“Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them” is the first of the 8 Mathematical Practices we want all students to use within any domain. It is the keystone…
Developing an understanding of time is a difficult concept for younger children. Think about the different ways we measure time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, and the tools we…
Whenever you walk into the doctor’s office, you don’t immediately see the doctor. You usually see a nurse who takes your pulse, checks your blood pressure, measures your temperature and…
AFK, or Away From Keyboard, is a status no teacher wants in their virtual classroom. Last March, my preschool went from being in person to suddenly on Zoom, and my…
The person doing the talking is the person doing the thinking. We know that when students talk, question, discuss, justify, debate, answer and explain their thinking, they own the learning. …