Wonderful reminder of the power of this intentional act of recognizing and celebrating small success!

Imagine that!!!

When color coding really does save your sanity if not exactly your life!

From a practitioner perspective it’s hard not to read it as a signal that the research community does not view us as peers or value us as thought partners…

TEACHER VOICE: Teaching can mean never-ending work days and nights, and we deserve to be paid for it It was after 6 on a Tuesday evening when I got a text from one of my school administrators: I was required to chaperone a school dance that Friday until 9 p.m. along with other teachers on my team. So much for date night, I thought, knowing that I would have to cancel my plans. It’s not that I don’t actually enjoy school dances. But in most lines of work without six-figure salaries, being required to work beyond contract hours means receiving overtime pay. Nothing of the sort was provided here, not even a meal.

TEACHER VOICE: Teaching can mean never-ending work days and nights, and we deserve to be paid for it

It was after 6 on a Tuesday evening when I got a text from one of my school administrators: I was required to chaperone a school dance that Friday until 9 p.m. along with other teachers on my team.…

Alan Schoenfeld - career in math education (problem solving, assessment, mode... Alan Schoenfeld from the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his career in mathematics education research.Alan's professional webpageAlan's Google Scholar pageList of episodes

One of the greats in #MathEd, Alan Schoenfeld from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. He shares perspectives on big ideas from problem solving to assessment to Teaching for Robust Understanding. And he recounts big moments like NCTM PSSM and What Works Clearinghouse.
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Hey ed researchers-Is AERA open to k-12 practitioners? 18 registration categories but not one for those of us who do the work that many of you study and will be presenting about feels like an oversight, except if it actually isn't...
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Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims.

Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.

So hard to pick just one- Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park, Joni Mitchell when she pulled James Taylor & Carole King from backstage to sing harmonies, Jeff Beck, and Keith Jarrett are all up there, each for a different reason

The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra More U.S. eighth grade students take algebra today than any other math course. However, universal eighth grade algebra is creating more problems than it solves, writes Tom Loveless, as some 120,000 mi...

Brookings wrote a report on this in 2008 www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

When will lessons learned actually be understood, or at least believed, by policymakers?! Could have avoided all this mess if anyone looked at the disaster “Algebra for All” (8th graders) was in CA about 20 years ago!

Here’s hoping this perfect square of a year is more perfect than we all might expect but deserve!

A photo of my 4 year old grandson which I will not share as he deserves the right to one day build his own digital footprint

Hope to see you in Palm Springs again this coming November! CMC-S is a very special conference because if it’s very special community, and you are now part if that community

Folks have already called out fiber arts- Look at work of mathematicians Carolyn Yackel & Sarah-marie belcastro as well as Sabetta Matsumoto physicist

Trying very hard to make that happen!

My gifted 8th graders in Geometry once defined a triangle as the limiting case of a trapezoid as the length of one of the bases goes to zero…