Teaching Math

We have a formative assessment every Friday. One week it’s a team test and the next it’s an individual test. The team tests consist of low floor, high ceiling tasks…

All of my students are in randomly selected teams all of the time with the exception of individual assessments. This allows the students to productively struggle together and move forward together. Unfortunately, our “survival of the fittest” educational system has developed a student culture that in order for one student to move forward they have to be better than the other students....

When math teams are working amazing math gets done. There are times where it almost seems like I’ve gone down the rabbit hole into some magical math land. All of my kids are up at their boards making charts, drawing graphs, sketching models and debating math.

When I first started teaching as a 20 something living on a tropical island I was decidedly not a super teacher. I learned how to be a decent teacher, good…

Last year I was lucky enough to work on a research project with an amazing teacher Karen Kurcz. We developed a system that greatly encouraged team work and maybe more…

SY 2018-19 was a year of innovation and challenges for me. Some systems worked better than others but no single investment of time and money has helped more students learn…