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Motivation in Mathematics: Using Student-Centered Learning for Math Achievement in Dedham, MA through Learning & the Brain on May 7, 2020.

Using Five Processes to Gain Deep Mathematical Understanding, Grades PreK-3 in Charlottesville, VA through VaSCL on March 24, 2020.

Visible Learning in the Early Childhood Math Classroom.

STEM Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms.

Bansho: Sequencing Concrete-Representational-Abstract Strategies.

We’ll be at VCTM in Richmond, VA on March 13-14, 2020 ( ) talking about: Follow us this year as we blaze through new books often finding math hidden within the pages: and see our presentations and workshops on mathematics and literacy! One of our goals for 2020 is to read not only more books with diverse characters but more books written by diverse authors. If you are looking for a new book to add to your classroom library, read aloud, or novel discussion, or a new venue for teaching point of view, I highly recommend this one. But in other ways, this book demonstrates the evolution of our society and the true meaning of families. In some ways, To Night Owl From Dogfish is an age-old tale about summer camps, meeting new people, and child/parent conflict. To Night Owl From Dogfish is the perfect book for teaching point of view since the book shifts between multiple characters within each chapter. The emails written back and forth between the main characters provide their own source of discussion. The format of the book is another interesting element. Instead, the focus of the story is on friendship and love and how those things change and evolve through time between all types of people and in all different ways. The book follows two 12-year-old girls: Bett Devlin and Avery Bloom. But in a refreshing twist, the book approaches the characters with such normalcy that the story does not revolve around the dads being gay. To Night Owl from Dogfish is a novel written entirely in emails and letters. This book has many fantastic elements and reasons to be included in an upper elementary classroom.įor starters, as she mentions above, the girls in the story both have gay dads.

Find out what happens in… To Night Owl From Dogfish! Then summer hops on a roller coaster and starts twisting and turning! Now, it’s up to Bett and Avery to save the summer. However, after all the plotting and scheming together, the girls realize that maybe they really do want to be sisters. Avery (no offense) is a little nerdy, afraid of almost everything (especially deep water), and lives in New York City! Bett, on the other hand, is fearless, confident, lives in California, and loves animals and the ocean! Bett and Avery’s dads meet and fall in love so they are sent to the same camp so they can get to know each other before the families join and they become sisters! Little do the dads know, the thing that is really bringing them together is their joint efforts to sabotage the wedding plans. The two girls have almost nothing in common. Also the two main characters, Bett and Avery, both have gay dads. First off, this book is written in letters and emails. I RATE THIS BOOK A 7 OUT OF 5!!! I absolutely loved it. I write the name of the book, author, library, genre, how old I am, the year, the date, number of pages, and my rating out of five.

One such book is, To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer. She, of course, continues to out-read me but there are a few books she is so excited about that I make sure to finish as well. However, in my hunt for books with diverse characters and written by diverse authors, I am bound and determined to keep up with her as she burns through some of the most talked about books of 2019. I often try to keep pace with her only to be left in the dust as she finishes book after book. Strong and vivid characterisation makes us feel we really know Bett, Avery, Grandma Betty and the parents, and relate to their decisions and feelings.My daughter is a voracious reader. Told entirely in emails and letters, this sensitive, often funny book examines what it means to be a family, and what happens when families change. While this is greatly positive in many ways, it prompts a custody battle for Avery that, alongside the break-up of the dads’ relationship, tests relationships all round. Yet when Bett finds out that Avery’s mother is a famous playwright and lives locally to the camp, she invites her to family day without Avery’s knowledge, bringing Kristina back into Avery’s life. Worse, the dads are planning to send both girls to the same STEM and Arts summer camp while they go on a holiday of a lifetime to China.īoth girls take exception to their dads’ new relationship and decide they definitely won’t become friends, but, over several weeks emailing each other, even when at camp, they build a relationship. Bett Devlin and Avery Bloom don’t know each other until Bett finds out that their dads are dating and makes contact with Avery via her too-publicly-available school email address to tell her.