Restructuring Algebra

I've been working on my learning targets for this coming year and linking them to reporting standards.  My goal is that the learning ta...

So, Sarah Carter and I chatted on twitter some about practice structures, and she totally beat me to blogging about it.  Read her post here ...

Well, I'm at it again...trying to figure out how to make my classroom and curriculum better for my students.  I like a lot of things abo...

Here are my basic plans for Algebra 1.  I have four sections of this.  Mostly freshmen, but some older students as well.  However, I basical...

Well Andy (@rockychat3) was nice enough to share his entire year's worth of plans for his block Algebra course, and he said he was inter...

I finally got to spend some quality time in my classroom this afternoon.  It was just a couple hours, but I felt SO productive.  After clean...

I often see a tweet from someone who is searching for learning targets for Algebra 1.  Two summers ago I worked hard to create learning targ...

This is very old and thus is going to be mostly pictures since I already have them updated :) Finding the Degree and Naming Polynomials...

This morning I saw Steph Reilly's post about Checklists and Error Analysis .  Both are genius ideas (please, go read and I'm gratefu...

I wanted to share tonight the Master Topic List we began creating for #alg1chat.  If there is something you are required to teach in your Al...

At our last Tiered Algebra day, we spent an entire morning choosing foundational standards for Algebra 1 (specifically looking through the A...

Confession:  I taught an entire semester of Algebra 1 without spending time solving linear equations.  Why?  Because I knew my students h...

We jumped into linear functions this week.  Here are some of the things we did (and by some I mean pretty much my entire week of lessons). ...

Well, here I am again, asking your advice on my learning targets!  But the difference today is that this is the last time :)  Here you go! ...

I still have a million thoughts whirling around in my head about Unit 3 based off of comments and twitter conversations, but onto Unit 4 I m...

I promised Unit 3 LTs by the end of the week, and I think I made it on time :)  There's nothing like cutting it close.  I had hoped to ...