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One more time: Women aren't too emotional to lead. Data: When men are anxious and stressed, they're more likely to be rude, hostile, and abusive. Women show respect regardless of their feelings. The test of emotional intelligence is not how you feel. It's how you respond.

Another benefit to using #thinkingclassroom strategies. I've definitely seen this with my own students. Peter Liljedahl Building Thinking Classrooms

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Adults in schools, We must choose our discomfort: Stay uncomfortable with low achievement & blame kids OR Embrace discomfort by changing our practices. Change is hard, but it leads to growth, while staying the same keeps us (& them) stuck. Choose productive discomfort.

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“The God I believe in isn’t nervous about my questions. I love the big questions, and I think they help me get at the heart of reality. God meets us in those questions and dark places.” -Jon Foreman

If we want the kids in the room to be: Motivated Self-directed Critical thinkers Reflective Self-regulatory And a lot more. Then we have to ask this: Are we designing what we do in the room that gives the kids the opportunity to do this? Or do we just give them work to do?

Had a blast at #CPMTC2025 in San Diego presenting about #thinkingclassroom and CPM Math and talking & learning with other math educators. Special thanks to Peter Liljedahl for stopping by!

So excited for this!

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Lots of new #SlowRevealGraphs are out! Kicking it off with most popular pets in the US. (Where are all these horse owners?!) slowrevealgraphs.com/2025/04/29/mos…

Tried out Math Language Routine (MLR) #1 Stronger and Clearer this past week in both my foundational class and my Integrated Math 3. Great thinking and conversations! #MLR #thinkingclassroom

🎙️ Tomorrow at 5pm PT! Cecilio Dimas & @svmi will join our CA #MathFramework series with Albert to rethink assessment in math. We’ll explore: 🎯 Why assess? 🎯 What to assess? 🎯 How to assess? & real examples to shift focus from scores to student growth. 🎟️ Last seats:

Mathematics has applications across so many parts of everyday life - from weather prediction to bridge design, crowd control to music shuffling, and fraud detection, to name a few. Explore many more interesting examples at mathigon.org/applications

Collective Teacher Efficacy is not a slogan. It’s a system. John Hattie ranks Collective Teacher Efficacy as the #1 influence on student achievement—with an effect size of 1.57. But too often, it’s used as a buzzword without understanding what it really takes to create it. So

We are happy to announce that the Math Tasks for the Thinking Classroom: Grades 6-12 (co-authored with Kyle Webb ) is now available for pre-order through Corwin. This book contains 20 non-curricular lessons and 30 curricular thin-sliced lessons. corwin.com/books/btc-math…

Exciting news! Mathematics Tasks for The Thinking Classroom, Grades 6-12 is in production and available for pre-order, with a publication date of early October! Pre-order your copy here: corwin.com/books/btc-math… #btcthinks #iteachmath #MTBoS #thinkingclassrooms

This is well worth the read... #iTeachMath forbes.com/sites/lindadar…