Brilliant 4th grade thinkers using their self-created fraction models to investigate equivalent fractions! This session brought math energy! ⚡️ Colgate Elementary Erin DiCello @TeacherFrieze TEAMBCPS Math

Overheard at Colgate: “I’m not sure if I can do it, but I’m willing to try!” (grade 4 student) Erin DiCello

Our first experience with #thinkingclassrooms and #vwbs from Peter Liljedahl was AMAZING 🤩 so much intentional thinking and multiple representations - Ss annotating Ss work and doing all the sense making Colgate Elementary Erin DiCello TEAMBCPS Math

Teachers Colgate Elementary dive into planning with a focus on shifting to student-centered questioning. Using the SMPs to advance thinking skills in our math classrooms!

Our grade 3 team + reading team + admin immersed in a thinking classroom experience using base 4 math tasks to develop understanding about tools and routines that engage and facilitate true learning for all levels. Great discourse and productive struggle! Colgate Elementary Peter Liljedahl

Miss you Graham! Will always celebrate you and the impact you made on me and our school ❤️

He might only be 3mo old, but baby E is all signed up for summer reading at Pratt Library and his first author study of the incomparable Patricia Polacco

Baby E’s next author study is a fave Jacqueline Woodson !! 📚 thanks to Pratt Library … (sorry E, this is what happens when you have a mom who’s a teacher…)

Next up on our E’s summer author tour is Donald Crews and his wonderfully fun stories and great illustrations!

Experimenting this year with Peter Liljedahl Thinking Classrooms and improving student thinking dispositions. I’d say something’s working… 100% engagement in this problem string…

Day 2 of thin slicing/problem strings and the thinking persists! You can see the knowledge mobility having an impact… TEAMBCPS Math Erin DiCello Peter Liljedahl

A wonderful way to represent every student at school. A rainbow of self portraits using colors by grade. Brings me joy to look at! Colgate Elementary has a great art teacher 🎨 🌈

Presented with my good pal wgibso1 at #nctm23 on our study about improving math identity with a coding project and look who greeted me from the MidSchoolMath team! Missing my friend tremendously but so grateful to feel her with us there!

Congrats again to Rachel Kovel, recipient of the first Gladys Graham Award #2024MidSchoolMath

The TSA agent (eyeing my gallon bag of overpacked liquids): 👀 is that a quart size bag…? Me (after hearing Jo Boaler new math mindset): ISH! What a great conference! Thank you to the whole MidSchoolMath team and all those who attended!

Inspired by KDSLGlobal and AIELOC we started our math writing experience “Dear Math” this week by reflecting on our math feelings over time. We graphed our feelings to start journaling.

One of my favorite activities to start the year. Doing the 100 Numbers Challenge to build group work expectations. All students lean in and stay focused! Colgate Elementary