Tag: Success

  • The benefits of a handshake

    Another #BlAugust post! Doing great and creating habits here. This morning I was walking to the the office across campus, I saw a person standing outside a building looking around. He looked kind of lost, which is not unusual on campus this time of year, so I asked if I could help him. He was…

  • You should make a mix tape

    On Friday last week at the end of the Step 1 class we were talking about engagement, high fives, enthusiasm, and why we are teachers. The conversation started with these two questions:  Write about a lesson / teacher who you remember using a 5E model. Write about a lesson / teacher who you remember did…

  • Today’s smile

    Okay, it was yesterday, but I was crazy busy and didn’t post it. Yesterday, out of the blue, one of the learners I had three years ago tweeted this:   Doing hypothesis testing with Stata and still using the stats @gwaddellnvhs taught me 3 yrs later in my non-STEM majors. Thanks Waddell! — Cassidy Hansen…

  • High Fives: A #TMC15 my favorite

    At #TMC15 I shared my favorite of the “High 5”. Richard Villanueva is awesome enough to record them all and post, so I will just share the video of what I said. It is short and sweet: There is the video. I want to stress a few points. Giving high fives to my learners absolutely changed me.…

  • AP Stats projects

    Wow, it has been a while since I posted anything, and I need to share a ton of things I have done. I predict that I will post a lot in the next several weeks. The school year is winding down, but my learners are ramping up. Grad school is down for the summer (with…

  • Polynomials in Alg 2

    I haven’t posted in a while, mainly because I am just so happy with how my classes are going. I will focus on Alg 2 here, because these awesome learners are just knocking my socks off. I am in the polynomial unit, knee deep in graphing, and increasing, decreasing, relative mins, relative max’s, absolute mins,…

  • Quiet but busy day

    Today was my quiet day, only two classes. But, I was busy all lunch upgrading my learners calculators!   Yes, that is the pile I have done today at lunch. About 5 learners have already come in and picked their calculator up, thank goodness. I am a bit nervous having $1200 of calculators sitting on…

  • I earned my High 5 today

      Today it happened! WooHoo! I was completely excited today. I earned the high five from one of my learners. On the 20th of August, I noted that one single learner had not given me a high five, and in fact that she refused to give me a high five. Well today, after working really…

  • Additional respect for AP Stats

     via Before I get into yesterday’s classes, because I don’t have a ton to say about them (they were a repeat of Tuesday’s classes, essentially) I learned something last night about AP Statistics in my “Applied Research Design and Analysis in Education I” also called “Non-Parametric Statistics 1” class. What I learned is that AP…

  • I Have, Who Has in Stats; Speed dating in Alg2

      Today was mostly successful for my learners! Yay. I am behind in the book keeping / grading department so I won’t talk about that much. This is always my downfall, and it is so easy to have a conflict of interest between grading effectively and timely, and time spent producing interesting fun lessons that…