The Flying University Project

Designing Communities of Learning - Our Welcome Packet

By Clarence Thompson
As part of our toolkit for motivating our students to math excellence, we created a Welcome Packet.  That packet contains the following elements: a couple of pictures of kids who look like the kids we are trying to reach, a description of the Flying University Project, a Famil…

Our First Video: A Celebration of First Steps

I don't have time this weekend to write a lengthy post, but I thought I'd share a video which illustrates the sort of goals we are trying to achieve.  The girl in the picture is in the fourth grade, and after a minor false start, she successfully solved a double-digit by single-digit multi…