Well, it HAS been a while! 🌸

I trust all of you are enjoying a lovely, restful and healthy summer.

I wanted to reach out to let you all know that I am hard at work on a new teacher resource on assessment in mathematics – designing manageable and meaningful ways to assess what students know and can do. The book will feature both content-specific tasks and general question frames to allow teachers to design their own assessments.

Now if the weather would just turn cold and wet – just a little! –so I had some incentive to stay inside and get things done! 🤪

In the meantime, know that I look forward to seeing you all again in the fall.

For anyone new to this site, I should mention that my work takes me across Canada, into schools, communities and classrooms from British Columbia to rural Manitoba, into the Northwest Territories and beyond. I work with districts, school staff, learning teams and parents to promote and develop mathematical thinking, teaching and learning. My online store features more than two dozen resources to support educators in reaching all learners and making math engaging and meaningful for all.

If you’d like me to come and work with your school, please reach out. Together we can shape a day of professional development around an area of interest specific to your learning community. Like the students in our classrooms school staffs are diverse spaces. Teachers possess a broad range of experience and pedagogical background knowledge, and the professional learning opportunities should be likewise diverse. Conference presentations, workshops, Zoom sessions, collaborative planning meetings, book studies, even “Math Speed Dating” sessions can be arranged.

Most of the work that I do (and some of the most rewarding!) comes in the form of demo lessons or learning rounds in a school. Two classroom hosts are selected to open up their classroom communities to me and to a group of grade-similar teacher observers for a half-day each. In the week leading up to the lesson, the classroom teacher and I plan a lesson designed to fit within the instructional flow, matched to the specific learning needs of the group. On the day of the lesson, I bring everything we’ll need, including manipulatives, literature connections and other instructional tools. I preview the lesson with teacher observers, outlining the structures and learning intentions, then deliver the lesson with teachers in attendance. Afterwards, we take time as a group to debrief the lesson, examining instructional strategies, student responses and considering ways to extend the math concepts to other grade levels.

It’s rich and engaging professional development – and I’ve had excellent feedback on the lessons and students’ engagement in them. It definitely helps to “see” the math in action!

If you’re interested in pursuing a professional development opportunity with me in 2025-2026 (or beyond!) I am happy to chat. Email me directly by clicking the link.

All the best!

Carole