Caroline Rossi 7/1/26 Caroline Rossi 7/1/26

End of Year Thoughts: BTC and Attendance Ideas

The first half of this blog post discusses ideas to improve BTC in my classroom. The second half covers ideas I want to try this upcoming school year to improve student attendance and improve my methods of recording attendance and grades - should I finally ditch the paper record book?

Caroline Rossi 6/15/23 Caroline Rossi 6/15/23

How ‘BTC’ Looked in my Classroom ‘22-’23

Well, my first year of trying out BTC (‘Building Thinking Classrooms’ as described by Peter Liljedahl) has come to an end, and overall I really enjoyed implementing this new teaching method! I did NOT follow Peter’s exact BTC model. HOWEVER, I found a variation of it that I like and that overall worked well. Here is what I did.