Comments on: The Grad School Wrap-Up Post /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/ less helpful Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Megan Schmidt /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2407024 Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:04:49 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2407024 You know, Dan, this blog post is pretty darn fantastic. You come up with a lot of creative stuff. Your 3-act idea has probably engaged thousands, if not millions of kids across the country. You’re funny off-the-cuff during presentations…
Given all of the awesome stuff that gets churned out of blog.mrmeyer.com, THIS post has inspired me the most to keep striving to be a better educator tomorrow than I was today. Thank you for all you’ve given to the online math community and congratulations on a tremendous accomplishment.

]]> By: Travis /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2407016 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:30:00 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2407016 Dan,

Thanks for all you do and we are looking forward to you coming to Boise Idaho!

I am beginning to get task overload as well (and it’s summer). Do you do anything more with Google Tasks than just have a massive list? Any organizational strategies there? Once I get past 10 tasks, it seems like Google Tasks is losing its effectiveness. I know you’re busy, maybe there is a link you can point me to as I know you’ve loved having it.

Thanks and congrats!

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406875 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:49:29 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406875 Thanks for the kind words, everybody. Means a lot. For those wondering what’s next, I’ve written this morning about my upcoming job with Desmos.

]]> By: Amir /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406868 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:03:38 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406868 Dan – a big thank you from those of us across the pond in the UK. There is a growing cadre of teachers who use your model as a way to drive teaching and learning of Mathematics and long may this continue.

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Peter Price /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406847 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 23:01:10 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406847 Well done, Dan!

I am so impressed with your work output and how easily you seem to write challenging, fascinating posts.

I, too, used your TED video with my mathematics education students here in Australia, year after year. My students got tired, I think, of my frequent mentions of you and your work.

My mind is exercised almost daily on how to truly engage elementary aged students with math the way you have done with older students. Thank you for your uncompromising stance on getting kids to buy in, to care about the math they are learning, to actually “get it”.

I consider myself blessed to have bumped into you briefly at NCTM 2014. I look forward to the next opportunity to be in a room with you, probably in a keynote somewhere.

]]> By: Karen Fonkert /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406845 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:10:13 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406845 I’m amazed how clearly you were able to lay all that out so soon after finishing. My head was still reeling, and I couldn’t say I would do it again, until a few years later after the pain had subsided. The advantages you listed for finishing the dissertation resonate with me–I now realize those as well.

]]> By: Nora /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406836 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:50:38 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406836 Congratulations Dan! Persistence certainly pays off. You have change the way I conduct things in my classroom as well, for the better obviously. So, what’s next?

]]> By: Jami Stone /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406835 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:38:55 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406835 Dan,

I second Dan Nechodom’s thoughts as you are probably around my son and daughter’s age. Yet, I’ve followed your blog and use your initial TED talk each year on the first day of my secondary math methods class. One year when I and some of my methods students attended an NCTM regional conference; the students who remained behind asked to find a topic on your blog and share with the rest of us when we returned.

Like you, I am a practitioner at heart and would rather follow best practices than conduct research on my own. As you mention, there is a lot of value going through the dissertation process.

Some of my colleagues in the Service, Teaching, and Research (STAR 2010) program mentioned how much more influential and powerful blogs such as Fawn Nguyen’s and yours are than some research studies that usually take two years or more to make it through the submission/acceptance/publication process.

Congratulations again and keep up the great work. When I heard you speak at CPAM in April, I messaged my students your words considering problems: You can always add, but you can never subtract… Such a powerful statement!

]]> By: Jennifer Fairbanks /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406831 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:35:43 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406831 Thank you for everything you have done. You have made me a better teacher and my students appreciate that!

]]> By: Dan Nechodom /2015/the-grad-school-wrap-up-post/#comment-2406830 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:51:14 +0000 /?p=23222#comment-2406830 Dan,
I’ve appreciated your work since I saw your initial TED talk. You are possible a good two decades my junior, yet I find myself looking up to you in many ways.

My respect for you took an even greater leap forward this morning as I read your post. Fostering children can be rewarding and agonizing at the same time. I know, from several years of experience, that it can be all-consuming for a family.

Thank you for all you do on behalf of kids.

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