Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Involve Your Students on DAY ONE! Note #2 to My Son who is a New Teacher

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Dear Son, Don't do all the talking on DAY 1.  This will be hard to do, but it is really important that you involve your students in what...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Choose Respect Over Being Liked. Note #1 to My Son who is a New Teacher

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This is the first note in a series of letters to my son.  He is a new teacher this fall.  I'm reminiscing about my teaching days and som...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

37 Favorites as a High School Math Teacher

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I savored the last year of teaching high school math and retired in May 2024.  It has been bittersweet because I LOVE teaching. I have compi...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Magic of Students Doing Challenging Questions in Groups of Three on Vertical Surfaces in the Math Classroom

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I read Peter Liljedahl's book  Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics   this past summer and it has been transformational in my tea...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Students Still Need to Move: 9 Brain Breaks to Help Zoom Fatigue

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Zoom Fatigue?  Students still need to move.  Maybe more than ever we need to encourage students to get up and move around during their onlin...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Falling Down Hurts: How My New Covid Hobby is Helping Me Teach Math

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I bought a unicycle in June 2020.  The Covid lock down encouraged me to do this. Then a couple of weeks later I bought a different size unic...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

So Much To Learn: A Teacher’s Journey Shadowing a Student

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James is a senior here at Naperville Central High School that I have known from when he as a soccer player on the freshman team that I coach...