Program Manager's Message:

Welcome back from what was hopefully a restful break, followed for many of us by an exceptionally hectic week!

I always love the first week back after break. I remember way back when we had semester break after winter break, which meant sitting there with all your books at home while the family sat around celebrating Christmas/Yule/Hanukkah/whatever holiday, wishing they would study themselves. Now, most of us finish the semester off and then send kids home for a nice long break to forget everything enjoy some restful time with family and friends over the holidays.

Our TLC team is developing some exciting stuff for this semester and the summer! We have some Professional Learning Community (PLC) events set up pretty soon -- look below for all registration links but one, and watch for that link in your email soon. We're trying to do these regionally to foster more in-person discussion of some important math delivery and content topics.

If you're looking for something to celebrate this month related to math, consider January 27th, Lewis Carroll's birthday! You've probably heard of Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. You may not, however, have heard of Charles Dodgson, a mathematician and maths professor in Oxford. 

They were the same person. Some say that Alice's adventures presented Dodgson, a conservative mathematician, a chance to express his views on what at the time were radical new ideas in math -- like that weird "imaginary numbers" thing -- weird, at least, at the time.

Enjoy your explorations with your students this month, and this semester!

Stephen