About 3 years ago I migrated to no outside of class math practice (no homework). And after some bumps have had success and student's continued to grow. For me and my students a real positive! Had presented about it a few times at conferences.....
This post really deserves to be better, but instead I am posting about what happened next.....
A parent contact the Channel 3000 local news about my teaching without assigning homework in HS math courses (Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus). They wanted to do an interview and good PR for the school is always welcomed.
They came down and did a 3 minute segment and article. - here.
But then it really caught fire, had a Smart-brief wtih ASCD about it - here
then, probably received 80 emails about how....
And finally an NEAtoday article - here
Rethinking Homework: Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs, 2nd edition
My goal for this post is to simply connect these for any teacher considering changing. There are always naysayers, but I run on data and while HW for HS math is good - I skip good for great....I am always open to discuss - It can be done and I know my students are better because of it!
