Cindy PhillipsMay 92 minWomen in STEAM Empowerment Luncheon based on Neon Museum in WarsawIn 2018, I created and ran a motivational luncheon for every female calculus student at White Plains High School, and it was a smashing...
Cindy PhillipsApr 191 minMaking Math VisibleMy new idea “making math visible.” Get them out of their classrooms for a bit! Posting and doing their work all around the school for...
Cindy PhillipsApr 143 minI Stand on the Shoulders of GiantsIn 2008, I was given the option to teach honors pre-calculus for the first time. The next year, as was the policy of my school at the...
Cindy PhillipsApr 134 minIn the end as it began. One empty apartment.There’s a strange sort of peace that you feel when you move into a new apartment with nothing. Maybe you have a mattress on the floor, a...
Cindy PhillipsApr 24 minMr. Piil, my 7th grade computer teacher, a eulogy.In remembrance of John Piil, my beloved junior high computer teacher. He passed away about 6 months ago, and this is what I wrote. *** I...
Cindy PhillipsMar 301 min“A sublime woman does not disappear into her surroundings” -the Museum of automobiles and fashion, Málaga, SpainWell, add to the list: learn about engines. This museum was just incredible. Housed in a former tobacco factory, the museum juxtaposed...
Cindy PhillipsMar 2516 minJ’s two moms (spoiler: one is me.)First week of school, September 2023. School starts without incident, save for one very young-looking, very slight young man weighing...
Cindy PhillipsMar 112 minWhere it all began, although I didn’t know it at the timeJuly 31, 2023 Zagreb, Croatia (Transcript from Video, censored and edited a bit to remove all of the F-bombs I dropped because I was SO...
Cindy PhillipsMar 111 minHow to make a classroom a home.I don't mean hang motivational posters, geometry formula signs you steal from canva (although they're GREAT!). I mean make it a home....
Cindy PhillipsFeb 253 minStir Creativity… divine mathematical inspiration from Warsaw’s STEM museumsIn 24 hours In what MUST be divine intervention In what MUST be listening to the universe In what MUST be communing with the ancestors In...
Cindy PhillipsFeb 222 minWrite more. Create more. Love more. All without fear.Today my friend Mika Roque mentioned the phrase “love bombing” to me. I didn’t know what that was. So I did what responsible educated...