by Shannon McCartney | Mar 22, 2019 | *Parent Connection, Audience - K-5, Series - Guest Blogger
Guest Post by Jana Hazekamp, Math Educational Consultant & Coach Reading strategies in math class? Absolutely! Many years ago I was considering how I might continue to build my repertoire of strategies for teaching math and helping my students become...
by Shannon McCartney | Mar 15, 2019 | *Parent Connection, *Technology, Audience - K-5, Series - Guest Blogger
Guest Post by Sherry McElhannon, Education Consultant at Literary Fusions Many of the disciplines we learn in school and life in general revolve around patterns. Sometimes for young learners, those patterns which come naturally to adults can feel strange and foreign....
by Shannon McCartney | Mar 7, 2019 | *Math Practices, *Math Workshop, *Number Talks, Audience - K-5, Series - Guest Blogger
Guest Post by Pat Baltzley, MS/HS Math Coach How do you get your students talking to one another? Do your instructional routines provide opportunities for student conversation around the mathematics of your lesson? One of the most critical practices we can implement...
by Shannon McCartney | Feb 28, 2019 | *Math Workshop, Audience - Teachers, Series - Guest Blogger
Guest Post by Tiffany Eller, Math Educational Consultant and Coach What is your next unit of study? How do you plan to pique student interest? Can the students connect their learning to their own lives? When designing a successful unit of study should I incorporate a...
by Shannon McCartney | Feb 21, 2019 | *Behavior Intervention, Audience - K-5, Audience - Teachers
We’ve blogged about social stories before, but social stories continue to be an important tool to use in classrooms! And not just for our students with special needs! Because students are so plugged into their devices, they aren’t always as in tune with the real world...