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This blog post is for education leaders who wish that educator conferences were more equitable. For perspective, if everything was perfectly fair, when you go to an educator conference and looked at who was speaking, the keynote and featured speaker demographics would be representative of the people living in the areas they’re pulling from. You’d… The post A Blueprint For Equitable Educator…
I was beyond fortunate to have the opportunity to provide professional development to math(s) educators in Australia six times over twelve days in late November and early December 2023 in Brisbane, Melbourne, Bairnsdale, and Sydney. It was one of the best professional experiences of my life and I will cherish every moment. I realize that… The post What I Learned About Math(s) Education In…
Educators keep lamenting how conference attendance is down. This is only partially correct. Attendance is down at some conferences while at the same time, other conferences have thriving attendance numbers. For example, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) annual conference used to have over 20,000 people. At the latest conference, there were closer… The post Three Questions…
When I first started doing paid professional development work in 2012, I was ecstatic to be asked at all. I had no idea how much to charge or how much others were earning for similar work. Fast forward more than ten years later and I’m very aware that educational consultants get drastically different payments for… The post Five Reactions To Requesting Equal Pay For Speakers appeared first on…
DISCLOSURES: I have no connection to Get Your Teach On. I paid to attend their conference, have never presented for them, nor have I been approached about presenting for them. I am also president of Grassroots Workshops which provides online workshops, not in person conferences. I attended the Get Your Teach On regional conference… The post Four Reasons Why Teachers May Be Choosing Get Your Teach…
I’ve been using an inclusion rider since April 2019. Its purpose is to move from lamenting the lack of diversity at educational conferences and other professional development to actually making change happen. I wish I could say that I always realized this was needed or something I could do, but truthfully I was comfortable in… The post Eight Reactions To Using An Inclusion Rider appeared first on…
Imagine an educator conference where you’re singing, dancing, and celebrating being a teacher. And also Mario Lopez is there. It’d be close to what you’d get if a traditional educator conference and a Tony Robbins conference had a baby. If you’ve never seen one before, it’s called Get Your Teach On and here’s their 2022… The post I’m Going To A Get Your Teach On Conference. What Do You Want To…
I am deeply fascinated by the leaps that artificial intelligence has made in the last few years. When I studied artificial intelligence at UCLA in the late 1990s, chat bots were about as sophisticated as AI got. Nowadays, it can make nearly unfathomable things. As a silly example, you can use a free AI… The post An Artificial Intelligence Wrote This Blog Post For Math Teachers appeared first on…
On September 30, 2022, I presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in Los Angeles, California for my co-presenter Rosalba Serrano (who was unable to attend) and I about 5 Struggles Your Foster Students Wished You Knew. This was a passion project for us because we both came through the foster… The post 5 Struggles Your Foster Students Wished You Knew appeared…
I have been a math educator for about twenty years and Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl has more potential to improve the way we teach mathematics than any other book I have ever read. These are not words I say lightly. This book is an absolute game changer for all math educators… The post You Must Read Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics By Peter Liljedahl…