Math Placement: A Tale of Two Districts
Math placement involves assigning students to a math class that best aligns with their skills and current knowledge. The default…
My 5 Favorite Curriculums for K-12: #1 Saxon Math
My 5 Favorite Curriculums for K-12: #1 Saxon Math Way, way back in my twelfth year of teaching, I was…
AZ – SB 1051 – The High-Quality Teacher Pilot Program
SB1038 came about because Arizona schools were no longer offering physics. As teachers left, schools chose to eliminate programs as…
The Arizona Leaky STEM Pipeline
My wish for the next group of elected state officials is to adopt a growth mindset when you take…
Physics and Public Policy – Our Brief Story
In 2016 a small band of physics teachers got together to address the problem of a rapidly dwindling supply of…
A Jonah Day aka Academic Struggle in High Achieviers
There I stood in my lovely class of 1st – 3rd graders with 29 eagerly engaged students and 3 crying in agony. The…
Society is Shaped in the Elementary Classroom
Renewable Resources Most agree that social justice in America is becoming more questionable. We are a nation drenched in biases,…
Striking Out With Math Interventions
In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver writes that if you obsess over a data point, like your batting…
“The Dream Catcher” or The Girl Who Championed Self Doubt
I’m not sure if she was solving multiplication problems with the Checkerboard or working in Read Naturally when I called…
Finish Strong
I have a confession to make- it’s been six months since I have been at my gym. Yes, in the…
