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Social Justice Themed Lessons in Algebra 10-12

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Social Justice Themed Lessons in Algebra 10-12

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To re-engage students repeating Algebra 1, we have incorporated social justice themed lessons that the students are more interested in- for example, stop and frisk, incarceration rates, etc.

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Students are engaging with a real-world semester long project to investigate a question they are interested in.

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Lack of collab time

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Large populations with varying skills makes it difficult to create content to reach all kids (time is always the issue)

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Differentiation in large class sizes

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letting them re-take tests to improve their grades

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letting them re-take tests to improve their grades

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I don't feel that there is enough time for meaningful collaboration. I personally feel I am the best version of my teaching self when I am deeply collaborating with other teachers to develop tasks, lessons, and assessments. That is not happening.

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Revising current assessment to included more performance based tasks.

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Revising current assessment to included more performance based tasks.

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To keep trying when confronted with a difficult problem (don't give up!)

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increase student engage and participation 

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increase student engage and participation 

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Time to create engaging content and meet with colleagues

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Lack of time to collaborate with curricular team

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Lack of time to collaborate with curricular team

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large number of students with IEPs and 504s in one class

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large number of students with IEPs and 504s in one class

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Thinking classroom - seeing students work at the whiteboards and giving verbal instructions

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Thinking classroom - seeing students work at the whiteboards and giving verbal instructions

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trig proofs at the whiteboards as a warmup

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trig proofs at the whiteboards as a warmup

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standards based grading has changed the nature of conversations between students with students and students with teachers

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standards based grading has changed the nature of conversations between students with students and students with teachers

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Students have needed a lot of training and intervention to learn how to work in groups on challenging tasks. They are very resistant (more so in upper level classes).

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Being involved with PD that allows me to grow as an educator

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Being involved with PD that allows me to grow as an educator

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Emphasizing interpersonal relationship skills in class

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Finding material that isn't boilerplate and will actually engage the students.

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To help students assess knowledge on new material and get quick feedback on how to improve for the next one.

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Engaging algebra support kids who know they’re failing algebra 1

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Errors in School City test bank questions

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Collaborating with colleagues to find new ways of teaching. 

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Collaborating with colleagues to find new ways of teaching. 

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Comprehensive review activities and guides

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Plant growth mindset seeds to students

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Time to learn new strategies, tools, etc. that doesn't involve days out of the classroom

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Scaffolds that make the material connect to their prior knowledge

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students knowing how to use resources to help them solve a problem

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students knowing how to use resources to help them solve a problem

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Students don't believe they can do the work so will just say I don't know how to do this.

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Students asking their peers for help before the teachers

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students claiming they have never learned or seen certain concepts or skills

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students claiming they have never learned or seen certain concepts or skills

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Engaging students who are repeating Algebra 1

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Engaging students who are repeating Algebra 1

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Teaching the class for students repeating has been a challenge. The greatest barrier seems to be mindset and the students' own belief in their potential to learn math. I see it as a greater equity issue within the school- many of these kids feel disconnected to all the systems/processes/groups and don't have a sense of belonging. That makes it pretty hard to engage in any class.

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students understand infinite series better when the focus is on the concepts first (and the minute details of the proofs later)

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students understand infinite series better when the focus is on the concepts first (and the minute details of the proofs later)

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Get all students of Math levels to Pre-Calculus by Junior year

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Sharing best practices across the district - especially with formative assessment. This seems like it could be easy to implement and could have an immediate effect.

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Sharing best practices across the district - especially with formative assessment. This seems like it could be easy to implement and could have an immediate effect.

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preparing all students for higher level math classes

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preparing all students for higher level math classes

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Students practice older material in-class and at home to develop/strengthen new concepts

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Finding the time to do tasks in in the classroom but also teach the necessary skills that are needed to do the tasks.

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Finding the time to do tasks in in the classroom but also teach the necessary skills that are needed to do the tasks.

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students working together to solve certain problems

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students working together to solve certain problems

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students working together to solve a problem

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students working together to solve a problem

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Students who have struggled at math through the years and do not engage in the work or try. Have given up before even starting.

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Lack of motivation in Alg readiness

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More students are moving to advanced math courses from regular

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logarithms is always a unit they struggle on and I feel like I taught it in a way this year where the majority of students understood and felt successful

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Built in academic support time in our bell schedule

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Students need to be willing to work hard and to not give up - often times they cannot persevere and give up easily not wanting to work at the complex problem solving because it is "too hard".

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Students need to be willing to work hard and to not give up - often times they cannot persevere and give up easily not wanting to work at the complex problem solving because it is "too hard".

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keeping seniors motivated after they commit to colleges

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keeping seniors motivated after they commit to colleges

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Being willing to stick with something and implement changes over time. The Algebra 1 curriculum was just recently changed

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Being willing to stick with something and implement changes over time. The Algebra 1 curriculum was just recently changed

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using constructing meaning strategies to support language objectives

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using constructing meaning strategies to support language objectives

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building student confidence in math, debunking the myth for those who think 'I can't do math

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building student confidence in math, debunking the myth for those who think 'I can't do math

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Students get a weekly review of concepts so that students can build concepts together to get a more complicated problem

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Geometry students able to use strategies to write proofs relationships they've discovered

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Frequent formative assessment learning to differentiate students understanding

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students who do not have self-confidence 

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students who do not have self-confidence 

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De tracking by junior year

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Alg Readiness students using complete sentences to explain process & answer

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10th graders in Geometry are not as prepared for Geometry as the 9th graders in Geometry

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10th graders in Geometry are not as prepared for Geometry as the 9th graders in Geometry

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expected collaboration but not common mindset/beliefs on what rigor is and that all students are capable

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expected collaboration but not common mindset/beliefs on what rigor is and that all students are capable

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Having students create scale drawings for projects which they will redesign after testing

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Changing some assessment with group projects

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Changing some assessment with group projects

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Engage more students and encourage communication to solve the same problem.

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remediating fundamental math skills while teaching higher-level thinking

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remediating fundamental math skills while teaching higher-level thinking

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Moving away from procedural type lessons to complex problem solving in Alg. 1 given current textbook 

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Moving away from procedural type lessons to complex problem solving in Alg. 1 given current textbook 

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Expectation of pre calculus in our pathway

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push back on reading and writing math class, especially on assessments

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push back on reading and writing math class, especially on assessments

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students that are disengaged with school. 

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students that are disengaged with school. 

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the ethnicity of the students in my advanced course doesn't reflect the overall student body (my students are almost all white)

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the ethnicity of the students in my advanced course doesn't reflect the overall student body (my students are almost all white)

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Students are not coming in with basic skills.

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Students are not coming in with basic skills.

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many of the students that take algebra over two years make great improvements during the seconde year

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many of the students that take algebra over two years make great improvements during the seconde year

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real world applications that are not silly - so many require skills above Algebra 1

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real world applications that are not silly - so many require skills above Algebra 1

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Incorporating design/engineering projects to model classwork which the students evaluate their group on their ability to work in a group