A Quick Update on Year 11

Wow, so where has the time gone?  I am surprised (and a little disappointed in myself) for not writing on here more this year.  Even though I was teaching less classes and students this year than the year before, this year brought a lot of new opportunities for me...

• I taught two sections of 8th grade Algebra 1 and one section of 7th grade.  All of my 8th graders took the Algebra 1 Regents, and all my 7th graders took the NY State Common Core Math Test.
• One class in each grade was an integrated co-teaching class with some co-teaching challenges in the beginning of the year.
• My 8th graders were the first group of 6th graders that I ever taught, and to date, the only group of students I have had for three years in a row.
• I unofficially became the 8th grade coordinator which meant coordinating fundraising, planning a senior trip, coordinating an 8th grade t-shirt, ordering caps and gowns, and planning/making a graduation happen, all of which I have never really done before.
• My elective this year was also Memory Makers, which made the middle school yearbook, which, again, was something I had never done before.
• My school started an National Junior Honor Society chapter, and I was the chapter advisor.
• This was my first year of Math for America Master Teacher Fellowship.
• I participated in my Algebra for All cohort sessions.

So this year was busy.  Tuesday was our last day of school, but I went in yesterday and today to inventory all of the math manipulatives (which I have wanted to do for three years now), organize all of the CMP3 textbooks, and finish cleaning up my room.  I will say that even though I haven't been good writing on here, I did keep up with #teach180 on Twitter for the most part, which I am proud of.  

I do want to hold myself accountable and write more on here in the next couple of days, so here are some things I would like to go deeper into:

• Reflecting on my EOY student survey & Algebra 1 Regents data
• Glows & grows from this past school year
• Curriculum planning for next year 
• Assuming I will be the 8th grade coordinator again next year, being more organized with everything including my Memory Makers yearbook elective & the NJHS
• My experience with having my students research & present Math Chats this year and how I might be more organized with that this year
• Now that I have inventoried all of the math manipulatives, thoughtfully plan out how I will use them nest school year
• Read A More Beautiful Question, which I found in my school's book room today  
• Last summer I participated in Brilliant.org's 100 Day Challenge, but unfortunately, they are not doing it this year, but I want to do something to explore math content-wise, so I will look into either their Problems of the Week or Khan Academy 

Like I said, I kind of regret not writing more on here this year, but now that summer is here, I hope to relax and reflect on here a little bit so I can re-charge for the new year.