Jennifer Lawler
@jenniferklawler.bsky.social
Wife, mother of five, math geek, lifelong learner, Badger fan. Mathematics & Science curriculum coordinator.
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I think this is exactly what better, more-authentic resources can and should look like around AI and developing critical awareness in students and teachers alike.
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The Reckoning: Sora 2 and the Year We Said Enough
"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"
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October 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I think this is exactly what better, more-authentic resources can and should look like around AI and developing critical awareness in students and teachers alike.
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🎲✨ NCTM Game Night 2025!✨🎲
Join us for math games, puzzles, raffle prizes & fellowship! Bring a friend & connect in a fun, relaxed setting.
📅 Wed Oct 15
🕕 8 PM
📍Omni Intl Ballroom E
🍸 Cash bar.
Play, laugh & celebrate math together! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #NCTMATL25! #GameNight #ElemMathChat
Join us for math games, puzzles, raffle prizes & fellowship! Bring a friend & connect in a fun, relaxed setting.
📅 Wed Oct 15
🕕 8 PM
📍Omni Intl Ballroom E
🍸 Cash bar.
Play, laugh & celebrate math together! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #NCTMATL25! #GameNight #ElemMathChat
September 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🎲✨ NCTM Game Night 2025!✨🎲
Join us for math games, puzzles, raffle prizes & fellowship! Bring a friend & connect in a fun, relaxed setting.
📅 Wed Oct 15
🕕 8 PM
📍Omni Intl Ballroom E
🍸 Cash bar.
Play, laugh & celebrate math together! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #NCTMATL25! #GameNight #ElemMathChat
Join us for math games, puzzles, raffle prizes & fellowship! Bring a friend & connect in a fun, relaxed setting.
📅 Wed Oct 15
🕕 8 PM
📍Omni Intl Ballroom E
🍸 Cash bar.
Play, laugh & celebrate math together! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #NCTMATL25! #GameNight #ElemMathChat
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Every morning during #MathsWeekScot a new puzzle set by The Scottish Mathematical Council will be shared on BBC Bitesize. You'll get a hint to solve it & the answers will be posted after 12:00 each day. Today's puzzle is now live!
mathsweek.scot/schools/math...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓
mathsweek.scot/schools/math...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓
September 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Every morning during #MathsWeekScot a new puzzle set by The Scottish Mathematical Council will be shared on BBC Bitesize. You'll get a hint to solve it & the answers will be posted after 12:00 each day. Today's puzzle is now live!
mathsweek.scot/schools/math...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓
mathsweek.scot/schools/math...
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #EduSky 🎓
Where are the discussions about teacher shortages in these articles?
How many of these students have been taught year after year by non- or emergency licensed teachers that don't have the pedagogical content knowledge or skills to meet students' needs? www.the74million.org/article/covi...
How many of these students have been taught year after year by non- or emergency licensed teachers that don't have the pedagogical content knowledge or skills to meet students' needs? www.the74million.org/article/covi...
COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading, Math Skills
First NAEP data since pandemic show seniors who graduated in 2024 performed worse than those who graduated in 2019.
www.the74million.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Where are the discussions about teacher shortages in these articles?
How many of these students have been taught year after year by non- or emergency licensed teachers that don't have the pedagogical content knowledge or skills to meet students' needs? www.the74million.org/article/covi...
How many of these students have been taught year after year by non- or emergency licensed teachers that don't have the pedagogical content knowledge or skills to meet students' needs? www.the74million.org/article/covi...
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An opening build + writing activity to open our year!
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
An opening build + writing activity to open our year!
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
Beautiful wisdom from @dianaceja.bsky.social as a new school year begins. #wismath #MTBoS #iTeachMath
The same way we train students to look closely at a growing sequence or shifting figure, we can train our own attention to notice what repeats. Not to judge it, but to understand it.
cuz once we become aware of a pattern we gain the power to keep it shift it heal it
#MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath
cuz once we become aware of a pattern we gain the power to keep it shift it heal it
#MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath
Maybe it’s a pattern of rushing. Of overextending. Of holding your breath in stress.
Maybe it’s a pattern of pausing. Of noticing kindness. Of making space for laughter or light.
#MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath
Maybe it’s a pattern of pausing. Of noticing kindness. Of making space for laughter or light.
#MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Beautiful wisdom from @dianaceja.bsky.social as a new school year begins. #wismath #MTBoS #iTeachMath
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Creating a space for students to reflect on their learning throughout the school year has made a world of difference in my classroom—especially in knowing how students see themselves as learners.
(Which, at the end of the day, is what matters.)
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/how-studen...
(Which, at the end of the day, is what matters.)
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/how-studen...
How Students See Their Own Learning
a reflective tool and system that can change how you understand your students
thebrokencopier.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Creating a space for students to reflect on their learning throughout the school year has made a world of difference in my classroom—especially in knowing how students see themselves as learners.
(Which, at the end of the day, is what matters.)
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/how-studen...
(Which, at the end of the day, is what matters.)
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/how-studen...
I would love to hear @mathematize4all.bsky.social's take on this @edweek.org article and the paper it highlights. I'm very curious about who was interviewed. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... #iTeachMath #MTBoS #wismath
How Should We Teach Math? General and Special Ed. Researchers Don't Agree
The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.
www.edweek.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I would love to hear @mathematize4all.bsky.social's take on this @edweek.org article and the paper it highlights. I'm very curious about who was interviewed. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... #iTeachMath #MTBoS #wismath
This entire thread is fascinating, but I especially love this one, which just may show up as a community building activity in my next PD session.
118. PSRA/National Pasta Association, 1997: "Which one of the following kinds of pasta do you think best describes your personality? Would you say...spaghetti, elbow macaroni, bow tie or rotini or 'corkscrew-shaped' pasta?"
August 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This entire thread is fascinating, but I especially love this one, which just may show up as a community building activity in my next PD session.
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An evergreen. 13 Deadly Sins of PD open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
13 Deadly Sins of PD
From August, 2016
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August 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An evergreen. 13 Deadly Sins of PD open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
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There’s a word for the dots on dice and dominoes: Pips. That’s also the name of our newest game, a logic puzzle that tickles the left side of your brain. Play it here: nyti.ms/4lD2xwZ
August 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There’s a word for the dots on dice and dominoes: Pips. That’s also the name of our newest game, a logic puzzle that tickles the left side of your brain. Play it here: nyti.ms/4lD2xwZ
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The 2025 Arnold Ross lecture, "Randomness, Geometry, and Privacy,” will be delivered by Dr. Francis Su, hosted by Proof School on August 1, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT).
This event is free, but you must register by July 31 to access the Zoom link.
Link in comments.
This event is free, but you must register by July 31 to access the Zoom link.
Link in comments.
July 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The 2025 Arnold Ross lecture, "Randomness, Geometry, and Privacy,” will be delivered by Dr. Francis Su, hosted by Proof School on August 1, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT).
This event is free, but you must register by July 31 to access the Zoom link.
Link in comments.
This event is free, but you must register by July 31 to access the Zoom link.
Link in comments.
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new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
![When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools
Neil Selwyn, Marita Ljungqvist and Anders Sonesson [1]
Abstract: Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on the large amounts of work that teachers put into reviewing, repairing and sometimes completely reworking AI-produced outputs that they perceive to be deficient. Rather than reflecting teachers’ lack of skill in prompting GenAI effectively, the paper shows how this work foregrounds the educational limitations and frailties of AI and other automated technologies – with teachers having to act on a wide range of complex professional judgements around pedagogical appropriateness, social relations and overall educational value to bear on AI-generated content. The paper concludes by considering the need to challenge ongoing industry and policy claims around the labour-saving benefits of artificial intelligence in education, and instead focus on the ways in which these technologies are dependent on the hidden labour of humans to co-produce the illusion of automation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y6hdumjyq5qq566lpzcgm5oc/bafkreigekoonls6r72cp2u5ijx43qaubp546k7x6a34svbiz4i4phkpytq@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A colleague recommended "Quality Implementation: Leveraging Collective Efficacy to Make 'What Works' Actually Work. I'm reading the preview before ordering...they state that evidence-based practices take on average 17 years to become routine. How many edu-pendulum swings happen in that time?
July 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A colleague recommended "Quality Implementation: Leveraging Collective Efficacy to Make 'What Works' Actually Work. I'm reading the preview before ordering...they state that evidence-based practices take on average 17 years to become routine. How many edu-pendulum swings happen in that time?
Cost per pound of vehicles compared with per pound of types of cheese
Cost (in USD $) per pound of Vehicles compared with per pound of Types of Cheesegraph by Andrew McCalip/Norma Gordon; slow reveal by Norma Gordon (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar…
Cost (in USD $) per pound of Vehicles compared with per pound of Types of Cheesegraph by Andrew McCalip/Norma Gordon; slow reveal by Norma Gordon (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar…
Cost per pound of vehicles compared with per pound of types of cheese
Cost (in USD $) per pound of Vehicles compared with per pound of Types of Cheesegraph by Andrew McCalip/Norma Gordon; slow reveal by Norma Gordon (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Original graph - McCalip, Andrew (@andrewmccalip). “Since we're talking manufacturing this week... I think a lot about the price of cheese vs vehicles per pound.” …
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July 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is a brilliant way to generate some curiousity around circles in order to motivate the circle theorems which are so often just presented as some mathematical magic. #MTBoS #iTeachMath #WisMath
Can anyone help with a resource? It’s a pre-cursor to circle theorems. There are circles made up of different number of dots and students have to join dots to make different triangles and explore their angles. Anyone know it? I’ve lost it #MathsToday
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is a brilliant way to generate some curiousity around circles in order to motivate the circle theorems which are so often just presented as some mathematical magic. #MTBoS #iTeachMath #WisMath
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July 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Two take aways:
AI is not a substitute for high quality instructional materials or expert teachers
The AI generated lesson plan reflects the "school math" content that it was trained on, which is sad.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS #WisMath
AI is not a substitute for high quality instructional materials or expert teachers
The AI generated lesson plan reflects the "school math" content that it was trained on, which is sad.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS #WisMath
What Is Wrong with This AI Lesson Plan? - Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler
🪄 I tried a popular lesson planning AI tool and was VERY DISAPPOINTED.
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#AIteacher
🪄 I tried a popular lesson planning AI tool and was VERY DISAPPOINTED.
alicekeeler.com/2024/01/16/w...
#AIteacher
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Two take aways:
AI is not a substitute for high quality instructional materials or expert teachers
The AI generated lesson plan reflects the "school math" content that it was trained on, which is sad.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS #WisMath
AI is not a substitute for high quality instructional materials or expert teachers
The AI generated lesson plan reflects the "school math" content that it was trained on, which is sad.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS #WisMath
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You’re doing everything right.
But math scores still say otherwise.
🧠 Let’s fix what’s broken—together.
📅 Free Masterclass | July 25 | 2 PM EST
🔗 www.sedaeducationalconsulting.com/masterclass-...
#Choosing2See #ICUCARE #dbc_inc #MathMasterclass #MathEducation #EdLeadership #MathPD
But math scores still say otherwise.
🧠 Let’s fix what’s broken—together.
📅 Free Masterclass | July 25 | 2 PM EST
🔗 www.sedaeducationalconsulting.com/masterclass-...
#Choosing2See #ICUCARE #dbc_inc #MathMasterclass #MathEducation #EdLeadership #MathPD
July 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
You’re doing everything right.
But math scores still say otherwise.
🧠 Let’s fix what’s broken—together.
📅 Free Masterclass | July 25 | 2 PM EST
🔗 www.sedaeducationalconsulting.com/masterclass-...
#Choosing2See #ICUCARE #dbc_inc #MathMasterclass #MathEducation #EdLeadership #MathPD
But math scores still say otherwise.
🧠 Let’s fix what’s broken—together.
📅 Free Masterclass | July 25 | 2 PM EST
🔗 www.sedaeducationalconsulting.com/masterclass-...
#Choosing2See #ICUCARE #dbc_inc #MathMasterclass #MathEducation #EdLeadership #MathPD
What do m&ms have to do with data science?
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
Building a Data Science Foundation
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July 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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What do m&ms have to do with data science?
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
Building a Data Science Foundation
reg.learningstream.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What do m&ms have to do with data science?
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
Find out TOMORROW at 12:30 ET at "Building a Data Science Foundation: A Sweet Journey Through K–12": a free 90-min virtual PD on vertically aligning data & stats from K-12.
Register now! reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
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Put these webinars in your calendar! Our next three speakers are true leaders in the MATH EDUCAION world.
Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi...
#iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil
Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi...
#iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil
July 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Put these webinars in your calendar! Our next three speakers are true leaders in the MATH EDUCAION world.
Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi...
#iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil
Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi...
#iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil
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If you want a template for your own upcoming year (seriously: I loved using this myself!) then I've got one you can make a copy of here:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/your-new-y...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/your-new-y...
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you want a template for your own upcoming year (seriously: I loved using this myself!) then I've got one you can make a copy of here:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/your-new-y...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/your-new-y...