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Tim Dowling

@timdow

School psychologist, professional brain picker-upper, optimistic skeptic
Lake Zurich, IL Joined May 2009
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School Psychologists: 1:500-700
Social Workers: 1:400
Guidance Counselors: 1:250
Nurses: 1:750

These are the ratios required for schools to adequately help their students. Most are NOWHERE close!

If needs are met, more personal connections are made—and tragedies are prevented.
Tim Dowling @timdow
I’ve been waiting a long time for someone with the courage to call out Kermit the Frog’s deficiency of data-driven songwriting
Hurt Shrew @HurtShrew May 22, 2022
Kermit (1979) boldly asserts that there are “so many” songs about rainbows but provides no evidence to back up this claim. In reality, the average person may struggle to identify more than 1–2 rainbow-centric songs. In this essay, I will
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One of the first questions I'll ask parents when their child is experiencing problems in school: How well is he/she sleeping?
WIRED Verified account @WIRED Apr 19, 2019
The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and education of our children. It’s a silent sleep loss epidemic. wired.trib.al/JbjzpRp
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