O.K., I acknowledge my last post had an element of snarkiness. To readers who were unhappy with my tone, I apologize. Nevertheless I will stand on that post.

The big words and lingo are getting out of hand. Language should be for communication. Inventing an eduspeak does carry one advantage: We can immediately identify the people who are continuing to attend and listen to professional developments. But Eduspeak has disadvantages as well. When parents have to ask teachers and administrators to translate, to explain what they are saying, we have taken the lingo too far. I had to ask that preschool teacher yesterday to explain a couple of terms when talking with her. She’s a dedicated teacher and she knows her pedagogy. The fact that I need clarification should be a big, red flag, however. I have a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education, one of two master’s degrees. If I need help with the lingo, what about the average parent? I have a guide here somewhere that’s maybe 10-12 pages long explaining various special education terms in language parents should be able to understand. When that many pages are needed for parents to know what teachers are saying, maybe we have taken professional lingo too far.

Our medium should not interfere with our message.

We need to slow down on embracing integrated proficiencies through the use of  jargon. Too many of us are simply inclining our cranial cavities as we disaggregate impactful interfaces within our technical documents, trying to figure out what the damn things mean.

Nobody, nowhere, nohow should “problematize” anything.