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Launching a Year of Meaningful Math: Ideas That Go All Year

Pam Koutrakos

Aug 19, 2018

Launching a Year of Meaningful Math: Ideas That Go All Year

For years in my classroom, literacy was the “it girl” getting all the attention and beginning-of-the-year hoopla: inquiry-driven...

John Altieri, Shanna Anderson, and Pam Koutrakos

Aug 14, 2018

Introducing the Math Makeover Series

It’s summer, but you’re already planning for the year ahead. You envision last year’s students engaged in reading, or happily lost in...

7 Books In 7 Days:
Inviting Students to Take Action… Today, Tomorrow, & All Summer Long

Pam Koutrakos

Jun 12, 2018

7 Books In 7 Days: Inviting Students to Take Action… Today, Tomorrow, & All Summer Long

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” ―...

Karen Finnerty

May 27, 2018

Summer Reading

We all have THAT book. The book that you couldn’t get enough of. That one book that when it ended, you were at a loss for what to do...

Amy Ludwig Vanderwater

Apr 22, 2018

Yes, to Notebook Keeping!

Last fall, I was fortunate enough to have two books published within a few weeks of each other—one for adults, and one for children. Two...

Patty McGee

Apr 8, 2018

Un-textbook Social Studies

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “social studies?” A globe, a map, a test on the names of continents? In its...

Problem Solving in Science: Teaching Outside Our Comfort Zones

Karen Finnerty

Mar 22, 2018

Problem Solving in Science: Teaching Outside Our Comfort Zones

This is how I thought about science as a first year sixth-grade science teacher: So much content and so few days to teach it all. I...

Writing in Math: 4 Steps That Make Math Learners the Heroes of Their Own Journeys

Pam Koutrakos

Mar 9, 2018

Writing in Math: 4 Steps That Make Math Learners the Heroes of Their Own Journeys

Once upon a time, as pure as a fairy tale, it seemed as if math was all about algorithms and right answers. But times, they are...

Coaching: a Retreat for the Educator’s Soul

Patty McGee

Feb 15, 2018

Coaching: a Retreat for the Educator’s Soul

A spa replenishes. It’s a place we can go to let our mind and spirit drift to new insights and work out the soreness of tight muscles. It...

Valentines Day Read Aloud: Love by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long

Molly Ness, Guest Blogger

Feb 11, 2018

Valentines Day Read Aloud: Love by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long

“Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend,” said Dr. Martin Luther King. “All you need is love,” sang the...

Choice and Curriculum: How a Coach and a Teacher Negotiated a Peace Between Two Superpowers

Michelle G. Bulla

Feb 7, 2018

Choice and Curriculum: How a Coach and a Teacher Negotiated a Peace Between Two Superpowers

Last week, in my role as department chair, I was showing one of our new teachers the various titles available for 11th graders. We were...

Classroom Coaching Visits: A Win-Win Guide for Coaches

Pam Koutrakos

Jan 29, 2018

Classroom Coaching Visits: A Win-Win Guide for Coaches

“Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.” - Simon Sinek In my last blog, I explained the ins...

Classroom Coaching Visits: A Win-Win Guide for Teachers

Pam Koutrakos

Jan 26, 2018

Classroom Coaching Visits: A Win-Win Guide for Teachers

”You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” - Oprah Winfrey Curious about classroom coaching? Wondering what the hullabaloo...

Coaching Inspired By a Free-Range Childhood

John Altieri

Jan 24, 2018

Coaching Inspired By a Free-Range Childhood

As kids, my friends and I would look for any wildness we could find hidden within our village’s suburban landscape. Through backyards,...

Karen Finnerty

Jan 13, 2018

We Can Change

In the first half of 2017, I was still teaching in my own classroom. One of my students kept getting into some trouble. It was nothing...

Wendy Murray

Jan 8, 2018

2018 Acrostic

Anything we want in the new year, we can find an app that leads up toward it. Meditate, find love, mend heart, make money, match lipstick...

Gravity Goldberg

Jan 8, 2018

Mindful Listening

Over the winter break I was at party with a talented, but rather loud band playing. I kept trying to have conversations with other party...

Pam Koutrakos

Jan 6, 2018

Kickin’ It Old School

See if this list matches your worry list about kids and people in general: They don’t…. Spend time being “present” Talk to each other...

Laura Sarsten

Jan 6, 2018

Open to Influence

As the year comes to a close and a new year begins, I think of all the people I am blessed to have in my life. My family, my husband, the...

Patty McGee

Jan 4, 2018

Simple Pleasures

When winter folds upon us, I often approach the season with trepidation and a plan to hunker down until the warm weather thaws both the...

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