Stephen Weimar

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@MFAnnie @EdPsychMama @JennSWhite I think we first used Notice and Wonder in our NCSM 2006 workshop.

@MFAnnie @EdPsychMama @JennSWhite The trademark was registered when we were part of Drexel May 6, 2014. Filed May 16, 2012. NCTM asserted they would not enforce it at the time we left NCTM. It never should have been trademarked in the first place but Drexel had the monetize the eyeballs dream.

@mpershan I'm often amazed by your seemingly boundless intellectual and creative energy ....it's very hard to find others in a similar space, ready to commit, able to do so, ....more to the point, hard to build the relationship to that point....so much to negotiate....so much trust...

@sweimar This space being twitter? Less and less so honestly as the nature of social media has changed. I love creative collaborations but I often find myself putting in more than my collaborators and not knowing what that means.

I am stuck at an airport, this is a great time to ask me a question.

@mpershan Yeah. For those who experience school as alienating, there is safety in mastering and having predictable the alien. (Not saying it is this for all, nor that's the only reason to seek stable pattern.) How to create a safe space to not have to check significant portions of self?

@sweimar It's a tricky balance I think because kids (at least in my school) seek familiar patterns and things that break the normal school mold can be experienced as non-natural. It's a bit paradoxical.

@mpershan Yes! I was reminded of this recently in some articles about mathematicians who exhibited this in uncommon ways. I am also intrigued by the interest interviews of Jamaal Matthews and the idea of bringing the expertise of students into the math class. Quite different expertises.

@sweimar Kids who take a long time to learn skills and ask a lot of questions often experience that as being 'bad at math' but really that sort of maturity should be seen as mathematical excellence.

@mpershan I am also thinking about the not so extreme elements of being able to enter calm, meditative, even natural spaces while doing math.

@sweimar For a few years (even forgetting covid) I have been really cautious before giving kids things to do that *require* extreme patience or extensive failure. But some of that is good and I'd like to do a few things like that this year.

In Episode 34+35 @ArisWinger shared his experience in an AMS Meeting. Many attendees witnessed white supremacy in action—and decided not to say anything. Instead, they emailed Aris afterwards, with varying types of apologies. Here is what Aris wrote back: a 🧵 0/9

@MrVaudrey Instead of labels that apply to the student, could use labels that apply to the work, say in terms of completeness or accuracy. Or, if must use labels relating to the student, then of your action not the person: not yet addressed, somewhat, fully. Etc.

@SuMACzanne @MFAnnie @paomaths @pegcagle @maxrayriek @eileenhogan62 @sig225 @mathhombre @JTJuten @matienda @valyons @1228redd @roughlynormal @123Westley @BeckyNftP @mr_stadel @averypickford @javgarci @Durant100 So great! We definitely celebrate you!

@MFAnnie @paomaths @pegcagle @maxrayriek @eileenhogan62 @sig225 @mathhombre @JTJuten @matienda @valyons @1228redd @roughlynormal @123Westley @BeckyNftP @mr_stadel @averypickford @javgarci Thanks, Annie! Richard just sang “Las Mañanitas” to me to start my birthday off right! 😍 And Richard & @Durant100 gave me this lovely necklace!

Ah, memories! “If” I weren’t retired this would be fun to #NoticeWonder about tomorrow! @paomaths @pegcagle @maxrayriek @MFAnnie @eileenhogan62 @sig225 @mathhombre @JTJuten @matienda @valyons @1228redd @roughlynormal @123Westley @BeckyNftP @mr_stadel @averypickford @javgarci

@jennalaib @mpershan I have also used it as a routine. The issue: who “owns” noticing and wondering. If the use of it as a routine leads to students thinking that the teacher owns these, then we’ve lost much of the value. So, how do we use it as a routine such that students feel ownership and power?

@mpershan @sweimar I think it’s a powerful routine — and I do use it as a routine — but it has to be imbued with curiosity.

I still like this post, though I had only started messing around with worked examples back then so they only make a brief appearance. problemproblems.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/cog…

@mpershan Right, back to one of the points of you blog entry: are we focused on getting to an answer or on developing our mathematical thinking. I think the latter is more effective for the former. And it also speaks to equity: whose math, whose thinking, who matters, who belongs?

@sweimar Yeah I definitely am very frustrated by teachers who passively aggressively ask "what do you notice? what do you wonder?" when there is an extremely narrow thing they want students to notice/wonder. People do that on twitter also and it bugs me.

@mpershan Sure, you’re hearing my frustration with uses that wind up not bringing students any closer to valuing their own thinking. My benchmark is “wait, we’re not done noticing and wondering yet!” - 8th graders in “at risk school” who now knew they had the power within to see math paths

@sweimar I might be guilty of just using it as another routine that I make students do, though I do think those sorts of routines can do the sorts of things you're describing.

Thinking about MLK Jr.’s mom and all the many moms who lead. And have always led. “How moms shape the world “ (Anna Malaika Tubbs | TEDWomen 2021) ted.com/talks/anna_mal… via @TEDTalks

@nomad_penguin And scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

@nomad_penguin From our collaboration with colleagues at Drexel University: pubs.nctm.org/view/journals/…

NEW Blog Post 'Teacher noticing' amiealbrecht.com/2022/01/16/tea… Teachers notice all the time. But what does noticing involve, and how do we improve? (A long blog post in which I delved deeply into a couple of papers, wrote up my summary, and decided to share. 🤷‍♀️.)