On January 16th, I had the privilege of speaking at the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium/University of Mississippi Center for Mathematics and Science Education Teacher’s Conference. I was invited to speak about Hip Hop Based Education, which is a topic I Read more…
That’s right Dr. H. Samy Alim from Stanford is coming to the University of Mississippi for International Education Week…and I have to teach class. So the next best thing is to convince as many students at the University of Mississippi Read more…
Tonight I had a chance to work with several University of Mississippi, School of Education Clinical Instructors as they explored some of the expectations of our pre-service teachers. More precisely, the Understanding by Design process for designing lessons. ��My task Read more…
On Sunday, I had the opportunity to present the sermon at The Orchard in Oxford, MS. The topic given to me was to discuss Paul’s letter to the Colossians (specifically Chapter 3: 1-17). I debated on whether or not to Read more…
Here is another video about the need for Common Core Mathematics. This is done by Jo Boaler who is a well respected mathematics education researcher.
This weekend the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics held their annual conference at Mississippi College. I was given the opportunity to talk more about this idea of creating space for the progressive teaching of mathematics. It is an idea Read more…
As a mathematics teacher educator I get asked a lot of questions about the Common Core and usually the questions I get are concerning the half truths (or non-truths) being spread by media outlets. Here are three things I suggest Read more…
LessonSketch is a web-based platform that allows for the creation of teaching practice representations in the form of student work, classroom videos and the use of the “blue people” in the form of comic book-like creations. Last spring I was named Read more…
Today, I traveled to the University of Georgia’s School of Education, specifically the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, as an awardee of an SECU Faculty Travel Grant. What an amazing opportunity! Just today I had an opportunity to meet with Read more…