With facing the stress of giving semester exams on top of changing learning modes between remote, hybrid, and all-in, it was essential for me to help my students stay calm…
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…
Math and Vocabulary
How does this play a role in your classroom? Is vocabulary more important than you anticipated? Attending to mathematical vocabulary has proven to be more important in a mathematics classroom…
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…
Teaching Math Via Storytelling: How My Students Learned to Determine the Number of Solutions for an Equation Because I Told a Story About Having Famous Twin Daughters
This is the first year that I have taught the skill of “number of solutions” and students really understood it on the first try. What I did was make up…
Teacher Research Corps 7.0
I teach high school geometry in a public school in Louisville, Kentucky using the College Preparatory Mathematics Core Connections Geometry textbook (CCG). During this past summer, as part of the…
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…
Out With the Old and In With the New
A New Way to Think About Circles in the Math Classroom As a teacher, by nature, I am a reflective individual that is continuously improving my practice. Many times, I…
The Best Classroom Stress Reducer: Restorative Justice
For many years I bought into the idea that in order to have control of the classroom, I needed to be ready to correct kids immediately, and give out consequences…
Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Math Classroom
If you are a seasoned educator, then you’ve probably heard the term “culturally responsive teaching” before. But, what exactly does this mean and how can we apply this to a…