by Laurie Ferry | Jul 28, 2025 | Leadership, Professional Learning
The first weeks of school are an exciting and energized time for students, parents and teachers. We want to maximize that small window to truly LAUNCH our classroom into a culture of learning, intrigue, wonder, curiosity, and idea sharing that will carry us through...
by Laurie Ferry | Mar 31, 2025 | Leadership, Professional Learning
Formative assessment data is one of those elusive educational terms we say a lot but can mean different things for different educators. We often think of formative assessment data to mean a paper pencil exit ticket or check for understanding at the end of a lesson....
by Laurie Ferry | Sep 15, 2024 | Leadership, Professional Learning
As any educator will tell you, the Gradual Release of Responsibility instructional model has been a foundation of teacher education programs for the last 24 years. We all have been trained to ‘I do’ or model the learning for students first. We were taught that...
by Laurie Ferry | Sep 1, 2024 | Leadership, Professional Learning
Just this week as I was working alongside strong, student-centered teachers I heard the following comments related to structuring/planning a math block. “I hate that we no longer have access to IXL this year! This was a great time filler during my math block.” “The...
by Laurie Ferry | Aug 19, 2024 | Leadership, Mathematics, Professional Learning
One of the first statements Dr. Peter Liljedahl made in his opening keynote at the 2024 Annual BTC Conference was, “I have spent the last year in over 160 classrooms adding to this research”. As the crowd of over 900 educators in the scorching Phoenix heat waited in...
by Laurie Ferry | Jan 29, 2024 | Leadership, Professional Learning
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! Do not assume the Future Focused Indiana Math Standards for grades K-Algebra 2 are the same math standards we have always used in Indiana with some slight name changes to protect the innocent! For the first time in my 34 year teaching...
