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Week 1 Day 1 – Name Tents with Feedback

  UPDATE May 2020:  In the era of Remote/Distance/eLearning, teachers

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 7, 2016
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    • feedback
    • relationships
    • week 1
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Why I give my students a system of 6 equations to solve on Day 1 of school.

One bit of advice I give student teachers when they observe a classroom

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 6, 2016
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My personal math mentors.

A week ago Annie Perkins, a phenomenal 4th-year math teacher/leader in

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 5, 2016
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Tonight I got the human side of teaching right.

Here is what I know for sure.  There is someone, most likely a teacher,

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 5, 2016
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The Olympics, race walking & tips on redesigning a lesson. Part 2 of 2.

This is part 2 of 2 of a post about an amazing teacher, Mr. Smith, who

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 3, 2016
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Launching a Task – Tips from Mr. Smith (part 1 of 2)

In 2004 I left my first teaching job of 13 years at a high school to teach

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • July 29, 2016
5

Evangelizing Desmos

Recently I asked a group of 200 adults (10% were math teachers) to hold

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • July 28, 2016
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I am the Chief Evangelist for…

I have given myself a new job title and I would like you to join me in

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • July 27, 2016
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Math Leadership Tip: Crazy Math Badges.

8 years ago I made something on a whim that turned out to be one of the

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • June 30, 2016
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    • Leadership
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Secondary Number Talks (I’ll convince you with ducks)

NOTE:  This blog post contains resources from a training I did on June

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • June 27, 2016
10

The Pursuit of 100%. Practical Ideas for Engaging Students

This post includes resources/links from a presentation I did for the Global

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • June 24, 2016
4

Finding Resources * June 14 PD

Note:  This is a partial post (about 1/4 to 1/2 complete)  I will update

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • June 14, 2016
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Conics & GIFs (& why GIF’s are my new addiction)

I have a new addiction.  It has been slowly building this school year.

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • May 29, 2016
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EARWORM

Warning!  Graduating Seniors, High School Teachers and Parents attending

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • May 27, 2016
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The #1 thing I did in my support Math Classes

I promise I do have a #1 tip for support/intervention secondary math classes

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • May 24, 2016
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The story of 2 words & one simple tweak to get all students talking.

I currently have a really great student teacher.  Two things I love about

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • May 22, 2016
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