Updates: I am currently working with middle grades teachers on an algebraic and proportional reasoning project, as well as teaching a Math Methods class for a local university. Both of these activities are tremendously important to me. I truly appreciate the kind of dedication I see from both practicing and "about to be" practicing teachers. I continue my work with the Texas Regional Collaboratives and see the same kind of dedication in the Mathematics Professional Development Communities as in the teachers they teach. I am lucky to work with all of them
I visited with educators from all over the world and the International Conference for Math Education in Hamburg Germany last summer and also got the opportunity to be one of 15 math educators to visit in a 3-day colloquium with Finnish Math professors and educators in Helsinki.
I am proud to say that may of the things we are doing align with the best practices of many of the top performing countries, and that we all need to learn from each other.
In closing, I hope to begin again posting stories of math education on this blog and that just maybe some people will read it! LOL
Cheers--
--Debbie
