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Top 6 Best Two-Player Board Games for Game Night
It’s game night and you are ready to host your trusty board game geek friends for another spirited marathon session of Settlers of Catan, Codenames, and Ticket To Ride. But wait… the married couple’s baby-sitter has cancelled, your old college roommate has a cat emergency, and your high school pal got surprise with a free… Read more
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Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thoughts
Thank you to every single student who uses the class materials properly and returns them to the correct storage location. You are the true heroes of the classroom. Read more
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A Teacher’s Guide To Holiday Gifts
If a student brings you a gift, literally ANY gift, it means something special. Read more
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6 Millimeters
While my students always enjoyed trying to use the height chart, and figured that Fabric Corey was there because I loved decorating my classroom with Anaheim Ducks merchandise, he actually served another purpose entirely. Read more
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Engage Students with ‘The Answers Are…’ Math Activity for Grades 4 to 9
So I started my 21st school year last week, and I wanted to share one of my favorite Thinking Tasks I started doing with my students in the past few years. Whether you are looking for a good activity to get your mathematicians working together in the first weeks of school, or you need a… Read more
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A Standards Based Grading Deep Dive – Part 2: How We Assess Our Students
The Back Story It’s 2019, a Friday afternoon in October, and I’m driving home from school. It’s been a tough day and my brain is absolutely cooked from making 8,000 decisions during my Math 8 classes and giving a cumulative exam in Enhanced Math 1. Seems like giving a test should make for an easy… Read more
