We have all heard the claim that any big change a school district might want to make will require 3 to 5 years of concentrated effort. You want better scores? 3 to 5 years. You want to fundamentally change what instruction looks like in your classrooms? 3 to 5 years. You want to close achievement […]
About 18 months ago in March, 2024, two black teenage girls from a New Orleans high school announced they found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. What makes their proof especially impressive is that out of more than 400 unique proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, theirs is the FIRST proof that relies entirely on […]
The other day I was in a class doing a demonstration on what a lesson looks like in the style of Building Thinking Classrooms. The concept we wanted students to learn was sorting decimals. Here was the task… At first, we asked students to simply sort the decimals from least to greatest in order to […]
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