Best Practices in Writing Instruction Writing Like Readers, Reading Like Writers Nicole Godard · HCSS Best Practices Over the last decade, I have tried every trick in the book to help demystify the complex work of writing for my students. Graphic organizers, sentence frames, miscellaneous acronyms… I’ve tried them all. Students would dutifully attempt to give me what I asked …
By Suleyman Demirhan March 2026 | Education & Equity In my last post, I wrote about Belonging — the quiet but powerful belief that makes students try, persist, and grow. I explored how students who feel like they don’t belong pull away from learning, and how we as educators can send signals every day that say: you are home here. …
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Rethinking Cheating and Integrity in the Age of AI Reflections on Cult of Pedagogy Podcast #251 As educators, we’ve all asked the question lately: How do we help students learn authentically when AI is just a click away? In Episode 251 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez interviews Dr. Tony Frontier, whose insights helped me reframe this issue …
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How to Learn Math for Teachers by Sarah Gullett I recently had the opportunity to take a professional development course titled “How to Learn Math for Teachers” offered by Youcubed.org. The course was taught by Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. Throughout the course, Boaler explores new research on mathematics learning and student mindsets in an engaging format. …
All of mathematics is built upon a solid foundation of fundamental mathematical facts. These building blocks allow subsequent ideas to be hypothesized and in many cases proven, adding to the never ending list of theorems and definitions taught in schools today. For Geometry, these fundamental axioms were formalized by the Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria around 300 BC in a …
We all know numbers and use them in our everyday life. There are different number systems in mathematics. The decimal system is the one most commonly used. In this article, we will use the binary system to create a fun classroom activity. The binary number system uses only 0 and 1. We can convert binary numbers to decimal numbers and …