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How to Build Your PLN

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Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Here’s why: It helps you grow professionally. Participate.

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ETA hand2mind Unveils Daily Math Fluency at 2018 NCSM/NCTM Conferences

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Developed by elementary math expert Brittany Goerig, Daily Math Fluency activities are designed using visual models and manipulatives to support classroom math curriculum without cutting into instructional time. She spent 17 years in the classroom as an elementary math teacher. per grade level.

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Applying Past Knowledge: Making the Invisible, Visible

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Giving students lifeworthy experiences helps them build or construct that knowledge base for later use. I just commented on a Facebook post from a kindergarten teacher who said she used lima beans to help her students learn about plant parts. I replied that I used the same activity with my junior students in Biology II!