As the year closes, I'm refocusing on more intensive PD. I'm also trying to do better at documenting in my blogging here. I want to capture what's I'm thinking, what I'm learning and what is happening in education at this point in time. I'm sure it will change. I'm currently reading and doing a FB book study on Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl . What an excellent book this has been so far! The ideas presented are a result of Liljedahl's research in classrooms about what techniques are useful to deepen student thinking in mathematics. The book is a summary of the 14 practices he feels are the key components needed to maximize thinking, and thus learning. Each chapter then delves into a particular practice, one being how to create groupings. This, obviously, is a popular topics and every author/book/teacher has an opinion there! Fortuitously, I learned of the Sum of It All Podcast covering this book as well, so I&
