This interactive session connects the science of learning, Peter Liljedahl’s research on Building Thinking Classrooms, and progressive math curricula to foster productive habits, student confidence, and joy. Explore routines and structures that promote perseverance, sense-making, and belonging, while supporting social-emotional well-being through equitable math practices.
Participants will hands‑on tinker with manipulatives to intentionally build incorrect solutions, record and categorize those error models, and analyze the class “data” to surface common misconception patterns. Through guided discussion and quick routines, teachers practice facilitation moves and leave with ready prompts, and corrective reasoning strategies to use tomorrow.
This session shares how our middle schools improved with curriculum implementation through standards-driven instruction, teacher leadership, data analysis, and a 3-tiered math support system. Participants will explore strategies that strengthened discourse, conceptual understanding, small-group instruction, and growth mindset while increasing student success in mathematics.
Discover how real-world data can make algebra more meaningful and engaging. In this interactive session, participants will explore classroom-ready activities from the CourseKata curriculum, using visualization, modeling, and coding to teach functions, linear relationships, and mathematical reasoning. Educators will leave with practical strategies and adaptable lessons for Algebra I and II.
