I tried something that I learned by reading a conversation on Twitter this summer.  I would only be guessing at who was having this conversa...

The teacher workshops are completed, the room is set up, and the lessons are written.  It has been a long and exhausting week, but for the f...

I go back to work on Monday for teacher workshops and getting the classroom ready for the new school year.  I have been lacking motivation t...

Oh boy!  I have been reading a lot of blog posts about TMC.  The biggest discussion has centered around a post by MrKent800 entitled, ...

Last summer, I had been blogging for about 4 months when I read about Twitter Math Camp (TMC).  I had read a wrap up post or two (OK, maybe ...

So last year, I made my first attempt at moving towards a standards based classroom.  I began very small by listing the learning goals (stan...

Tonight, I was trying to narrow down the 28 vocabulary words in the first section of my algebra text to a more manageable 13 or 14.  I wa...