EdCuration: Where We Reshape Learning - Jared Adamson loves Big Ideas Math

Jared Adamson loves Big Ideas Math

02/14/20 • 25 min

Jared Adamson from Cherokee Trail High School discusses how Big Ideas Math helps him increase student achievement through the curriculum's Investigations, Game Closet and other tools that provide students with immediate feedback.

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Connect to Big Ideas Math

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Connect to Big Ideas Math

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Kathy Zaleski loves Restorative Justice

Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center. She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the following resources for others looking to learn more about this powerful instructional practice:

The little books:https://emu.edu/cjp/resources/little-books
Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding: Restorative Discipline for Schools
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
The Little Book of Circle Processes,
Return to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice,
Not Light but Fire by Matthew R. Kay
The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Restorative-Teaching-Tools/dp/168099588X
Circle Forward - http://www.livingjusticepress.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B33EC0E83-CD69-4255-BCD5-298AD3846FF6%7D

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Connect to TCI's Social Studies Resources