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Sarah Stecher
Nov 11, 2024
How to Amp up Your Lesson Debrief
Tips for facilitating a debrief for maximum impact.
Sarah Stecher
Oct 21, 2024
What Does It Mean to "Attend to Precision"?
Everything you need to know about Mathematical Practice #6!
Sarah Stecher
Sep 30, 2024
Changing How We Teach Rates of Change
Get the resources from our 2024 NCTM session.
Sarah Stecher
May 18, 2024
Unpacking Productive Struggle (Part 2)
Practical tips for knowing when and how to help students navigate productive struggle.
Sarah Stecher
Mar 18, 2024
Unpacking Productive Struggle (Part 1)
Beyond posters and slogans: understanding productive struggle and why it matters.
Sarah Stecher
Jan 5, 2024
5 Myths About Math
How to respond to the most common misconceptions people have about math.
Sarah Stecher
Dec 2, 2023
How to Turn Any Worksheet Into a Review Game
Make review days engaging by gamifying your practice problems.
Sarah Stecher
Nov 30, 2023
What Does the Research Say About EFFL?
Get a high-level summary of our recent article in NCTM's Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 journal.
Lindsey Gallas
Nov 25, 2023
4 Lessons We Learned While Substitute Teaching
Lindsey and Sarah reflect on their experience substitute teaching.
Sarah Stecher
Oct 29, 2023
3 Things I Learned at NCTM
My biggest take-aways from the sessions I attended at the 2023 NCTM Annual Conference.
Luke Wilcox
Oct 19, 2023
#EFFL REVOLUTION
Luke was invited to give a 5-minute IGNITE talk at NCTM 2023 in Washington D.C. Here it is!
Sarah Stecher
Oct 13, 2023
What We're Getting Wrong About Math Class
A new take on the priority and possibilities of centering student thinking.
Karen Sleno
Oct 6, 2023
Homework Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
Karen Sleno explains how she's totally changed her approach to homework this year.
Sarah Stecher
Sep 29, 2023
Revisiting and Refining Classroom Norms
Tools to make sure old norms are still being upheld and strategies for introducing some new ones.
Sarah Stecher
Sep 19, 2023
What Does an EFFL Lesson Look Like?
Watch video footage of Sarah teaching an Experience First, Formalize Later lesson.
Sarah Stecher
Jul 29, 2023
Focusing vs Funneling Questions
How to help students arrive at the main idea without taking over the thinking.
Sarah Stecher
Jul 24, 2023
Why I Ditched My Textbook
Four reasons why I stopped using a textbook and what I did instead.
Sarah Stecher
Jun 24, 2023
Building Thinking Classrooms and EFFL: Can You Do Both?
How to incorporate Liljedahl's 14 teaching practices into your EFFL classroom.
Sarah Stecher
Jan 28, 2023
Decision Making in the Classroom
Perspectives on what can, does, and should shape our classroom choices.
Stats Medic
Jan 21, 2023
Do All the Problems
AP Calc veteran Virge Cornelius is teaching AP Stats for the first time. How did she prepare? By doing all the problems!
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