Make Math Happen
Make Math Happen
Laneshia Boone
The Instruct: Building Thinkers, Not Answer-Getters
17 minutes Posted Nov 9, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
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Last week, we broke down the Instruct phase — how to plan lessons like a chef curating a recipe, balancing tasks, facilitation, and engagement to make learning stick. This week, I’m serving up the next course: what Instruct actually sounds like in action. I’m sharing a real lesson I planned, facilitated, and reflected on using the Thinking Through a Lesson Protocol (TTLP) — a “Build a Pizza” task that pushed students to reason about relationships, not race toward answers. You’ll hear how purp...