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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
When in a global pandemic why not do a presentation in Hawaii? The STEMS² Symposium was put on by the University of Hawaii and offered an opportunity to engage in a conversation around the ideas of Culturally Sustaining Teacher Development 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 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 Read more…
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. John C. Maxwell Given the uncertainty of the future when in the midst of a global pandemic, there is also the need to look at the past to consider how to do the future Read more…
It was this combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit. Angela Duckworth What does it look like to foster grit through teaching? To help those we teach persevere with purpose? What Read more…