Episode 48 - Developing a Culture of Questioning Can Be an Agent of Change

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 48.  Today we are looking at how Developing a Culture of Questioning Can Be an Agent of Change. Today I was reading back through the book Agents of Change: How Content Coaching Transforms Teaching & Learning by Lucy West and Antonia (Toni) Cameron.  I’m sitting here on my couch bundled up with a blanket and my coffee, fireplace going because it’s freezing outside and the snow is dumping. But just 4 days ago it was 60 degrees outside.  It really hit me at that moment how quickly some things change (like the weather) but not in education.  The book Agents of Change is full of ideas on how to build a system within your school or district through Math Coaching that will create sustainable change.  However, lots of the ideas within the book are things we can do even if we aren’t a math coach.  Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/48

Om Podcasten

The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don’t know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here’s how I define us. We are math educators who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.