Lizza Vachon

ms math and science teacher, master's from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Personalization Fellow at Populace. Thoughts my own. she/her

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

We got the grant!! For those of you who've heard me working, stressing, and hoping over a grant to get $2,500.00 from Walmart for kiddos who's families need financial support to get eye glasses/ contacts, it's happening! #GunnisonWatershed #SupportLocalEducation #walmartgrants

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

"Change is an opportunity to do something amazing" - George Couros. #GunnisonWatershed

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

Another year, another duck discussion - we start the year talking about the power of curiosity and the importance of diversity. #gmsmath2021 #T550

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

"We need to make the positives so loud, that the negatives are almost impossible to hear" - George Kouros #solutions #GunnisonWatershed highlight what you love and what you want.

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

"School should be a joyous place" - George Kouros #GunnisonWatershed

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

"Start with strengths" instead of focusing on how to fix issues with PBIS, making sure that you're recognizing student strengths. #GunnisonWatershed

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

"Are we facilitating a love for learning or are we just teaching basic skills?" #GunnisonWatershed

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

@gruntleme What!!? How neat!

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

I am attending Recovery through Relationships: 5 Design Steps for Building and Strengthening Students’ Networks on Luma. Join me! https://t.co/8t8nFiB7V1 via @LumaHQ

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

@edutopia CO State 8th graders are taking math and science. We already did ours. Took 3 days. First time we didn't do via laptop carts, so actually easier organization-wise this year. Students seemed pretty disengaged. Lots of questions about why we have to do this etc.

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

This weekend has been full of awesome resources! All math teachers interested in designing a more culturally relevant and supportive classroom should check out Transcend's Design Cards! https://t.co/d1UsUHRjqn

[edutopia @edutopia]

“The representation within the pedagogy that we put in front of our students holds power even when we are unaware of it.” Do all of your students see themselves reflected in your classroom materials?
https://t.co/sbbJHUCJVh

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

Ethnomathematics! I think every math teacher should know this as part of foundational courses! For beginners, https://t.co/Jb6nFWIXA5
Sooo many ideas about incorporating these ideas into my math class so that my students can start to see themselves as mathematicians.

[Eunice Mitchell @CoCoaCrazed]

@karen_mapp "See your families as full, equal and equitable partners. That's family engagement...they are not just receivers of information...they have funds of knowledge that we need to be the best educators we can be." #bbsf2020 @bigpiclearning

[Amber Spry, Ph.D. @amber_spry]

Every year when I teach identity politics I ask the same question on the first day of class. Rather than the usual icebreakers, I ask: “How does your family / your culture cook rice?” 1/

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

*singing to the tune of 'Dem Bones' by James Weldon Johnson* The grit research's connected to the self-regulation research, the self regulation research's connected to the self-control research . . .

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

Oh search terms. Searching for papers on grit (as in the perseverance + passion definition by Duckworth); These are different grit grain sizes for birds. Turns out, that's a whole literature too. :)

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

Been collecting information associated with teacher licensure, and looking at my Praxis scores. I'm "adequate" in writing. Wanna know what people pay me thousands of dollars to do every day? Write. #iamnotatestscore #youarenotatestscore #standarizedtestsarenotlife

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

In my initial literature sweep, constructs associated with curiosity so far include: motivation, interest, creativity, adaptation, flow, self-regulation (particularly attention) and Curious George.

[Lizza Vachon @lizzavachon]

Delving into the research on curiosity. So far I I want to do some kind of mash up of the research and Curious George, thanks to my coworker Tanya's comment :) #creativityandcuriosity #populace #curiosityresearch