A Grade 4 Teacher’s Journey Toward Curricular Alignment How one teacher’s curiosity about the transitions between grade levels transformed her understanding of what Grade 4 can be Four years. That’s how long I’ve been thinking about the gap between Grade 3 and Grade 5 in our school. Not in an obsessive way, but in that…
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From Overwhelmed to Innovative: Redesigning My Marking System By a Grade 4 Math Teacher | Cohort 21 Design Thinking Session   The Challenge I wanted to transform my math program to address differentiation more effectively, but I felt trapped. My planning periods were consumed by marking, leaving no time for the program innovation I knew…
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Sometimes clarity comes from the most unexpected places. For me, it came from sorting my teaching tasks into urgent and important quadrants—the Eisenhower Matrix exercise that felt overwhelming at first but ended up revealing something profound about where I’ve been spending my energy and where I want to direct it this year. When I laid out…
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