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Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Over the past 5 years, this blog has seen nearly 3.1 million views. The most popular strategies from the blog all have one thing in common: They include downloadable resources and strategies which can be immediately used in the classroom. They are also free! I'm sometimes asked these two questions:

"Which are the most popular strategies and downloads?"

"Is there a way you could put them in one place?"

Here they are.

Part 1: The Quick List for Easy Access

(See Part 2 for a Deeper Dive.)

Cube Conversations - and the follow-up post 80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

The Maze Hundreds Chart - and also the post that followed, Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

Tiled Area Questions - and the accompanying 3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 New Downloadable Pages).Also note: Primary Tile Questions is part of this series.

More detailed information - AND PICTURES - can be found in Part 2.
Splat!
Two years ago - nearly to the day - I posted the first Splat! lesson. Since that time, I've posted 21 levels on the blog through various posts. The sequence of lessons ranging from very small numbers through algebraic reasoning with multiple variables has proven to be the single most popular concept. There are other versions of Splat! that I have yet to share. Among them, Splat! in Motion and the Rare, Rogue, Red Splat! are in the wings and I look forward to sharing them!
Esti-Mysteries: Estimation Meets Math Mysteries
This concept has been really fun to share. Estimation and a wide range of math concepts are fused together in a very invitational format. The first time you use Esti-Mysteries, you may be amazed at how deep the conversation goes - and at how loud the cheering becomes when you reach The Reveal at the very end of the journey. Your students will ask you for another Esti-Mystery right away.
51 Esti-Mysteries
If it looks like I posted the same thing twice, that's because the original Esti-Mystery post only had 12 Esti-Mysteries. I received so many requests for more Esti-Mysteries, that I decided to write 51 more during the first few months of this school year. I planned to post 3 per week for 17 weeks in a row. The result is that there are a LOT of Esti-Mysteries suitable for many grade levels that can be immediately downloaded and used in class.
The Fraction Splat! Series
The Fraction Splat! Series is one of my favorite resources. Following Splat! the fraction series dives into some much deeper territory and invites students to think about numbers in many different ways.
20 Days of Number Sense and Rich Math Talk (K-12)
The purpose of this series was to create a set of resources that any teacher - at any grade level - could use for 20 days in a row. It's mean to provide rich experiences to students and a rich journey for teachers. While the series contains entirely exclusive content, it draws upon 4 routines found in my blog. Days 1-5 are Estimation Clipboards. Days 6-10 are Splats! Days 11-15 are Esti-Mysteries. Days 16-20 are Cube Conversations. Each of the 20 days is labeled so that it is very easy to find which grade level to use. Any teacher at any grade level can use this single post to have access to 20 days of rich math discourse - and may even discover a new part of their teaching journey just by listening to the insights of the students.
Splat for Google Slides - 40 Lessons
After writing Splat! I heard from many educators who do not have access to PowerPoint. So, I rewrote the series from scratch with a new combination of animations that would make it work in Google Slides. This set is for everyone who has Google Slides and wants to use Splat!
100 Subitizing Slides and 10 Challenge Patterns
This is an all-time favorite resource. The concept is a set of 10 lessons. Each lessons shows a series of quick subitizing images (which also energizes the classroom) then quickly transitions to a challenge dot pattern. It's more than subitizing, and it's more than a dot talk. It's the combination of the two that make this work so well. The 100 slides are set in 10 lessons and there are printables to match the challenge patterns.

Cube Conversations - and the follow-up post 80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

Cube Conversations is a series in which I feature a 3-D cube structure and then (with a click) allow you to show your students how it could be decomposed usefully. The shape changes colors and surprising groupings appear. Then, with two more clicks, two more examples of how the shape can be decomposed appear before the students. Many of the recognize similarities to how they have decomposed it already. The animations serve as an example as 1 more shape appears and allows the students to decompose it 4 different ways. This is one that you really have to see and experience to detect the full power of how it propels student insights.
The Estimation Clipboard
Estimation has always been near and dear to me. Yet, I've seen so many, many times when students are given ONE thing to estimate (1 jar, 1 image, 1 length of rope) and then they move on to something completely different. The Estimation Clipboard offers something new in that it provides 4 highly similar images in a row. Students estimate, share their reasoning with each other, and eventually see the answer... And then they are given a 2nd image that is similar to the first one. They have a rich context in which to estimate. Then they see a third image - and then a fourth. After you've taught your class the Estimation Clipboard routine, you are very likely to hear even more cheering in the classroom.

The Maze Hundreds Chart - and also the post that followed, Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

This interactive hundreds chart allows you to create mazes on the screen in front of your students. Better yet, it allows them to amaze you with their thinking. It's hard to describe exactly how this chart works without showing it in person - or guiding you to the video. I encourage you to take a look at the post, watch the video, and see just how this highly versatile chart works.
The Animated Multiplication Table
This interactive PPT file allows you to see the multiplication table - and many of the relationships that sometimes stay hidden - in many different, vivid ways. Take a look at the video, and you will see what I mean.

Tiled Area Questions - and the accompanying 3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 New Downloadable Pages).Also note: Primary Tile Questions is part of this series.

I was going to make this list show the top 10 pages - but when I saw that one of my all-time favorite strategies wasn't within the list of the top 10 page views on my blog, I knew it needed to be shared again. This strategy can travel into so very deep, very rich, and very colorful territory. I love this strategy so much that I actually wrote 3 blog posts about it.

I am certain that this list will change over time. Some of these posts (like Splat!) have been around for two years, while others (like 51 Esti-Mysteries) have only been around for a handful of months.

Thank you for all of your questions and support. I hope this helps to answer these two questions:

"Which are the most popular strategies and downloads?"

and

"Is there a way you could put them in one place?"

I look forward to reflecting on this post in the future and seeing how it changes. There are many new resources which I'm excited to share very soon!

All my best,

Steve

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What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world's greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world's greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

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Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the online encyclopedia brings free and reliable information to the public -- while also accounting for bias and difference of opinion. "The seeds of our disagreement can actually become the roots of our common purpose," she says.

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My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi

My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi

There are 600 million women in India -- yet they are rarely seen outdoors after sunset because of safety concerns like harassment and catcalls. On a mission to create safer public spaces, women's rights advocate Srishti Bakshi talks about how she embarked on a 2,300-mile walk across the length of India (a distance equivalent to traveling from New York City to Los Angeles), conducting driving workshops to empower women's mobility across the country. "The more women see other women in public spaces, the more safe, independent and empowered each of us will be," Bakshi says.

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Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children | Zoya Lytvyn

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed so much -- including hundreds of schools, where the country's children were forging their futures -- but it has not stopped Ukrainians from pursuing knowledge and curiosity. In a deeply moving talk, education leader Zoya Lytvyn shares her first-hand experience evacuating Kyiv and takes us inside the ongoing effort to continue educating children amid war and destruction. "As long as our children keep learning and our teachers keep teaching -- even while they are starving in shelters under bombardment, even in refugee camps -- we are undefeated," she says.

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The creativity and community behind fanfiction | Cecilia Aragon

The wildly diverse, thoughtful and hilarious world of fanfiction -- where writers reimagine favorite stories like "Harry Potter," "Pokémon," "My Little Pony" and more -- is ever-growing and becoming a vital social and learning tool. Author, professor and fanfiction writer Cecilia Aragon has observed how this incredible outlet for creativity encourages and empowers young people to embrace their imagination. Detailing her research into the vast online fanfiction community, Aragon shares its potential to foster a sense of belonging, strengthen writing skills and shape the future of literature.

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Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla

Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla

For children growing up in refugee camps, education is a powerful tool of liberation. In this inspiring talk, Makhtoum Abdalla, displaced as a child in Sudan and now living with his family in the Otash camp in Darfur, shares his biggest dream: to ensure all children are educated and taught the skills needed to become "captains of their destiny."

Customer Reviews

TED talks education

I decided to go with the style of TED talks for a few reasons. The first being it's very familiar and easy to use. Second, in most podcasts you don't see the people talking, you usually just listen to them while on TED talks you get to see the people talking and see and feel the emotions and expressions during their talks. There are a few things that I found to be very memorable. Such as when one of the speakers said to raise our kids to give them the tools to solve the problems we want to solve. Meaning the problems we see in our society we raise our kids to fight those problems. The speaker goes on to talk about how parents who don't want to talk about hard things to talk about often make the kid figure out those things on their own which can be very dangerous especially if the kid is using the wrong things to learn from. Another speaker came out and talked about how she used to love dirtbikes but they were illegal to own at her age in her town so she got really big into science and in class she blew her eyebrows off, glued someone to a chair, and even made stink bombs in class. And the teacher just chopped her up for being the “ bad kid” when they were overlooking the talents she had. AT the same time the only thing I didn't like is a lot of the speaker's rambling off and telling stories that have nothing to do with the overall point they're getting at. Overall I would give this podcast a 4 stars out of 5 because it brought up some very good stories that a lot of people can relate to and also talked about things everyone and society can work on to improve.

Not bad at all

At first I was reluctant to listening to this since I thought it would be just like the rest. But now this has taught me things. I like a lot of them, but some I don’t

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While doing research on adolescent behavior I started looking into various podcasts on education. The one thing that caught my attention in “TED Talks Education,” was the episode [Why students should have mental health days.] I then started to take a deeper dive and found many episodes pertaining to mental health and motivation which are both of great interest to me. While I have found many inspiring TED Talk episodes in the past, I couldn’t help but notice that some of the episodes in this podcast were either irrelevant to education or had a speaker who bragged about making a change without saying how. However, don’t let my opinion on those few episodes keep you from enjoying the many that are both inspiring and follow the education theme of the podcast. My two personal favorites were [Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school] and the one I mentioned earlier about student mental health. Both had a focus on mental health and how schools could work to improve it by allowing days off for it and working with students with behavioral challenges rather than disregarding them. They also had an emphasis on teaching students how to identify what their feelings are, how to manage them, and how to advocate for themselves. Another episode I found inspiring was [How teachers can help students navigate trauma.] From this episode I received what I believe is the most important lesson I will ever learn as a student teacher: don’t assume you already know the ending to your students story. I find this to be an incredibly inspiring message about not stereotyping our students which is the reason why I rate this podcast five stars, and will continue to use it personally, as well as suggest it to others in the field.

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