Happy Sunday! I spent yesterday morning writing a progression of puzzle-y pictarithms for Gr K-7. Concepts build gradually across the grade levels & encourage algebraic thinking & sense-making at every step. Goal is to build strong reasoning & computation skills while having fun!

Yep, number bonds lead directly to standard algorithms, arithmetic with fractions and mixed numbers, measurement problems, solving systems of equations, and more. Part of a good learning progression!

In a world increasingly challenged by anxiety, depression, and a scarcity of compassionate communication, I'm beyond excited to share a beacon of hope and understanding with you: my new webcast series, "Dealing With Feelings."-->buff.ly/3SEZkQR With each episode, we'll

Understanding the needs of multilingual newcomers is essential for fostering equitable learning environments. Rebecca L. Olsen shares why newcomers’ physiological, psychological, and social-emotional needs matter: ascd.org/blogs/multilin…

With these trauma-informed #ELL strategies from Sarah Said, she/her/hers ➡️ Boston, you can create a space where students feel comfortable learning a new language. edut.to/3UvjKhX

The most successful teachers spend more time in guided practice, more time asking questions, more time checking for understanding, and more time correcting errors.

As soon as we've learned something, we start to forget it. Here are 5 research-backed strategies you can use when you need to make something stick.

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Giving Educators Permission To Feel in EL Magazine How educators feel and how they want to feel matters for everything: educator well-being, instructional quality, and learning! Check out this new article and please share. Yale University @YaleEmotion @ruler Yale Child Study Center

New for 2024-25? Digital assignments that will let teachers diagnose & pinpoint exactly where students need practice, help, and possibly intervention. Student can't subtract with regrouping? Now you will know why and what to do to help. Join us for a DEMO! tangmath.com/demosignup

Looking forward to this!

Principal/admin programs- take note!

On the calendar.✅

🚨The headlines tell you education is a dumpster fire, with burned out teachers and hapless admin and rancorous school boards. 👀 Step into a classroom and see magic happen. It's hard some days, but this is the greatest job ever. Our DNA is stamped with "make learning epic."

How can we build knowledge through read-alouds? Ex. of ❓ teachers can ask about 📚to ⬆️ knowledge: -What new info have you learned from this page? -How does that connect to what we learned yesterday? -What does the author say about that? How do you know? knowledgematterscampaign.org/post/for-stron…

Kids who can’t juggle as many elements in working memory benefit from being able to retrieve elements from long term memory. Instead of denying struggling learners memorization strategies - labeling them “slow processors” - we should actually be leaning into them more.

New study on Math anxiety which shows how complex the factors are in terms of establishing the cause of it. Interestingly, one thing that is not mentioned here at all is the idea that tests cause anxiety. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Including explicit SEL instruction in your classroom doesn’t require a big, drastic change. ... Small investments in SEL instruction will lead to big changes in our students, the classroom community and ourselves." More here, via CASEL: casel.org/blog/5-meaning… #SELChat

New teachers often try covering a new standard each lesson and moving on. This isn’t how the mind acquires information best. Students need spaced repetition and progressive deepening. This requires a “track design” in which old topics are brought back and recombined with the new.

Great advice on how to talk to our Ss about the learning process so that they can put useful strategies to work for them.