RECTOR’S HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BRAIN GROWTH LOG: 5/11/20
Matt 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…
RECTOR’S HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BRAIN GROWTH LOG: 4/27/20
WEEK 2: CLOSING THE DISTANCE GROWING OUR GRADE/BRAIN Welcome to week 2 of Distance learning!!! As of Monday morning over 50 of…
RECTOR’S HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BRAIN GROWTH LOG: 4/20/20
WEEK 1: NEW BEGINNINGS MATH CLASS RESTARTS MONDAY In these crazy times it’s nice that we get to reestablish some normalcy. No…
The Time for Teachers to Rise
My 35 year old nephew is battling for his life against cv-19. His wife is in just the early stages of the…
Educational Equity During Crisis
As everyone scrambles to figure out how to continue our students’ education we need to be very careful. If all state and…
ASSESSING FOR GROWTH IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN RANKING
We have a formative assessment every Friday. One week it’s a team test and the next it’s an individual test. The team…
PUTTING AN i IN TEAM
All of my students are in randomly selected teams all of the time with the exception of individual assessments. This allows the…
Math, Wages, Data, Racism
I have always believed that one of my goals as a teacher was to help my students live a better life. As…
Building Math Teams
When math teams are working amazing math gets done. There are times where it almost seems like I’ve gone down the rabbit…
The fight for Mathematical Justice
Over 97% of my 11th and 12th graders have been failed by our “Survival of the Fittest” math education system.