Dr. Rob Furman

Keep the learning target. Change how students learn. Ask VIC can rebuild an old lesson around a new approach, ready for your review. askvic.ai/lessonplan

Don't teach your students the way you were taught. Teach them the way they need to learn. I wrote that in The Future Ready Challenge. What's one thing you stopped doing because it was just how you were taught? #edchat

It's easier to teach and learn when everyone speaks the same language. Music has one. When two musicians share it, magic can happen. What's the shared language in your classroom or building? #edchat

Celebrate the wins, even the odd ones. Every football game our marching band played was a win to us. No score? We still beat the other band. End of story. What win does your school need to celebrate more? #edchat

2 AM. School alarm. Two floors, two alarms, nobody inside. We check the cameras. An elevator opens on floor 1. Alarm. Nobody gets on. Floor 2. Alarm. Nobody gets off. One officer put his hands up, said "Nope," and walked out. Stay and investigate, or walk out with him?

My band was the king of project-based learning. Every song was a project: learn it, prepare it, perform it. Everyone had the same goal, to get it as right as we could. That's a great way to run a school too. #edchat #PBL

Never evaluate a practice as if it's a performance. Homework is practice. The unit test is the performance. I learned that in the band room, and I've never stopped believing it. Do you grade the practice? #edchat

Before I was a principal, I was a high school band director. 100 teenagers, each holding a noise maker, and my job was to make music. That room taught me more about teaching than any class I took. Former band kids: which teacher move do you remember? #bandkid #edchat

Second set. Big crowd. My snare head ripped down the middle and my stick went through it. No spare head. I swore a few times, then moved to my top tom and kept playing. Musicians turned educators: what's your ripped snare story? #edchat

I wrote this in The Future Ready Challenge, and it still starts arguments. An A doesn't prove a child mastered something. Often it proves they figured out the test. Out in the real world, nobody hands you four answer choices. Agree or disagree? #edchat

Your school's lesson-plan format shouldn't eat your planning period. Set the headings, review the draft, and download an editable Word plan with Ask VIC. askvic.ai/lessonplan

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VIC is an AI co-teacher designed to guide student thinking—not take over the learning. askvic.ai/

H.E.L.P. helps educators practice judgment, communication, trust, and decision-making before the crisis. drrobfurman.com/human-equati…

Last year's lesson didn't work for this year's learners? Keep the standard and learning goal. Change how students learn with the Ask VIC Lesson Designer. askvic.ai/lessonplan

If the Wi-Fi dies and your students stop thinking, the lesson was built around the screen, not the learning. Start with the thinking. drrobfurman.com/

The future of education needs more than new technology. It needs better human thinking. drrobfurman.com/

If your innovation plan makes good teachers feel inadequate, you've already lost them. Build change from their strengths. drrobfurman.com/

AI can write a beautiful lesson plan that teaches absolutely nothing. What will students actually think, explain, and revise? drrobfurman.com/