It has certainly been a long time since I have written thoughts about education into a blog. You may know that last school year I...

With the wrapping up of a semester brings our attention to semester exams, at the high school level. I was thinking back of different...

I recently presented a short session titled “Infusing Social Emotional Learning in Your Math Class” at the Jumpstart your Math Class...

In a “normal year” co-teaching follows a process of coaching a teacher and determining their goals, planning a lesson, implementing the...

While this year is certainly unlike any other, it has provided me with the opportunities to grow in education and spend time reflecting...

With all of the information and technology being thrown at teachers right now, more professional development might be the last thing they...

I first learned about google Jamboard last October during a PD and thought it was super cool but not as user friendly so I did not put...

I was listening to a podcast from Instruction Partners where Uri Treisman was discussing Rethinking Intervention and I immediately...

If you have heard of John Hattie and his visible learning study of effect size of instructional strategies and influences, then you have...

Since March, we were all thrown into the zoom world, or google meets depending on your district. I have sat through countless zoom...

A 20 point activity, or you can choose a different point value, gives students the opportunity to choose which problems they complete to...

Ever heard of being in the hot seat? Do you remember what that felt like to you? Can you picture what that would feel like to your...

As I repeatedly ask my five year old to clean up his toys and pick up after himself, I am reminded that kids will not always do what they...

While times are crazy and we have all had to jump into a distance learning situation, I have been trying to find some positivity and...

While reading Robert J. Marzano’s “Understanding Rigor in the Classroom” I have been processing the information about declarative and...

I was reading a blog post by Jennifer Gonzales ,from Cult of Pedagogy, on Chat stations and how to use them in the classroom and it...

Do secondary students really need routine reminders? We have all heard colleagues say “they have been in school for blank number of...

In a recent training with Kelly Harmon, we learned about declarative knowledge versus procedural knowledge. We were given released state...

When I started my teaching career, every time I would present a word problem I would have students writing equations and finding a...

Back in October I had the privilege of attending a problem-solving workshop at ESC Region 20 featuring Robert Kaplinsky and since then I...