I teach and am proud to do so. At the risk of being just a little self-serving – I think I am pretty damn good at it! I try super hard to form relationships with my students. To really get to know them. To understand them and what is going …
It seems that over the past several years, going back to No Child Left Behind, we have increasingly started using the phrase “Failure is Not an Option.” My question is why are we allowing students to be stuck in this mode? What happened to being able to make a mistake …
Ok…so life happened and I haven’t been able to sit down and pour thoughts out into my blog nearly as regularly as I would like. However its time to try and get back into some kind of writing routine (this is tough for us math teachers!) Coming up really soon, …
So the great experiment that was flipped math last year is now “new and improved” and upgraded to version 2.0! I started using the flip model last year and went all in, flipping three different courses in a single year. Wow! What was I thinking when I decided to do …
So the school year is off and running again, wow! Where did the summer go!! Now that my summer is in the review mirror and my school year is the interstate in front of me, its time to put my focus back on the kids. The question that I have …
The White House was a really cool thing to see!! Model Schools day two started off pretty well considering we did not get as much sleep as we planned….However we rolled into the convention center on time!! We started off with college and career ready with Bill Daggett. I was …