People who have known me since middle school or initiated friendships throughout my teaching career may be aware of my infatuation with poetry, especially the

“Yes, let’s change our plan so that the wire is now connected from this point,” I hear one sixth grader explain to another, as I

During this past week, I observed these scenarios unfurling in classrooms across RPRY. All represented opportunities for students to explicitly connect symbols with objects or

Why do generations of Jewish parents sacrifice to provide their children with a Jewish education? They do so because they view it as a key

In science class, a sixth grade boy’s eyes locked on the etrog, entranced by the delicate balancing of the pitom. After the class exploration of

The nuances of language tend to shift regularly. Often, word meanings narrow over time. Less frequently, the opposite occurs, where an expression broadens to encompass

“If you didn’t have a value for the y-intercept but you had a point, could you still generate the equation of the function?” (Seventh-grade student