Do your math students offer one- or two-word responses in class?

Do your carefully planned lessons feel unsuccessful? “I’ve tried everything,” you think. “Shouldn’t math be a little more engaging?” Ilana Seidel Horn understands your frustration.

Participating in math class feels socially risky to students. Staying silent often feels safer.... more

A classroom isn’t just a room—it’s a living ecosystem that shapes how students learn, feel, and belong. Designing Intentional Classrooms invites K–6 educators to reimagine their learning spaces with purpose, compassion, and research-backed clarity to meet the emotional, behavioral, and academic needs of every student.

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What is a collaborative math classroom? Peek inside one and you’ll find an equitable, dynamic, student-centered math classroom based on exploration, shared thinking, and dialogue. Instead of explaining procedures, the teacher curates and facilitates rich mathematical experiences that students engage in together. Students learn not just mathematical ideas,... more

Every student deserves to feel safe and respected at school. To feel that they belong. And yet, that isn’t the reality for the LGBTQ+ students who run a much higher risk than their heterosexual, cisgender peers of feeling unsafe at school, being bullied or harassed, underperforming academically, facing mental health issues, not graduating, and more. 

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A workshop approach to math instruction can be a real game changer when it comes to engaging, challenging, and supporting every student, whether they need extra support or additional challenges.  

Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler provide the “what, why, and when” of math workshop, and then outline five steps to implementing this approach with middle and high school students:

• Understanding