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October 11, 2022
Bringing Social Justice to the Upper Elementary Mathematics Classroom: From Student Inquiry to Taking Action
WHY? Consider how your students would answer the following questions: During math lessons, how are your ideas about math valued? How does learning math relate to the rest of your life, in and out of school? Students’ responses to these questions can help gauge the […]
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October 6, 2022
Lead Teams with Intention: Three Moves to Start the Year Strong
The idea of leading teams with intention surfaced for me in an unexpected moment, while I was standing in a long line at the airport security. That morning, I intentionally chose slip-on shoes so no one would be waiting for me to untie my sneakers. […]
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October 4, 2022
How Can Educators Prevent—Or Recover From—Burnout?
Three Ways that School Leaders Can Protect Teachers from Burnout By Joseph Jones, TJ Vari, Connie Hamilton Difficult to pinpoint and often unrecognized at first, burnout creeps in as fatigue, distraction, and even frustration. As that happens, purpose and certainty are pushed out. If teachers […]
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October 3, 2022
My Epiphany About Bullying
My epiphany happened when I was walking with a first-grade class on their way from the gymnasium to their classroom. I had spent time in their classroom supporting their teacher with her behavior management skills. There was one student, Joey, who presented quite a challenge […]
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September 29, 2022
Inconveniently Simple and Complex: A Path to Sustained Improvement
Many highly successful systems and schools across the globe have implemented the 14 Parameters and have been rewarded with consistently improving student results. We developed the 14 Parameters from our research into why similarly-supported schools in the same system showed two different trajectories: one being […]
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September 27, 2022
Back to School “Musts” for Partnering with Families to Support Math Instruction
It’s that time of year again when leaders, educators, families, and students head back into the classroom bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for a chance to “reset” after the past few long years. Our students need us more than ever. Now is the perfect time to […]
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September 26, 2022
A Neglected Strand of the Reading Rope is Verbal Reasoning
Spend a bit of time with young children and you’ll almost certainly hear questions like this: Why? Why not? How come? They are curious about the world around them. Their questions help them to locate a logic in what they experience and see. That’s verbal […]
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September 22, 2022
Why Use Math To Help Young Learners Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice?
Children enter our classrooms with curiosity: they are curious about themselves, curious about the content, curious about their classmates, and curious about the world. This curiosity can extend to thinking about how students experience and understand issues of fairness, equity, power, and justice in their […]
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September 20, 2022
Teachers’ Jobs Are Changing in Real Time
Our commitment to equity and excellence has never been more important. Over the past decade, college- and career-ready standards have dramatically shifted our expectations for student learning. It is no longer enough to raise a hand and give the right answer. Instead, we want students […]
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September 19, 2022
Book Banning is Threatening the Freedom to Read
This annual event celebrates the freedom to read and is typically held the last week of September. The celebration brings together the larger book/text community including, but not limited to, authors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, journalists, readers of every type—anyone really—who supports the freedom to read […]
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