Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I’m going through Well, you know it’s been a long time since you wrote a blogpost when a perfect stranger sends you an email and says, “I hope you’re just busy or I’m looking at an old blog you don’t update anymore or something and everything is […]
Yesterday we had a speaker in our faculty meeting who came to talk to us about decision-making process in our school. He spoke about the way some colleges, universities, independent schools are very different from businesses, the military, and other governing bodies that have to make decisions because we are made up of “loosely-coupled systems.” […]
Phew…exams given…check…exams graded…check…comments written…check…kids on bus…check. Now I can relax. Oh wait, don’t I leave tomorrow to drive to my sister’s for Thanksgiving? Such is the life of a teacher, no? Just when you think you are on “vacation” there’s always something else to do. I had an exam on Saturday then worked the rest […]
This morning as I woke up and found out about the results of last night’s election I was at first filled with despair and finally got myself somewhat out of that funk. Then I thought about what Hillary Clinton must be feeling – she must be exhausted of course. What did it take to put […]
I am so very lucky to have a guest teacher with me this year at my school. Maria Hernandez (from the North Carolina School of Science and Math) is probably one of the most energetic and knowledgeable teachers, speakers and mathematicians you could ever find – and we got her for the whole year! We […]
So I’m trying to figure out how to reach more people and thinking about the future of my professional development plans with PBL for all levels of teachers. I’ve gotten some great feedback from people about the PBL Math Summit so far (from the two years we’ve had it) and I have some ideas about […]
I am not really a negative blogger but I do have to say how tired I am of research reports that over and over again talk about the way we are not doing enough to support girls in math education (or other underrepresented populations of students). There is enough evidence now from many research reports […]
If you’re here it means you like reading blogposts that I write. Check out my guest blogposts and the Mathematics Teacher site at NCTM for the next month or so. I’ll be trying to incorporate some of the advice and challenges I’ve faced in teaching with PBL and some of the ideas that I’ve shared with […]
One of my big “beefs” at my school is the fact that we have three levels of tracking – count ’em, three. There’s the honors track, that of course at a college prep school, most kids think they belong in. There’s the regular track, that which is still pretty quick and difficult, and there’s the […]