'Learn from your students' 29-year-old principal .' She was so right."

I am young, I am 29 years old. I often think about the day when I become a principal or vice principal, which is a main goal in my professional life I would like to accomplish. When I think about being a principal being so young, many fears cross my mind. How will teachers who have been around longer than I have been alive take leadership from me. How will they react when I try to empower them to change, to shift, if they have not shifted yet. This article http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/01/31/news/inland/san_marcos/z39e03f5aed4abe078825754e0078a399.txt is comforting.

The article is also nice to show that Algebra isn't boring and can be very much fun. I love when Teachers get active like this. In high school I had a great advance math teacher. He has been a role model for me in many ways. He would jump on the desk to get our attention, He would do competition that the winner would win a ' Golden Detention Slip' Not in any of my other classes did the students fought for a detention slip. Out of all that he did, it was that he believed in me as a student that helped me excelled. Many times when he had to go to a meeting, he would have students, myself included, help lead the class. We went over the homework that was assigned and taught the new lesson and answered questions from the class. It was very empowering and rewarding. The one who is doing the talking, learns.



I will have to share this song with our middle school math teacher.

Math put to music

"Graph A Line" compliments of Steve Norton's eighth-grade pre-algebra class at St. Joseph Academy in San Marcos (sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells"):

Graph a line, graph a line, here is what we know: Draw a table, pick an X, plug it in, and go.

Get a list of five or six, and graph your ordered pairs. Connect the dots, a line you've got, if you've graphed with care.

Graph a line, graph a line, from slope-intercept form Y equals MX plus B. Here is what it's for:

At B you cross the Y-axis, and M, it stands for slope. Begin with B and move with M. It makes a line, we hope!

I will also be sharing this article with our math teacher to maybe get some new ideas. She already makes up a few songs for her classes. This is reminding myself that I need to get her to write them down and I will add them. What Math tricks do you use?