Essential Teaching and Learning

                                                                                                             Copyright (C) 2022 Scott B. Freiberger By Scott B. Freiberger It’s not difficult to fathom why facts and figures may not be the triggers for light-hearted classroom banter.  Many students remain uneasy uncovering utterly abstract facts and seemingly inconsequential suppositions.  How can we make math more relevant?  Perhaps more importantly, what steps can we take to create more inclusive mathematics classrooms, especially as it pertains to gender equality?  In addition, what supports can we offer struggling studen...

                                                                                                       (c) 2022 Scott B. Freiberger By Scott B. Freiberger With cerulean, carmine, and chalky holiday lights sparking sensations of splendor rife with family life and frolicking friends, November is a terrific time to reflect and rejoice.   With resolve and ingenuity flowing freely from fresh autumn air, now would be a propitious time to provide students with a voice to articulate appreciation for the scholarship, seasonal sentiments, and magic-like merriment that they experience.   Advancing an attitude of gratitude is also particularly poignant to model for young minds.   ...

(C) 2021 Scott Freiberger. Design by @KimARichardson.  By Scott B. Freiberger In the emotive, making-of-the-mammal Disney movie “Zootopia,” protagonist and officer extraordinaire Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) endures bad badgering, abundant bullying, and beastly berating while aspiring to become the city’s first crowned cottontail cop.   Yet despite uncivil circumstances and a series of exhausting encounters with furtive fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), she perennially persists, prods, and pushes on.   Ultimately, our flocculent, furry friend finds collaborators in questionable quarters and encounters rapport and responsiveness in virtuous vertebrate.   At its core, the moving movie is a celebration of inclusion and resolution, and teaches that appearances may not only be ambiguous, but also absolutely inaccurate.   The noble notion of employing empathy, kindling kindness, and trying tenderness to focus forward could also be acutely accentuated now in educati...