NO more recycling? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/ Not Enough Supplies http://neatoday.org/2019/08/26/teachers-spending-on-school-supplies/
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Read MoreConnecting Research to Practice: In the Spring of 2019 and Summer of 2019, we designed a professional development course focused on developing teachers’ mathematics teaching practices. Using NCTM’s Principles to Action (2014), we designed the Spring course as a 15 week course. We spend each week focused on a teaching practice where teachers selected a…
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Read MoreLove how my friends at Howard County share all their wonderful math resources. https://hcpss.instructure.com/courses/106/pages/grade-2-routines Look fors by my friend John San Giovanni gets at the heart of meaningful math teaching!!! https://blog.heinemann.com/lookfors-math-5-9
Read MoreLewis, C. (2015). What is improvement science? Do we need it in education? Educational Researcher, 44(1), 54–61. process of improving practice through systematic inquiry HOW DO WE ACCELERATE RESEARCH THAT SHOWS EVIDENCE OF POSITIVE OUTCOMES> Education researchers engage in improving practice, but their findings are seldom shared beyond their school, district, or state (Zeichner, 2001).…
Read MoreAs I begin a new semester with excited new pre-service teachers, I am inspired by Ilana Horn’s book @ilana_horn, Motivated- Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In! She identifies five features of a motivational classroom: Students’ sense of belongingness, the meaningfulness of learning, students’ competence, structures for accountability and students’ autonomy. Dr. Horn shared…
Read MoreResearch shows that teachers have rich lived experiences that impacts their beliefs about math teaching and learning. Many have had meaningful eureka moments in math when they first discovered the beauty of the pattern in numbers like seeing how all the sums of odd numbers were square numbers or a phenomenal math happening like using…
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