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Workshop as a Vehicle for Agency
By Sathya Wandzek, Director of Field Staff Collaboration When I was a teacher in the classroom, my number one goal was for students to see the why behind the math. Before teaching middle school, I literally didn’t understand the expression π r2 and always mixed it up with the other one, you […]
Read MoreStudent Talk Clarifies Thinking
by Mary Korte and Ana Mettler, Jefferson County Open School Teachers The Loch at Andrews Tarn This past weekend I stood at the bottom of Andrews Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park staring into Andrews Tarn, an aqua-marine pond filled with melting glacial ice. Though I could not see beyond the surface […]
Read More‘Where the Wild Things Are’ in Practice
By Nancy Meredith, Senior Staff Developer for PEBC Pumpkins landing on front steps morphing from ordinary farm pumpkins to Halloween pumpkins of the scary variety. Scary faces lurking behind a lighted candle casting an aura of eeriness, leaves rustling across the landscape emptying trees transforming them into skeletal shapes in […]
Read MoreJoin us for An Evening to Elevate Educators
by Mike Neustedter We are doing great work and we can’t wait to show you more at An Evening to Elevate Educators this fall. Over the last several months I’ve been working with the rest of the PEBC team to develop this new event. We created An Evening to Elevate […]
Read MoreMath: Why doesn’t yours look like mine?
Dear Parents, I know you have been wondering why our math does not look like your math. When you and I were kids, accurate and quick fact fluency was enough to deliver A’s on our report cards. Math has moved on: now, instead of merely memorizing multiplication tables, students are […]
Read MoreAgency = Unstuck
How to Get Unstuck. This is one of the most important lessons we can teach in school. Because the truth is, we all get stuck, all the time. Life is like that. And when we know how to get unstuck, we can move forward. But if we get stuck and […]
Read MoreWhat does it mean to coach? Consider the 4 A’s
As I gasped through the end of my workout recently, I reflected on the conversation I had with my coach prior to the start. We were using kettlebells, and I was unsure of which weight to select. His feedback to me added clarity as to the purpose of the kettlebell. […]
Read MoreTeacher Tip: The First Day of School
It’s 7:54 am on the first day of school. I run frantically into my classroom two minutes before the students arrive. When I open the door, I find that the room is completely empty – no chairs, no tables, not even a stray paperclip on the floor. I begin to […]
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