We all have the pressures of standards, deadlines, state tests, and pacing guides. It drains your battery fast. Our idea brings joy, builds community, sparks engagement, and recharges YOU! Come learn how this easy-to-implement, minimal prep approach can have you smiling with your students tomorrow!
How do I teach my students to: persevere through a non-routine problem? revise? explain so someone else can understand? and find joy in a challenge? Participants will learn how to use a two-day protocol to facilitate meaningful learning and rich discourse while promoting productive struggle.
This session will provide an overview of the Illinois Comprehensive Numeracy Plan, including the vision, priorities, and goals guiding its development. The plan emphasizes evidence-based instruction, coherent systems of support, equitable access for all learners, and a cohesive continuum of learning
Technology should not replace mathematical conversations; it should expand who gets to participate. Thoughtfully designed digital routines can make student thinking visible, reduce barriers, and create classrooms where every learner sees themselves as a valued member of the mathematical community.
How do we help students show their math thinking? Explore open-middle and low-floor, high-ceiling tasks, discourse structures, and instructional routines that make student thinking visible and build deep mathematical knowledge. Examples span grades K–8.
This session explores joyful, student‑led ways to humanize math from Birth–12th grade. We’ll rethink beliefs using viral context specifics that assist in small shifts toward equity and justice, and dig into The Mathematician’s Project to spark thinking, voice, and belonging in your classroom.
Math Engagement: Reignite the Love will provide educators with practical, ready-to-use strategies that increase student engagement, encourage mathematical discourse, and build confidence in the math classroom.
Every math class has students who doubt they belong. Equity begins when teachers design classrooms where every student believes they can be a mathematician. We'll share simple routines and instructional moves that reshape student identity, changing their engagement, achievement, and love of math.
