoms were progressively lower across higher step counts with no apparent plateau, even at 12,000+ steps per day.
Brain scans also linked higher step counts to greater thickness in two specific regions of the cortex, the brain’s outer layer.
Daily movement deserves much more attention as a potential way to support kids’ mental health. That's especially clear when you consider that modern-day digital and urban environments provide little opportunity for movement throughout the day.
TFW you’re sitting in a doctors office where you’ve been waiting for an hour to be told the same thing AI told you a week ago
A great education should leave a child thinking:
I can learn things.
I can make things.
I can solve things.
I can contribute.
I had THE most fun weekend with my 4 yo this weekend
Went to Disney Saturday morning and nerded out on Star Wars together followed by a birthday party that afternoon
Brunch play date Sunday with a friend and her kids and made roast chicken with veggies and cupcakes that night
And yes I was exhausted by the end of it but omg being a parent is the greatest joy of my life. ❤️
Accountability is not punishment.
It’s teaching a child that their choices matter, their actions have consequences, and they have the power to change their own outcomes.
Lowering the bar doesn’t create equity.
It creates a generation of children who never discover how high they can climb.
One thing Montessori got right: uninterrupted work time matters.
Every transition has a cognitive cost. Every interruption breaks concentration.
A school day with 45-minute periods, constant transitions, and frequent announcements isn’t conducive to deep learning.
Protect the work.
A parent shouldn’t have to choose between an education that honors their child’s individuality and one that gives them confidence their child is academically on track.
We can deliver both.
School should have periods of intense concentration followed by periods where kids get to run around outside like absolute lunatics. Both are developmentally important.
Liz Robuck retweeted
It is important that kids get occasionally hurt while playing. Scraped knees, bruises, small cuts.
Yes, a clinical psychologist wants your kids to get hurt more.
Since playing is inherently fun and kids don’t want to stop, it teaches them to not fall to pieces when they are physically uncomfortable.
This makes for flexible, persistent, and happy adults.
A good day at school should include something you built, something you read, something you wrestled with, something you did with your hands, and something that made you laugh.