Nicora Placa

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Can’t wait to hear how it goes!

Aww! Thanks! It was great to see you and chat. I wish I was going to this conference. You will have to fill me in!

I had a chance to watch a clip from this at #cmccentral this weekend. I’m excited to watch the rest!

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Such a great weekend with these amazing math leaders! Looking forward to Atlanta!

I can’t wait to hear what you find out!

I don’t think any other activity I have done has had students clapping and jumping out of their seats in the same way. Which may say something about the rest of my class 😂

I’m going to have to start a list and do some exploring.
We need to chat more!

I’ll take a look!

Me too. I’m curious about how I can use more games with teacher teams

I totally agree about the ways in which games provide a different entry point for kids! I need to check out multi.

This has me thinking about how I can potentially use games in my coaching work. Another bite size piece like routines that can be used to lead to other conversations about teaching and learning. Any thoughts?

Other games we played that were a hit: Shut the Box, Capturing Rectangles from Building Fact Fluency for our session on multiplication and Find a Place from the book Nsights for our session on decimals. If you have favorite games, I’d love to hear about them!

Students playing prime climb

I tried something new with my elem methods class this semester—ending each session with a game (many thanks to @mathematize4all.bsky.social for the inspiration!). I need to finish grading before I can reflect on things but one thing I know for sure is that it brought joy into my class every week.

Long excerpt from a blogpost you can read here: https://tjzager.com/2024/09/21/conference-week-next-steps-probably-some-navel-gazing-too/

🧵 So, hey there #edusky! 👋 A while back, I posted an angsty blog about how difficult it is to engage in meaningful work on teaching practice when the systems are breaking down all around us. Excerpt and link below. tjzager.com/2024/09/21/c...

NCSM’s Virtual Coaching Labs are a great way to connect with other coaches. Our next one is with Courtney Baker & Melinda Knapp on Dec 10! #iteachmath

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I wrote about how I use student interviews in my coaching work (“Let’s Ask a Kid”) for the new issue of MTLT. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

I use interviews with my pre-service teachers too. I’d love to hear what they think!

Thanks so much John! I’m so excited about this article because I love talking about student interviews.