Free Classroom Posters
Hi all.Today's post is going to be short and sweet. I did some organizing and decided to put all of the posters I have created over the past three years in one central location on my blog. Need some...
View ArticleSix P's: Be polite, prepared, prompt, productive, positive, and participate!
After a few weeks of relaxing and traveling, preparation for the next school year is in full swing. I'm the crazy type of person who likes doing school stuff during the summer because I can do it at...
View ArticleGrowth and Fixed Mindset Quiz Foldable
Found another resource I created but never blogged about - a quiz to determine mindset that I formatted as a foldable. This past school year, we focused growth mindset for Day 2. We talked through SBG...
View ArticleWords Worth Knowing Foldable
So, going through old files has meant finding files I created and never used. Oops...Last summer, I had this great idea of having my students keep their own word wall in their notebooks. I made a...
View ArticleStuff Worth Sharing: Printable Flash Card Maker (+ Free Integer Operation...
Today's Stuff Worth Sharing is a nifty site I discovered at the end of this past school year to make my own printable flash cards.The site itself is sort of plain looking. But, it makes some pretty...
View ArticleStudents Speak Out About Ms. Hagan
I had a ton of fun reading through my Algebra 2 students' letters of advice to next year's students. As I was typing out the best snippets of their responses, I felt like I was reading through an...
View ArticleStudents Speak Out About A/B/Not Yet
This year, I only gave three different grades for each assignment or quiz. An A. A B. Or a Not Yet. If students didn't make an A or a B on an assignment or quiz, they had to retake it until they...
View ArticleStudents Speak Out About Notebooks and Other Stuff
Okay. This is the end of my Algebra 2 students' advice for future students. I've broken it down into categories to make it a bit easier to digest and easier for me to reflect on. CalculatorsIf you...
View ArticleBulletin Boards :D
Summer blog maintenance continues. I'm trying to get stuff more organized so I can find it better and you can find it better! Now that I've written over 500 posts, it seems like everything is super...
View ArticleAlgebra 2 Skills List 2015-2016
I've reorganized my Algebra 2 course for next year. I'm going from having 3 units to 11 units which is kind of a crazy jump. I've also increased my number of skills/quizzes, but each skill is much...
View ArticleStudent Made Algebra Foldables 2014-2015
On the day after the EOI, I gave my Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 students a project that I've used before: design your own interactive notebook page. This time around, I made a few changes. I asked them...
View ArticleUnit Table of Contents for INBs with SBG Skills List, Built-In Dividers, and...
So, that was an unexpected break from blogging. My body decided it was a good time to catch a cold, and I decided that meant I should take a real rest. I've got a trip planned later this week, but...
View ArticleAlgebra 1 SBG Skills List 2015-2016
I've been thinking about how I want to arrange my Algebra 1 class for at least the past month. I started by taking all of the OK PASS standards and breaking them into learning goals. I took all of...
View ArticleMore Student Made Foldables
I started posting student made foldables a few weeks ago, but I got sidetracked by a cold. Here are some more:
View ArticleFree Problem Solving Strategies Notebook Insert
[Edit: I got super excited and posted this without actually linking to the file. Oops. It's here.]The upcoming school year is going to be a BUSY one, so I've been trying to get as many resources...
View ArticleFree Interactive Notebook Hall Pass
This school year, I'm trying a new approach with hall passes/letting students go to the bathroom. In the past, I've just let students go whenever they said they needed to go. At the beginning of the...
View ArticleFree Mathematician's Toolbox Foldable for INBs
Last year, I had my students leave a blank page at the front of their INBs to glue in a formula sheet. It never happened. Oops... Some of my students were quite stressed out about the page Ms. Hagan...
View ArticleBeginning and End of Year Concept Map Foldable for INBs
For the past two years, I was participated in the Oklahoma Geometry and Algebra Project, or OGAP. One of the requirements for this program was having my students complete concept maps at the beginning...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Combine Like Terms Poster
The idea for this poster is completely unoriginal. In other words, I completely stole it from Annie Forest at Show Your Thinking. When I saw her post a few months ago, I knew this had to find a place...
View ArticleTeaching Respect
I've been staying busy the last few days with finishing up work for my second graduate class of the summer - Diversity in Education. I'm missing my math based classes and looking forward to getting...
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