Superintendent Steve Matthews is spending a day a month subbing for a different teacher in the district, getting face-to-face ...
Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...
For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...
Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...
What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...
On weekdays, he stands in front of a classroom of 20, dry-erase marker in hand, gently guiding students through trigonometry, ...
Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...
In conversations with teachers, the pattern that appears consistently is a classic user design case. The most immediate use ...
The ratio of doughnuts to students was deliciously disproportionate Monday afternoon as Abby Fremouw's third graders applied ...
Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...