Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 49.  Today we are looking at Catalyzing Change.

Changing the way you teach math is hard and it can feel even harder when you think about all the other teachers in your district who aren’t changing their teaching.  You think to yourself “Does it even matter?  Next year’s teacher doesn’t teach this way so why should I take the time to adjust my teaching” or the ever popular thought of “When my students get to junior high or high school those teachers expect the kids to do____(fill in the blank)____, so I need to prepare them."

Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations was a book published by NCTM in 2018 in the hopes of starting to change how mathematics is taught in high school.  In 2019 DeAnn Huinker wrote an article in Teaching Children Mathematics (also published by NCTM) about how that book has lessons in it that can help catalyze change throughout all the grades.  Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/49