She's one of the most outstanding math teachers I have seen in seventeen years of middle level education. She motivates them all. Students frequently tell me that she is their favorite teacher. Sheryl is one of our team leaders this year, involved in building-wide decisions which promote the interdisciplinary team efforts that we have begun. The lesson procedes like clockwork.
Appropriate vocabulary is reviewed by the class, and a short discussion of tesselation ensues.
Sheryl drops a video of Escher's life and work into the player while providing details of the the travels and challenges of the Dutch artist who lived and worked in Holland during the Nazi occupation. The video is cued to Escher's incorporation of Moslem tiling and his visit to the Alhambra in Spain. Sheryl briefly steps across the hall to her office. Sheryl's schedule includes presenting to teachers at the monthly meeting of the Goals 2000 Consortium, a staff development program involving Cove, Union, North Powder, and 3 La Grande elementary schools. Sheryl provides content, vocabulary, at the monthly meetings.