Pre-Conference Workshop Resources
Keynote Breakout Session Resources
Additional Resources and Readings
Select Blog posts
Geoff’s “Mini-series”
Education Commentary
- Preparing for a Post-SAT World
- Pastoral Care for Pre-Service Teachers
- Why don’t students feel like they’re learning? (when they actually are)
- Problem Based Learning and supporting English Language Learners
- Starting with the What
- In Defense of the Real World
- Critiquing the Common Core on its Merits and Demerits
- Toward changing teacher practice and mindsets
Academic Safety
Quality Tasks
- How a problem becomes a lesson
- Implicit Bias and the NFL Draft
- Where does a letter occur in a word? A matching activity
- Transversal Lesson: Street Views
- Geometric Constructions Task: Pizza Delivery Regions
- Post-It Problem
- Hot Rod Quadratics: Let’s jump this jump!
- Systems of Linear Inequalities: Paleontological Dig
- Revisiting the 2000 election with statistics
- Guy racing another guy in a squirrel costume
- A Problem Based Learning Starter Kit
Effective Facilitation
- The next steps in classroom conversation orchestration
- Permission to Practice
- When to scaffold, if at all
- Lectures, various types
- Better (or at least less destructive) test prep
Assessment
- Geoff’s Common Core Standards of Mathematical Practice Rubric
- Your Student Portfolio System Begins Now
- Portfolio Problems: Rebuilding Assessment with Rich Tasks
- Assessment via Audibles
- Necessary Conditions Cards
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