Late last school year Mindy Rucker, Math Coordinator at Henderson ISD in Texas presented the strategies her intermediate school teachers are using to help all students do their best in math. …
Read MorePennsylvania’s Taney Dragons are one win away from the U.S. Little League Championship game in Williamsport. Their star pitcher is 13-year-old phenom Mo’Ne Davis who threw 43 pitches in her…
Read MoreASCD just announced three new publications for new teachers. They offer extensive previews of each online. I found Never Work Harder Than Your Students by Robyn R. Jackson of particular…
Read MoreThe “2014 National Survey on Mobile Technology for K-12 Education,” put out by Amplify has some eye-opening things to share about the increased use of mobile devices in schools. For example: Twenty percent…
Read MoreWe just received some homemade maple syrup from our neighbors. Did you know it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup? Here in Michigan we produced…
Read MoreEdutopia recently ran a list of ideas for teachers preparing for the new school year. You’ll find some some good advice here. Take a quick look and see what might…
Read MoreThis problem suggested by one of our friends in Wisconsin. Roberto and his friends built a five story castle in the sand complete with moat. Each story of the castle…
Read MoreA new study concludes that those first-graders who are behind their peers would have learned more if their teachers had just taught them to add and subtract the old-fashioned way.…
Read MoreHere’s fun math problem for grades 5 and up. The Randall family is planning a road trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. They live in Indianapolis, IN. They…
Read MoreMajor League Baseball, Target and People magazine on Tuesday announced the winners after hundreds of thousands of votes in the “Target Presents People All-Star Teachers” campaign, which celebrates remarkable current…
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