Remember the day when…searching for a job consisted of circling advertisements in a newspaper and sending a letter of interest and your resume in hope of a phone call for an interview.  Well those days are over and today’s information…

This week I was asked to be a Guest Blogger for Education Week. Rick Hess’s Straight Up blog examines policy and practice related to current issues in education. I decided to focus my posts on issues related to English Language…

In the CNN documentary The Poor Kids of Silicon Valley, poverty is a reality many children and their families encounter.  From sharing a one bedroom apartment with eight other family members, to being homeless and living in a shelter.  The cost of…

Regardless of your class size, designing instruction for everyone’s ability is a complex endeavor, students come into the classroom with different funds of knowledge, experiences, and beliefs about themselves as a learner. Despite these differences, you must prepare students to…

Technology that promotes 21st century skills are essential for the classroom today. But if technology use consists of students working in silos while staring at a computer screen they are more likely modeling the 21st century skills seen at Starbucks,…

One of the cornerstones of a solid elementary math block are activities that support students in developing numerical literacy. Developing numerical literacy in the elementary classroom will support students in being confident problem solvers, and engage in mathematical discussions at…

By Guest Blogger: Frankie Caplan Animation has been around for over a century, but its use in academia is still a fairly new phenomenon. The dawn of what we would think of as ‘traditional animation’ occurred in 1908 with the…

The idea of bringing the outside world of mathematics into a 20 x 40 square foot space to 30 squirrelly kiddos may seem like a daunting task and certainly it is.  But we know that math becomes so much more…

Let’s be clear counting in small quantities is a skill most kids do naturally without much prompting or coaching needed, in fact the region of the brain we use for counting includes the same portion of the brain that controls…

Reflective Teaching is a habit of mind that requires consciously thinking about how teaching practices impact students’ learning.  According to Kennedy (1989) reflective teaching promotes a thoughtful, contextualized view of teaching from which teachers learn how to make choices about…