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  • Spring means your last chance to obtain data to inform your teaching.

    What’s special about these last weeks is that we still have an opportunity to gather student input. A simple questionnaire, google form or survey monkey could give us incredible insight into how our students feel about these changes, or even the changes they would suggest. Plus, kids love to give their input!! They would love…

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  • It’s the end of the school year…. now what?

    I task students with making up their own examples (and solving them), and then explaining how they solved them. They are allowed to get ideas from their interactive notebooks, their folders, textbooks or the internet… but the problems in their project have to be their own, original problems, correctly solved. They must include word problems…

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  • Teacher Appreciation: This means you!!

    Fostering teacher appreciation engagement at your school doesn’t need to come from administration.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • What’s in a grade?

    If a student has a 95% in a class what do we think that means? What does the student think that means? What do their parents think that means? Does it mean they have mastered 95% of the content taught thus far? Does it mean they can expect to score in the 95th percentile on…

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  • Conferencing for the Math Classroom

    How can you harness the power of one-on-one conferencing in the Math Classroom?View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • Teaching Empathy

    Can Acts of Kindness help reestablish Empathy and Respect in schools?View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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