{"id":1538,"date":"2018-09-07T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2018-09-10T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:07:27","slug":"welcome-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/welcome-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excitement of another year is always energizing. It is important not to go madly off in all directions trying to reinvent our pedagogy&#8230;but to make thoughtful and considerate changes.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareteachers.com\/best-math-websites\/\">great list of math websites<\/a> (I&#8217;d ignore the costly programs, however) to help with your math teaching this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Math Workshops on Staff Development Calendar<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/09\/boaler-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1539 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/09\/boaler-4-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/09\/boaler-4-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/09\/boaler-4.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>Learning teams, book clubs and workshop offerings for math this fall have been posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.sd41.bc.ca\/events-calendar\">Staff Development Calendar.&nbsp;<\/a> If you are looking for basic support for math, consider signing up for Math 101. On the other hand, if Number Talks are a routine you&#8217;d like to start or deepen this year, sign up to get a copy of an appropriate book for your grade level and some supportive colleagues to discuss it with.&nbsp; This fall also features a Closing The Gaps learning team, where we will use Jo Boaler&#8217;s new Grade 4 resource alongside our BCEd curriculum.<\/p>\n<h2>Northwest Mathematics Conference<\/h2>\n<p>Sign up now and put your Detached Duty form in for the BCAMT-hosted<a href=\"http:\/\/bcamt.ca\/nw2018\/\"> Northwest Mathematics Conference<\/a>, being held in Whistler over the Oct 19\/20 PSA Day. Some great speakers are coming, including Tracy Zager, Fawn Nguyen and Dan Finkel. There will be sessions and resources for every teacher, from K-12.<\/p>\n<h2>Call Me<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to supporting math teachers across this district this year.&nbsp; Call me at 604-760-6157 or e-mail me at Donna.Morgan@burnabyschools.ca if you need any support for your math teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excitement of another year is always energizing. It is important not to go madly off in all directions trying to reinvent our pedagogy&#8230;but to make thoughtful and considerate changes.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a great list of math websites (I&#8217;d ignore the costly programs, however) to help with your math teaching this year. Math Workshops on Staff &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/welcome-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome Back!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}