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A Teacher’s Play Card

Posted on November 20, 2019May 17, 2021 by ashleytaplin

We are full-on in basketball mode at my house as the season started a few weeks ago and my husband… Read more A Teacher’s Play Card

Purposeful Student Talk

Posted on January 17, 2019September 28, 2019 by ashleytaplin

I recently went to a Solution Tree conference (which was awesome BTW. . . if you get a chance to… Read more Purposeful Student Talk

Exterior Angle Sum Theorem

Posted on March 2, 2017 by ashleytaplin

I made this quick activity for students to discover the exterior angle sum. I just printed several quadrilaterals and pentagons,… Read more Exterior Angle Sum Theorem

First Week Highlights

Posted on August 29, 2015July 7, 2019 by ashleytaplin

I just finished the first week of school and looking back, it was one of my favorite starts to the… Read more First Week Highlights

3D Solids Lesson Using Jigsaw Cooperative Learning

Posted on May 5, 2015April 5, 2017 by ashleytaplin

Here is a quick lesson I put together using the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning technique for 3D solids. We learned the surface… Read more 3D Solids Lesson Using Jigsaw Cooperative Learning

MatHistory Part 2

Posted on February 22, 2015February 23, 2015 by ashleytaplin

This post has taken me a while to write with several revisions because I just haven’t known how to write… Read more MatHistory Part 2

Teams-Games-Tournament

Posted on February 9, 2015September 8, 2019 by ashleytaplin

I am always looking for new review games to use before a quiz or a test. This year, we have… Read more Teams-Games-Tournament

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I’m so excited for this real world collaboration in our STEM summer school project. Tasked with creating a PBL for our students, I reached out to my friend, Mel who works in the snack department at H‑E‑B, to be an authentic audience and help explain how she uses math in the creation of H‑E‑B snacks. After watching this introductory video, students will explore ratios, rates, and proportions, use chemistry and math to create their own own snack mix and label, and present their final product with respect to a single point rubric. I’m so excited to give this project an authentic context and can’t wait to see what the students create. Thank you again Mel for helping us bring this project to life!

I was talking with someone today about check-ins and they asked this great question. I have thought about this a lot, and especially how we can up the level of SEL understanding and focus on competencies of self-awareness and self-management when checking-in. I think it starts with being explicit about why we check-in (to understand how someone is entering the learning, to acknowledge, to honor) and then we work to find ways to celebrate or support the responses. These two actions (explicit dialogue and following up) make the check-in go beyond just a one and done start to the lesson, and give purpose and reason to a welcoming routine. Here are three things I’ve done in response to this question and I’d love to hear any ideas you have as well!

I love this idea from a teacher I was talking with today. I have always liked that poster of “what to say instead of ‘I don’t know,’” but how much more powerful would it be to have students generate those prompts! As we were talking, we started planning this as a way to start the year, and I quickly realized we didn’t even have to wait...this could be a conversation anytime you’re approaching a problem solving situation. Jot down what students brainstorm, keep their prompts visible, and to align this with explicit dialogue for SEL, remind students that this is building their self-awareness as we craft ways to improve our growth mindset and self-efficacy.

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