In a book seeking to give advice on leadership, I value honesty and practicality. How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority by Clay Scroggins @ClayScroggins is a book with both of these ingredients. And by reading it as an educator, I see a Read more…
I wrote this post as a service to teachers headed back to school. My observations of the events of this past weekend (#Charlottesville) tell me we need as many ways as possible to build relationships and unity in our country. Our classrooms are a great place to start. The Desire Read more…
It starts with the voice, the voice inside your head. The voice tells you “I can” or “I can’t” and often in the realm of learning math the latter often rules the day. The voice says “I can’t learn math” which implies “I can’t be someone’s math hero”. I heard Read more…
Preparing elementary teachers to teach math can be daunting. Most noteworthy, is the vast amount of content and the little amount of time to teach. But does it matter what happens in a math methods classroom? In Episode 1707 of the Math Ed Podcast, Sam Otten (@ottensam)talks with math teacher Read more…
Why go to Haiti? That is the question I heard both leading into and following our service trip to Haiti? Why did The Orchard Oxford send a team of ten people to Camp Mary, back to the same community we visited last year. Why? It is a good question. Let me Read more…
The Orchard Oxford is headed back to Camp Marie, Haiti! Again we are partnering with 410 Bridge to connect with our neighbors in Camp Marie. Last spring a team of 15 was able to live, learn, and pray with the people of Camp Marie and we are excited to return Read more…
Do you tutor? It is a common question someone who has a career centered on math may hear from time to time. When I hear the question I don’t want to turn someone away without giving them some way of obtaining what they need…help with developing their relationship with Read more…
Complex instruction. Great stuff with an intimidating name…at least when I first heard it. Complex instruction is a highly structured form of group work that is especially useful in mathematics classes. The purpose of complex instruction is to balance participation within groups. I can think about those times when I Read more…
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics are holding their annual meeting in San Francisco this week. It is an exciting time where mathematics teachers are coming to learn about how best to serve their students in the classroom. This year I was invited to talk in the New Teacher Read more…
Allen Iverson might not have wanted to talk about practice but it seems like mathematics teacher educators cannot get enough of it. This week at the NCTM Research Conference I joined several colleagues to talk about how to represent the practice of teaching within LessonSketch. These representations were then used in Read more…