Okay, so I don't know how to do a linky party, but I got this idea from Sarah at Math = Love: She is showing off all her thrifted toys that will make something come alive in the math classroom.

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This post is inspired by my blogging buddy Christopher at Overthinking my teaching: 18 year old daughter going off to University in Washington D.C. this fall: SB: MOM! Is this a 9 x 13 pan? (check pan on top of

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Inspired by Sherman Alexie's Indian Education A Teacher's Education 1st Year       Bright-eyed and Bam-Bam-esque, I broke up a girl fight in the hallway on the second day of school. Hair flying, brown skin under long fingernails...over a

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Ach: Extra Credit... Every other kid is coming in at the end of the year asking for "extra credit." I have sometimes, sparingly, throughout the year offered extra credit: --Extra Credit using Desmos. Create a face using a parabola, a

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7th Block...yeah you read that correctly...block...put 28 mostly 9th grade Algebra 1 students in a basement room after three 95 minute block classes, lunch, and no air conditioning and you get...my favorite class of the day! We started with the

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Student Hand-out Exhibit A This post isn't about the value of the planning, as much as it is about how much do the students need in advance...please continue... One of my earliest colleagues, had two jobs. One at the high

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Every teacher, man and woman, play a nurturing role in the lives of their students. I am thinking of everyone of you today, with deep gratitude. Thanks for fighting the good fight. Amy

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My Student, A, is a nice kid. This doesn't say all there is to say about A, but it says a lot: He mostly pays attention...he is a bit of a clueless wonder in Algebra, although his arithmetic skills are

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1. Ross, a student with an IEP, Grade 10, repeating Algebra, making a little more progress than last year. Very quiet. Students are in Part 1 of a Diagnostic Teaching Lesson ALA Phil Daro. The problem is "What is the

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I sent this letter this morning to Dr. Ivory Toldson, Howard University. (Paper grading be damned!) Dear Doctor Toldson, I was glued to listening to your interview with Michel Martin regarding black male representation in prestigious universities. It made me

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I am noticing all the very cool, thoughtful questions being thrown down on our blogs, so I thought I would add in and see what the next steps would be: Okay, not sexy, but a little stretch for the test.

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