You read that right. Despite what you may have read, schools are not failing to support students with disabilities. WE ARE FAILING TO ADEQUATELY FUND AND RESOURCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO THAT THEY CAN MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL THEIR STUDENTS, including those with special needs. Read that again! I built my company specifically to match …
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There have always been certain areas of math that are well known to challenge teachers and students. Subtraction. Fractions. Division. All of this is very predictable. However, one area that goes less recognized is Fact Fluency with facts to 20. It’s not as obvious because students are not taking standardized tests to show mastery of …
So if you have been in education long enough, you know we LOVE some buzzwords. We also LOVE acronyms, and rebranding old ideas and making them appear new. I think there is a lot of this going on, as there always is…so my favorite rebrand of the Covid Era…is rebranding remediation as acceleration. I have …
Oh the dreaded F word! In math, I’m not sure if there is another F word that scares people more than “FRACTIONS.” But for real, fractions don’t have to be scary. There is a ton we can do to make understanding fractions easier. Read on to learn more! Tip 1: One thing we can do …
Y’all!!! If you want to make people really hate you…I mean really really get super mad…talk about how songs are not a great idea to teach multiplication facts! I was on a Facebook thread this morning sharing some helpful advice…the stuff I wish people told me when I used to mess this stuff up all …
People who know me know that I love what I do, so they often will tell me about their child’s math abilities. They will say their kid is horrible at math or that they are a math whiz. I always tell them that I would have to work with them to tell you what I …
If you are an educator, you know RELATIONSHIPS MATTER! But what relationships matter? I’m asking because we all know the relationships between students and teachers matter…but as an instructional coach I have encountered many teachers who feel they were not able to get the support they needed from coaches because they were not comfortable being …
Y’all I was talking to a student today that I worked with at the beginning of the year. She told me-I need help! I need you to come back to my class! I told her that I would be happy to get back in there but her teacher told me that she has grown so …
Finding the START line to get to the FINISH line. Read More »
So sometimes when you have been doing something for so long, you might feel like everyone knows about it. Like it’s old news. But I have spoken before about how dangerous assumptions like these can be. I was talking to a friend of mine who has been teaching pre-k for quite a while and she …
Y’all, parents are in an absolute uproar about the proposed changes taking place in Virginia in regards to accelerated math courses. You may be one of them! This post is for you! I have had three amazing discussions with friends who have reached out to me so far since the news broke a few days …
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