YOUR FREE RESROUCE IS ON THE WAY TO YOUR INBOXâď¸
But⌠if youâre reading through this and thinking:
âĄď¸ âI donât just need better things to say in the moment⌠I need this cycle to stop happening so often.â
âĄď¸ âThese responses are helpful⌠but my students still shut down the second math gets uncomfortable.â
âĄď¸ âI need students to actually build stamina and independence instead of immediately waiting to be rescuedâŚâ
Then we need to go deeperâŚ
Created by a secondary math teacher with 12+ years of classroom experience.Â
If youâre tired of carrying every lesson on your back and constantly rescuing students through hard math momentsâŚthis training was made for you.Â
Letâs STOP rescuing through every hard math problem and having to carry every lesson on your backâŚand finally build a classroom where students are able to persevere through problem solving without immediately shutting down.
THIS IS FOR YOU IFâŚ
âď¸ Youâre tired of answering your own questions during class
âď¸ You want students to dive into testing ideas and looking for similar examples when problem solving
âď¸ You want to give rich open ended math questions that go beyond âwhy?â and word problems without a student asking âcan you just show us?â or âI donât know where to startâŚâ
âď¸ You want to build predictable systems so that the classroom feels calmer even while the math gets hard
YOU DO NOT NEED:
- More gimmicky worksheets that ask students to color by numbers or crack the code
- Another pd/meeting that throws around words like âproductive struggleâ, âgrowth mindsetâ, âinquiry-based learningâ or talks around the problem for 45 minutes
- Another ârigorousâ lesson structure that sounds great in theory⌠but completely falls apart the second students say âwait⌠what are we even doing?Â
YOU NEED:
 âď¸ Practical systems that help students know what to DO when they get stuck instead of immediately dropping their pencil and shutting down
âď¸ Real strategies and steps to develop productive struggle that works with actual teenagers⌠not just in a perfect demo classroom during PD day
âď¸ Clear routines, teacher moves, and problem-solving structures that actually work and make math feel more tangible to students so that they are able to have meaningful discussions
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THE PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE PDâŚ
is a 9-part bite-sized audio training that gives you practical systems and real classroom strategies to help students actually start, think, and try⌠without you having to constantly rescue them.
So instead of carrying every lesson on your back, you can build a classroom that takes students from âI donât knowâ to âWait⌠let me try.â
INSIDE YOU'LL GET
9 BITE-SIZE AUDIO TRAININGS
You can listen to anywhere on your commute, during a walk, or even while folding laundry
IMPLEMENTATION WORBOOK
Plan, reflect and adapt everything to your own teaching style.
CLASSROOM SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE
So this works daily, not just in theory.
READY-TO-USE TOOLS + TEMPLATES
So use it tomorrow without overthinking.
SO YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CLASSROOM FROM:
 BEFOREÂ
â blank stares and eye contact avoidance
â âI donât knowâ or 'I don't know where to start'
â You picking up the pencil, doing one more example and answering your own questions...
So every time it gets hard⌠everything stops.
Pencils down. Eyes up. Waiting.
And youâre left carrying the lesson. And just to be clearâthis isnât your fault.
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 AFTERÂ
âď¸ students start even when theyâre unsure
âď¸ they try something and write it down instead of shutting down
âď¸ and youâre not constantly picking up their pencil to âjust show themâ
 So that when the bell rings and you ask your classroom a question they no longer give you the doe in headlights look and are able to jump into problem solving mode because they have been given a roadmap on what to do even if they donât know what to do. They feel comfortable staying in the struggle longer because the word âstruggleâ is no longer synonymous with âfailureâ but with âprogressâ, âlearningâ and âachievingâ.
WHY THIS PDâŚ
And we have heard and had âproductive struggleâ PDs beforeâŚ
They have defined what productive struggle is, they have told us why students need to struggle in class and they probably started talking about Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset with the brain graphic that we know all too well...and after about 90 minutes of talking you are left thinkingâŚok, great but I still donât have any practical ways to âlet students struggle productivelyâ in class.
This training was designed to be the opposite of thatâŚ
If youâve ever left a PD feeling inspired for approximately 11 minutes before realizing nobody actually explained how to implement any of itâŚthis is exactly why I created this training.
 It will focus on building classrooms where you can give real students a roadmap to struggle productively rather than fall apart. Because it was made by a real teacher who has taught in a classroom for over 12 years and has truly been there.
AND I KNOW WHAT YOU MAY BE THINKING...
I donât have time for another PDâŚ
Iâve already tried discussion/productive struggle and it completely floppedâŚ
It sounds great but I have curriculum to cover and if I stop to spend time on discussion and complex problem solving Iâll fall behindâŚ
Whenever I let students struggle the classroom either goes dead quiet or its complete chaos, either way its a DISASTERâŚ
And trust me I get itâŚthose are real concernsâŚ
Because âproductive struggleâ was one of those phrases thrown around in teacher prep like confettiâŚ
with zero modeling, zero structure, and no real way to actually teach students how to do it.
đ THATS WHY THIS PD IS DESIGNED SO THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO LISTEN AND IMPLEMENT IN YOUR TIME AND YOUR SCHEDULE
- Bitesize audios that you can listen to anywhere: going for a morning walk, while you are making copies or even folding laundry
- Plug and play templates that you are able to adapt and modify to fit your pacing guide and your students
- Scripts to help support you while you get comfortable while being uncomfortable during discussion, start discussion when you can hear crickets after you ask a question and manage the chaos
- Systems that are ready to go to help give your students a roadmap to know what to do when they donât know what to do.
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And the truth is I didnât create this PD from a perfect classroom
For years I was the first one to pick up a pencil, get frustrated when I got the blank stares after asking a question and feeling the need to fill the silence with more explanation. At some point, I realized I wasnât actually teaching students how to move through struggle⌠I was accidentally teaching them to wait for rescue.
And the harder I worked to make math feel easier for them, the more dependent they became on me to carry the thinking in the room.
And its because in 12 years of teaching secondary math, I had never had a PD that actually showed me HOW to build productive struggle in a real classroom that led me to design this pd. What Iâve included in this blueprint came from years of trial and error, testing systems and strategies that helped students move from âI donât knowâ to âlet me try.â
Because students do not build confidence in math when we constantly rescue them⌠they build it when they are taught how to push through hard things even when they are stuck.Â
BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAYâŚ
Students deserve to build confidence in math by learning how to think through challenges, take risks, and persevere instead of immediately shutting down when things get hard.
And you deserve to teach in a classroom where you are facilitating thinking and discussion⌠not constantly carrying the entire lesson.
You were never supposed to carry the entire cognitive
and emotional load of the classroom by yourself.
