Monthly Archives: March 2010

Here’s to the Crazy Ones

“Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there.” – unknown This morning my son asked me what I was doing today. I showed him my “to do” list. At the top was written, “write my inspiration blog.” He asked me how many people read it.…

A Vote for Vocabulary

“Language permits us to see. Without the word, we are all blind.” –Carlos Fuentes “Language is not merely a means of expression and communication; it is an instrument of experiencing, thinking, and feeling … Our ideas and experiences are not independent of language; they are all integral parts of the same pattern, the warp and woof of the same texture.…

Flexible Grouping in Tabor Rotation

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” -Thomas Henry Huxley I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about Tabor Rotation (a highly successful, research-based strategy for rigorously differentiating instruction in mathematics) and how to implement the essential components of T.R.…

My Favorite Teacher

“The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods.” -Margaret Mead “The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes, and leads you onto the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”…