by Brittany Taormina | Mar 12, 2021 | Classroom Culture, Risk, Teacher Improvement, Vulnerability |
The following is a guest post from Brittany Taormina, who gave the Teacher Report Card to her students during 2021 distance learning. She tweeted me about it, and her grand risk deserves some celebration. Check it out below! 8:10am the morning bell rings, students...
by Matt Vaudrey | Oct 11, 2019 | Risk, Teacher Improvement |
When I go back in time to read journal entries in blog posts from that first year teaching, chuckle, sigh, and cringe. Most often, though, it’s cringe. A few years back, I crossed paths with Eli Luberoff, CEO of the graphing calculator and activity builder called...
by Matt Vaudrey | Sep 18, 2019 | Classroom Culture, Coaching, Teacher Improvement |
For years, I had a classroom. It was Vaudrey’s Room, even when I wasn’t in it; the space was tied to me as the main person. Then I had a desk that was most-often unoccupied, as I traveled my district supporting teachers in their spaces. Now there’s...
by Matt Vaudrey | Apr 6, 2019 | Teacher Improvement, Teaching |
…Since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief… Hamlet, Act II, Scene II About three hours ago, I arrived home from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference. For less than 48...
by Matt Vaudrey | Mar 21, 2019 | Classroom Management, Hope, Teacher Improvement, Teaching |
I found this buried in my Google Drive this week. It’s a journal entry from 2008. Now—eleven years later—I love teaching and there are some teachers appreciate my commentary on stuff. As our teammates and friends are getting their March 15th letters, it may help...
by Matt Vaudrey | Feb 27, 2019 | Administration, Equity, Leadership, Teacher Improvement |
My kids love to play with the hose in the backyard. We live in the semi-desert of Southern California, so it’s too hot to play without a sprinkler for about 8 weeks during the summer, but they’re even thrilled to dance in the rain yesterday, as the rest of...