It is not light that is needed, but fire. Frederick Douglass More and more I am convinced that the most powerful lever for change is our schools and our teachers. Systemic change can be catalyzed through the actions of teachers and students as they attempt to shape the world into Read more…
What is the center of your teaching? Are you tech-wise? For some, the answer to the question above might be, “a screen”. In the midst of a global pandemic, with remote/online learning at an all time high, there has never such a push forward in technologically mediated learning. As we Read more…
Each day it gets better, each day a brand new song Matthew Mifflin, from ‘Each Day’ The line above from Matthew Mifflin’s new single, Each Day, speaks of hope and beauty in the continuing of a relationship. I cannot help to draw the connection to teaching and wondering what brilliance Read more…
In this episode of the Amidon Planet Podcast, Dr. Jen Wolfe of the University of Arizona shares an awesome collection of resources she has accumulated in response to converting her teaching to online instruction in the Spring of 2020. In this podcast/video cast we not only discuss the reasoning behind Read more…
Educational consultant and podcaster, Steve Barkley recorded a conversation with Candies Cook, Ann Monroe, and myself because he came across our article, Shame, Shame, Go Away: Fostering Productive Struggle with Mathematics, in the Kappa Delta Pi Record, and saw it as something teachers needed to hear about as the consider Read more…
The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier. Ian Morgan Cron During the global pandemic I have had a number of moments to reflect on what I am learning Read more…
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato Plato puts an exclamation point on the importance of music. But in a time when traveling musicians are not roaming the streets, a person must trust those that record the Read more…
In the wake of COVID-19, educational consultant and podcaster, Steve Barkley has been put together a series of podcast episodes to help parents better serve the educational needs of their children during remote instruction. Recently he recorded a conversation with Candies Cook, Ann Monroe, and myself because he came across Read more…
I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment. Eminem Many times when a song starts playing, I am often transported to a time and Read more…
What do you do when your focus shifts from teaching mathematics to teaching mathematics teachers? I remember my first time teaching methods for teaching secondary mathematics and the constant need to remind myself that I wasn’t teaching mathematics but how to teach mathematics. It was weird. I was so thankful Read more…