More with Less What if you could focus your time and energy on the critical few things that will make the most impact? Listen in as Joel explores learnings from the featured book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Read more…
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 Read more…
Warm up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to E002: 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 Read more…
Warm Up Subscribe iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play The Warm Up to E001: 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 Read more…
The Answer is K(NOW)N Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Below is the timeline and the mentioned links from the inaugural episode of The Amidon Planet Podcast: E000, featuring the Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
