Tuesday, December 13, 2011

SOLVE - CRUMPLE - TOSS in Algebra 1: hommage à Kate Nowak

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Kate Nowak creates some of the most innovative and engaging practice activities anywhere -- especially for those skill/concept areas that a...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Something's happening here... what it is ain't exactly clear...

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A funny thing happened today on the way to basic linear equation and function skills today in Algebra 1: students started using precise ma...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Another Turning Point in Algebra 1: from larva to butterfly

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When things go right in Algebra 1 -- and that is by no means a given for all students in all Algebra 1 classes out in the real world -- ther...
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Beautiful, fluid chaos -- or what "learning in flow" actually looks like to the trained eye

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One of the things I like best about my new school are my colleagues. In fact, I don't believe I could stand to teach English (instead of...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Analysis and Extension of Sam Shah's 'Best Test Question Ever' (a post about a post)

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My friend Sam J. Shah recently blogged about his best test question ever , so it was entirely predictable that I would follow along in locks...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Renegade Math Teacher Brings SBG into the English Classroom: Film at 11

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SBG works so well in my Algebra classroom I've been looking for ways it could transfer into my eighth-grade English classroom -- especia...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Tikkun olam, cheesemonkey-style, or why I became a public school teacher

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This was my first Rosh Hashanah as a full-time teacher and it got me thinking, as Rosh Hashanah always does, about the obligations we have f...