Highlighting Ideas from Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had: Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms by Tracy Johnston Zager
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The Best Teacher Questions to Keep in Your Back Pocket (And 3 Ways To Make Them a Part of Your Everyday Practice) (Math Monday)
Topics: Math, #StenhouseMath
Six Ways to Use Elkonin Boxes Across Your Literacy Block (One Thing You Might Try . . .)
In this One Thing You Might Try . . . blog post, Susan Vincent, coauthor of Intentional From the Start, shares six practical ways to integrate Elkonin sound boxes into literacy instruction with early readers.
Topics: One Thing You Might Try
Teaching for Racial Equity: Leading Race and Equity Efforts in Schools
Make Math Debates an Engaging Routine in Your Classroom (Math Monday)
Highlighting Ideas from Up For Debate: Exploring Math Through Argument by Chris Luzniak
Topics: Math, #StenhouseMath
Teaching for Racial Equity: Everything Begins with Relationships
The Impact of Teacher Language on Math Engagement (Something to Talk About)
In this month's Something To Talk About blog post, math coach Katrina Lindo reflects on the importance of teacher language and shares some strategies for small shifts that make a big impact.
Topics: Something to Talk About
Highlighting Ideas from Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK-5 Math Classroom, Edited by Megan L. Franke, Elham Kazemi and Angela Chan Turrou
Topics: Math, #StenhouseMath
Since the release of their groundbreaking book, 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing with Children’s Books, Melissa Stewart, Sibert Medal honoree, and Marlene Correia have been making waves across social media and changing the ways we think about nonfiction. This compelling exploration of nonfiction’s five major categories is shifting perspectives about how we share and celebrate nonfiction with students, how nonfiction can enhance our classroom and library collections, and, ultimately, how we can capitalize on the advantages of nonfiction to help build stronger readers and writers.
Topics: Literacy
Finding Joy in Playing with Math and Art Together (Math Monday)
Highlighting Ideas from Joyful Math: Invitations to Play and Explore in the Early Childhood Classroom by Deanna Pecaski McLennan.
Topics: Math, #StenhouseMath
Building Classroom Community with a Compliment Circle (Something to Talk About)
In this month's Something To Talk About blog post, third-grade teacher Janaki Nagarajan writes about her experiences with Compliment Circles and how much this kind of talk matters in classrooms right now.
Topics: Something to Talk About