Common assessments can be powerful ways to learn about your students’ strengths and needs for additional learning opportunities. In this presentation, participants will look at common assessment items, data sets, and collaborate to provide follow-up learning opportunities. Participants will get access to common assessments from Grade 3 through Math 3 and ideas to support learners.
Experience the Mathematical Language Routines as learners, not observers. Through student experience and expert group protocols, K-12 educators discover how the MLRs bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life and build equitable discourse for every student, including multilingual learners. Leave with a concrete action plan you'll use Monday morning.
This session is designed to support teachers in developing their students’ statistical interpretation skills aligned with the upcoming standards which focus on data-centered investigations. We will provide resources for participants to practice writing interpretations using claims, evidence, and reasoning. Participants will leave with resources for supporting student interpretations of data.
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte
My career in education began with teaching high school mathematics in the mountains of Western North Carolina. During that time, I began working on a master's degree, which included graduate courses in statistics. I had never taken a course in statistics for my undergraduate course... Read More →
Young learners are natural tinkerers who sort, count, and make sense of the world around them. Counting collections gives educators a powerful, low-barrier task that sparks curiosity and reveals what students truly understand. In this session, explore how counting collections and embedded formative assessment tools help PK–2 teachers see and advance student thinking in real time.
When math concepts connect across grades, students build knowledge that lasts, and teachers spend less time reteaching and more time moving forward. In this session, explore how a coherent curriculum creates logical progressions that benefit every learner, at every level. Walk away with a clearer picture of vertical and horizontal alignment and what it looks like in practice.
Participants will explore real classroom STEM projects, reflect on how feedback and revision build resilience, and collaborate in small groups to design a project-based activity that encourages students to learn from mistakes, improve through feedback, and build confidence.
Explore how music and visual arts can transform K–5 math warm-ups into engaging learning experiences. Participants will experience arts-integrated routines aligned to elementary math standards that promote creativity, discourse, representation, and problem-solving. Attendees will leave with classroom-ready activities that build mathematical thinking through music, visual art, and collaboration.
During this session participants will learn about small suggestions that can be put into action in the classroom immediately. These practices focus on highlighting and elevating student thinking while increasing student engagement. We will engage participants in learning about three instructional nudges that center the brilliance of students' thinking during group work and wrapping up a lesson.
Participants will examine how intentional instructional design, questioning techniques, discourse practices, and inquiry-based learning experiences can elevate rigor and deepen student understanding across content areas. Participants will attempt a challenging problem-solving task without immediate guidance. Afterward, they will reflect on emotions, strategies, and the importance of struggle in learning. Participants will sort sample questions into low-level and high-level categories and collaboratively revise questions to increase rigor.
