This August I’ll join the Desmos team as a teaching faculty member, where I’ll help their already-amazing crew design activities for teacher.desmos.com.

I’ll miss the classroom experience immensely. I have absolutely loved these 11 years, and I’ve been blessed by students, parents, and colleagues—including those I’ve met through Twitter and blogging—in more ways than I’ll ever be able to count.

But it’s time for a new season. As much as I’ll miss what I’ve done, I’m even more excited for what comes next.

I look forward to the opportunity to dive deep into the question of how to design meaningful and engaging digital math experiences for students. I look forward to the opportunity to rub shoulders with people at the top of my “when I grow up, I want to be like…” lists. I look forward to the challenges that are sure to come, as well as the chance to learn and grow that those challenges represent.

And not least of all, I look forward to the opportunity to make a difference well beyond the walls of my own classroom.

In my own little insignificant timeline, it’s the end of one era and the start of another. I can’t wait for this next one to begin.

I like being a teacher of high school mathematics more than I enjoyed being a student of high school mathematics. What does that say about the nature of the classroom as I’ve experienced it on either side of the desk? And what does it say about the nature of the classroom I should endeavor to create?