<p>Today’s podcast will be featuring a poem by Joan Graham, “Nature Knows its Math.” As I read this poem, I want you to think about math. Yes, you heard me right. If any of you know me, I have never been the biggest fan of mathematics. However, math is a fundamental part of our world and can greatly help us place things into perspective. I want you to think about how math affects your life. How does math manifest outside of math class? Keep these ideas in mind as I read.</p>

Remembering Old Love

In this series, I will be reading mentors texts and providing you and your students some quickwriting and/or discussion-based writing ideas. Writing can seem very challenging, especially to students who haven’t had a ton of practice. So, providing short, consistent and relatively low-risk opportunities to write can make all the difference in eliminating the intimidation factor that often comes with on-demand writing. I usually like my students to start our sessions by beginning with a quickwrite or, what I like to call, Writing into the Day.