Educational Equity During Crisis
Matt As everyone scrambles to figure out how to continue our students’ education we need to be very careful. If all…
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.…
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…
Math, Wages, Data, Racism
I have always believed that one of my goals as a teacher was to help my students live a better…
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 fight for Mathematical Justice
Over 97% of my 11th and 12th graders have been failed by our “Survival of the Fittest” math education system.
Becoming Super
When I first started teaching as a 20 something living on a tropical island I was decidedly not a super…
Gamification of Math Teams
Last year I was lucky enough to work on a research project with an amazing teacher Karen Kurcz. We developed…
2B or not 2B builds Motivation
Over my last four years teaching math at Grant I have noticed that a large percentage of my students have…
Vertical Math
SY 2018-19 was a year of innovation and challenges for me. Some systems worked better than others but no single…