Math Therapy
How to follow the curriculum without selling your soul
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Over the summer, Vanessa recorded our first interview with an actual real life audience when she sat down at a conference with Chase Orton for an unfiltered and tense conversation.
Among many hot topics debated, they discussed the challenges teachers face in wanting to make changes in their students' lives while having to closely follow curricula and standards - and one clip went VIRAL online with teachers all over the continent weighing in!
Even months later, Vanessa is convinced that there MUST be some middle ground, so today she explores 5 strategies teachers can use to seek balance between the extremes by finding the "middle path":
- if you can't move the mountain, move a stone
- use the curriculum, don't let it use you
- protect the first 5 minutes of your class
- build your community
- redefine "success"
Links mentioned:
- The Math Therapy episode with Chase Orton that started it all and the clip that went viral on TikTok with 200 comments
- 3 things every math teacher should do from Day 1
- Episode on redefining "success"
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