Yesterday was an incredible day collaborating with the amazing U46 secondary educators in Elgin, IL. We had a great time learning together as we explored effective strategies to support our adolescent readers in navigating and engaging with complex texts. 📚💛

It's HERE! The long-awaited version of Pirate Math Equation Quest for multi-step word problems! All FREE. All DOWNLOADABLE. piratemathequationquest.com

Want to help students set up and solve word problems? Our Small-Group Single-Step version on Pirate Math Equation Quest is excellent for Grades 2 and 3! Check out our FREE materials - all ready for you to use! piratemathequationquest.com/group.html

This week, we are featuring our NEW version of Pirate Math Equation Quest. This version focuses on single- and MULTI-step word problems. Perfect for Grades 3, 4, and 5! All free! piratemathequationquest.com/individual-mul…

Free lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards about functions and ordered pairs! buff.ly/41ikxom

Do you teach math in Texas? Do you want free math progress monitoring measures? Check out these downloadable measures from TIER for Grades K-6. spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/resource-libra…

The bar for school leaders is often set at "manage the building first, think about teaching second." This bar is too low. The best school leaders are both managers and instructional leaders. They read up. They care deeply about the details of what goes on inside classrooms.

Recently I’ve had the misfortune of being reminded how widespread BTC has become. Before years pass by, and mathematics education has its very own Lucy Calkins, continue to talk about it with colleagues. Greg Ashman in one of his recent posts says it nicely; “Building Thinking

“This notion of trying to match kids to books and get everybody to their right level is, at the very least, wasteful. It's not benefiting kids.” ⁦Timothy Shanahan⁩ amplify.com/episode/scienc…

Math Fact Intervention Resource update (M.I.N.D. 2.0 - Facts on Fire). I have been collaborating with teachers this last year in an effort to provide a new set of resources that are designed to provide some fact fluency activities that are a little easier to implement and sustain

This article on Running Records is beautifully written, thoroughly researched and is discussed with balance and respect. If you are interested in the assessment of reading this is a MUST READ. Congratulation and thanks to the authors Tanya Serry Pamela Snow

We’re being told math shouldn’t be taught step by step—not by fringe voices, but by the most influential orgs and thought leaders in education. Their rally cry is wrapped in emotional language and slick visuals that downplays that their discovery method doesn’t work.

“Everything but instruction” is the water many schools swim in. It is an invisible disease that some managerial type principals don’t even recognize they have. Every lever and mechanism available to you should be directed towards improving teaching and learning. It’s the job.

As a parent, I’m happy if you just teach my kid knowledge rather than attempting to teach her how to think. She can already think, and so can all the other kids. She needs more to think with. I hope that relieves an enormous burden and opens doors for a knowledge rich education.

Part of IL Comprehensive Numeracy Plan: Big Idea No. 3: "The algorithm isn’t the end goal. In fact, using it is often the opposite of being fluent." Sigh. isbe.net/Documents/IL-C… Anna Stokke Brian Poncy Robert Craigen Alt B Amanda VanDerHeyden Robin S. Codding Zach Groshell Elizabeth Brown

IL friends, please show up to the listening sessions for the Numeracy Plan. Fact fluency predicts later mathematical achievement. Algorithms are very efficient and, when taught properly, enhance conceptual understanding. Our students in Illinois deserve teachers who have

📣 Illinois residents! Help us advocate for a state Numeracy Plan grounded in evidence! chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/0…

📣 I'm forming a grassroots organization to support an IL state Numeracy Plan grounded in evidence. Do you support evidence-based math instruction? Join our growing list of supporters! Do you want to participate more actively? Let me know! chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/0…

My class is on 🔥 with Facts on Fire! It’s helping us move from accurate to automatic number identification—plus, it’s FREE! Teaching in Davis #uted Brian Poncy goyenfoundation