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Summer 2018 Plans & Goals

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Cathy Yenca

Since today’s the Summer Solstice, I hope you’re officially enjoying your break.  I won’t rub it in that our students’ last day of school annually is prior to Memorial Day.  Whether you’re just getting used to that alarm clock NOT … Continue reading →

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Precise Language and “The Baby”

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Cathy Yenca

My Math 8 students have been exploring linear functions.  These kiddos learn about rate of change and initial value in contexts where slope-intercept form reigns, leaving other linear forms to be emphasized later in Algebra 1.  We’ve also landed planes … Continue reading →

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Is It Parallel? Using Desmos Card Sorts to Extend Student Thinking

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Cathy Yenca

Several years ago, I attended an EdCamp ATX event here in Austin.  One of the sessions featured formative assessment strategies, and a particular task struck me.  I wish I remembered her name, and I wish I still had the resource … Continue reading →

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“5 Practices” in a 1:1 Classroom

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Cathy Yenca

While I’ve never fully implemented the “flipped classroom” idea with students, maybe I have done a few short-term “mini flips”.  Many digital tools permit students to explore content at their own pace, and asynchronously, which can make “homework” an experience beyond handouts. … Continue reading →

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Gettin’ Into The Groove Hodge-Podge… Featuring Classkick

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Cathy Yenca

I can hear the announcer at our high school’s football game as I type on my iMac here at home.  So nice to be getting settled in to a “new” house that is closer in to the city, our schools, … Continue reading →

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Time-Lapse

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Cathy Yenca

The last day of classes before Thanksgiving break, I set up my iPhone in an attempt to record some time-lapse footage in each of my classes.  Since middle-schoolers can smell a camera a mile away, there was nothing secretive about … Continue reading →

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Socrative and Slope-Intercept Form

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Cathy Yenca

With new TEKS in tow, my 7th graders taking 8th grade math have been studying proportional and non-proportional linear relationships (wow, right?).  The progression has been a refreshing, concept-based study of LOTS of scenarios featuring “constant rates of change” represented in … Continue reading →

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So I stole an idea from Dan Meyer – *SHOCKER*

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Cathy Yenca

Dan Meyer provided our district’s math department with two days of PD in June.  I liked the homework he assigned to us, and I’m in the process of merging his idea with a problem-solving plan for a longer-term mini-project of sorts. … Continue reading →

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I already know what I want to do on the first day of school.

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Cathy Yenca

My (former) students are probably still sleeping on this fine Sunday morning, and here I am, thinking about the first day of school in August.  It’s not entirely my fault.  I just had two days of PD with (THE) Dan … Continue reading →

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Defending “The Worksheet”

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Cathy Yenca

In this era, “the worksheet” has gotten a pretty bad rap.  The seemingly popular push to go “paperless” doesn’t help the cause.  Are worksheets and paper inherently evil in the 21st-century classroom? In the ed-tech realm, I sense a little … Continue reading →

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