The last year has thrown us a lot of lemons!!! Fortunately, for our students, we dedicated professional math teachers have risen to the occasion and made millions of gallons of lemonade!!! One of my latest lemons came with our new High School hybrid schedule that has us teaching six ten minutes periods on Zoom with […]
During distance learning (DL), I have decided to stop giving tests whose sole purpose was to rank and judge students. Experience has taught me that, no, poor grades do not motivate students; in fact, it usually does the opposite. And typically, my students did not go back over their test to find out what they
THANK YOU FOR MY MOST AMAZING YEAR EVER!!! Ladies and Gentleman, Brothers and Sisters, we did it!!! We are going to finish the most amazing, bizarre and complex year ever!!! This will be the end of my 20th year teaching over a 30 year period. While every year and group of students are special in
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY I hope you all are enjoying time with your family. I know these are trying times but as bad as things get or I feel I just remember all of the great and positive things in my life, my wife, kids, family, friends and you. No matter what the future holds we
5% MORE FOR TEAMWORK TUES ZOOM AT 11AM As you know I spend a lot of time trying to make math exciting and fun. Sometimes I’m successful and sometimes my brain grows learning from my mistakes but none of it works without you. You have already paved the way for students across the country (AND
RECTOR’S HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BRAIN GROWTH LOG: 5/11/20 DID YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT??? Progress reports have been submitted and grades are up to date in your Google Classroom. Make sure you check them because I am not perfect and do make mistakes. If you didn’t get the grade you want for the semester you
WEEK 2: CLOSING THE DISTANCE GROWING OUR GRADE/BRAIN Welcome to week 2 of Distance learning!!! As of Monday morning over 50 of you have changed your lives and changed your grades by +2% by completing both desmos activities!!! Wow, I am sooo proud of you. I know that these are challenging, weird and sometimes a
WEEK 1: NEW BEGINNINGS MATH CLASS RESTARTS MONDAY In these crazy times it’s nice that we get to reestablish some normalcy. No we don’t get to see each other’s beautiful faces in person but we do get to start our distance learning adventure. For us it should be fairly smooth as we will run it
My 35 year old nephew is battling for his life against cv-19. His wife is in just the early stages of the disease so she can still look out for him for now. He lives in Reno so none of us in Sacramento can help. As one might imagine this is a very scary and
