Creating classrooms where students take the lead, and teachers reclaim the space to notice, guide, and grow learning. Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Ms. Johnson is on her feet the entire class period. She hustles from desk to desk, crouching down to check one student’s answer, then another’s. Every time a hand goes up, she rushes over—“Yes, that’s right,” “No, try again,” “Almost, but check step three.” By the end of the lesson, she’s exhausted. Her students? Many haven’t

Every classroom operates with an invisible compass: what teachers believe about how students learn math. These beliefs quietly shape the...

Far too many students are navigating our math classrooms with a single, destructive belief: “I’m just not a math person.”  This belief...