Oct 5, 2025
My BTC journey started with shower panels and a simple idea: get students thinking. Here’s how the journey evolved and what I’ve learned since.
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My BTC journey started with shower panels and a simple idea: get students thinking. Here’s how the journey evolved and what I’ve learned since.
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Scenery, Stories, and Strategies: BTC 2025 Reflections
Last week at this time, I was in Renton, WA attending the Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) conference and enjoying the scenic Pacific Northwest as a backdrop. I was fortunate to attend with colleagues from my district and the conversation in sessions and over lunch sparked ideas about how to take what we’ve learned back to the classroom. After using BTC strategies for the past few years, I was…
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5 Game-Changing Takeaways from My Journey with Building Thinking Classrooms
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in two years of implementing Building Thinking Classrooms with middle schoolers, it’s this—middle schoolers are quirky. They will find loopholes in everything. Give them whiteboards? They’ll doodle memes before and after solving problems. Randomized groups? Cue the dramatic groans and a few eye rolls. My stragies of dealing with these perceived loopholes have…
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