54th Annual Conference Sessions

Affiliate Leaders Meeting

What's It All About? An Orientation for those new to the NCSM Annual Conference

Equity in Mathematics: Strategies & Solutions

Tyrone Howard

In this session, Professor Tyrone Howard will address the needs for why greater efforts for equity in mathematics are needed, and how it can be done. Using examples of evidence-based approaches in teaching and learning, this presentation will offer strategies, resources, and solutions that math teachers can implement to create authentic, culturally sustaining, and equitable learning environments for all students. This session will also give particular attention to school leaders and practitioners, and what can be done to place a particular focus on those student populations who are most marginalized.

Lead Speaker: Tyrone Howard (Bio)

Let’s Talk about Bias and the Mathematics Classroom

John Staley

Lisa Williams

There are many factors to consider when developing a classroom culture and environment designed to nurture students’ mathematics identity and agency. At the heart of this work is the task of building positive, productive, and supportive teacher-to-student and student-to-student relationships, which is often dependent on two critical factors, “Who is teaching? and “Who are the learners?” (Johnson and Williams, 2015).
Bold leaders have conversations that support teachers as they identify, monitor, and begin to address their implicit biases; thus allowing them to not only look in the mirror at themselves but also learn about their students. Research supports the salience of identity and purpose centered learning as essential levers for equitable access of historically marginalized students.  This session will examine these ideas as educators seek to expand learning opportunities.

Lead Speaker: John Staley (Bio)
Co-presenter: Lisa Williams (Bio)

Maximizing Your Impact: Leading A Stress-Free Culture Of Change!

Timothy Kanold

In order to achieve our NCSM vision for equity and lead teachers of mathematics into behaviors that advance the learning of all students, mathematics education leaders empower and nurture a culture of productive professionalism. To lead a learning culture of continuous growth and change, we first embrace the adversity faced each year, teach others how to avoid emotional exhaustion, create a relationally intelligent and trusting culture, and model emotional and social wellness for others.
 

Lead Speaker: Timothy Kanold

“Dear Math, I’m not a fan of you”: Adapting systems to create authentic learning environments for both students and adults

Girls and women tend to hold lower mathematics self-concepts. Join us to explore self-portraits and Letters to Math to uncover the types of critical events that shape the identity of our middle school students and preservice teachers. As bold math leaders, we must recognize that we have a healthy math identity and need to develop empathy and understanding for the real anxiety others feel about math in order to create equitable and authentic learning environments.

Lead Speaker: Heather Crawford-Ferre
Co-presenter: Claudia Bertolone-Smith
Co-presenter: Lynda Wiest

Detracking: Our continuing work towards equity in San Francisco Unified

San Francisco continues our journey of working towards equitable outcomes based on a premise that all students are brilliant. We’ll share the design of our work and how it has changed over time, and we’ll use recent data to reflect on our successes and challenges. We’ll discuss resources for anti-racist education that shape our thinking and our work. You’ll have time to discuss questions and leave with ideas for change in your context.

Lead Speaker: Ho Nguyen
Co-presenter: Lizzy Hull Barnes

New Coaching Strategies to Build New Teaching Habits

Ensuring that every student develops as a confident competent mathematical thinker will require changing some deeply rooted teaching habits and building new teaching muscles. Supporting teachers in this critical work will require ongoing practice-based professional learning experiences. Learn a set of coaching activities that build capacity for effective instructional strategies that target mathematical practices and process standards, and how to leverage the repeatable nature of reasoning routines to build new teaching muscles and habits.

Lead Speaker: Grace Kelemanik
Co-presenter: Amy Lucenta (Bio)

Dismantling Structural Inequities in Middle School Mathematics

In this session, participants will learn about the steps two mathematics leaders have taken to begin dismantling systemic inequity by detracking our middle school mathematics program. Mathematics leaders have a unique opportunity to influence local practices and policies like tracking. If we are not working against educational injustices we are perpetuating them. Come learn how we can boldly disassemble practices that bar students from accessing the best possible mathematics instruction.

Lead Speaker: Caitlin Kirk
Co-presenter: Kelsey Anselmi

A Problem-Based Task Design that Promotes Knowers, Doers, and Creators of Mathematics

The Connected Mathematics Project ‘s new task design centers on three connected components: Initial Challenge, What If…?, and Now What Do You Know? We will unpack, experience, and discuss the new approach to problem-based mathematics as it plays out over time in classrooms. Drawing on feedback from over 250 classroom teachers, we will discuss the importance of the task design in terms of both student experiences and teacher practices needed for high-quality and equitable learning.

Lead Speaker: Alden Edson
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Phillips
Co-presenter: Yvonne Slanger-Grant

Online Video Clubs for Coaches: Using Technology to Support the Learning of Mathematics Coaches

In this session, we share our innovative online video club process used to provide professional learning opportunities for mathematics coaches. After describing our video coaching club process, we will engage audience members in discussion about the use of video to support the learning of mathematics coaches. This discussion will also focus on transitioning video clubs into an online space by sharing our lessons learned from multiple iterations and revisions of our online video club process. 

Lead Speaker: Ryan Gillespie
Co-presenter: Jennifer Kruger
Co-presenter: Stephanie Martin

Fostering Powerful Mathematical Pondering Through Bold Leadership: Shifting the Vision from Imagination to Realization

Let’s challenge ourselves to imagine or reimagine mathematics teaching and learning that fosters powerful mathematical pondering. What does it mean to deeply ponder problems in mathematics? What structures support and empower students and teachers in this vision and which ones are a hindrance and should be dismantled? Let’s consider how leaders can assist in developing a vision that shifts from imagining what this should look like to making it a reality.

Lead Speaker: Trena Wilkerson

Accelerate, Don’t Remediate: New Evidence that Learning Acceleration Works for All Kids

When addressing unfinished learning, teachers, coaches, and leaders face a critical choice: is it best for students to review prior content before starting grade-level learning or move forward with just-in-time support? This session dives into groundbreaking new evidence  cited in NCSM’s guidance that an instructional approach that connects unfinished learning into the context of new learning allows all students to accelerate.

Lead Speaker: Mary Pittman
Co-presenter: Stephanie Ely

Imagining the Future of Mathematics Education through Student Learning Experiences in Desmos Classroom

NCTM’s Catalyzing Change (2018) calls for students to experience the joy, wonder, and beauty of mathematics as part of its movement to reimagine mathematics education. Desmos, as a tool for math instruction, has the power to display this beauty through a variety of animations, digital manipulatives, and connected ideas. In this session, we'll explore how Desmos can make visual patterns come to life, connect mathematical representations, and deliver meaningful learning experiences that value student input.

Lead Speaker: Kurt Salisbury (Bio)

What To Do When Your Cheese Melts

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Lead Speaker: Douglas Sovde (Bio)
Co-presenter: Bonnie Hain (Bio)

Supporting Productive Mathematical Discussions with IM K-12 Math

Promoting productive and meaningful conversations between students and teachers is essential to success in a problem-based classroom. The 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions - Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing, and Connecting- can be used to build an inclusive classroom community where students enjoy mathematics, make mathematical connections, and develop conceptual understanding. In this session, attendees will learn how to support teachers in guiding student discourse, synthesizing understanding, and facilitating interactive lessons with confidence using the Five Practices framework. The presenter will model effective strategies for using these throughout daily instruction in IM K-12 Math from Imagine Learning, an IM-certified partner.

Lead Speaker: Lisa Matthews (Bio)

Creating a District-Wide Evolution toward Rough Draft Math

Amanda Jansen

Laura Bower

Traci Richards

Come learn how one school district is supporting their educators and students in engaging in Rough Draft Math to deepen student learning and build strong, safe learning communities in the classroom. Participants will (1) engage in a Rough Draft Math experience, (2) learn about and reflect upon productive practices and principles that supported changes at the school and classroom levels, and (3) have the chance to consider possible next steps in their own context. 

Lead Speaker: Amanda Jansen
Co-presenter: Laura Bower
Co-presenter: Traci Richards

How Do I Help My Students Talk About Mathematics? Give Them Something to Talk About!

Latrenda Knighten

To support the mathematics learning of all students, effective teachers establish an environment where students regularly engage in productive mathematics discourse. Purposeful planning for mathematical discourse, the questions to ask, and how to use representations to support understanding and discussion are important components of this environment. In this interactive session, participants will engage in strategies to help teachers plan and facilitate productive mathematics discourse while promoting problem solving, reasoning, and critical thinking skills. 

Lead Speaker: Latrenda Knighten

Opening Doors for Students with Data Science: Implications for Teacher Leaders

The growing influence of data science has the potential to be an important component of the mathematics curriculum, enabling students to share the diverse perspectives they bring to the classroom.  Investigating questions about real data and real situations can help students develop confidence in who they are and why mathematics is important in their lives.  How do we work with teachers to design curricular options that include data science and increase data literacy among students?

Lead Speaker: Tom Dick
Co-presenter: Gail Burrill

100 Years Of Love: Why Romance Has Historically Been The Most Critical Stage in Mathematical Pedagogy

Sunil Singh

In 1929, the visionary book "Aims of Education", by Alfred North Whitehead, was released. Almost a century later, the book remains ahead of its time. One of the foundational ideas in the book was that "Life" was the only subject to be studied, and that there were 3 distinct phases to Learning: Romance(childhood), Precision(youth), and Generalization(adulthood). In this presentation we will examine this more closely as related to 21st century math education.

Lead Speaker: Sunil Singh

Developing a Shared Vision for High Quality Mathematics Tasks: Lessons Learned from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Performance Task Project

As part of our contract with Smarter Balanced to author performance tasks for their summative assessments, The UCLA Curtis Center developed an effective process by which we train teachers to write, edit, and implement high quality mathematics performance tasks and rubrics. In this session, we detail this process and share how it has been used with departments and districts to develop teacher leaders with a shared vision for high quality mathematics assessment and instructional tasks. 

Lead Speaker: Michelle Welford

Use Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices (Smith et al., 2017) to Shift Mathematics Instruction in an Urban District

Inspiring change in a large system is a complex process. In this session, we will describe how we built a network of math content leads across a large urban district and empowered them to tailor professional learning modules for their school sites. Learn about the scope and sequence of our professional learning series aligned to the Taking Action texts centering on NCTM’s eight effective mathematics teaching practices and the five equity based mathematics teaching practices.

Lead Speaker: Cathy Oglesby
Co-presenter: Kristan Gundel

Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert Speaker Series: Fostering the Development of Bold Mathematics Leaders

NCSM promotes bold leadership in mathematics education.  How do leaders become bold?  How does the NCSM Community support developing leaders in their quest to be bold?  The characteristics of bold mathematics education leaders will be explored in this session and research on leadership development will be discussed.  The future is in the hands of today's developing leaders, let's explore the support they will need to go boldly forward.

Lead Speaker: Linda Griffith

Taking an Equity Stance

The familiar and comfortable educational system that we negotiate does not work for our children. Because the oppressive culture of the system is deeply ingrained, it falls upon educators to be proactive in our self-education, acknowledge the inherent systemic racism that leads to inequities, and be courageous in our words and actions. 

Lead Speaker: Diana Ceja

Supporting Students with Learning Differences: Stories, Takeaways, and Resources after 6 years of Partnering with Special Educators

Through the Math4ME program, we have the honor of working alongside special educators and paraprofessionals as they strive to create learning environments in which students are flexible, resourceful, and reflective problem solvers who apply numeracy concepts with deep understanding. Come learn about our professional learning and coaching structures, hear about our 6 year journey & data story, and leave with new ready-to-use resources for implementing fluency and reflection routines.

Lead Speaker: Cheryl Tobey
Co-presenter: Chelsea Fay

Ross Taylor Past Presidents' Session: Inspirational Chats for Leaders Around Issues, Challenges and Effective Solutions

John Staley

Mona Toncheff

Steve Leinwand

Join us as participants and former NCSM Presidents meet to explore critical leadership issues in the charged and engaging session format of Speed Chats.  The brief series of small group conversations will allow colleagues to discuss critical issues facing mathematics education today and to share possible solutions to benefit leaders at all levels. This session is designed for new and experienced leaders alike!

Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock
Co-presenter: John Staley (Bio)
Co-presenter: Mona Toncheff
Co-presenter: Steve Leinwand
Co-presenter: Linda Gojak
Co-presenter: Carole Greenes
Co-presenter: Suzanne Mitchell

An All Access Pass to Meaningful Math

Utilizing rich open tasks that allow for equitable engagement does not need to be intimidating. This session will support the active equity and engagement of all students by working with low floor, high ceiling activities that allow for meaningful mathematical involvement. 

Lead Speaker: Heather Sander (Bio)

Teacher's Engaged with Students, Students Engaged with Math

The Math@Heinemann Learning and Teaching Framework outlines effective practices for the learning and teaching of mathematics. To make these practices a reality, teachers must have knowledge of their students, an effective structure for math class, and rich math content. This session highlights these critical components of instruction, and the support Math@Heinemann offers educators to meet the demands of providing successful learning opportunities for their students. 

Lead Speaker: Patricia Clark (Bio)
Co-presenter: Holly Burwell (Bio)

Be Inspired with CPM’s New Curriculum Inspiring Connections!

After more than 30 years of providing curriculum and professional learning to teachers around the world, and listening to teachers’ ideas and concerns, CPM has taken this wisdom and the latest research and created a new curriculum, Inspiring Connections. Learners will experience more movement, more opportunities to hear a variety of perspectives, and more ownership of their learning in this bi-media course. Students utilize technology and print in tandem, affording students the advantages of both worlds, while learning math in a student-centered, problem-based classroom. Students learn math with the most appropriate venue for the particular learning, like devices, VNPSs, graph paper, or notebooks. Learn about this new curriculum and be inspired!

Lead Speaker: Karen Wootton (Bio)
Co-presenter: Leah Gaines (Bio)

Sponsored Lunch Session: Connecting Discretionary Spaces to Mathematics Teaching Practices and Systemic Violence of Historically Excluded Learners

Robert Q. Berry, III

Saavas Learning Company

This talk focuses on how teachers of mathematics take up discretionary spaces to focus directly on classroom practices. Discretionary spaces in the mathematics classroom are fertile with opportunities to elevate or stifle learners through participation, valuing their thinking, and building community. In connecting discretionary spaces with systemic violence, the intended use of violence is to label the emotional and psychological violence where learners feel disconnected, marginalized, and do not see others who culturally, socially, and physically represent them. This kind of violence may not cause direct physical harm, yet the description of violence is warranted because of the negative impact on one's quality of life.

Lead Speaker: Robert Q. Berry, III (Bio)
Co-presenter: Saavas Learning Company

Old Challenges Require New Approaches

Zandra de Araujo

The past several years have brought unimaginable challenges to humans who work with and within schools. Some of these challenges are new, but most are not. The changes to schools and communities require us to rethink how we work with and for teachers and students. In this talk I'll share some ideas and wonderings I have regarding our opportunity to reimagine mathematics teaching and learning.

Lead Speaker: Zandra de Araujo (Bio)

Transcend Awareness of Social Justice - Take Action!

Ma Bernadette Salgarino, Ed.D.

Kirsten Sarginger

Explore the Mathematics for Social Justice Toolkit! The Toolkit includes implicit bias/racism scenarios and has guidance for how to respond/take action to counteract similar situations. This session will raise awareness of how inequity might be couched in language and actions in which biases might be hidden, but also promote actions that participants can take to confront such inequities and work to change systemic practices that inhibit students' mathematics achievement and participation.

Lead Speaker: Ma Bernadette Salgarino, Ed.D.
Co-presenter: Kirsten Sarginger
Co-presenter: Melissa Gilbert, Ph.D.

Building and Using a Practical Measures Repository to Help Mathematics Educators Center Equity Discussions and Take Action

In this interactive session, educators will investigate our practical measures repository and discuss how measures might be used to help center discussions about and support action to create equitable mathematics classrooms. Participants will learn about the repository then work in groups to investigate selected measures, discussing how associated data could illuminate student and teacher experience and inform action. The group will then join together to discuss the implications for and challenges associated with practical measures.

Lead Speaker: Rebecca Perry
Co-presenter: Angela Knotts
Co-presenter: Kirk Walters

You Have to Choose: Uncovering implicit Bias, Removing Barriers, and Fostering Inclusion Through Shared Stories and Experiences

Coaches and leaders interact with teachers through stories and we cannot fully implement instructional strategies through a social justice lens until we change the script of our own stories. Come engage in “You Have to Choose” where we use vignettes of actual occurrences in education to foster discussions about lessons learned while using your stories to determine actionable steps in adapting or dismantling systems so we can foster equitable interactions for students and adults alike.

Lead Speaker: Sean Nank
Co-presenter: Jackie Murawska

Towards Disruptive Leadership: Igniting Educator and Student Critical Consciousness through Social Justice Mathematics Lessons

Our session will inspire disruptive leadership through developing critical consciousness utilizing social justice mathematics lessons that disrupt systems of social inequities. In exploring reading and writing the world through mathematics, we will establish critical consciousness as an equity issue. Presenters will highlight examples of Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice lessons from diverse school backgrounds and will draw attention to our personal journeys for critical consciousness paralleled with student development of critical consciousness and critical empathy.

Lead Speaker: Holly Tate
Co-presenter: Amy Christensen

Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Rethink Professional Learning

Discover how we can use educators' learner variability to rethink the design of professional learning. We’ll consider how we reduce barriers to create opportunities, and leverage the assets that jagged learner profiles offer in our design choices.

Lead Speaker: Audrey Mendivil (Bio)
Co-presenter: Mark Alcorn (Bio)

Culturally Relevant Leadership in Mathematics Education: The newest book in the NCSM Essential Action Series

Mona Toncheff

NCSM’s mission is to “equip and empower a diverse education community to engage in leadership that supports, sustains, and inspires high quality mathematics teaching and learning every day for each and every learner.” Students are more culturally diverse than ever, and now is the time for leaders to boldly lead with culturally relevant practices. Come explore the clear, articulate culturally relevant leadership practices that are anchored in the essential actions for leadership in mathematics education.

Lead Speaker: Jenny Novak
Co-presenter: Georgina Rivera
Co-presenter: Mona Toncheff

Invigorating High School Mathematics: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Today, it seems as if nearly everyone agrees that mathematics (especially high school math) needs to change. For far too long, mathematics has not worked for far too many students. Mathematics has not changed substantially in my lifetime, nor has it changed substantially for most students, teachers & schools. It is clearly an issue—and it is time to discuss and make serious changes.

Lead Speaker: Eric Milou

I’m All Ears - Listening to Understand Student Ways of Thinking

Students who may not seem to “get it” understand something, and our challenge is to better understand how they are currently thinking. Through Formative Conversation Starters we can better understand our students by engaging in thought-provoking, content-oriented clusters of questions centered on big ideas that transcend grade levels. We will show how a new collection of freely available resources can be used in non-threatening and engaging ways to better understand, and help, our students.

Lead Speaker: Ted Coe
Co-presenter: Desiree Spikings
Co-presenter: Nicholas Joe

Make an IMPACT by Opening Doors through Mathematics

With the tagline “Opening Doors through Mathematics” the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) is dedicated to improving mathematics education in the first two years of college. Using the IMPACT: Improving Mathematical Prowess And College Teaching (2018) document, AMATYC’s most recent standards document, as a guide we will explore strategies to inspire mathematics teachers to create meaningful learning experiences for their students.

Lead Speaker: Laura Watkins

Aligning Beliefs and Actions in Equitable Math Instruction

Most of us believe equitable math instruction is a priority, yet inequitable practices persist in classrooms, schools and districts. In this session, we will consider an activity framework that can illuminate the disconnect between beliefs and actions, and how we can work toward equitable instructional practices that align to our beliefs.

Lead Speaker: Joanie Funderburk (Bio)

All Students as Sensemakers with Bridges Materials

At The Math Learning Center, we know that all students can make sense of mathematics. We support classroom communities that amplify student voice and agency; provide students with choice in models, manipulatives, strategies, and tools; and empower all students to joyfully experience mathematics as an individual and collaborative endeavor. Our approach emphasizes problem solving, the use of faithful visual models, and a focus on fluency.

Lead Speaker: Patrick Vennebush (Bio)
Co-presenter: Kim Markworth (Bio)

Building a Modern Edtech Company

 Learn how top engineers and designers from Google, Facebook, and Uber built the fastest-growing edtech company in the nation. In just two years, Edia has helped hundreds of districts improve student outcomes through responsive math assignments, continuous analytics, and timely personalized actions. With 40m+ data points proving consistent student growth, Edia is the only company in the world to offer districts a full money-back guarantee: if test scores don't improve, districts don't pay. Learn the full story from the CEO at Edia's speaker showcase.

Lead Speaker: Joe Philleo

Inspiring Colleagues Through Stories of Bold Leadership

Paul Gray, Jr.

Narrative ways of knowing are powerful ways to capture what educators know and make meaning from those experiences. Our educator stories also provide us with powerful ways to connect to colleagues, families and communities, and other educational stakeholders. Let's gather together and learn more about how sharing our stories with one another helps us work together to accomplish big goals such as detracking or leading culturally relevant instruction. 

Lead Speaker: Paul Gray, Jr.

CANCELLED - Coaching Teachers to Affirm Students in Mathematics

Thomasenia Adams

Students' disposition toward mathematics plays a critical role in how students engage (or do not engage!) with mathematics. Affirming students - their strengths, knowledge, places of growth, mere presence in the mathematics environment can contribute to the effort to make space for students and their voice. The presenter will provide insight for coaching teachers to affirm students in mathematics - using classroom video and knowledge gained from the field.

Lead Speaker: Thomasenia Adams

How To Help Educators Overcome Their Word Problem Worries

Are educators struggling with students giving up too easily when working on those pesky word problems?

Are they caught in the vicious cycle of pre-teaching concepts BEFORE students have a chance to truly engage in the problem solving process?

In this session, we’ll explore 5 reasons students struggle with word problems and what we can do to overcome this common math class challenge.

Lead Speaker: Kyle Pearce
Co-presenter: Jon Orr

How to Write a Performance Assessment

Regular access to high cognitive demand, low floor high ceiling, mathematical experiences in heterogeneous classrooms is a social justice priority for all students. Yet most curricula do not offer rigorous performance tasks as the norm in everyday instruction. The Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative will share 25 years of experience, showing how to write performance tasks and point-scoring rubrics, including conceptual, structural, and philosophical considerations, to help educators own, enhance, and elevate their curricula and practice. 

Lead Speaker: Tracy Sola
Co-presenter: David Foster

Modeling is the Mathematics of the Future: Build the Foundation in Elementary Grades with Operation Sense

Cultivating mathematically capable citizens requires visionary leadership. Posing real problems and building mathematical models to solve them, especially in elementary grades, emphasizes mathematizing. Building from number sense, operation sense launches mathematical modeling. Between problem-posing and model-building, the mathematizing step is overlooked, not even included in the steps. Once a problem is posed and quantities identified, the mathematical model doesn’t build itself. Knowing what situations are typically solved by which operators is essential background knowledge.

Lead Speaker: Sara Moore
Co-presenter: Kimberly Morrow-Leong

Imagining Modern Mathematics at Scale

John Staley

Equitable access to modern mathematics education in secondary and postsecondary education is key to ensuring that students can achieve their educational, career, and life aspirations. How might we modernize mathematics education at scale through effective policies, practices and actions that result in systemic change? The Dana Center has engaged critical partners and state systems of education in numerous efforts to transform and implement modern mathematics education. Participants are invited to join us as we align efforts to reach consensus on the meaning of modern mathematics and develop an action plan to address systemic and structural conditions and barriers that currently exist in K – 16 education.

Lead Speaker: Denise Thornton
Co-presenter: John Staley (Bio)

From Surviving to Thriving: Making a Case for Taking on Leadership Roles as a Teacher

Too much has already been said about teacher survival, as if that was our goal—to survive classroom teaching while following the ever-growing list of mandates and budgeting for essentials like Starbucks and dry erase markers. How do we transition from surviving to thriving—and stay there!—in education? The answer might be in doing something really scary like becoming a leader. But, is it really scary? Not if you decide to do what matters to you.

Lead Speaker: Fawn Nguyen (Bio)

#PlaceValue: Valuing Mathematical Spaces in the Community --- ROOM CHANGE to Grand Ballroom F

Christina Lincoln-Moore

People and place matter. This session will connect the people, history, and mathematics of the Watts Towers, a local landmark in Southern California. In this immersive session, we will model strategies for integrating “place value,” by highlighting the mathematics of community spaces. Attendees will be empowered to replicate these strategies to create an asset-based narrative of their local communities.

Lead Speaker: Christina Lincoln-Moore
Co-presenter: Erica Heinzman

What Gen Z Teachers Need and Why We Should Give It to Them --- ROOM CHANGE to Platinum 2

Novice teachers of mathematics always need support. But, in 2022 our youngest teachers need a different kind of support than their older colleagues. Teachers under age 26 are members of Generation Z, a generation that sees and experiences teaching differently. In this session we will unpack the defining characteristics of Gen Z, ways those characteristics shape the work of Gen Z teachers in classrooms, and supports for mentoring and coaching our youngest math teachers. 

Lead Speaker: Katherine Marin

Engaging with the Consulting Protocol: Using coaching lenses and a powerful process to collaboratively problem solve coaching dilemmas

Bill Barnes

Thomas Stricklin

In this interactive session, leaders will explore problems of practice using a consultancy protocol to discuss and problem solve challenges they are facing in their daily work.  The coaching lenses will allow for a wide variety of perspectives to be considered and enrich the conversations of the participants as they collaborate regarding next steps for their own coaching dilemmas. 

Lead Speaker: Bill Barnes
Co-presenter: Thomas Stricklin

Innovative elements of leadership: Three Steps to Create Culturally Responsive Space to Shatter Norms and Promote Equitable Structures

The traditional view of leadership suggests leaders are born of a certain personality, taking charge with the loudest voice in the room while commanding respect with decisive actions.  However, leaders who truly affect positive change while inspiring growth in themselves and others embrace empathy while ensuring their actions align with their personality and purpose.  Come discuss how to support those in your charge to take necessary and overdue risks to create truly culturally responsive spaces.

Lead Speaker: Sean Nank

Agile Mind Showcase:  A Positive Mindset Approach to Math

Agile Mind’s showcase will provide a tour of their online teaching and learning programs and blended instructional resources, emphasizing benefits for both educators and their students. Participants will explore the middle- high-school mathematics and SEAD (social, emotional, academic, development) offerings, and Academic Youth Development (AYD) programs. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience firsthand, a sampling of proven, research-based instructional strategies that have helped thousands of educators and millions of students achieve in math and beyond!

Lead Speaker: Kristin Armistead
Co-presenter: Lamar Grant
Co-presenter: Am Norgen

Success is in the Numbers: Building Fact Fluency on a Foundation of Number Sense

Learn how to systematically build basic fact fluency based on number sense and strategies. This presentation will explain the concepts behind fact fluency and why the “drill and kill” method doesn’t work for math success in the long term. With an approach based on establishing facts and then evolving those facts from short to long-term memory, students will be engaged and motivated to learn their basic math facts and achieve fact fluency, using an individualized, game-based learning approach.

Lead Speaker: Janet Pittock (Bio)

Mathematics as a Civil Right: Developing Equity-Focused and Community-Engaged School Leadership

Cathery Yeh

Powerful mathematics education requires creating transformative practices within and beyond the mathematics classroom. Session focus is on identifying culturally responsive and inclusive teaching and coaching practices that dismantle structures and systems that limit students' access to high quality and engaging mathematics. Resources will be shared to reconfigure schools and classrooms to attend to student and community access, relevance, and culture. Dismantling systems of inequity requires the collective! Let’s support each other!

Lead Speaker: Cathery Yeh
Co-presenter: Dina Mahmood (Bio)

Taking Teacher Leadership and Learning to the Next Level: A Model for Professional Learning Cadres

Teachers working together to try new techniques not only build their own skills but also have the best chance of helping other teachers see the potential of something new. We will discuss our development of collaborative teacher cadres who conduct action research and then facilitate professional learning experiences throughout the summer. Participants leave with tools for organization, resources, and tips for utilizing local resources to build teacher leaders and create low-cost, effective professional learning experiences.

Lead Speaker: Natevidad Casas
Co-presenter: Marjorie Huber
Co-presenter: John Kabongo

Equitable Mathematics through Access to High Quality Instructional Materials

In fall 2020, EdReports began use of a revised version of its K-8 Mathematics review tool to better highlight equity for all students and promote access to high quality instructional materials. Revisions include more detailed information about: Focus and Coherence, each of the Mathematical Practices, and Usability.

Lead Speaker: Lynn Smith
Co-presenter: Tim Truitt

How a Global Pandemic Transformed a 2-day Number Talk Institute into a 13-Week Online Leadership Project

This presentation describes an experiment that transformed our thinking about professional learning. COVID required Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC) instructors to re-envision our 2-day Number Talk Institute as a fully online experience. What evolved was a series of online workshops that responded to teachers’ ongoing experiences and led to a leadership partnership with Davis County School District (DSD) to sustain the work over time. This session explores what we did, what we’re learning, and what comes next.

Lead Speaker: Cathy Humphreys
Co-presenter: Debbie Olson
Co-presenter: Trisha Syversen
Co-presenter: Jennifer Walker
Co-presenter: Celeste Harding
Co-presenter: Mary Broadbent

Math-Focused Small Group Instruction: How Do I Help My Teachers Get Started?

“Teach math in small groups,” they said. “How?” I asked. “You’ll figure it out!” they responded. So now what??? Join us as we explore the ins and outs of helping your teachers engage students in Math-Focused Small Group Instruction. We’ll dive into some of the most FAQs: How do we get started? How do we select students? What do we do with small groups? What do we do with the rest of the class?

Lead Speaker: Kimberly Rimbey (Bio)

Coaching Practices to Increase Access and Equity in the Digital Age: A Roadmap to a New Landscape

Coaches play an important role in transforming adult behavior. If we want to transform adult behavior, we have to first understand how adults learn. From there, we can model equitable learning principles  and explore how to develop systems of support for equitable practices in this era of digital transformation. This movement will drive the vision and empower profound systemic impact on individuals, teams, and organizational levels. 

Lead Speaker: Dina Mendola
Co-presenter: Marria Carrington

The Black STEM Teacher Pipeline: Investigating the Problems, Policies, and Practices That Disrupt the Pipeline

This presentation investigates the problems, policies, and practices that disrupt the Black STEM teacher pipeline.  Consideration is given to the historical context and the role of anti-Blackness when considering the Black experience in K-12 curricula, teacher preparation programs, and career pathways.  Participants will explore recommendations for leaders in K-12 systems and teacher preparation programs to support the progression of the Black STEM teacher pipeline.

Lead Speaker: Sherita Flake (Bio)

Powerful Math Moments: How to Create Positive and Memorable Learning Experiences for Students and Teachers

Why do we remember some learning experiences but seem to forget others completely?  Researchers discovered that memorable moments contain the following elements: Elevation, insight, pride, and connection. In this session, you will learn how to leverage these elements to create meaningful and unforgettable learning opportunities for teachers and students.

Lead Speaker: Mike Flynn

Leveraging Goals through Coaching interactions

What is the foundation of your coaching relationships? In this session we will practice setting intentional, sustainable goals rooted in the Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices which support learning for all students. We will learn how to leverage these goals during structured coaching rounds to support reflective, purposeful instruction. Come collaborate with other coaches and practice using accessible tools that will empower teachers to develop confident doers of mathematics.

Lead Speaker: John Hayes (Bio)
Co-presenter: Ashley Boyd (Bio)

Leaders as Lifelong Learners: Lessons Learned from Teachers, Teacher Candidates, Community, and K-12 Learners

As we ASPIRE to be bold mathematics leaders, what lessons can be learned from the stories that teachers, teacher candidates, community members, and K-12 learners have? In order to ACTIVATE stakeholders so that collectively we can ACT  to promote positive change in mathematics education, we must listen, learn, and celebrate the wisdom and power we have collectively. This session focuses on four takeaways to inform, motivate, and guide us in future steps.

Lead Speaker: Megan Burton

Equity in Mathematics through Discourse and Key Teacher Moves

What long-standing practices in mathematics education, often still used today, prevent access to learning and promote inequities? What educational practices can we use so all students have equitable access to deep mathematical learning? In this session, participants will walk away with resources and strategies they can use with teachers immediately to promote access to deep mathematical learning for ALL students.

Lead Speaker: Mark Ellis (Bio)
Co-presenter: Amy Lucenta (Bio)

Break the Forgetting Cycle! Stability and Growth for Your Math Programs

By the end of a school year, students have already forgotten many of their hard-won math concepts. We ‘fill the gaps’ the next year, only to later discover that the ‘filling’ has drained away and new gaps have formed. How can we break the forgetting cycle and make math stick, providing stability and growth for your math programs? Josh Britton will share his 20-year journey, proven model, and Get More Math system for driving long-term math retention. Participants will leave with a fresh perspective on an old challenge, plus access to GMM’s free school year pilot.

Lead Speaker: Joshua Britton

“Escape from Titan!”: A Project-Based Math Experience with 10storymath

Experience 10storymath’s embodied approach to math instruction! In this hands-on workshop, you will apply math concepts during a fun, challenging math and engineering activity. Discover why teachers and students across the U.S. love 10storymath, a new research-based supplement for grades 4-8. 10storymath’s creative math applications bring energy, excitement and deep learning to every classroom.

Lead Speaker: Peter Meyerhoff (Bio)
Co-presenter: Howie Templer (Bio)

Exhibit Hall Happy Hour

Sponsored Breakfast Session: Equity in Mathematics Instruction

William McCallum

The IM vision is to create a world where all learners know, use, and enjoy mathematics. How do we effectively implement quality instructional materials into today's diverse classrooms? This involves commitment and collaboration to ensure all students have access to rigorous, problem-based math instruction.

Lead Speaker: William McCallum (Bio)

Math Moments: Harnessing Fun to Build Grit and Understanding

Math can be fun and challenging! Using game-based learning, see how students persevere through challenges and are self-motivated to advance through harder math concepts.

Lead Speaker: Sean Reidy (Bio)

Leading Outside of the Box: Reimagining Culture, Community, and Collaboration in Mathematics Education

Brea Ratliff

What is your vision for mathematics education, and who are you collaborating with to make the vision a reality? Creating a culture to move mathematics education forward begins with recognizing and valuing the diverse contributions of multiple stakeholders, including those beyond the immediate school community.  Brea will share stories from her journey, including the challenges, set backs, and lessons learned while broadening participation in mathematics education communities at local and national levels. Participants in this session will leave with a toolkit of strategies to engage students, teachers, administrators and a wide variety of community stakeholders as partners in transforming mathematics teaching and learning.

Lead Speaker: Brea Ratliff

Let’s Talk High School Math: Challenges, Guiding Principles, Integrated Courses, Coherent Pathways and Suggestions for Implementation

Steve Leinwand

It is widely recognized that high school math is based on a 100-year-old design that fails to empower, motivate or engage the majority of our students.  Significant reform is long overdue and this session will be a primer on the major challenges we face with the current traditional program, a set of guidelines for change, specific proposals for an array of new courses and differentiated pathways, and teacher-friendly, research-affirmed processes for implementation..

Lead Speaker: Steve Leinwand

Using Rehearsals to Support Mathematics Teacher Leaders Learning that Supports Effective and Equitable Practice

Developing the skills necessary to become a mathematics teacher leader (MTL) supporting each and every student’s learning is challenging. Anchoring MTL professional development in problems of practice that raise issues associated with implementation of effective and equitable practices has simultaneously supported MTL knowledge and skills as well as their leadership identity. Participants will experience a rehearsal, examine opportunities to learn through intentionally planned rehearsals, and gain access to selected rehearsals and accompanying resources.

Lead Speaker: Nicole Rigelman
Co-presenter: Melinda Knapp
Co-presenter: Courtney Baker

Impacting Beliefs, Changing Actions: The Mathematical Brilliance of Students

Danielle Seabold

Each of our students is mathematically brilliant. Our beliefs and assumptions, as mathematics educators, impact our ability to recognize these strengths and points of brilliance in our students.  And, for students, believing that they can “do mathematics” includes navigating issues of status among their classmates.  Come to this session to enhance your ability to recognize the mathematical brilliance of each of our students and IMPACT learning environments for equity.

Lead Speaker: Geraldine Devine
Co-presenter: Danielle Seabold
Co-presenter: Kristin Frang

[C]Leading to Provoke Productive Struggle

For some, productive struggle has become little more than a buzz phrase with few strategies available to realize it. We know that it is critically important. Yet, how is it valued, provoked, and supported? In this session, participants will identify actions for productive struggle. Participants will learn about strategies for developing these actions in the mathematics programs they lead. Practical and ready-to-use resources will be shared to support each of these actions.

Lead Speaker: John SanGiovanni

Bringing high-quality, relationship-centered teaching practices to mathematics intervention students - A true impact in mathematics equity

This session will engage participants in nontraditional, conceptually based, middle-level mathematics intervention tasks that focus on collaborative problem solving, discourse, fostering mathematical dispositions, and creating mathematical communities. Participants will then critically examine the research conducted on such curricula that shows an increase in students’ content knowledge, positive attitudinal shifts, and strengthened habits of mind such as risk taking and leadership. The session will end with ample time for participants’ questions and collaborative discourse.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Lisa Amick

You’re Muted: The True Importance of Intersecting Professional Development, Relationships, and Teacher Voice

Professional Development (PD) provides an avenue to influence the ways teachers foster meaningful mathematical experiences. The best way to help teachers create positive student identities, foster relationships, and develop confidence is to do the same for teachers during PD. Come discuss the three whys of effective PD while focusing on four themes of PD that promote engagement, collaboration, and valuing all student and teacher voices. Leave with actionable resources to create and deliver effective PD.

Lead Speaker: Jackie Murawska
Co-presenter: Sean Nank

Imagine Teachers Using The 5 Practices for Orchestrating Mathematical Discussions To Enhance The Powerful Number Talk Routine

Number Talks have given voice to the voiceless, respect for ideas that are out of the box, created a culture of risk taking and have unveiled students thinking like no other lesson can. We will explore Smith and Stein’s work around the 5 practices for orchestrating productive mathematics discussions coupled with the research on the power of Number Talks from Humphrey and Parker to provide an impactful structure you can easily share with your teachers.

Lead Speaker: Jackie Palmquist
Co-presenter: Pat Baltzley

A Framework for Using Mathematics Curriculm to Reflect on Equitable Teaching and Learning

What supports the development of students’ mathematical identity and agency in an elementary math classroom? What does equitable teaching and learning look and sound like? In what ways can curriculum promote equity in the mathematics classroom and support students who have been historically marginalized in mathematics? This session explores a framework for reflecting on how curriculum can foster and support a learning community that affirms all students as powerful mathematical thinkers and learners. 

Lead Speaker: Karen Economopoulos
Co-presenter: Susan Jo Russell
Co-presenter: Marta Garcia
Co-presenter: Lynne Godfrey

Are you ready to submit or review an article for the NCSM Journal?

Join NCSM’s Journal editors as they discuss tips for submitting and reviewing articles for the Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership (JMEL). Learn about best practices for a successful submission or review of a manuscript. We will answer any questions you may have about the submission, review, and acceptance process.

Lead Speaker: Erin Lehmann (Bio)
Co-presenter: Paula Jakopovic

Digital Math Courses Reimagined with Derivita

Follow co-founder of Instructure and co-creator of Canvas, Devlin Daley, as he introduces NCSM attendees to Derivita - an all-in-one digital math learning solution. Daley walks participants through the capabilities of the Derivita platform directly from within a Canvas Instance! 
In this session you will see Derivita’s math test bank with 60,000+ math test items, SpotCheck -a real-time assessment tool, the ability to deliver automated and targeted feedback, the process of automated grading for free-response questions and more! 
Be prepared to participate for the chance to win a Derivita swag box!

Lead Speaker: Devlin Daley (Bio)

Identifying and Capitalizing on Students’ Interests and Hidden Mathematical Talents: A Great PD and Instructional Approach

Based on research that identified interests of students in middle and high school, STEM-type explorations that tap into those interests will be presented. Explorations have been shown to  enhance students’ curiosity and concurrently promote investigation  involving data collection, organization, visualization, analyses, and inference. And, of course, development of key concepts, skills, and reasoning methods in mathematics. Professional Development using this approach will be described, and materials will be made available to participants.

Lead Speaker: Carole Greenes

Regional Team Leader Meeting

This meeting of appointed NCSM Regional Team Leaders and NCSM Regional Directors will focus on preparing for the caucus meetings, connecting with the team, and planning for regional initiatives with RDs.

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington

Acting on your Equity Mindedness: make an impact and enhance equitable learning environments for each student

Danielle Seabold

Lisa Brown

Committed to equitable outcomes for all students, yet finding the equity gaps are not closing for your students or institution? Do you need fresh ideas and research-based strategies that support you and colleagues in making changes in your professional practice that lead to equitable instructional practices and outcomes for your students? Working toward equity requires courage and commitment. Join us to collaborate  with peers and other education leaders who will support one another in taking action.

Lead Speaker: Lisa Brown (Bio)
Co-presenter: Danielle Seabold

What is similar and different about leading discussions across mathematics and English language arts?

Discussion is a critical lever for increasing student learning. Elementary teachers lead discussions across subject areas. Together we will explore what is similar and different about leading mathematics discussions and English language arts discussion. You will leave the session with new ideas about how to leverage teachers’ existing practices of leading discussions in other subject areas in enhance their mathematics discussions and to support teachers in developing frameworks for leading discussions that cross subject areas. 

Lead Speaker: Meghan Shaughnessy
Co-presenter: Nicole Garcia
Co-presenter: Martha Curren-Preis

Powerful Learning with Interactive Dynamic Technologies

Technology can open doors for students and is critical if we are to teach mathematics to prepare students for tomorrow instead of for a world that no longer exists. From building conceptual understanding to exploring why some approaches are valid and not others to investigating questions about real data and real situations, technology allows all students to become meaningful and contributing partners in the learning process. 
 

Lead Speaker: Gail Burrill

Supporting Teachers in Developing a Fresh Look at Lesson Consolidation

For some teachers, consolidating a lesson is about ensuring students apply what they learned in a somewhat different context. For others, it is about ensuring students are exposed to a variety of strategies that were used to solve the problem that was central to the lesson. But maybe we should help teachers see how consolidation should bring out essential understandings that the lesson could and should be designed around. 

Lead Speaker: Marian Small (Bio)

Leading Teachers’ Learning of Antiracist, Ambitious Mathematics Instruction

School leadership has the potential to shape students’ racialized learning experiences in mathematics. Members of a Research Practice Partnership will present, discuss, and apply a professional learning design used at one school to support teachers’ collective learning about antiracist, ambitious mathematics instruction. In the session, we will use a video to collectively work to identify and define antiracist, ambitious mathematics instruction, and discuss potential leadership moves to support further teacher learning.

Lead Speaker: Jessica Rigby
Co-presenter: Stephanie Forman
Co-presenter: Casey Jeannot
Co-presenter: Jessica Scheele
Co-presenter: Tamasha Emedi

Planning and Reacting: How to Support Teachers to Respond to Student Thinking

How can you help teachers to best use questioning to support student thinking? The key is to focus questioning as an aid to student thinking, ensuring students do the sense making or helping teachers to guide students to ideas. Explore ways to support teachers through planning questions, anticipating student responses, and reflecting on teaching actions used to engage students in learning. Tools are provided to create environments where teachers support students doing the sense making.

Lead Speaker: Edward Nolan

Positioning, Engaging, and Empowering Mathematics Teacher Leaders as Equity Agents

Imagine the possibilities of creating widespread, sustainable, equity focused change in PK-16 mathematics education led by teacher leaders. In this session, we will engage participants in examining strategies for schools and districts interested in developing mathematics teacher leadership capacity. In this interactive session, we will share and elicit specific ideas of how to elevate teacher voices and legitimacy as change agents through collaborations among PreK-12 schools and districts, community colleges and universities, and community partnerships.

Lead Speaker: Paula Jakopovic
Co-presenter: Kelly Gomez Johnson

Curriculum Implementation Assessment as an Impetus for Creating a Shared Vision and Facilitating Change

Join us to learn about a non-evaluative implementation reflection tool that instructional leaders can use to enhance classroom observation, reflection, and feedback; support collaborative conversations and deep reflection about strengths and opportunities for improvement; and inform a shared vision for mathematics teaching and learning. During the session we will practice using the tool during a calibration activity with classroom video.

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Wilson
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Ramirez

Empowering Teachers to Become Agents of Change to Better Student Outcomes

Nick Lopez, K-8 Math Specialist of Tulare County Office of Education and USC Alumna, will share experiences in leading positive school change centered on math instruction through a multi-year collective journey of building in content and pedagogy that aligns with the vision of his district. He will talk concretely about how to organize and align school/district outcomes and how to embed improvement principles into a classroom through cycles of inquiry. 

Lead Speaker: Nick Lopez (Bio)

Intervention that Works

Students who struggle with math need more than repeated instruction on how to get the right answer. Math is about more than finding the right answer. It’s about using numerical reasoning to find the best strategy for solving a problem. Designed around eight instructional principles that help students build their mathematical reasoning, the lessons in Do The Math support explicit, intentional teaching that helps kids catch up and keep up. This session provides an opportunity to engage with Do The Math and experience intervention instruction that works.

Lead Speaker: Holly Burwell (Bio)
Co-presenter: Patricia Clark (Bio)

Come Checkout BoomMath, an innovative platform that teachers can use to increase self-awareness and self-reflection for ALL students in our math classrooms

BoomMath is an engaging customizable digital solution that allows students to reflect on their academic thoughts, strengths, weaknesses, and feelings as a learner. Our BW Walch team will share the importance of written communication in our math classrooms and demonstrate how our customizable digital “journal” can be implemented and aligned directly into your own curriculum. This platform provides teachers with immediate student feedback and personalized student data throughout the school year. Finally, discover how bringing the math journaling practices online allows teachers to access academic and social/emotional understanding, progress, and needs in real time!

Lead Speaker: Joanne Whitley (Bio)

Kay Glliland Equity Lecture

Lateefah Id-Deen

Protests against racial injustices have sparked conversations about ways teachers can work towards eliminating educational inequalities that exist for their students. As a response, several mathematics teachers want to promote equity within their classrooms by empowering students by helping them understand and critique inequities in the world around them. However, an important question remains, “What does it look like for math leaders to support mathematics teachers who want to incorporate social justice mathematics lessons in their classroom? During this lecture, we will discuss ways math leaders can assist teachers who want to teach math for social justice.

Lead Speaker: Lateefah Id-Deen

Leading from Within: Supporting the Implementation of High-Quality Mathematics Instruction System Wide while Remaining in the Classroom

Thomas Stricklin

Marcus Blakeney

This session will provide mathematics leaders with the vision, the work and the tools to be a bold leader for mathematics while continuing as a classroom teacher.   Through exploring engines of change, the power of data and goal setting, and the unique opportunities of a teacher leader, participants will explore effective methods for improving the mathematics instruction in a school or district while maintaining their role in the classroom.    
 

Lead Speaker: Thomas Stricklin
Co-presenter: Marcus Blakeney

A Solvable Problem: Modernizing Algebra II

What is the mathematics that all students should experience before they see mathematics that not all students need? Come and hear what happened in Washington when we asked ourselves that question when talking about Algebra II. In this session participants will hear the story, engage with the content, and leave with the understanding of and access to Modern Algebra II’s new approach designed to better meet the needs of all students.

Lead Speaker: Arlene Crum
Co-presenter: Ted Coe

Networks as Preparation and Support Systems for STEM Teachers… Inspire and Connect So They Can Change the World!

UTeach’s approach to preparing and supporting exemplary secondary STEM teachers has spread to 49 universities and produced thousands of alumni who are working to improve STEM education for each and every student. How? Through leveraging the power of a strong network! Come discuss how this national community provides opportunities to amplify voices in advocacy for equitable and effective instruction and empower through a culture of professionalism, starting from preservice years and continuing into their practice.

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington

Developing Strong Relationships to Inspire Reluctant Administrators to Equally Value and Support Quality Mathematics and Reading Instruction

How do you influence administrators to equally value and support mathematics in the same manner as reading instruction? Learn the five critical skills needed to develop strong relationships with administrators. Through strong relationships, help guide administrators to develop a shared mathematics vision giving mathematics the same value and support as reading instruction. Tools and resources will be shared to determine how to measure the effectiveness of the vision. Challenges and successes will be discussed. 

Lead Speaker: Sheila Holt
Co-presenter: LeShell Smith

Supporting Teachers in Building Community and Fostering Students’ Mathematical Identities

New elementary teachers have so many things to think about in regard to teaching mathematics. Are they considering how to build a mathematical community that invites each and every student into the learning? This aspect of teaching math is foundational, but often overlooked. Together we’ll explore how instructional coaches and building leaders can support teachers as they work to intentionally establish classroom communities that nurture students’ identities as learners of mathematics.

Lead Speaker: Susie Katt
Co-presenter: Georgina Rivera

Cracks in the Mathematics Pipeline: Addressing Access and Equity Issues for the High School to Higher Education Transition

John Staley

How might we ensure that every student—regardless of circumstances, background, or zip code—has access to high-quality mathematics education during the transitional years, last two years of high school and first two years of high education, that’s relevant to their future? Participants are invited to join us as we build an action plan to mobilize efforts to address systemic and structural conditions and barriers that currently exist in K – 16 education.

Lead Speaker: John Staley (Bio)

Using Data to Guide Decisions around Multiplication Fluency: What gets measured, not graded, gets improved

When assessing multiplication, are flexible, efficient strategies assessed along with accuracy? How might we strengthen foundational understanding of multiplication fluency so our young learners are prepared for deeper, more complex work as they grow? Using DataStudio helps visualize assessment data to make informed decisions about efficacy, accuracy, flexibility, efficient strategy.  We will share our assessment, results, differentiation plan, and how we coached three grade levels of teachers to "do things differently" to get better results. 

Lead Speaker: Jill Gough
Co-presenter: Kerry Coote

UDL Math; Designing Mathematics Classrooms from the Margins

To address inequities in mathematics, we must redesign instruction to meet the diverse needs of students at the margins, including students with disabilities. This presentation will introduce participants to UDL Math, an integration of Universal Design for Learning, research in mathematics, and design thinking for educators. We will explore barriers in mathematics based on the lived experience of disabled students and describe the UDL Math Design Elements, including engagement, representation and supports for strategic development.

Lead Speaker: Rachel Lambert

Instructional Walkthroughs: A Way to Support Reflection, Feedback, and Next Steps in a Mathematics Classroom

In this session, school leaders or instructional coaches will identify good teaching and learning in a mathematics classroom. Using a succinct instructional walkthrough template, participants will begin to explore how to evaluate high-quality mathematics teaching and learning in a systematic manner. Finally, participants will practice writing feedback to help teachers reflect on their teaching so they can learn and grow in their craft.

Lead Speaker: Erin Lehmann (Bio)

Solving the Fractions Problem: From Research to Classroom

Fractions knowledge by grade 5 uniquely predicts success in higher mathematics. Yet, tests show that it’s a struggle for many from grade 3 on. Fortunately, new research is finding instructional strategies that work. Join us to explore how applying an adaptive, game-based technology can help more students succeed.

Lead Speaker: David Shuster (Bio)

Reimagining Fluency through Powerful Routines in the Secondary Math Classroom

Take fluency beyond memorization to give all students the confidence to participate in developing their own mathematical mindset. In this session, teachers will learn strategies for engaging students in activities that promote the development of fluency within various grade-level strands. The fluency routines modeled and practiced in this session will provide teachers with highly-effective teaching strategies designed to bring out the Mathematical Practices in the classroom. Teachers will walk away with specific techniques, including methods for anticipating and eliciting student responses, that support both struggling and high-performing students. By establishing fluency routines as a regular practice, teachers will build a classroom culture which fosters perseverance and strengthens students’ ability to approach problems with flexibility, efficiency, and accuracy.

Lead Speaker: Shannon McCaw (Bio)
Co-presenter: Jessica Reyes (Bio)

Build Capacity, Consistency, and Confidence - in Every Math Classroom

It’s no secret that student learning data are critical for instructional leaders to effectively drive system-wide improvements in teaching and learning. Deeper data visibility tells you precisely where your curriculum is being implemented with fidelity and helps you zero in on what’s working and what’s not. Plus, it allows instructional leaders to instantly see patterns and trends across all classrooms so you can identify opportunities and measure outcomes. In this interactive session, you’ll discover just what it takes to shape and support a culture where formative data is at the heart of learning. We will outline how real-time data uncovers opportunities for learning, allows for differentiation teachers only dream about, and helps you reach your district achievement goals. Imagine the impact.

Lead Speaker: Lee Finkelstein (Bio)
Co-presenter: Brian Story (Bio)

Sponsored Lunch Session: Planting Seeds of Inspiration

John Staley

Joanie Funderburk

Texas Instruments

As we reunite to learn together in person, join us for inspiration and ideas that will help you Imagine, Inspire, Influence, and Impact mathematics teaching and learning in your setting. The hosts of Room to Grow: A Math Podcast will engage two math education leaders in an fun and inspiring conversation connected to the conference strands, sparking new ideas and extending your own personal growth.

Lead Speaker: John Staley (Bio)
Co-presenter: Curtis Brown
Co-presenter: Anita Brown (Bio)
Co-presenter: Joanie Funderburk (Bio)
Co-presenter: Texas Instruments

Building Math Residue with Lessons that Stick

Graham Fletcher

Many times throughout the school year, we teach a lesson and the understanding we thought students had is quickly forgotten. Let’s explore how task selection and intentional sequence of activities plays a pivotal role in helping students make connections, so that new understanding can stick.

Lead Speaker: Graham Fletcher

EMPOWER: How great mathematics leaders INSPIRE action

Mona Toncheff

Equity in mathematics education is not optional.  How do we as mathematics leaders ensure that all students are engaged in equitable instruction and experience meaningful and relevant mathematics?  Mathematics leaders need both the courage and know-how to successfully challenge the status quo. Come join a discussion centered on three crucial leadership actions to motivate and influence change. 

Lead Speaker: Mona Toncheff

Rehumanizing Mathematics Early On

We will engage participants in professional development activities from 3 rural Hispanic communities using assets of PreK-1 students and their families. Participants will review strengths and limitations of our efforts to (1) support bi-directional school-family relationships, repositioning families as resources; (2) provide PD that deepens teachers’ mathematics understanding through found materials and mathematizing children’s literature to promote reasoning; and (3) produce artifacts offering insight into students’, families’, and teachers’ perspectives on our efforts. 

Lead Speaker: Ruth Heaton

Unfinished Learning: How to Move Forward When Your GPS is Telling You to Make a U-Turn

Are the teachers you support under pressure to teach their current content while trying to address unfinished learning from previous years? Learn how to support them to focus on the learning goal while attending to key prerequisites in real time. This session examines planning, implementation, and assessment using tasks that engage learners while providing scaffolding just in time.

Lead Speaker: Juli Dixon

Tasks, Tools, and Talk: A Protocol that puts Student Thinking at the Center of Teacher Learning

Looking for ways to build capacity of teachers and leaders?  Engage in experiences of an elementary team in their journey to become a community of learners.  Experience the tasks, tools, and talk that led to a shared vision of responsive teaching, where adults learn alongside and from the work of elementary students.  Leave with a vision of what productive collaboration can look and sound like and its role within a coherent system of learning.

Lead Speaker: Jody Guarino
Co-presenter: John Drake
Co-presenter: Michelle Sperling

The Strategic Design of Differentiating Professional Development to Meet the Varying Needs of Educators

Have you ever wondered how to maintain the solid foundation of a professional development program while striving for continuous improvement? Our mathematics department has strategically designed a process for implementing high-quality, adaptable and on-demand professional development for thousands of educators. Come learn about the process we are constantly refining for building the best professional development experience for teachers. Share in our journey of how we strive to deepen teacher knowledge while simultaneously improving student achievement.

Lead Speaker: Heather Gower
Co-presenter: Michelle Luster
Co-presenter: Chloe Jacobs
Co-presenter: Mandy Babin
Co-presenter: Karen Muller
Co-presenter: Ann Knight

Rethinking Tier 1 Intervention and Using Coherence to Equitably Address Unfinished Learning

How can educators implement daily instruction that addresses unfinished learning while still moving students forward in new grade-level learning? This session will explore how an instructional approach that centers real-world context and visual representations helps students make connections to the big mathematics ideas that structure mathematics learning and allows them to build deep understanding of prior concepts while learning new content.

Lead Speaker: Beth Sappe
Co-presenter: Tanaga Rodgers

Technology That Thinks WITH Students, Not FOR Students

Technology in education wears two faces. With one, it allows students to hatch new questions, have new insights, and share new ideas. With the other, it can constrain, surveil, and influence student thought, offloading the interesting work of asking and answering questions to an unthinking program. We'll consider risks of technology use in classrooms, and ways you can leverage tech in your schools to unleash the curious mathematician inside of every one of your students.

Lead Speaker: Eli Luberoff

Using a Blended Learning Model to Create a Language Rich Interactive Classroom in Which All Students Can Thrive

Teachers can harness the capabilities of technology in order to personalize instruction for students and support student’s linguistic background. We will use Desmos Activities to help create language rich interactive blended mathematics classrooms to foster success for all teachers and students.

Lead Speaker: Martin Cardenas

Imagine the Impact of Receiving a Grant or Scholarship!

Do you want to improve your mathematical knowledge and your leadership, collaboration, and professional development skills in order to grow your influence in the mathematics education world?  The Mathematics Education Trust (MET) provides more than 30 grants, scholarships, and awards that support teachers, mathematics leaders, and mathematics researchers with funds for materials, lesson development, conference travel, coursework, professional development, technology, in-service, and action research.  Come join us and learn more about funding opportunities.

Lead Speaker: Laurie Boswell

Using Virtual Manipulatives to Engage Students in Deep Mathematical Exploration and Discovery

Manipulatives can transform how students make meaning of important ideas by making abstract relationships visible, by teaching creativity and problem-solving, and by allowing students to explore and discover. Learn how virtual manipulatives can mirror these effects and support more complex interactions that are not possible in the physical world.

Lead Speaker: David Poras (Bio)

The “R” in CRL (Culturally Responsive Learning)

A critical aspect of Culturally Responsive Learning is selecting tasks that invite students to author and share their own ideas for teachers to respond to.  Let’s experience how 3-Act Math tasks promote student agency and authorship of mathematical ideas where teachers actively respond to different student cultures, backgrounds, and ideas to drive instruction.

Lead Speaker: Andrew Byrns (Bio)

Supporting the Development of Mathematics Coaches through an Online Professional Learning Model

We will share and discuss a fully online professional learning model to support mathematics coaches in rural districts on their journey as bold mathematics leaders.  This model, grounded in content-focused coaching (e.g., West & Cameron, 2013), connects three different professional learning experiences for coaches. Participants will reflect on how each part of the online professional learning model, individually and as a whole, develops coaches to support high-quality teaching and learning in rural districts.

Lead Speaker: Cynthia Callard
Co-presenter: Jennifer Kruger
Co-presenter: Ryan Gillespie

NCSM Regional Caucus: Western Region 2

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Rosa Serratore

NCSM Regional Caucus: Southern Region 2

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you. 

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington

NCSM Regional Caucus: Eastern Region 2

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: John SanGiovanni

NCSM Regional Caucus: Eastern Region 1

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Cathy Boutin

NCSM Regional Caucus: Southern Region 1

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Ian Shenk

NCSM Regional Caucus: Canadian Region

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Deanna Brajcich

NCSM Regional Caucus: Central Region 2

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Astrid Fossum

NCSM Regional Caucus: Central Region 1

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Jason Gauthier

NCSM Regional Caucus: Western Region 1

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Tara Fulton

NCSM Past President Caucus

Mona Toncheff

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

Lead Speaker: Mona Toncheff

NCSM Regional Caucus: International

The regional caucuses offer the perfect opportunity for conference attendees to network, collaborate, and communicate with fellow mathematics education leaders from your NCSM region. During the sessions, you will: 

Enjoy networking among members from your region. 
Discuss your current context, successes, and challenges, with others in leadership roles.
Explore supports NCSM can provide for you in your mathematics education leadership role. 

There will be door prizes! We look forward to seeing you.

NCSM Business Meeting

Early Evening Reception Sponsored by: Amplify

Sponsored by Amplify

This is a ticketed event

Lead Speaker: Sponsored by Amplify

NCSM Breakfast Session

Reserve your ticket to join other leaders for breakfast.

REPEAT -- Building Thinking Classrooms: Benefits, Challenges, and Supports

Peter Liljedahl

Much of how classrooms look and much of what happens in them today is guided by institutional norms laid down at the inception of an industrial-age model of public education. These norms have enabled a culture of teaching and learning that is often devoid of student thinking. Building Thinking Classrooms is a reaction to this reality and has been shown to increase thinking in all settings. In this session I look at some of the downstream benefits and challenges of building a thinking classroom as well as some of the ways in which teachers can be supported in their efforts to build a thinking classroom. The talk will intertwine with, and make extensive references to, the book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics (Grades K-12): 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning.

Lead Speaker: Peter Liljedahl (Bio)

10 Critical Questions for BOLD Mathematics Education Leaders

Kristopher Childs

So, you are or want to become a BOLD mathematics education leader? Are you a current mathematics education leader seeking to authentically define equity, advocate for the historically excluded educators and children under your purview; and/or advance your career? If you answered yes, then session is for you and will provide you with practical strategies to begin immediately implementing to transform your educational environment.

Lead Speaker: Kristopher Childs

Choosing to Lead: 7 Ways Leaders Can Support and Model Equitable Math Practices

Pamela Seda

A focus on equity-centered instruction is needed now more than ever.  Many teachers have a desire to change their practice, but don’t know how.  Equity-minded teachers are often frustrated by the lack of support or barriers erected by their school and district leadership.  In this session, leaders will learn practical ways they can support teachers in the implementation of an equity framework in the mathematics classroom.

Lead Speaker: Pamela Seda

Shifting Behaviors to Support Equity in the Classroom

How can leaders support teachers in developing equitable classroom culture? Considering Elena Aguilar’s '3 B's of Coaching' (Behaviors, Beliefs, Being), this session offers practices that afford students agency, status, and belonging. Participants will engage in a rich mathematics task and experience how rough draft talk can bring more voices into mathematical discussions. Participants will reflect on how new behaviors can shift beliefs and ways of being to provide equitable access for every student.

Lead Speaker: Brianna Ruiz (Bio)
Co-presenter: Jocelyn Dunnack (Bio)

Supporting Teachers to Examine Learning and Teaching Through a “Problem of Practice”

Participants will have an opportunity to consider a supported and scaffolded set of professional learning experiences that engaged teachers in researching a “problem of practice” to foster student success in their own classrooms. Engaging in a “mini-action research,” teachers generated an authentic classroom inquiry, gathered and analyzed data about student learning, and summarized their findings.  One teacher will share her experiences and learnings.  Participants will have opportunities to reflect on connections to their own work.

Lead Speaker: Cynthia Callard
Co-presenter: Stephanie Martin
Co-presenter: Cynthia Carson
Co-presenter: Nicole Charles

Oregon Math Project: Engineering a System of Meaningful Math for All Students

The Oregon Department of Education is committed to a bold shared vision for mathematics teaching and learning. Through the Oregon Math Project, educators can reimagine K-12 systems where each and every learner can experience the joy, beauty and wonder of mathematics. Presenters will share their experiences dismantling inequitable systems within math education, and engineer an equitable system built on focus, engagement, pathways, and belonging.

Lead Speaker: Mark Freed
Co-presenter: Andy Byerley

Coaching Launch/Number Sense Routines as Part of a Balanced Math Block

Launch is a joyful way to build students’ love of math. It is a powerful vehicle for engaging all learners through multiple entry points. Launch supports teachers in building classroom culture that encourages all students to enter the discussion. This workshop guides Math Coaches in supporting teachers in using these routines as part of a balanced math block.

Lead Speaker: TJ Jemison
Co-presenter: Ashley Marlow

Our Children Are Not Numbers: Humanizing Mathematics Assessment and Grading Practices

My child looked in my eyes and asked, “Mom, am I still a Level 1?” When tests are used to assign numbers and levels to our children, they chip away at their identity and erode their humanity. It is a practice that we must abandon. This session provides practical guidance for leveraging data to examine the systems we (the adults) have designed as well as practical and humanizing approaches for understanding student learning. 

Lead Speaker: Shelbi Cole
Co-presenter: Jody Guarino
Co-presenter: John Drake
Co-presenter: Michelle Sperling

Cultivating Growth in the Mathematics Classroom: Planting Seeds for Change

In this session we will share how we developed a multi-tiered program at the state level to support middle school math teams.  This program focuses on supporting educators in making mathematical mindset shifts, understanding formative assessment practices and the use of data analysis to build a foundation for best practices. This in turn, cultivates student success and growth in the math classroom.

Lead Speaker: Eboney McKinney (Bio)
Co-presenter: Laurel Cherry (Bio)

Positioning Multilingual Learners for Success in Mathematics

Introducing a joint position paper by NCSM and TODOS. Join us for a panel discussion about positioning multilingual learners to be successful in mathematics. We will offer our position, provide supporting research, and make recommendations for implementation. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions.

Lead Speaker: Shelly Jones
Co-presenter: Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis
Co-presenter: Jim Ewing
Co-presenter: Kathryn Chval

Using Rich Tasks to Promote Greater Student Engagement

Patrick Vennebush

Effective instruction requires materials that provide entry points for all students, allow students to go deep with the mathematics, and include challenging problems that foster mathematical growth. In this session, we’ll consider how these three aspects can be embodied in a single mathematical task. Attendees will collaborate to solve problems that promote problem solving and engage all students.

Lead Speaker: Patrick Vennebush (Bio)
Co-presenter: Kim Markworth (Bio)

Fostering Confidence, Collaboration, and Creativity in Mathematics Through a Summer Learning Experience for Teachers and Students

Typical professional learning is done in the absence of students. In this session, we will share the design and implementation of a professional learning experience, situated within a week-long mathematics experience for students, to deepen teachers’ understanding of big ideas in mathematics and ambitious mathematics teaching. Through exploration in meaningful experiences alongside students, teachers reimagined mathematics learning and teaching. We will explore shifts in teachers’ perceptions of students that resulted from engagement in this experience.

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Kruger
Co-presenter: Melissa Staloff

Promote Productive Behaviors and Academic Engagement by Attending to Student Identity

IMAGINE classrooms with decreases in behavior referrals! IMAGINE teachers attending to grade-level content despite over a year of learning under unusual circumstances! Much in education feels out of our control, BUT we CAN control the strategies we use in the classroom. In this session, we will examine the "why" behind behaviors and engage with instructional tools that promote positive student identities - as humans and as doers of mathematics. Tools and templates will be provided.

Lead Speaker: Judy Dunmire (Bio)

Public Math Pop-Up: Build Your Own Math Installation

Christopher Danielson

Molly Daley

Chris Nho

In this session we will dream up, design, and install temporary place-based math provocations. Enter with a desire to spark math curiosity in others; leave with ideas, inspiration, and tools to enact public math in your own school and community.

Lead Speaker: Christopher Danielson (Bio)
Co-presenter: Molly Daley
Co-presenter: Chris Nho

Increasing Access to Post-Secondary Opportunities by Reimagining Mathematics

Alexandra Martinez

In 2020, California created the conditions for reimagining mathematics pathways. These conditions have allowed the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) to take bold steps in modernizing systems and opening access to all students, specifically marginalized populations historically excluded from STEM fields and the singular track to college via Calculus. Join Phil Daro and SDUSD’s leadership team in exploring ways to reimagine mathematics pathways, making way for specializations in booming industries like Data Science. 

Lead Speaker: Alexandra Martinez
Co-presenter: Stephanie Melville
Co-presenter: Phil Daro

A Calculated Risk with Intensification - How Springfield Public Schools employed Intensification to combat COVID disruptions, learning loss, and support teachers

This session explores intensification, the research behind it, and how it differs from traditional remediation to combat learning loss. You’ll gain an understanding of the research behind this innovative approach – learning what it is, why it works, and what it takes to implement based upon the experience of one district taking the  risk of trying something new – to accelerate mathematics teaching and learning during a time when everything around them was slowing down.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Deatrice Johnson (Bio)
Co-presenter: Abby Neumeyer

Putting Research into Action: One District’s Journey Toward Implementing Recommendations from Catalyzing Change

NCTM’s Catalyzing Change recommends “dismantling inequitable structures and the implementation of equitable instructional teaching practices that foster students’ positive mathematical identities.” The research is clear, but how do we put research into action? Join us as we share our actions and long term goals for adjusting structures and practices within our district including addressing roadblocks, engaging stakeholders, shifting teacher and student mindsets, and facilitating difficult conversations with the goal of removing barriers for all students.

Lead Speaker: Caity Larson
Co-presenter: Callie Baldwin
Co-presenter: Catherine Castillo

A Family Math Learning Community: Bridging home and school contexts to strengthen mathematics learning

Learn about a family math community that aims to strengthen relationships between parents and teachers with a focus on their common goal of supporting children’s learning. Mathematics researchers and curriculum developers are partnering with teachers and families from two elementary schools and a Head Start program to co-design, test, and re-design mathematics activities that are meaningful and engaging across home and school learning environments. Participants will watch videos and play games created by the community.

Lead Speaker: Kristen Reed
Co-presenter: Jessica Young
Co-presenter: Shakesha Thompson

Imagining Data Literacy for All: Impacting the Role of Data Science in Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Joanie Funderburk

The experiences of the last several years have reinforced the urgent need for all students to be able to make sense of their data-filled world. As many states incorporate more data science into PK-12 experiences through pathways, standards revisions, and other initiatives, data literacy becomes increasingly important. In this session, educators with experience and passion for data science structure an interactive discussion of the challenges, benefits, and impact of data science in the mathematics curriculum.

Lead Speaker: Joanie Funderburk (Bio)
Co-presenter: Curtis Brown

Drawing upon Responsive and Inclusive Principles and Practices to Inspire Communities of Mathematical Learning

Beginning with a teacher's inquiry question, this session will share the story of a collaborative professional inquiry project that grew from a district initiative to a cross-district and then provincial project that informed provincial mathematics curriculum framework re-design. Drawing upon responsive and holistic principles from The Reggio Emilia Approach and First Peoples Principles of Learning, the actions that grew this project will be shared along with its impact on teacher professional learning.

Lead Speaker: Janice Novakowski

Perspectives impact pedagogy

What is the nature of mathematics and doing mathematics? How do these notions impact the way teachers teach? In this session, we will explore 3 perspectives that impact teaching. I make the case that it is only when teachers recognize and acknowledge underlying perceptions, that they can choose to teach in ways that align and support equitable teaching.

Lead Speaker: Pam Harris

Learning to Weave Mathematics and Equity During Classroom Talk

During mathematics discussions, teachers weave students’ ideas into a mathematical story line while supporting each student’s opportunity to learn.  How do we, as leaders and teachers, reflect on our practice in order to maintain a commitment to both rigorous mathematics and equitable participation? In this session, we will work with a protocol for using classroom video to consider the challenge of maintaining these two commitments.

Lead Speaker: Susan Jo Russell
Co-presenter: Deborah Schifter

CANCELLED - Intersections: Indigenous Perspectives, Leadership, and Equity in Mathematics Education

How might Indigenous knowledge systems inform leadership and equity in mathematics education? I will share with you what I’ve come to learn about Indigenous knowledge systems and the ways in which those systems might inform actions that contribute to equity and social justice in mathematics education.

Lead Speaker: Florence Glanfield

Ready, Set, Coach! Coaching for Collective Efficacy Within the PLC Framework

This actively engaging session includes use-it-tomorrow coaching tips, templates and activities designed to build collective efficacy among teams of teachers. During our time together, we will examine various coaching roles within the PLC cycle, reflect on multiple coaching modalities to address each of the 4 PLC Questions, and engage in personal reflection of our individual coaching contexts.

Lead Speaker: Katie Basham

Narratives in Mathematics Teachers’ Development of Problem Solving Knowledge for Teaching

This presentation discusses mathematical problem-solving knowledge for teaching. It focuses on use of narratives of problem-solving experience as tools to support prospective and practicing teachers’ learning of this knowledge. It includes examples of unique narrative-based activities and reports on research that investigated and validated effectiveness of use of these activities with prospective teachers. It discusses how focusing on narratives/experience supported their learning of how and what it means to engage all students in problem solving.

Lead Speaker: Olive Chapman

Align All the Vectors for Student Success in High School Mathematics

Wondering how to improve high school mathematics in your district? Learn how this large urban district with a diverse student population took on the challenge of changing trajectories for high school students by building buy-in, supplying resources, and providing support for continuous teacher growth.  Consider possibilities and share ideas for your own next steps. 

Lead Speaker: Barbara Kuehl (Bio)
Co-presenter: Kathleen Stevens
Co-presenter: Ryan Davis
Co-presenter: Travis Lemon

How “Best Practices” Talk Inhibits Teacher Learning

Dr. Ilana Horn

Building off of two decades of research, I have developed a theory of experienced teachers’ learning of ambitious and equitable mathematics instruction (Horn & Garner, 2022). Our theory accounts for teachers’ lived realities and experiences in the workplace. After presenting these ideas, I argue that the framework of “best practices” actually inhibits teacher learning, illustrating with some examples.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Ilana Horn

The Tesseract Project: Leadership Is the Key to a High-Functioning Professional Learning Community

Chris Shore

It is well-known that students don't improve until teachers improve, yet, little attention is given to the research-affirmed fact that teachers don't improve until their leaders improve. Learn what one school district is doing to train its site administrators to build support systems and lead teachers in high-yield collaborative protocols. 

Lead Speaker: Chris Shore

Coaching Teams: The power of instructional feedback

How can coaches work simultaneously with collaborative teams and individual teachers to strengthen instructional practices and equitable instruction? Come explore the elements of impactful coaching cycles for both teachers and teams. We will highlight effective feedback strategies that are based on finding the strengths of teachers within a team to move learning forward for both teachers and students.   

Lead Speaker: Sarah Schuhl
Co-presenter: Mona Toncheff

Contextualizing Formative Assessment with IC Maps and Video

Innovation Configuration (IC) maps guide coaching conversations by helping teachers focus on the concrete and tangible aspects of teacher and student actions that lead to deep conceptual understanding. Dana Center’s research-informed IC maps provide the context for coaches and teachers to engage in reflective ongoing learning, assessment of needs, and goal setting for improvement. Participants in this session will use video analysis of mathematics classrooms to practice needs assessment and goal setting conversations. 

Lead Speaker: Mary Davis
Co-presenter: Jacqueline LeJeune

Innovate with a Strengths-Based Induction Program to Support Your Teachers

Teachers are leaving the profession.  We must stop the exit.  Preparation programs are vastly different. Variations in previous classroom experiences are extreme. Teachers may be missing mathematical and/or pedagogical content knowledge. Imagine using their strengths to continue the learning. Come discuss the components for a strong induction/support program that is foundational for student success. What does your program include?   We will discuss strengths from participants’ programs. Teachers need support to become bold leaders.

Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock

Who’s Learning During Learning Walks?

In Oakland Unified, we meet weekly as a Math Coaching Collaborative. Site-based math coaches come together to craft a year-long inquiry question around a shared problem of practice, and engage in a variety of inquiry-focused activities. Come learn how we use Learning Walks at each other’s sites to calibrate around indicators of high-quality teacher and student actions, and deepen coaching practices through effective feedback. Find out what each stakeholder takes away from the process.

Lead Speaker: Courtney Ortega

Connecting Mathematics + Literature to Empower All Learners

Imagine a classroom in which mathematics’ skills and concepts are taught through children’s literature. Imagine a shared reading experience that prompts meaningful connections, equitable access, and joy. Imagine ways to connect mathematics and literature to yield a deep understanding of mathematical concepts. Join us to explore how mathematics leaders select meaningful literature, introduce teachers to productive practices for integrating literature and mathematics, and ignite a joy of mathematics in both teachers and students.
 

Lead Speaker: Sue O'Connell
Co-presenter: Georgina Rivera
Co-presenter: Danielle Moore (Bio)

Speed Leading: Connecting Emerging Leaders with Experienced Mathematics Leaders

This session will connect emerging leaders with experienced mathematics leaders. During this fast paced networking session, modeled after speed dating, emerging leaders will be connected with experienced mathematics leaders, where ideas and thoughts around a variety of topics will be shared. Be the first to hear about a new networking opportunity coming soon in 2023.  

Lead Speaker: Brian Buckhalter
Co-presenter: Gwen Zimmermann
Co-presenter: Samantha Royer

The Nature & Impact of Lesson Tweaks: Reflecting on the Intentionality of Lesson Design

Data collected from Keen Eye Coaching workshop participants reveals that coaches are often faced with the challenge of helping their teachers maintain the integrity of their adopted HQIM lessons. By problematizing the nature and impact of lesson tweaks and explicitly reflecting on the intentionality of lesson design, Delaware Mathematics Coalition leaders provide the space for coaches to openly and productively explore and make progress regarding this shared problem of practice. 

Lead Speaker: Jamila Riser
Co-presenter: Valerie Maxwell
Co-presenter: Nancy Thornburg

Strategies that Support Powerful Problem Solving for All with Numberless Math Stories

How can we excite and engage students in story problems while providing equitable access for all? What strategies can teachers use to engage students when readability or language may be an issue? Join us to discuss numberless math stories and three strategies that open up problem solving to all children. Through video we will explore and imagine each strategy and offer insights from a math coach who led teachers to implement these powerful strategies.

Lead Speaker: Elizabeth Hughes
Co-presenter: Sarah Dyess

Teacher as Researcher - The Power of Practitioner Inquiry

How can mathematics education leaders support teachers interested in investigating their own practice to develop innovative instructional strategies that improve mathematics learning? In CPM's Teacher Research Corps (TRC), we work with teachers to make their classrooms a better place to learn and a more enjoyable place to teach by supporting continuous teacher-directed professional learning. Join us as we share significant findings that have implications for how to support reform-oriented teachers' professional growth.

Lead Speaker: Mark Cote
Co-presenter: Dr. Lisa Amick
Co-presenter: Dr. Lara Jaisen
Co-presenter: Cathy Sinnen

NCSM Leadership Celebration Luncheon

Join us to celebrate mathematics education leadership! The highlight of the lunch program will be the presentation of the 2022 Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert Award.

Strategies for Standing up to those who Oppose Change

Jo Boaler

Only a third of students are proficient in maths, teachers have been demoralized by unrealistic demands put on their time, there has never been a more important time for improving outcomes for everyone in education.  Yet positive change is frequently blocked by those wanting to preserve the status quo. In this session I will talk about my experience with those working against change, including parents who behave badly, TV hosts and commentators, STEM faculty, and the group I refer to as math elitists – those who want to keep high mathematics achievement only for students. I will share some stories of resistance and strategies for change, as we work to make mathematics equitable and accessible for all.

Lead Speaker: Jo Boaler

Making Black Girls Count in Mathematics Education: A Black Feminist Vision of Transformative Teaching

Nicole Joseph

Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge producers through a critical analysis of their experiences is necessary. I aim to bridge-build and inspire all to listen, reflect, ask questions, and then act in solidarity with Black girls to realize their limitless possibilities in mathematics. 

Lead Speaker: Nicole Joseph (Bio)

Facing Hard Questions About Secondary Mathematics-The Time is Now

Cathy Seeley

Amidst conversations and shifting policies, leaders face a revitalized opportunity to influence and significantly shift how we organize and teach mathematics. NCSM, NCTM and others have issued strong statements about tracking practices, instructional shifts, and new pathways, echoed in the CA Framework and some states’ standards. Let’s think together about what it takes from leaders to create rich learning opportunities in secondary mathematics that significantly prepare every student to pursue a range of possible futures.

Lead Speaker: Cathy Seeley

Ignite Session

Paul Gray, Jr.

John Staley

Mona Toncheff

Bill Barnes

Christina Lincoln-Moore

Christine Newell

Sunil Singh

Ignite Session

Lead Speaker: Paul Gray, Jr.
Co-presenter: John Staley (Bio)
Co-presenter: Mona Toncheff
Co-presenter: Bill Barnes
Co-presenter: Christina Lincoln-Moore
Co-presenter: Christine Newell
Co-presenter: Sunil Singh