E-Learning Resources
We are excited to announce a partnership with SIS4Teachers to bring you a series of math videos to use at home. During this time we will be posting 3 games/strategies/activities per day to help parents at home or teachers looking for games/activities to push out to their students. You will be able to download the game boards (if needed) and watch videos on how to play or teach the strategy. We encourage you to not only watch the video...
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Workstations that Work
This is the time of year when many teachers begin to feel the pressure of "the test" sneaking up on them. We begin to wonder how we are we ever going to cover all the content we haven't made it to yet, and at the same time, continuously review what has already been covered. I always share with teachers I attribute a lot of my success to two key components of my day: my calendar time and my workstations. Both set the stage for me to be able to...
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Book Study: Limitless Mind
Good afternoon from cold, cloudy, grey Ohio. We have decided to post-pone the book study until June 2020. We've posted a bit on the book study and have asked for engagement through Facebook. We haven't seen the amount of involvement as we have hoped for, but we think it's due to this busy time of year that we teachers are in. The book study will begin Monday June 15, 2020 and end the week of July 20, 2020. This will allow the book study...
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Continuing Your Education
If you are planning on doing the LIMITLESS MIND book study with us and want to earn graduate credit from an accredited university, this would be an easy 15 contact hours of reading the book and participating in the online discussion. Raise your hand if you're a teacher who stays late to get work done OR if you bring work home to finish. As a teacher I know we all do so much work outside of the standard work hours at our schools. I bring...
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The Limitless Mind
Jo Boaler is a best-selling author, Stanford mathematics professor, brain researcher, and an educator who has the remarkable talent of getting you to think deep to the roots of your teaching pedagogy. I have read some of Boaler's books before- Mathematical Mindsets & Mindset Mathematics 4th Grade- and have really enjoyed them. When I heard that she wrote a new book I knew I needed to get my hands on it. I wanted to get a book study going...
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