I would like to offer you the chance to let us know what you would be interested in learning more about or what you would like to talk about on this blog. Some ideas to get you going could include recruitment and retention of math teachers, effective teaching methods, technology, conferences, professional development, NCLB, and assessments. What’s missing from this list? What is on your mind right now? What can/should KATM do for you?

You can leave a comment for me by clicking on the “Comments” link below this and every post. If you haven’t already registered (and you probably haven’t), the link will take you to a log in screen. There, under the password box, is a link to register with the site. Choose your user name and type in a current email address where you will receive your temporary password as well as a link back to this blog to log in for the first time.

After logging in, you can change your password to anything you’d like. Click on “view site” at the very top of your screen to get back to the main page, then leave your comment! After you’ve registered, you’ll be able to leave comments as often as you’d like whenever you’re signed in. I hope you’ll spend the few minutes it will take you to register and join our community. It’s the first step in making the connections to a terrific network that’s waiting for you!

As always,

Kids Who Count, Will!
Fred

Hello, and thanks for stopping by a web space for both members and non-members of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics (KATM) who live and work in Zone 3, located in northeast Kansas. We welcome you and hope you’ll continue to stop by as we develop the site and make it a home for your mathematics teaching needs.

Zone 3 includes the counties of Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Osage, Shawnee and Wyandotte. The Northeast Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics (NEKATM) also makes its home in Zone 3.

In the coming weeks, we will begin to add content which we hope you will find both relevant and significant to your teaching. We hope you’ll bookmark us and check back frequently. We want this to be your site; come in, make yourself at home, and please feel free to engage and join in the conversation to make math education in Kansas the best it can be. Until then, remember:

Kids Who Count, Will!

Fred Hollingshead
KATM
Vice President, Middle School/Junior High