Sunday, May 11, 2014

Why INBs are a tool for equity and social justice

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Childhood trauma is real and it affects students in the math classroom. As David Bornstein said recently in the New York Times, “over the pa...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Compound Inequalities Treasure Map

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Never underestimate the power of novelty to help you engage certain students. I just spent the last hour and a half-long block period with...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Stalkers and dreamers

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I've talked about this before: there are those who learn by stalking — step by step, one day at a time, one skill at a time, little by l...
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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Attending to Precision: INBs and group work (Interactive Notebooks)

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I love new beginnings, but I am only so-so with early middles. Now that kids have started their INB journey, we've arrived at that cruci...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

New strategy for introducing INBs: complex instruction approach

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After months of not feeling like my best teacher self in the classroom, I got fed up and spent all weekend tearing stuff down and rebuilding...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Sometimes the most important thing we say is...

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I love this journey I am on in my new school. I love my colleagues and our local community and my administration and the security staff and ...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Arithmetic of Complex Numbers Placemat Activity - Algebra 2 + Complex Instruction (CI)

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Just because you have an all-groupwork and all-Complex Instruction (CI) format doesn't mean you don't need practice activities too. ...
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