Fishtank Learning Blog

Math problems aren’t written, they’re rewritten.

A real example of how a word problem can evolve from a fun, but rough beginning into a rich, polished problem.

At one end of the curriculum spectrum, there are fully-scripted, off-the-shelf options and at the other is, well, nothing—a blank page leaving you unlimited possibilities for what to plan. Could the best answer lie somewhere in the middle?

Our first Fishtank Teacher Spotlight is with Allyson Smith, 10th grade English teacher and English Department Head at Argosy Collegiate Charter School.

This week, the Thomas Fordham Institute published a report on the quality of materials from three popular curriculum-sharing websites and came to conclusions that the majority are of poor quality.

We think this makes the case for high-quality OER even stronger.

It's that time of year when the school day can feel interminable. It doesn't help that it might be dark when you get to school AND when you leave. Winter break is in sight for both students and teachers, and it can make everyone a little stir crazy. So we polled the Fishtank staff for some of the little wins they like to celebrate to get through those final schooldays of December.