Kaaren Meyer

Kaaren Meyer brings 24 years of classroom teaching experience in grades 8-12 and nine years of math instructional coaching across PreK-12 to her work as a facilitator with All Learners Network. She is deeply committed to supporting teachers in building classroom environments where every student can learn, grow, and experience genuine success in mathematics. Kaaren holds a BS in Secondary Education from the University of Vermont, an MST in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire, and completed Post Graduate Studies in Mathematics Education Leadership through the Vermont Mathematics Initiative at Southern New Hampshire University.

Half My Class Doesn't Get It — Now What?

It's Tuesday afternoon, and you're using the ALN Worksort Protocol to sort through exit tickets from today's lesson on adding within 100. The quick, low-prep protocol encourages teachers to sort student work samples into piles by the strategy used. This makes the patterns jump out quickly. The first five look good. You are feeling good about today’s lesson. Then you hit the sixth, and something has clearly shifted. The seventh looks the same as the sixth. By the time you're through the stack, you've got a pile of ten exit tickets where students either added the ones correctly but missed the te …

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