One of the things I am focusing on this year is building the capacity of students to self-assess accurately and reflect on their progress and learning. I am using group…
Team Building Tuesday
Introduction Team Building Tuesday basically consists of an activity that takes place during the first 5 to 10 minutes of class every Tuesday. Every activity is designed to help students…
Thoughtful Thursdays: What Makes it Unique?
Thoughtful Thursdays – What Makes it Unique? Thoughtful Thursdays currently consist of two activities: “What Makes it Unique?” and “Conundrums.” Both of these activities are designed to help students stimulate…
How I Magnified Students’ Voices by Quieting My Teacher Voice
In one form or another, I have been working on student participation as part of my action research investigation with my CPM TRC (Teacher Research Corps) teams for three or…
Making Lemonade: Conundrums
The last year has thrown us a lot of lemons!!! Fortunately, for our students, we dedicated professional math teachers have risen to the occasion and made millions of gallons of…
Portfolio Assessments with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
Even before remote learning, I had been considering different ways of assessing students in my Integrated Math 2 and Introduction to Statistics courses. I felt (and students agreed) that they…
Using the Anonymity Function in Desmos to Uncover Bias in Math Class
My research focus this year has been equitable student voice. I have been using distance learning for the entire school year and this has given me some new perspectives on…
A Timeless Classic
Who knew teaching students in the virtual environment would be so difficult? The struggles range from getting students to turn on their cameras to trying to get them working in…
The Art of 3-D Teaching in a 2-D World
I am a middle school teacher working in a pandemic. I am also a TRC researcher investigating student engagement in whole class discourse. Of course, like every teacher right now,…
Balancing Understanding and Expectations
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned so far this year is the power of the benefit of the doubt. This is a year where school expectations and processes…