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Samantha

Samantha (not Sam; do not call her Sam) joined our 5th/6th period a couple weeks into the school year. Fifth period was math, sixth period was “Intervention”: a full hour where students with learning...

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Dear New Teachers

Today, a representative from theladders.com emailed me asking if I could promote the site on here with a post for new teachers. Either spambots are getting smarter, or there’s been a sudden spike of...

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Principal Vaudrey

Stacy, one my teacher sisters, shouted across the playground, “Why don’t you ask him? Mr. Vaudrey! Mariah has a question for you!” It was the end of the day, and I was walking back to my car as Stacy’s...

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Tough Questions

Tough Questions After dinner, taking a swim in the Atlantic, stopping by the Carnegie debrief dinner, and strolling on the beach with some of the staff, I returned to the bar on a Thursday night after...

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Port in a Storm

Real talk: Autumn has been crazy in the Vaudrey household. Between prepping for CMC-South, traveling the country to talk about math education, and moving my family across town, this li’l blog has been...

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When Twitter Ain’t Enough

(click for link) There are dozens of math teachers that I admire from afar, many of whom converged on San Antonio this week for NCTM. I got to sit at the feet of these – my teacher-crushes – and hear...

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Growth and Humility

Arrogance sits at the core of traditional education. The idea that the teacher knows something and the student needs to understand it. One sees this arrogance in many traditional classrooms; an...

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Teaching is Mistakes

One of my favorite teachers is Alicia Saldana. She teaches some of the most needy students in the school and requests to have them every year. She sometimes shares brain-dumps with me, and it’s my...

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It sure felt like getting fired

I found this buried in my Google Drive this week. It’s a journal entry from 2008. Now—eleven years later—I love teaching and there are some teachers appreciate my commentary on stuff. As our teammates...

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Bulwarks and Blessings

Yesterday was Pickle’s last day of school as a kindergartener. The night before, I was folding laundry after the kids were asleep, and I heard her burst into tears. I found her sitting up in her...

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