Watch Math Coach Audra McPhillips Teach a Great Common Core Aligned Math Lesson!

Audra McPhillips is a math coach in Rhode Island. In this video for The Teaching Channel, she works with middle school students on understanding how functions operate. McPhillips believes that students in this age group can be engaged in grasping not only lessons and concepts, but also in seeing the way those connect with the standards themselves.

If you create a free account with The Teaching Channel, you'll be able to access all the supporting materials for this lesson--including the lesson plan. Stick around the website to check out a host of other great tutorials and videos.

Better Parent-Teacher Conferences--Strategies for Being Effective!

Though this set of resources and strategies is specifically geared toward middle school educators, many of the ideas and issues that this blog post discusses can easily be adapted for all grades.

Here, you can find everything from a checklist for productive conferences, to a tutorial video showing good communication techniques, to suggestions from other teachers who have shared their best practices. Start thinking ahead this summer so that you can be ready for the fall!

CLICK HERE to check out this parent-teacher conference resource roundup on Middleweb.com, a website dedicated to all things middle school!