cfless.bsky.social
Director at Keep Indiana Learning, enthusiastic math educator, and working to help instructional leaders create schools where teachers embrace teaching math ambitiously. Host of the Math and Other Things podcast. Be grateful and do good work.
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Sending out shoutouts and compliments. Being grateful for the good and trying to point it out whenever I can. As much as possible. It’s helping me a lot!
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Thanks for leading, @mnmmath.bsky.social! Love your constant advocacy for what’s right. You’ll always have me in your corner!
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Beyond this, I only see benefits. Who doesn’t want to feel like they belong? Who doesn’t want to feel like they are valued? Not just their thinking but them as an actual person?
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Love this question. Are there any risks - no, if everyone believes every child has a beautiful, interesting, and important story to tell. If there are children in the classroom who don’t believe that (something they learned at home) some children will be at risk.
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It’s really not that hard, right?
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I’d like to heart this 90 more times! BELIEVE IN THEM. Everyone has something to offer!
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You’re so right! Mandates turn some people off right away!
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It took me a loooong time to figure so many things out.:)
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@mfannie.bsky.social you’re so right! It’s about frame of mind. Performative acts will get us nowhere.
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This, @mnmmath.bsky.social! I’d like to add by putting an emphasis on what they know and the math they bring with them to class their each day not only will their sense of belonging be uplifted, their identity as a mathematician will too.
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Yay!! Hi Angela! 112-12-6!
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He did such a lovely job supporting the purpose of NCTM on your podcast episode 33! Everyone should listen to that!
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If you’re a teenager, nothing. You do nothing because according to one of ours, “Cold is a mentality.” He’s going to college in Chicago next year. It’ll be fun to see how long that lasts.
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Literally my favorite artists to highlight in my workshops! #mathiseverywhere and #mathisamazing. Just ask Damian.
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#teachrealmathematics
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Say it louder for the people in the back!
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I second Sembl. Great resource to explore so many possibilities for warmups and beyond!
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You can purchase shower board from Lowe’s or whatever place you go to like that. They will even cut it for you. It’s cheap and easy. That’s what I did, anyway!
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Thank you!
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YES. And show growth in unique and authentic ways!
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Thanks! I will check this out!
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I love using sports for decimals!
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All the math games! I use them in all my PDs, modeling discourse, multiple strategies, documenting student thinking, and so much more. I like to start with the game to get them pumped for the session and understand they’re actually going to learn something today! Let’s start with a math game!”
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Intentional habit/your mom and dad force you to so much that when they became teenagers they start saying “Don’t ask me to point out the math!” And then they do it anyway🤗
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THIS! I think one of my biggest goals is to make it so we don’t have to have these convos but it’s SUCH a good starting point. @ryanflessner.bsky.social pointed out to me long ago that we wanted kids engaging with each other in class like they do at lunch. I still think about all the time.
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(Without annoying people like me pointing it out all the time!) although I’m not going to lie about how much joy it brings me for someone to share how excited they are about an experience they’re having, I’ll point out the mathy thing, and then they have no choice but to pause and notice it too!
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And if we teach them to enjoy the book much like they enjoy other things in life like a baseball game or music or video games or whatever, and then start pointing out the math, maybe they will truly see that indeed, math plays a significant role in their world and they’ll see it in all the things!
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