This lesson is about trying to get students to make connections between ideas about equations, inequalities, and expressions. The lesson is designed to give students opportunities to use mathematical vocabulary for a purpose to describe, discuss, and work with these symbol strings.The idea is for students to start gathering global information by looking at the whole number string rather than thinking only about individual procedures or steps. Hopefully students will begin to see the symbol strings as mathematical objects with their own unique set of attributes. (7th Grade Math)

This lesson is based on the results of a performance task in which we realized that students' understanding of area and perimeter was mostly procedural. Therefore the purpose of this re-engagement lesson was to address student misconceptions and deepen student understanding of area and perimeter. The standards addressed in this lesson involve finding perimeter and area of various shapes, finding the perimeter when given a fixed area, and using a formula in a practical context. Challenges for our students included decoding the language in the problem and proving their thinking. (7th Grade Math)

The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts shift the balance of literature in the elementary grades to 50 percent informational texts and 50 percent literature. This balance is important in preparing students for later grades and non-literary texts.

The foundation of this lesson is constructing, communicating, and evaluating student-generated tables while making comparisons between three different financial plans. Students are given three different DVD rental plans and asked to analyze each one to see if they could determine when the 3 different DVD plans cost the same amount of money, if ever. (7th/8th Grade Math)

This lesson allows students to redesign their school to be more eco friendly. Allows the teacher to incorporate math and science together while also creating a visual model of the school.

Teacher Kim Guest demonstrates how to add assignments in the Canvas-based MBA Learning Center. To access the MBA Learning Center, visit https://mba.instructure.com

Teacher Jennifer Milke demonstrates how to add student accounts to the new Canvas-based MBA Learning Center. To access the MBA Learning Center, visit https://mba.instructure.com

This is a Professional Development Resource to support the implementation of a high-quality math resource (Math Expressions, 2018), and provide professional learning around the Geometry progressions.  This professional learning is appropriate for all levels of math educators but focuses on math education for grades 5-8.  It provides educators an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding and make connections to their own grade level Geometry standards. 

The Common Core Standards in English Language Arts are standards for a wide-range of literacies, including reading and understanding History, Social Science, Science and Technical subject texts. This focus helps students build knowledge through reading and writing in the disciplines, as they are able to analyze primary and secondary sources, reference material, and experimental results.

The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts expands the study of literary non-fiction in later grades. This allows English Language Arts teachers to utilize their expertize to cultivate students' deeper understanding of complex and varied texts.

The Common Standards in Literacy provide opportunities for students to delve more deeply into more varied texts, especially literary non-fiction. These texts inform us about the world and people's thinking about it, including many of the founding documents of our nation.

Phil Loaiza, IT Director for MBA Research, talks about how to create courses with LAP instructional modules in the Canvas-based MBA Learning Center. Access the MBA Learning Center here: https://mba.instructure.com/

Teacher Kim Guest demonstrates how to add move files from the MBA Learning Center to a secure site such as Google Classroom or Schoology. To access the MBA Learning Center, visit https://mba.instructure.com.

This lesson is a re-engagement lesson designed for learners to revisit a problem-solving task they have already experienced. Students will activate prior knowledge of graphical representations through the 'what's my rule' number talk; compare and contrast two different learners' interpretations of the growing pattern; use multiple representations to demonstrate how one of these learners would represent the numeric pattern; make connections between the different representations to more critically compare the two interpretations. (5th/6th Grade Math)

This slide show is from my recent presentation at WEMTA. It discusses how we are leveraging the library for professional development opportunities in the middle and high school. The PD in the iC/LC program is part of a joint effort to provide more personalized professional learning that will inspire our staff to adopt and promote the future ready mindset. It is also a key part of our efforts to support staff and students through the library programming and resources since the library is ideally situated to work cross-categorically and across the age ranges. Examples and resources are linked inside the presentation for viewers to use and remix as best fits their learning community.

This pre-assessment can be used to determine teachers' knowledge of high quality resources before engaging in a materials adoption process.

This lesson is about properties of quadrilaterals and learning to investigate, formulate, conjecture, justify, and ultimately prove mathematical theorems. Students will: Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes; develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships; and apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.Explore relationships among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them. Employ forms of mathematical reasoning and proof appropriate to the solution of the problem at hand, including deductive and inductive reasoning, making and testing conjectures, and using counter examples and indirect proof. Identify, formulate and confirm conjectures. Establish the validity of geometric conjectures using deduction, prove theorems, and critique arguments made by others. (9th/10th Grade Math)

This lesson focuses on students making decisions about what tools to apply to solve different problems related to quadratic expressions and equations. It is also intended to build awareness of the form an answer will take in order to help students make sense of the kind of problem they are solving. (9th/10th/11th Grade Math)

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that believes “change is good”. “Kai” means change and “zen” means good. In business settings, Kaizen is also a strategic tool that brings about continuous improvement, in terms of increased productivity, superior quality, lower costs, efficient processes, increased safety and better customer experience. The word “Continuous” is worth remembering here as Kaizen is a never-ending improvement process. In this professional development activity, the Bonduel School District will be introduced to a quick and easy way to incorporate kaizen continuous improvement strategies into the education setting.

Student collaboration is key to success in college and career, and the Common Core standards for Speaking and Listening include collaboration standards. These standards focus on collaboration in multiple settings and ask students to be prepared and respectful, and to engage in problem-solving in formal and informal situations.