Oct 20, 2020
Toni Cameron and Deanna McLennan in conversation with Stenhouse’s Kassia Omohundro Wedekind about creating a supportive, curious, and playful environment for mathematics in early childhood classrooms, the importance of stepping back to listen, and (of course!) what this all looks like these days.
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Sep 9, 2020
In Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction, Graham Fletcher helps students learn their math facts by developing conceptual understanding and procedural fluency at the same time. This comprehensive, research-based toolkit provides everything a teacher needs to help students develop number sense on...
Aug 25, 2020
According to the NAEP, two thirds of American school children read below grade level proficiency. Some cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists argue that this is because of the gap between what we know about the science of reading and how reading is taught in the classroom.
In their recent book, Brain Words: How...
Aug 14, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
Kassia Omohundro Wedekind, and Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas.
Their research led to the development of Hands Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which all students’ ideas and voices take the lead...