Purposeful Practice Edu

The Three Read Protocol takes the idea of a close read strategy, which is used to help students dive deeper into a text in order to answer higher order thinking questions. The same strategy can be used to help students break down mathematical word problems. This strategy focuses on the meaning rather than simply finding key words. A page of notes, along with one of the practice pages, has numberless word problems to reinforce the importance of the meaning rather than focusing on the numbers. The

Welcome back your families with a syllabus that makes it easy to find all the important information for the school year. This template was created with parents in mind. Using the same template, we made a student version for them to keep in their notebooks as a reference for frequently asked questions. Just download the template and customize it for your team/class!

Cubing is a research based practice that uses the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. It promotes higher order thinking, productive discourse among students, and targets almost every mathematical practice and ELA anchor standards. Our template includes various verb stems to help guide you as you create rigorous, authentic questions for your students. Cubing can be used in all content areas, and it can be used as a small group, partner, or differentiated task.

Welcome back your families with a syllabus that makes it easy to find all the important information for the school year. This template was created with parents in mind. Using the same template, we made a student version for them to keep in their notebooks as a reference for frequently asked questions. Just download the template and customize it for your team/class!

Think-Tac-Toe is a great extension task that also offers student choice. This statistics activity addresses several learning targets and skills, including finding an unknown value of a data set given the mean, statistical vs. nonstatistical, error analysis, using vocabulary, and providing extension with mean, median, and IQR. We love introducing this as a "get to know me" activity first so our students will already know our expectations when we use it in a content area. Check out our store to gr