Powerful impact of growth mindset from a student writing a thank you letter to Carol Dweck gisellasilva.weebly.com/blog/a-letter-…

Insight from Cathy Marks Krpan: cooperative learning skills are different in math and we need teach those specific skills in context.

Thank you staff at RHSS, Mississauga SS, Woodlands, Hawthorn, FMS, DLMS for sharing your great work yesterday. It was inspiring!

An amazing website "about compiling, analyzing and discussing the mathematical errors that students make" mathmistakes.org

I have started a blog learningandleadership.weebly.com

Dan Heath: “Making excruciating ‘trade off’ decisions is the school superintendent’s job.”

Heath"The average decision that a corporate executive makes is child’s play compared with the decisions that a school superintendent makes.”

New blog post is up learningandleadership.weebly.com

Conflux for people's choice award #urbandesign2015

My next blog post is up, topic is "effective meetings" learningandleadership.weebly.com

Great site for building number sense through estimation estimation180.com

Part 2 on "Effective Meetings in Education"...the foundations learningandleadership.weebly.com

My new blog post on a leader's legacy is up learningandleadership.weebly.com prompted by a memorial service for a friend's father

Leadership is not an event; it is "non-stop partnering with teachers, students and community stakeholders to build a common vision" (Fullan)

Inspired by Natalie Panek at CASSA 2015!

"The most effective math programs in the world...combine traditional and constructivist elements..." (Winning the Math Wars, 2010)

"The most effective math programs in the world...are taught by teachers who spend a great deal of time working together on lessons" (2010).

"The most effective math programs...are taught by teachers who spend a great deal of time...talking about ways to improve teaching" (2010).

"my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return" Sacks

RIP Dr. Sacks nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opi…