Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/06/2025Ahhhh, books! I’ve definitely got that one covered. I’m way behind my typical yearly pace. 110
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/06/2025But seriously, though… I spent 15 years in Tech and genuinely don’t have an answer to that question… 000
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/06/2025It’s my first summer as a teacher and it feels *so* weird. You mean I just… *don’t work* for 10 straight weeks? What the hell am I supposed to do with myself? #eduskymedia.tenor.comtwo men standing next to a bunk bed with the words so much room for activities above themALT: two men standing next to a bunk bed with the words so much room for activities above them 330
Reposted by Zachary FlowerJason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Your government might not support you. I do. #womeninscience 1398
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/02/2025I haven’t started season two yet, but I was a huge fan of the first one 010
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/02/2025I can’t recommend “For All Mankind” highly enough either, definitely worth a binge or two 100
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/02/2025Being able to just have class outside has to be the biggest flex nearly every other discipline has over #csed 110
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/02/2025Had fun speaking about creating your own budget friendly, trash-picked homelab at #jeffcon today! Super cool of my school district to put on an IT conference just for high schoolers. I would have *killed* for something like this 20 years ago. #edusky #csed 020
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/02/202542 hours. 200+ students. Pure creativity. At Creative Jam, teens built games, murals, music, movies—even a DIY smart treadmill & a scavenger-hunt wearable that shocks you if you're too slow to find and scan an item. Teens are *wildly* capable when given space to create. I love this job ❤️ #edusky 030
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 06/02/2025I decided to teach the TCP/IP model in an… unconventional way, today. Instead of a standard computer-facing lecture, I thought I'd move the lesson outside and have the students adopt the roles of each layer themselves. It was a blast! I can't wait to do it again next year. #csed #edusky 050
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/02/2025Dear school bus drivers who stop in the middle of the intersection to physically block traffic: thank you for keeping our kids safe 000
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 31/01/2025So proud of my students, they did such a great job presenting their projects at NASA’s HRP IWS conference in Galveston this week 🚀 #csed #edusky www.cbsnews.com/colorado/vid...cbsnews.comFront Range students present bio-medical designs to NASAFront Range students are getting an out-of-this-world experience as part of NASA's "HUNCH" Program. That stands for High Schools United with Nasa Creating Hardware. Eight students from Jefferson Count... 020
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 22/01/2025This just gave me some serious Window Blinds flashbacks. Remember when computers had personality? 020
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 20/01/2025It seems like 90% of the personal cybersecurity advice I give to my students is “don’t ever, for any reason, click any link, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever.” #edusky 061
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 20/01/2025Making it work has required a lot of sacrifice from my wife and kids, but I’m really glad I took the leap as well! I just think it’s a shame that “sacrifice” seems to be a required qualification to become an educator in fields as lucrative (and critical) as software development and cybersecurity. 010
Reposted by Zachary FlowerScott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 19/01/2025The user data mining is coming from inside the house 313915
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 19/01/2025This perfectly explains why more of my people choose industry over education, despite many of them actually *wanting* to teach. The salary gap is so mind bogglingly wide, and the cost of living is so damn high, it can hardly even feel like a question. #edusky #csed 140
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/01/2025You’ll—have—to—pry—my—em—dashes—out—of—my—cold—dead—hands. 000
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 09/01/2025Looks like even GitHub Classroom isn't immune to floating point arithmetic errors 🙃 #csed #edusky 000
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/01/2025I have them matching up descriptions and protocols with the appropriate OSI layer (i.e. TCP with Transport). It seems counterintuitive, but the more I break them away from the computers, the better they seem to internalize the concepts. 110
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 08/01/2025I took over a high school CS program thats literally decades old. I feel really lucky to have the space and resources that I do! 010
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/01/2025Decided to kick things off with a sorting exercise for the OSI model. I haven’t done one of these yet, so wasn’t sure how it’d go, but it was really cool to see some immediate evolution in understanding as they worked through the exercise. Definitely something I’ll do again! #edusky #csed 120
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 07/01/2025And we’re back! It’s going to be an exciting semester for both me and my students. First up: the OSI model! #edusky #csed 160
Reposted by Zachary FlowerMichael Taylor @teacherrunner42.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I'm a tea drinker myself, but this could easily be up in the teacher's lounge of any school... #educhat #edusky #mschat 032
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025Students find a way around it anyway, so all a banning does is put the teachers further behind the AI literacy curve. 100
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025But also… I reward my students for calling out my mistakes. How else are you supposed to get teenagers to actually read the assignment material? 010
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025media.tenor.coma bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a clock that shows the time as 7:20 210
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025media.tenor.coma man with a beard is wearing a plaid shirt with the abc 7 logo on the sleeveALT: a man with a beard is wearing a plaid shirt with the abc 7 logo on the sleeve 010
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 04/01/2025Hah! I had one or two of those last semester. Thankfully we all got through it without too much fanfare. 010
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 03/01/2025Last weekend of winter break before the Spring Semester! Are you ready #EduSky?media.tenor.coma man with blue and white paint on his face is standing in front of a crowd .ALT: a man with blue and white paint on his face is standing in front of a crowd . 110
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 25/12/2024I just discovered the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, so will be neglecting my wife and kids while I speed run them before my Kindle Unlimited trial runs out 110
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 22/12/2024And just like that, I’ve survived my first semester teaching and am now entering into the longest single stretch of time off I have had in decades. Happy holidays #edusky! 291
Reposted by Zachary FlowerLauraine Langreo @laurainegl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Thanks so much to @ericcurts.bsky.social, @cerenz.bsky.social, @jeffpaulcarpenter.bsky.social, and @flower.codes for chatting with me for this story! 162
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/12/2024One thing I never got as a Director of Engineering? Bribes. Sweet, delicious bribes. Being a teacher is awesome. #edusky #csed 040
Reposted by Zachary Flowerncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 17/12/2024anything can be a graph database if you are brave enough 1635
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 18/12/2024Had the second of hopefully many awesome meetings with CareerWise today. Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership that can help us provide even more Tier 3 work-based-learning opportunities for our students! #edusky #csedmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is pointing at somethingALT: a man in a suit and tie is pointing at something 000
