So, once your students are all warmed up and pumped for math...what happens next? Of course you’ll often have a quick group lesson, learning new skills or reviewing old ones. But, as with literacy, new math skills should be taught and practiced many times in many different contexts before students ... read more
Math: Let’s Warm Up!
As educators, we spend a lot of time and effort working on fluency for our students in literacy. We focus on getting them to certain reading levels, and locking those sight words in their brains for immediate recognition. Often with all this focus on literacy, we often (inadvertently) forget about ... read more
The Ins and Outs of Calendar Math
Alright y'all, time to gear up for another great year. It's definitely gonna look different this year, but no matter how it shakes down in your district, our students deserve the best educational experience we can give them and despite any difficulties goshdarnit that's what we're going to ... read more
How to: Create Personal Student Math Toolkits
Hello and welcome to the WEIRDEST SCHOOL YEAR OF YOUR CAREER. While last year ended with quite an unexpected twist, not something anyone could have predicted, we were definitely running in emergency mode, boots on the ground, working hard in overdrive to get kids what they needed to learn remotely ... read more
5 Ways hoopla Makes Lesson Plans a Cinch
If you've followed along my journey for a while, you know I am absolutely passionate about STEAM education! I have presented locally and nationally on topics relating to hands-on science, project-based learning and STEAM education and some of the most common questions I get are, "How do you fit ... read more
