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...
by Laurie Ferry | Jan 9, 2024 | Mathematics, Professional Learning
2023 was a year filled with new learnings for me. It was the first time in my 33 year educational career I was able to solely focus my efforts on supporting educators and searching for new learning I could share with them. I was able to work with a variety of...
by Laurie Ferry | Dec 7, 2023 | Professional Learning
Self-efficacy can be defined as a confidence or belief in one’s ability to achieve or make an impact (self-agency). What impact does self-efficacy and a student’s agency have on our classrooms? More than we think it does, and much more than our current school...
by Laurie Ferry | Nov 15, 2023 | Leadership, Professional Learning
I hear these comments/questions from teachers all the time about students working in groups: What is the magic number of students for a group? How do I keep all of the students on task and working collaboratively? Heterogeneous or homogeneous grouping, what is the...
by Laurie Ferry | Nov 1, 2023 | Professional Learning
Is direct instruction and inquiry learning at odds, or are we caught up in the educational jargon? When we think about direct instruction, educators have a variety of definitions, the same is true of inquiry learning. Does a teacher have to land on one side or the...
by Laurie Ferry | Jun 21, 2023 | Curriculum, Professional Learning
What is mastery? How do we measure the mastery of an individual standard? When is mastery supposed to happen for a student? These are questions I have heard from a plethora of educators over the years. I believe that mastery, in any content area, can be defined with...
