You want to know my methodology, right? Well, first I went back in twitter time and looked for pieces that I shared. Of those, I picked a favorite for each month, or two if it was a good month. I tried to vary up the people whose posts are in this list, so there aren’t any repeat appearances.
January: Grace Chen, “Teacher Moves for Cultural Competence”
Bonus: Shanker Institute, “Update on Teacher Turnover”
February: Andrew Gael, “There’s More Than One Way To Skin a Task”
Bonus: Adam Lefstein, “Against Boldness in Teaching”
March: Fawn Nguyen, “Reversing the Question”
Bonus: Dan Willingham, “Computational Competence Doesn’t Guarantee Conceptual Understanding in Math”
April: Raymond Johnson, “A Few Thoughts from NCTM 2015”
Bonus: NCES Blog, Free and Reduced Lunch, a Proxy for Poverty?
Aside: Lots of good blogging about hints from Anna, Henri, Mike, Annie, Umussahar, Joe, Dylan and others too. Also, Max and I talked about complex numbers. I also talked to Justin’s undergrads about math mistakes.
May: Anna Weltman, “There Are No Kids Here”
Dan Goldner, “Anticipatory Set”
Bonus: Fallace and Fantozzi, “Was There Really a Social Efficiency Doctrine?”
June: Nada, I took June off from blogs/twitter. (New year’s resolution: less time on twitter?)
July: Dylan Kane, “Standards-Based Grading: Skepticisms”
Bonus: Eric Schwitzgebel, “Cheeseburger Ethics”
August: Carl Oliver, “What Would a Teacher’s ‘Off-Season Workout’ Look Like?”
Bonus: Joe Posnanski, “The Age of Tiger”
September: Daniel Schneider, “ELL Math – 3 Weeks In”
Bonus: Larry Cuban, “Research Influence on Classroom Practice”
October: Kent Haines, “Open Number Sentences: Is this _____ actually useful?”
Bonus: Melinda D. Anderson, “The Misplaced Fear of Religion in Classrooms”
November: Chris Lusto, “From Fallujah to Pennsylvania, My Life as a Marine and a Math Teacher”
Tina Cardone, “Expressions With Absolute Value”
Bonus:
https://twitter.com/rohmansoldier/status/668885496286834688
December: Tracy Zager, “Counting Circle Variant: Tens and Ones”
Joe Schwartz, “22? 30? 50? 100?”
Bonus: Alan Jacobs, “My Year in Tech”
Bonus: Stephen Burt, “Overrated Writers”
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