Category: General

  • Who are the real teacher leaders?

    Last week, I attended the AMTE conference. AMTE stands for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and is a fabulous group. I have been a member for 3 years now, but this was my first attendance at their conference. One take away (and I had more than one) was from Samuel Otten, (twitter: @ottensam) host…

  • MTBoS Resources

    I took yesterday off of blogging because of being overwhelmed with todo lists for work. Fixed that. Yay! So, another #BlAugust post for me. OMG! I also earned a “Star of the Week” from Meg Craig for this post! Wow. That is an honor coming from her. She also made a shortlink for the page:…

  • NYT – You blew it (but so did I)

    I purposefully waited to post on this topic again, because the first post was so controversial. No really. Crazy controversial. I was not prepared for that, and I had no clue it would be. How controversial was it? This one comparison says most of what I mean: The 135 hit count was my post on…

  • NYT – You blew it

    In my Feedly this morning popped up the article by Larry Ferlazzo called, “Disappointing NY Times Article On Teachers & ‘A Sharing Economy’.” Okay, let me be more blunt. I am not disappointed in the NYT, I am frustrated and a little ticked off. It stems from this article in the NYT: A Sharing Economy…

  • Alg 2 & recording my classroom

    Can I tell you how much I love my learners! A sophomore girl walked into my classroom this week with these shoes and and said, “Mr. Waddell! Look what I found this summer!”  How awesome are Calculus Toms. If you know or have any influence at Toms, tell them to make them again! I am…

  • Block Schedules and AP Stats

    My last post brought up the fact I am on a block schedule. It is a good schedule and I like the way I have created interaction with learners because of it. Our schedule goes like this. First class every day is P.A.S.S. – Panther Academic Student Support. It is 45 minutes of work time…

  • #TMC Reflection – MyFavs

    My Favorites are some of the best part of the TwitterMathCamp experience, and this year was no different. I know one favorite I had was walking into this building and seeing that even a public high school could afford to build a dedicated Science & Math Center! But inside the building, we were offering our…

  • Diigo Links (weekly)

    population of japan – Google Search (2012) » Datasets This page has links to the actual data from Pew Research. Professional level data collected correctly and then given out for our use. Very nice things here to use in class. tags: ap stats ap files Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are…

  • Diigo Links (weekly)

    ReadBestPractice For AP Statistics This is the motherload of all AP resources. From the AP readers who grade the exams, their best practices on how to succeed in AP Stats. Read them all, live them all, love them all. tags: ap stats ap lessons ap files AP review f(t): Essential Questions for Algebra 2 Kate…

  • Diigo Links (weekly)

    10 Ways To Be A More Reflective Teacher My department has asked me to purchase a couple of webcams for exactly the purpose found in #1. However! An old cell phone or ipod will also do it too! tags: teaching great teaching tech Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.