Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Be careful what you wish for

The first weekend in December every year is generally reserved for attending the Northern California Mathematics Teachers Conference held on the grounds of Asilomar on the Monterey Peninsula. Upon attending last year, I wasn't getting what I wanted out of the numerous sessions that I attended. It seemed as if nothing was directly relevant to the specific needs I had, such as how do other teachers sequences and sums of sequences in a way that is both interesting to the students and at the same time not too theoretical and over their heads. So at a department meeting later on in the school year I said, off the cuff, "wouldn't it be great if we could just get a gathering of Bay Area Independent School teachers to share ideas and lessons?"

At the beginning of this school year, my department chair suggested that I "make it happen." Therefore, I have spent the past couple weeks getting this whole thing set up and the first (and hopefully annual) Head-Royce Mathematics forum for teachers will occur this Saturday March 4th, 2006.

Be careful what you wish for has never hit so close!