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Here’s a sign of a powerful professional development experience: your laptop and cell phone never leave your bag. Researchers have said for decades that a one-day workshop won’t “grow dendrites” for teachers. Professional learning, they argue, must be ongoing and sustained. And they’re right. But when a single day creates disequilibrium—when it shifts how you see teaching and learning—that spark can ignite immediate change. Sometimes a surge of inspiration disrupts your pract

Throughout the Common Core Mathematics State Standards, students should be making sense of mathematics in the real world. In fact, the...