Episode 32 - You have permission with Jess Hempel & Christine Farrell

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 32.  Today we get to hear from Co-teachers in a 3rd grade classroom who discovered they have permission to teach a curriculum they were mandated to use while also meeting the needs of the students they have.   In this episode I get to chat with Jessica Hempel and Christine Farrell.  They worked in a district that had a mandated curriculum that had some great parts to it but also some bad parts.  Listen in as they talk about how they worked together to figure out how to find a balance between what was mandated and what they saw that their students really needed.  Jessica mentions how my Number Sense course gave her permission to do what she knew was right for her students.   If you want to get that “permission” as well, then come join me in the number sense courses.  It’s not that you need that permission, what the courses show is the research behind how kids develop mathematical understandings and how number sense is really the root of it all.  If you’d like to learn that information along with getting resources to use in your classroom to help build number sense, the courses are now open for 2019 registration and you can get all the info at buildmathminds.com/enroll.  Registration is only open for a short time so depending upon when you listen to this registration might be closed.  If so, you can join the waitlist. Again the website is buildmathminds.com/enroll but I’ll also link to it and all the resources mentioned in the episode at the show notes page buildmathminds.com/32