In this episode, I share my word of the year. Connection is mine. What is yours?

Spotify for podcasters recently changed to have the podcast episodes be edited in Riverside. I am not as familiar with Riverside, so I apologize if the audio is a little weird.

In this episode I briefly thank my 6th grade teacher, Mr. Latimer, for what he did in my life, as a student and educator.

In this episode, I talk about how our district is training teachers in the five components of the five pillars of reading. These include phonics, pandemic, awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

In this episode, I share my word and focus of the year- growth. Hopefully this will be an encouraging message to you as you are growing in your position as an educator.

This is a more serious response to the idea that objectivity, right or wrong answers and a few other characteristics are examples of white supremacist culture. Short summary: I push back on the idea that these are inherently white characteristics and how this is ridiculous and unhelpful to the conversation about math and/or race.

In this episode, I share a blog post about being an introvert. I also share about the Holderness Family podcast in the what I’m listening to section.

In this episode, I share several eduprotocols, such as math reps, sketch and tell and thin slides.

In this episode, I talk about a session I went to about stacking eduprotocols in a mathematics classroom, but just in general eduprotocols are awesome.

In this episode, I share some of my learnings from CMC South, and the presentation by Jo Boaler.