Good tasks are out there. The rice on a chess board task. The handshake task. The names of these tasks are familiar to most math teachers (if not, google them) as classic problems that have been leveraged to teach mathematical concepts to many a math student. Finding a good task Read more…
Warm up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to Episode 2: Act as Love has listeners considering the question “What does it look like to _____________ as an act of unconditional love?” as a way to prepare for Episode 2 of the Amidon Planet Podcast which features the book Love Does: Read more…
Warm Up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to Episode 1: When is a Why features the idea of a chronotype from the book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink. Use this link to identify your chronotype. Episode 1: When is Read more…
The Answer is K(NOW)N Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play Below is the timeline and the mentioned links from the inaugural episode of The Amidon Planet Podcast: Episode 0, featuring the Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink 00:00 – Opening & Purpose01:41 – About Joel02:22 – Structure Read more…
Sometimes things do not go exactly to plan… As any teacher can attest, there are times when the intended outcomes of a lesson do not simply materialize when the bell rings. The same principle exists for the professional development of teachers. At the annual conference for the Association for Mathematics Read more…
Reacting to a Cognitive Shove I define an opportunity to develop as a professional a success when my thinking, my stance as a teacher of mathematics and a preparer of teachers of mathematics, changes. By that measure my time at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting Read more…
Listen If you are wondering what The Orchard Oxford is doing sending a Service Team over Spring Break to Camp Mary, Haiti, then take a listen to this podcast. One of the trip leaders, Amber, hosts the show, while The 410 Bridge Team Leader, Frantson, and I discuss the work Read more…
Home What does it mean to be home? Is it a place? I don’t think so. People move all the time. It has to be the connection of people located in a place, or as Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeroes state, “Home is wherever I’m with you.” That all Read more…
On Monday, November 27th, 2017, I conducted a LIVE Webinar for the purpose of walking Undergraduate Elementary Education Majors through the nuts and bolts of documenting their growth as a professional educator within their electronic portfolio. There were opportunities to understand the point of the portfolio, learn the technical side Read more…
Struggle is a good thing. That cannot be true…can it? I don’t want to see my children struggle. I don’t want to see my students struggle. When someone struggling, I want to run over and help them. I want to remove the struggle. But I know that struggle is good. Read more…