Edison is a great place to work! I have had the pleasure to call this place my home for the last 18 years.

👏👏👏 “As superintendents, we have to be the instructional leaders of our districts. That is, we must have an instructional point of view. Superintendents must really know the curriculum: What are students actually learning? How are teachers teaching?” k12dive.com/news/reading-r…

Menlo Park School Weekly Warm-Up - week of 3/20 smore.com/hmn9p-menlo-pa…

Ramadan Mubarak!

Thank you to Marc Wojcik and his fellow Amazon employees! They came and shared with 5th grade about their jobs. Our students thoroughly enjoyed!!

Too often we take a child's behavior as some kind of personal offense instead of listening to what it's telling us

Want a problem based lesson for every #CCSS standard from elementary through high school? @geoffKrall has it for you here: bit.ly/2dH62Vo #iteachmath

Weekly Warm-Up. Week of 3/27

Some of my favorite ways to get Ss thinking about math instead of just completing problems!

If you MUST give an assignment with a hard deadline, you MUST give at least three lifelines. Lifelines are opportunities for students to get support, feedback and direction on the assignment. Can’t do one without the other #DontWorryJustTeach #HipHopEd

Some great question stems to get Ss thinking and talking about math - creating thinkers & problem solvers!

Early dismissal!

I saw these Ss working so hard to make their props and rehearse! Such hard word and dedication - so proud

❤️ Open Middle problems - great way for Ss to show their numeracy & number sense - better than a plain old worksheet

This Open Middle problem is great for 3rd graders studying equivalent fractions. It comes from my son, Owen Kaplinsky! openmiddle.com/equivalent-fra… #MTBoS

Wishing all our Menlo Park Community who celebrate: Happy Passover!

Splat! from Steve Wyborney is a clever way to get kids reasoning about math before they even realize it. More here: stevewyborney.com/?p=893 #MTBoS #iteachmath

If you've also used worksheets to teach your students math, then I've recorded a webinar you'll want to check out. It's called Why We Should Reconsider Using Worksheets (And What We Should Be Doing Instead), with K-5 & 6-12 versions. robertkaplinsky.com/worksheets #iteachmath #pd

3-3 has done such a great job all September that we decided to learn about visualization and independently read in our courtyard! Such a nice day to lay and read before our day ended. 📚 MenloPark ES

Math worksheets rarely give us the results we truly want. There's a better way and I recorded a webinar with elementary and secondary versions that you can watch to learn more. robertkaplinsky.com/worksheets #iteachmath #pd