Author: jonathan

Santa Fe area Math and CS teacher; class archives, instructional techniques, and musings on educational leadership.

August 13, 2023

My Three Heroes and the IGP

The Innovative Graduation Project (IGP) is a way for students who have failed courses to…

May 31, 2022

I am in the process of re-organizing all of my teacher resources for the calculus,…

February 7, 2022

Colleagues, Friends, and Community, Today is a special day! I recently created a badge for…

February 13, 2021

Today, I am sharing a pedagogical strategy I use to learn mathematics with students. The…

May 13, 2016

Mathematics requires higher order conceptual and analytical skills, therefore, it is often difficult to completely…

February 19, 2016

In my final year at Santa Fe High School in 2015, the Innovation Academy that…

November 5, 2015

In the fall of 2013 and 2014, Santa Fe High School (where I taught math)…

June 5, 2015

I got this activity at an AVID training in 2010 or so (Cynthia Sanchez was…

May 13, 2015

The students were given a task, during the last month of AB and/or AB/BC Calc…

April 30, 2014

This is an attempt to calculate pi by exhaustion. This method leverages a polygon with…