by Matt Vaudrey | May 5, 2015 | Coaching, Hope, Teaching |
It gets better. Really, it sucks now, but you’ll have more and more great days and less and less days that you wanna quit and move in with your parents. Working with new teachers in my role as a coach, I ask the question: “Why are you a teacher?”...
by Matt Vaudrey | Apr 7, 2015 | Teaching |
While driving between school sites after a morning of silent SBAC testing, I sighed and realized, I don’t have much to blog about these days. Which isn’t to say Nothing meaningful is happening nor I don’t have much to say, I’m just finding...
by Matt Vaudrey | Mar 26, 2015 | Teaching |
One year ago this week, I left the classroom to take a coaching position, not knowing if I would ever return. It was a risk, and while I’m usually a big fan of risk in the classroom, this risk was blind. Tomorrow is my last day in the classroom. Possibly ever....
by Matt Vaudrey | Mar 15, 2015 | Teaching |
“Stop!” A whimper from across the terminal makes me look up. A 12-year-old boy and I make eye-contact before he buries his face in his book and pleads to the woman on his right again, “Stop! Please!” The heavy-set woman folds her arms and says...
by Matt Vaudrey | Feb 6, 2015 | Teaching |
“Oh!… what do you train them on?” my sister asked. “Mostly risk-taking in the classroom,” I responded, trying to sum up La Cucina Matematica into a few words. “Since most degree programs prepare teachers to teach the same way...
by Matt Vaudrey | Jan 26, 2015 | Teaching |
The best record of the good things in 2014 is my Twitter feed, so here are some of the best moments from 2014, in Tweet-form, semi-chronologically: January of 2014, John Stevens and I gave a training for the Mariposa County math teachers called La Cucina Matematica. A...
