Tuesday is News Day

On Tuesday morning I visited one of our classrooms as students shared the current event photos they selected from a newspaper at home.  Their topics of choice included: + a photo of a corn field shaped into the faces of the presidential candidates + the short life of a recent panda cub at the National […]

Math Anxiety

A new recent study confirms what perhaps many of us have suspected all along. Conducted by a researcher at University of Chicago named Sian Beilock the research study concludes that many high-achieving students suffer from math anxiety, which can both impede their overall math performance and can also continue throughout their school career. Most interestingly, […]