Every year I find myself reimagining several of my classroom norms and policies in search of systems that will work best for my students and their learning. My assessment policy,…
Why Am I Grading This?
At the beginning of this year I found I was struggling with grading assignments. I had students upload images of their work to Google Classroom so that I could record…
Second Chances on Assessments
Do you have students that are struggling with assessments and feeling defeated afterwards? In a perfect setting, I would be able to choose not to give my students traditional assessments….
How Non-Curricular Tasks are Changing My Classroom
For our research project this year, our TRC team has gone “all in” on Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms. We have chosen some innovations to focus on such as visible…
Space Talk ~ No limits
As a teacher, I am constantly encouraging my students to find their passion and reach for the stars. I believe they will grow up and become productive citizens in the…
Teaching Math by Modeling Perseverance: How Do You Try New Things?
As math educators, we teach students the skills of grit, perseverance, and trial-and-error through mathematics; but how often do we push our own growth in those same ways? Once we…
Stand Up!
Math is a hard subject for a majority of my students. It can be a scary subject and the math classroom can be an even scarier place for students. My…
Growing Trust and Collaboration in Our Co-Teaching Journey
Where We Started During the 2021-2022 school year, we entered into the initial phases of co-teaching. At this point in time, Amanda was supporting students with IEPs in one of…
Have T.A.G. Yet?
I am grateful for the people who surrounded me at the beginning of my teaching career. My former assistant principal, Celia Foster, was a big proponent of research and math…
My Time at NCTM
It’s an experience I would recommend to all teachers to attend at least one conference related to their subject area. Now I’m lucky because this wasn’t my first conference. Attending…