Test Scores, Learning Gaps, and how Rooted in STEM can help
Recently, a study released described the true disruption to learning that the pandemic had. For the average 9 year old, between 2020-2022, reading scores dropped 5 percentage points, and math dropped 7 percentage points. (via NPR) While teachers scrambled, and pivoted to teach virtually, it just wasn’t the same. My experience pivoting to online learning…
Dealing with a Nightly Homework Battle? Let Me Help!
The homework battle is real, and I empathize with you parents. Many times as a teacher during parent conferences, I would hear from parents; “why will they get the work done with you, but not with me?” “They say they are doing the homework, but you’re saying they’re not getting it done at all?” “It’s…
Who Uses the Scientific Method?
As a science and math teacher, I constantly had to encourage my students, that they were scientists, especially by nature. My students often had a difficult time visualizing themselves as scientists (at the beginning of the year), and often thought a scientist was an older, white, male in a lab coat that hadn’t seen the…
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