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Emily Murphy
@ProfEmilyMurphy
Assoc. Prof.
@uclaw_sf
. Law, brain, behavior, collective cognitive capital. Educator, SFUSD parent, bereaved mother, neuroscientist.🚲 + 🚇 + 🏘
San Francisco, CAuchastings.edu/people/emily-m…Joined July 2018
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(Sidebar I took one of those “best” schools off our list when the principal told me, in response to asking what the school’s biggest challenge was, was that they used to have more stay at home moms 🙄🙄🙄 so pay attention to that kind of vibes check)
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5) so you can stress out about the lottery a lot, or you can do it and probably end up happy (almost all public school parents I know are!) AND commit some of that worrying energy into committing to contribute to your public school. Your kid will see that!
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4) schools change over time. And you can’t control how - there will be natural turnover. But you CAN influence the culture/climate at the school you end up at, building community and supporting your teachers. We really do have great teachers. (THEY NEED TO GET PAID
@SFUnified
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3) what really matters for your family’s experience is the vibe of the other families and their engagement in the school, AND the committed practice of including ALL community members. Ask how they do this. It makes a difference for your kid and for all kids.
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1) there’s a lot of gossip/buzz in certain parent circles about “the best” elementary schools. This is largely nonsense, and imho, usually coded classism/racism 2) what really matters for your child’s experience is the teacher they get (and maybe the commute you have to do)
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Today is the deadline to apply to SFUSD! Did we get our first choice in the lottery? No. Did we end up at an incredible school with amazing, dedicated teachers IN our neighborhood? YES. Brief thoughts:
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My third grader told me all about her persuasive opinion essay on “People should use cars less” on our walk/transit to school and I’m reflecting on what a near miss we had almost moving to the burbs during lockdown.
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how is it that we have ChatGPT but Siri can't figure out that when I say "Put [x] on my grocery list" I mean the list labeled "Groceries list" and not a nonexistent "Grocery list" that she asks if I want to create
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During *checks notes* -regular cold/flu season -an ongoing respiratory viral pandemic In the context of *turns to different notes* -an absolutely broken health care system -with a shortage of primary care physicians I cannot think of a justification
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Struggling to understand why, in the year of our lord 2023, someone teaching a law school class would demand an adult law student produce a *doctors note* for a single day absence in week 3 of the semester
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SF Parent Action
@SFParents
⁉️Tonight: The same commissioner(s) who voted to give López 2 terms as pres are going to try to push out Pres Lam—using the guise of “succession planning”—though she hasn’t even been elected to 1 full term. Stability for our schools. Now is not the time for return of BOE drama.
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good faith question for disability folks because educational setting disability accommodations are not my wheelhouse: are there IEP/accommodation plans that actually include a parent attending school with a child every day? i have never heard of that.
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Michelle Wolf
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#BREAKING The family of the 6 year old boy who shot his first grade teacher at Richneck Elementary has released a statement. @WAVY_News
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I did a pull up today for the first time since I was in elementary school please clap, I have achieved all my 2023 goals by January 18, we can end the year now
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retweeting so fast before I even read it because YES this is so true
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@jasonchin@nerdculture.de
@socpsychupdate
In this just-out article, I argue that law and psychology is not thinking enough about effect sizes (or practical relevance): link.springer.com/article/10.100. I do this through three lessons. More on Mastodon: nerdculture.de/@jasonchin/109
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Nita Farahany
@NitaFarahany
The era of brain tracking and hacking is arriving. Are you ready for what comes next? Help me reach my pre-order goal by Jan. 14 by pre-ordering The Battle for Your Brain and encouraging others to do so. 160 more books will help launch a global dialogue:
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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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This all said, my priors here are being a (notoriously) demanding prof. I know what my students are capable of so I have high expectations for them. that outlook doubtlessly colors my interpretation, and I’m open to evolving thought as I continue to gain wisdom as an educator.
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And my biggest fear: college writing programs getting hollowed out, couple with rampant grade inflation in undergrad. There’s a lot to be gained by restoring investment here, especially in our flagship public universities.
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This is *entirely compatible* with accessibility to legal education and should demand a lot more of educators, as it will of students. We should rethink how we teach and test - because it’s only going to get harder from here to justify the $ of a JD
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Spiciest take: Especially with this new tech, I’ll never be comfortable with a “Cs get degrees” approach to legal ed, if a C really means what it should mean (mastery not achieved). AI might eat the lunches of such trainees.
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If AI can do some legal work, it can be a tool (like other tools we use). So students must be prepared to add a lot of value beyond what the tool can do, and know how to use it as such. That, imho, can only be achieved with rigorous expectations for writing and thinking
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My current take on the meaning of GPT for legal education (subject to revision): Absolutely a reason to maintain high standards of difficult summative assessment, and strict grading curves so grades reflect meaningful mastery of legal thinking and analysis skills. /1
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Kim Krawiec
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“In this research, we document our experimental evaluation of the performance of OpenAI’s text-davinci-003 model, often-referred to as GPT-3.5, on the multistate multiple choice (MBE) section of the exam @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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Is beginning of the semester the worst time to get laryngitis or is it also any time during the semester? Beginning feels worse 😶
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I really am gonna miss that brief window when I didn’t have to hear about political bullshit and egos on the SFBOE and instead stuff in the interest of good governance and student success was just… getting done
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San Francisco Chronicle
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A new battle may be brewing over who will lead the San Francisco school board, after a close election changed the balance of power on the board and put a progressive majority back in the driver’s seat after less than a year of moderates running the show. trib.al/LhSLNI0
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This is the kind of impact on my students that I strive for The sheer professionalism and grit…🥹
Storm drain outside @uclaw_sf adopted and named “Drain Of Tears From Professor Murphy’s Very Hard Contracts Exam”
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I was once invited to lecture to a large group of state judges, $ for my time, in my area of expertise. A judge came up to me after and called me “young lady.” Wasn’t, never is, a compliment. So I responded casually, “well, Old Man…” Almost didn’t need that honorarium 😈
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Sarah Rumpf
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Here's the thing: every time a guy says "young lady" when they're accusing a woman of not knowing something, it is NEVER a compliment. It is ALWAYS intended to be derogatory and minimizing, to put the woman in her place, to get her to sit down and shut up. /2
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In both of my pregnancies while teaching (1st trimester), students told me later they thought I was dying of cancer or something because I looked terrible and was obviously extremely ill early pregnancy can be, often is, truly brutal
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Joanna Kempner
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Replying to @aliciaandrz
My teaching evaluations dropped in the 1st trimester of both pregnancies, no doubt because -- as one student reported "I looked like I didn't want to be there." Probably didn't help that I often ran out in the middle of class to vomit.
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Some destruction just in my neighborhood 😞 Apparently the landslide (and red tagged house) on Laidley was from Saturday’s rains
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