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…
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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…
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…
Continuing Team Sorts Within My Virtual Classroom
My geometry course is always replete with new vocabulary to learn and apply; so in the virtual learning setting, I was looking for ways for my geometry students to discuss…
How Classroom Culture Sets the Stage for Opening Up Tasks
At the beginning of this virtual school year I was frightful that students wouldn’t get the chance to know each other and as a result they would be reluctant to…
Reimagining Education Amid the Pandemic
This last year has felt like a roller coaster with many ups and downs affecting all aspects of my life. Education was no exception. Spring 2020 brought school closures in…
Assessments That Move Knowledge Forward in the DL
During distance learning (DL), I have decided to stop giving tests whose sole purpose was to rank and judge students. Experience has taught me that, no, poor grades do not…
Bringing Asynchronous Virtual Learning to life!
One of the biggest challenges I have faced in teaching during this pandemic is being able to hear my students’ justifications of their thinking and give them feedback in real…
Connecting to More Than WiFi During a Pandemic
Due to the global pandemic, my district was fully remote during most of the the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year. The digital learning platform that I was required…