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Try This: End Your Small Group with "How Do You Know?"
You ran your Launch, your Problem Solver, or your game with your small group. Now, how do you close it?
Try This: Diagnose Why Math Discourse Went Flat (and Fix It)
Here's something that happens to almost every teacher a few weeks into the year: a discourse routine that felt electric in week one goes flat by week four. The same two or three voices, one-word answers, or silence during turn-and-talk that stretches a beat too long.
Try This: Make Your First Journal Prompt Feel Like a Launch
Try this one thing this week: introduce journal prompts to your students by making the very first one feel exactly like a launch they already know and trust.
Try This: Build a Safe Math Discourse Culture in Week One
At the beginning of every school year, you're rebuilding trust from scratch, and nowhere is that more visible than in math discourse. If a student doesn't yet feel safe being wrong out loud, they'll stay quiet, and you'll never see their real thinking. The good news: you don't need a …
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