Goal Writing... for students and you!
It's January 3. That means you may have either just come up with a New Year's resolution or you're possibly trying to come up with one. Some people are trying to determine their word for the year instead of a resolution. To be honest, I've never been able to complete a New Year's resolution and picking a word for the year has never been easy for me. The idea of a whole year focusing on something is too long and too much for me. I need shorter...
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Multiplication Review
Coming back from break is not easy for students or teachers. I think it may even be harder for teachers. I think this was the first winter break in my 17 year career that I did less than 1 hour of school work. I'm not saying that to brag, but as something that some of you might need to hear. It's ok if you did not one ounce of school work over break. It's ok if you did hours and hours of school work over break. It's ok if you were somewhere in...
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Math-ew the Number Train & Holiday Shopping Project
Math-ew the Number Train and the Holiday Shopping Project... what do they have in common? These are the latest two projects Emily and I worked together on to create. Recently during two coaching sessions, teachers asked me to create materials for them to use with their students. One project was sequencing numbers and the other was adding and subtracting decimals. Emily and I loved how the projects turned out so we wanted to share them with all...
Read MoreStudent Data and How We Use It
I want to start this off by telling each of you... Students are more than just data! I believe that with every ounce of my being and have said it time and time again in meetings. With that said, we need to use the data we have on what students know and don't know to help guide our instruction. All schools are back in session and either just finishing up beginning of year benchmarking or in the thick of it. I personally LOVE looking at data and...
Read MoreMath Stations... Making Them Work for Your Classroom
Many elementary teachers have reading groups already established in their classrooms, but the idea of math groups seems foreign to many. Reading groups is a teaching strategy that has been around for a long time. The idea behind reading groups is, as I understand it, is homogeneous groups that rotate between 4-5 stations. The idea with reading groups is that they're leveled so the teacher can work at the various reading levels in which the...
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