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The job of the dramatist is to make the audience wonder what happens next. Not to explain to them what just happened, or to suggest to them what happens next. — David Mamet Once you’ve learned something, my experience is that if you do something with that learning, if you turn your learning into something [...]

This so-called cyber cafe was the beginning and the end of free Internet access at NCSM 2010. It was like the fall of Saigon around there. Basically. Sessions Attended: Lessons Learned in Leadership for Classroom Change. Judy Kysh, Diane Resek. Coaching Teachers to Ask Questions That Provide Just Enough Help to Move Students Forward. Denisse [...]

Sessions Reviewed: A Lesson Study Project: Connecting Theory and Practice Through the Development of an Exemplar Video for Algebra 1 Teachers and Students. Anne Papakonstantinou, et al. Intriguing Lessons About How Math Is Taught and Assessed in High Performing Asian Countries. Steven Leinwand. Problem Solving and Technology implementation in an Inclusion Classroom. Annie Fetter. Western [...]

Someone, if not Lemov, ought to film this exchange. David Cox takes a student from “I have no idea.” to “Oh that’s how you do it.” without asking a single content question, just a series of Jedi meta-cognitive mind tricks that amount, basically, to this: What is the question asking you to do? What do [...]

May as well get this out of the way as long as I’m in this public state of contrition. The concept checklist, in theory, is where students track their progress towards mastery. They write down concept names in rows as we test them and then record their scores (on a four-point scale) along that row, [...]