Monday, March 24, 2014. I hear this at least once a week. Our XYZ students struggle because so many come from broken homes. In the United States, when we think of family, we think of a father, a mother, and 2. Shift your lens for a moment. Imagine we valued an expanded view of family.

I teach 8th grade Algebra, Geometry and Earth Science . this blog is a record of my standards-based grading journey. Wednesday, August 7, 2013. I am changing schools, again. This time I am also changing subjects and teaching something I have never formally taught before. It came out of the blue. But now it has been decided. Sunday, April 28, 2013.

Sunday, January 29, 2017. Student Feedback on Student Teachers. Two things happened this week that were pretty impressive to me as a mentor teacher. Early in the week, my projector went out. And with algebra tiles in Desmos. That was the plan, but you know Mr. Murphy and that infamous law.

Rough-Draft Talk in Front of Hundreds of Math Teachers. Bull; March 9, 2018. I was on a raised platform with seven middle school students to my left and six to my right and several hundred math teachers surrounding us on all sides. But what kind of math should we.

Friday, April 22, 2016. Please do not sell the files that are here. I am a husband, a father, and a math teacher.

With deepest apologies to all who had hoped for more frequent updates as we worked on CMP3, this will be our final post. The amount of work required to get the basic job done left us without time to keep you all updated as we had planned.

A place to write my way to understanding about issues related to teaching and learning. How do you teach problem solving? How can coaching improve teaching and learning? Thursday, December 14, 2017. And then what did you do? We decided to play it using this situation from Context for Learning Mathematics.