By Linda Gojak I always wanted to be a teacher. As a youngster I would come home from school and set up my own classroom in the basement. There was a big table and a blackboard on the wall. My stuffed...
In most people’s minds, math is synonymous with numbers. Doing math means starting with a set of numerical values and maneuvering them according to preestablished rules to achieve a correct answer. Math is actually much more. In fact, the word “mathematics”...
The COVID-19 crisis has closed schools for 1.3 billion students around the world. Teachers are trying valiantly to make sure their students continue learning, but in vulnerable communities they face immense and numerous barriers. One of our partner schools, located...
If you’ve ever taken a long family car trip, you know that you eventually run out of playlists and podcasts that please everyone. During the summer of 2014, while driving from North Carolina to Michigan, our foursome discovered the art...
written by Executive Director Chadd McGlone, PhD As a math educator, I love thought exercises that get my mental wheels turning. Nothing is more fun for me than to field questions about why we’ve designed T2TGlobal’s programs to be what they...
by Naomi Blum, MEd T2TGlobal's Education Engagement Coordinator Silk Hope School in Siler City, North Carolina, forms a small, tight-knit community. Often the staff there watch students grow up from kindergarten all the way through eighth grade, witnessing their evolution as people...
T2TGlobal has two new members on its roster of math education experts. Andrea Ayala and Paola Castillo from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador volunteered their time to coach teachers in the Galápagos Islands. They describe their first experience...
by Andi Green, Instructional Coach at Martin Millennium Academy | Tarboro, NC There is something powerful and grounding about standing at the center of the world. Something that makes you reflect on what is at your core. Teaching is at my core. It...
Our guest blogger today is Dustin Dresser of Costa Rica Frika. We invited him to Antigua, Guatemala, last month, to serve as an interpreter for T2TGlobal's math education conference for local teachers. Here are his reflections...
For one week in November, dozens of teachers from all over Guatemala showed just how dedicated they are to providing the best education to their students. With the school year ending for a two-month break, they would certainly have been...
Today in Guatemala, we were honored by the NGO Estrella de Mar with its Partner of the Year award for 2017. T2TGlobal has supported the two math teachers at its Colegio Impacto girls' leadership academy in Panajachel, Sololá, with coaching in pedagogy. At the...
An interesting concept in mathematics is exponential growth. At T2T-I we like to practice what we preach, so we’re first going to provide you with the definition from Dictionary.com: development at an increasingly rapid rate in proportion to the growing...
From October 3 to 7, 2016, teachers in Galápagos had an opportunity to become students. Teams of experienced educators from at least six countries in North and South America offered lessons on best teaching practices for the subjects of mathematics...
This post was contributed by Elizabeth Ollila (at right), who is currently a senior at Carrboro High School in North Carolina. T2T-I thanks her for participating on the 2016 Teacher Trip to Santa Avelina, Guatemala. Here are her words...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala Aristotle once said, “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” He would have been pleased by the gathering of teachers in Guatemala that sought to harness such power. Teachers2Teachers–International brought together approximately 350...
Workshops in Common Hope, Antigua, Guatemala Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala We started our day by introducing the interpreters to their corresponding speakers. Our beautiful and brilliant interpreters were volunteers from the state university of Guatemala, Universidad de San Carlos de...
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