53rd NCSM Annual Conference – Sessions

What's It All About? An Orientation for Those New to the NCSM Annual Conference

This session is for attendees who are new to the NCSM Annual Conference.  Participants will network with others, review the structure of the conference, explore the different conference options, set personal priorities and goals, and work on a personal plan of what to do and where to go during the conference.

Lead Speaker: Kris Cunningham

Solving for X in the midst of Pandemics:  Pedagogical Approaches to Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings

The past year and a half have presented educators with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. This presentation will address the opportunities to teach mathematics for equity and excellence by exploring the content, the contexts, and the culture of mathematics teaching and learning.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings (Bio)

Activating Leadership for Access to More Equitable Mathematics Teaching and Learning Through Anti-Racist Practices and Policies

Shelly Jones

Bold leadership in mathematics education requires taking a stand against racist educational policies that have continued to segregate students into the haves and the have nots in terms of mathematics excellence. How do we turn that around? In this session, the presenter will focus on the Essential Actions needed to detrack mathematics and the core propositions of implementing a culturally relevant mathematics curriculum as first steps in this journey. 

Lead Speaker: Shelly Jones

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Story of Two Mathematics Coaches Who Established and Sustained a Rigorous District Mathematics Program

Brian Buckhalter

In 2013, the Oxford School District hired its first math coach, and in 2019 hired its second. Establishing a comprehensive and coherent mathematics program across 3 schools and two coaches required a collaboration of resources guided by prominent literature in mathematics coaching. Hear how these coaches built a system of support for teachers, students, and administrators across schools, eventually seeing the district’s 3 elementary schools rank among the top three for student growth across Mississippi.

Lead Speaker: Brian Buckhalter
Co-presenter: Candies Cook

NCSM Coaching Kick-Off

Are you a coach or teacher leader or new to coaching? Is this your first time attending an  NCSM conference? Join us at the kick-off session where you will network with other coaches and teacher leaders. We will show you the foundational elements for math coaching and direct you to sessions related to your areas of growth. You won’t want to miss this session! 

Lead Speaker: Georgina Rivera
Co-presenter: Jenny Novak

Who's Asking the Questions in Math Class? Using Curiosity as a Catalyst for Changing Curricula and Classrooms

Even though we want students to be curious in math, see its beauty, and wonder how it applies to their world, most students believe math class is a place where they're just given answers to questions they've never asked. Math leaders and teachers can change this belief by cultivating curiosity in math courses and classrooms. Learn strategies for inspiring students to ask their own questions, self-assess their curiosity, and value questions as much as answers.

Lead Speaker: Tim Hudson

Promoting Access and Equity in Mathematics

An understanding of mathematical concepts is critical for student achievement in mathematics. This session will explore evidence-based teaching practices that promote opportunity and access to high-level mathematics content for neurodiverse learners, specifically those with language-based disabilities and dyscalculia. A focus will be placed on the importance of using visual, tactile and auditory modalities in the classroom for this population of students. 

Lead Speaker: Dawn Pilotti

Developing Instructional Leadership for High-Quality Mathematics Instruction: A Practice-Based Approach to Responsive Math Teaching

This session focuses on a practice-based approach to developing instructional leadership. We will show how pedagogies of enactment (Grossman et al., 2009), including representation, decomposition, and approximation, can be incorporated into professional development to help teachers learn and implement new instructional practices. At the center of this work is the Responsive Mathematics Teaching model for high-quality mathematics instruction that is responsive to both student thinking and the mathematical content.

Lead Speaker: Caroline Ebby
Co-presenter: Brittany Hess
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Pecora
Co-presenter: Jennifer Valerio
Co-presenter: Joy Anderson-Davis
Co-presenter: Lindsay Goldsmith-Markey

Targeted coaching for equitable teaching practices: activities to develop five essential teaching strategies

Ensuring every teacher develops equitable teaching practices requires targeted and sustained coaching. Start by focusing on high-leverage teaching moves that engage every student in meaningful mathematics. Next, leverage the repeatable nature of instructional routines that incorporate those moves to regularly coach mathematics content and teaching. In this session learn a suite of coaching activities designed to help teachers expand their practice so that all of their students routinely experience high-quality mathematics learning.

Lead Speaker: Grace Kelemanik
Co-presenter: Amy Lucenta

From Learning Loss to Unfinished Learning: Changing the Conversation With an Asset-Based Approach

How can you keep your students on grade level in mathematics but still address unfinished learning? For many, the answer would be a diagnostic assessment followed by content to fill the gaps. However, this approach is highly unlikely to provide students with the depth of learning they need on critical concepts. Join us on a journey to explore what's happening in our students' brains as they learn and how to meet them where they are.

Lead Speaker: Nigel Nisbet

Using Challenging Tasks to Coach for Shifts in Classroom Practice that Promote Mathematical Proficiency

A goal for coaches, instructional leaders, and teachers alike is mathematical proficiency for all students. Towards that goal, participants will engage in activities and discourse around instruction that encourages students to do mathematics and build conceptual understandings of big mathematical ideas. The PD model shared in this session marries the lessons from Mathematical Thinking: From Assessment Items to Challenging Tasks with the Leading for Mathematical Proficiency Framework (LMP) to promote shifts in classroom practice.

Lead Speaker: Crystal Walcott
Co-presenter: Michael Daiga
Co-presenter: Doris Mohr

Readiness Assessments for Math Project (RAMP) - Addressing Unfinished Learning

The Readiness Assessments for Math Project (RAMP) is a set of short formative assessments, grades 1-8, that focus on assessing and addressing the unfinished learning necessary to be successful in upcoming grade level learning.  In this session, I will share these assessments, along with strategies for mathematics leaders to support teachers in addressing this unfinished learning in their system.

Lead Speaker: Jamie Garner

Coaching Discursive Moves: Digging into the “Nitty-Gritty” of How Coaches Talk with Teachers

In this session, we focus on the unique ways coaches talk with teachers during planning and debriefing conversations. We will briefly share our research findings and framework for categorizing the discursive tendencies of mathematics coaches. Then, using our framework and sample data, participants will engage in collaborative activities such as analyzing transcripts and video clips of coaching conversations to deepen their thinking about coaching discursive moves and their impact on teacher learning.

Lead Speaker: Ryan Gillespie
Co-presenter: Julie Amador
Co-presenter: Cynthia Carson

Portrait of a Leader: A Framework for Developing Teacher Leaders #leadershipchallenge

What are the most important qualities of a leader? How do we develop those qualities in teachers? Come experience a process for co-creating criteria for what teacher leadership looks like in mathematics. We will model activities that guide teachers to recognize leadership qualities, reflect through self-assessment, and develop their leadership skills. Join us as we look back and then look forward (#leadershipchallenge) in order to grow our ability to cultivate a culture of leadership.

Lead Speaker: Whitney Evans
Co-presenter: Grace Anne McKay

Bold Leadership for Figuring Out Fluency

Procedural fluency is complex. Teaching it well is challenging. Teaching it equitably is non-negotiable. This session establishes actions for boldly leading and equitable, accessible, and effective fluency program. It examines fluency - beyond basic facts - as an intentional act with common understanding, instruction, practice, assessment, and community engagement. This session arms participants with ready-to-use resources for professional learning and teacher development.

Lead Speaker: John SanGiovanni
Co-presenter: Jennifer Bay-Williams

Ensure every student learns mathematics through effective planning and intervention

Giving students access and experience with grade level mathematics is critical to student success and continued learning.  How do teachers and teacher teams work to ensure students learn grade- or course-level mathematics?  What must teachers plan for when teaching units to strengthen core instruction? What are strategies for designing effective interventions?  In this session explore protocols and actions designed to ensure high levels of learning for every student.

Lead Speaker: Sarah Schuhl

Learning Walks: A Collaborative Way to Enhance Teacher Effectiveness in the Classroom

Learning Walks provide professional development that focus on supporting teacher efficacy, teacher content knowledge, instructional practice, and building relationships. Participants will view a model Learning Walk whch was conducted virtually (due to COVID concerns) and participate in the feedback loop. Additionally, participants will be able to brainstorm ways to incorporate Learning Walks within their school or district, as well as create possible solutions for barriers to success.

Lead Speaker: Andrea Goddard
Co-presenter: Judy Hickman

No Equity Without Everyone: Culturally Responsive Inclusion for All

Cathery Yeh

Culturally responsive mathematics invites all students into mathematics as their ways of thinking, reasoning, and living are attended to and honored. This session extends application of culturally responsive mathematics to explicitly account for both racial and disability justice. Learn key components to combine culturally responsive teaching and universal design for learning to ensure asset-based mathematics teaching for all. Resources to promote school-based collaborative inquiry projects will be explored. 

Lead Speaker: Cathery Yeh (Bio)

Rethinking what it means to know mathematics: Enabling teachers to create a “new normal”

Gail Burrill

Do the tasks/assessments given by your teachers “measure up”? Can the students find all of the answers they need for their assignments/tests using a computer search? Heads up- software is available to answer almost all of these questions along with the steps and reasons. The pandemic provides an opportunity to create a “new normal” by rethinking the nature of tasks and assessments we give students to measure the mathematics it is important to really understand.

Lead Speaker: Gail Burrill

Using AMATYC position statements to make a change

AMATYC has created many position statements to help faculty make changes in their departments and/or colleges. In November 2020, the AMATYC Delegate approved several new and revised position statements. The position statements are on issues such as equity and academic preparation of mathematics faculty. This session will look at the new statements that were approved, and the vision of how faculty can use them to make changes in their classrooms, departments, and institutions.

Lead Speaker: Kathryn Kozak

Next Phase Mathematics

Economically, racially, and ethnically diverse Evanston Township High School has used out of the box thinking to create transdisciplinary innovation in their school. The presentation will highlight innovative courses such as STEAM Design Thinking & Innovation which have helped transform how we define mathematics for our school and beyond.

Lead Speaker: Dale Leibforth

Advancing High Quality Mathematics Instruction Through a Statewide Partnership

In this session, we discuss the work of our statewide partnership of mathematics leaders from our state’s districts, universities, and state education agency to develop a shared vision of high quality mathematics instruction. We share strategies and lessons learned for establishing and sustaining mutually beneficial collaborations that span institutional boundaries that too often separate mathematics leaders.

Lead Speaker: P. Holt Wilson
Co-presenter: Lisa Ashe
Co-presenter: Stefanie Hill

Fostering Attitudinal Dispositions and Habits of Mind in Middle Level Mathematics Intervention Students Through Investigative Teaching and Relationship Building

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: Lisa Amick

Activating Relationships and Amplifying Leadership in K-12 Schools for Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Our session will describe a year-long academy designed to support teams of K-12 principals and teacher leaders in amplifying their leadership capacity for improving mathematics teaching and learning in their schools. We will report on the outcomes of the academy for three cohorts and highlight the models of leadership developed by the participants. We will address the importance of developing relationships among mathematics teacher educators, school administrators, and teacher leaders to build toward equitable practices. 

Lead Speaker: Betsy Berry
Co-presenter: Laurie Ferry
Co-presenter: Sheryl Stump
Co-presenter: Doris Mohr
Co-presenter: Courtney Flessner

Understanding the Why Behind What We Do: Manipulatives and Area Models For Building Connections to Multiply Fractions

This hands-on session uses visual models and manipulatives to stress connections between the area model and procedural fluency when multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.  Further exploration with manipulatives and models illuminates connections to an algorithm and procedural fluency required in grades 5-6.  A reflective look at coaching partnerships shows the advancement of teachers' learning as they gain meaningful understanding based on connections and highlights the effects on student engagement and conceptual development of mathematical content.

Lead Speaker: Denise Porch
Co-presenter: Rochelle Cantrell

Virtual Lesson Design Studio: Coaching Teacher Teams to Create Engaging Remote Algebra Lessons with Visual Patterns Tasks

When California's pandemic-related remote learning was extended through fall 2020, our research team collaborated with teams of study participants to create a virtual "Lesson Design Studio." With coaching from project staff, teams of secondary teachers and coaches used visual pattern tasks from our video-based PD study to create innovative and engaging remote algebra lessons. Teachers are piloting the lessons with students, with the goal of ultimately making them publicly available for widespread use. 

Lead Speaker: Katie Salguero
Co-presenter: Angela Knotts

Resisting the Myths: Countering the deficit narratives by building a routines practice

One pervasive myth is the idea that community building and rich mathematics are mutually exclusive endeavors in a classroom. Myths such as these are not new, but have been amplified within the “confines” of distance learning or hybrid models. In this session, we provide a counter-narrative, modeling how mathematical routines can build inclusive mathematical communities, identify growth in our students by removing deficit models of assessment, and create space for rich discourse.

Lead Speaker: Kate Smallberg
Co-presenter: Kara Imm

Making Math Relevant and Engaging through Entrepreneurship

The Design & Pitch (D&P) Challenges in STEM is a novel middle grades curricular framework that leverages the excitement and opportunity-focused approach of entrepreneurial pitch competitions to support engagement and cultivate STEM career interest. Attendees will learn how to implement the D&P framework at the school and classroom level and discuss strategies for leveraging entrepreneurship to promote a flexible, inclusive, and student-centered approach to incorporating STEM career connections and increasing engagement in the mathematics classroom.

Lead Speaker: Michael Belcher
Co-presenter: Erin Krupa
Co-presenter: Josh Mannix

Improving Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Discourse Practices: A Success Story of a Professional Development Program

This session will highlight a year-long professional development program focused on supporting productive mathematics discourse in early elementary grades, and share findings from design and development research, and effectiveness studies of the program. It will emphasize professional development design features that have positively influenced elementary teachers’ knowledge and practices and students’ engagement in discourse. Participants will engage with an activity from the professional development, discuss research findings, and consider opportunities and implications for their work.

Lead Speaker: Paola Sztajn

Designing Professional Learning Experiences across a Large and Diverse Geographic Region: Lessons and Celebrations

Coordinating long-term and large-scale professional development is challenging. What roles should outside consultants play? How are teachers recruited and prepared and how are local coaches empowered? How should local coaches continue the learning and assess their own growth and that of teachers and students?  Learn from the results of a 4-year professional learning experience sponsored in part by the Leadership Committee for English Education in Quebec (LCEEQ) that included 420 teachers, 20 coaches and as many as 9 external consultants.

Lead Speaker: Cheryl Cantin
Co-presenter: Juli Dixon
Co-presenter: Edward Nolan
Co-presenter: Thomasenia Adams
Co-presenter: John Ryan

Seven Counterintuitive Lessons Learned About Online Workshops

Professional development providers will need flexible learning options for educators going forward and asynchronous online workshops will likely be one of them.  I want to share seven lessons I wish I knew when I first started providing them in 2017 including "Should an online workshop be more like a novel or a cookbook?" and "Should it be more like Netflix or traditional television?"  Learn lessons you can immediately incorporate to support your teachers.

Lead Speaker: Robert Kaplinsky

Innovative elements of leadership: Three traits that support endeavors, empower cultures, shatter norms, and help you grow as a leader

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 the three innovative elements while ensuring their actions align with their personality and purpose.  Come identify your purpose, hone your voice, and learn how to foster meaningful relationships in any leadership role.

Lead Speaker: Sean Nank

Monday Luncheon - "Advocacy" Ignite (ticketed event)

Can a game change the way you feel about math?
Have your phones ready to do some hands on active problem solving. Engage in a low floor, high ceiling task that can drive critical thinking, academic discourse and build conceptual understanding from skip counting to Algebra.
Speaker: Nigel Nisbet, MIND's VP of Content Creation

IGNITE!
Join us for this NCSM sponsored fun, fast-paced, educational Ignite presentation. You will have time to network with your peers, have a relaxing lunch followed by some educational tidbits through Ignite sessions. This is a great addition to all the in-depth programs you will hear throughout the conference. Featuring: Bill Barnes, Marian Dingle, Juli Dixon, Mike Flynn, Sunil Singh, Cathery Yeh

PRESIDER: Mona Toncheff, NCSM President



*Ticketed Event Sponsored by ST Math, created by MIND Research Institute.

Becoming Abundantly Clear on a System of Intervention

Mary Kemper

During this session, I will share my story of building a K-5 Math Response to Intervention (RtI) system from the ground up. This standards-aligned, sustainable, dual language (English and Spanish) set of materials were developed over the course of 6 years and includes universal screeners, specific, measurable goals, intervention lessons, and progress monitoring tools. I will also share my story of guiding secondary mathematics educators to design and implement small group instruction based on pre-assessments aligned to pre-requisite skills of upcoming topics of study. I have become abundantly clear on this K-5 system of intervention and secondary mathematics small group model as a bold mathematics education leader within and beyond my district.

Lead Speaker: Mary Kemper (Bio)

Engaging in the Deep Work of Mathematics: Supporting High-Cognitive Learning in the Age of Distraction

Mike Flynn

Deep work is ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks for sustained periods of time. This skill enables us to be more productive, develop greater mathematical understandings, and become more effective problem solvers. Unfortunately, today's digital world makes it harder for all of us to think and work deeply. This session will help you learn how to support the development of deep work habits in mathematics with your students or teachers you support.

Lead Speaker: Mike Flynn

Ross Taylor Past Presidents' Session: Speed Chats for Leaders Around Critical Challenges and Effective Solutions

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
Co-presenter: Linda Gojak
Co-presenter: Timothy Kanold
Co-presenter: Steve Leinwand
Co-presenter: Suzanne Mitchell

When is DOK just OK?

Given the importance of the three aspects of rigor and the emphasis of these aspects in college-and-career ready standards, it is time for our conversations to evolve beyond the limitations of the DOK framework. The Framework to Evaluate Cognitive Complexity in Mathematics Assessments equips leaders with a tool to ensure resources meet the demands of the standards through a balance of rigor and a range of complexity.

Lead Speaker: Sarka Mraz
Co-presenter: Ted Coe

Principles for Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Education:  Results from a National Working Group

What does the field of early childhood mathematics need to keep front-of-mind as we strive for racial justice in education?  Hear from members of a national working group representing researchers, parents, teachers, and administrators about the results of their months-long work to develop a set of core principles for racial justice in early mathematics education. Work with colleagues to consider how these principles apply to your own work.

Lead Speaker: Danny Bernard Martin
Co-presenter: Jennifer McCray

Empowering Elementary Teachers as a Community of Leaders through a Mathematics Curriculum Adoption Process

A district leader and a university mathematics teacher educator established and facilitated a district Elementary Mathematics Committee (EMC) to select a mathematics curriculum program (CP). We aimed to select a CP that would support equitable and problem-based instruction. We will discuss how structures and activities supported the EMC to: develop a culture of trust and open communication, study research and theory about effective and equitable practices, and create a “Best Practices” document to guide decisions.  

Lead Speaker: Amy Roth McDuffie
Co-presenter: Melissa Graham

Scope and Sequence: Creating a Shared Vision for High-Quality Mathematics Teaching and Learning

We will share the keystone principles surrounding The UCLA Curtis Center's work with mathematics departments and districts to co-create a shared vision for high-quality mathematics teaching and learning via development of mathematically sound and pedagogically appropriate instructional sequences. Characteristics of this work include putting the language of the CCSS-M at the forefront, creating district-wide documents with focus, directly connecting high quality instructional resources to standards, and engaging in articulation around learning progressions.

Lead Speaker: Eden Murphy

My Journey of Emancipation from Freedom to Fail to Freedom to Succeed in Mathematics

Thomasenia Adams

The phrase “failure is not an option” is a well-spoken phrase, and I have occasionally used it myself. However, inherently, it is not true. In most circumstances, a failure is an option, although it is typically not the option we want to manifest. When we examine what happens to students in mathematics, we often see the evidence of students’ failure, and unfortunately, we compound that evidence by failures of our own. In looking back over my own life, I can pinpoint unique instances where I as a student exercised my freedom to fail, even to fail in mathematics. Yet, here I am! Part of what has propelled me to this point are teachers who empowered me to break through challenges, hardships, disappointments, and fears that I might realize that I also have the freedom to succeed. In this presentation, I am honored to share about four teachers who understood the power they had to advocate for, build-up, and push forward students in their circle of influence. 

Lead Speaker: Thomasenia Adams

Preparing for the Unexpected: Coaching Teachers to Use Effective Questioning Strategies During Instruction

Do the teachers you support sometimes struggle with creating high-cognitive-demand questions during instruction? This session will explore two coaching strategies for implementing effective questioning: (1) developing questions in advance through specific and intentional preparation and (2) “on-the-fly” question creation using student responses as a springboard for developing critical thinking in students. Learn ways to improve teacher questioning to use in both planning and reflection opportunities.

Lead Speaker: Edward Nolan

Making storytelling a part of your PD for K-8

Storytelling and narrative allows all students to see themselves in mathematics. However, too often incorporating narrative into the K–8 classroom can feel like a burden. In this session author Amy Alznauer and Amplify professional development director Kathleen Sheehy will discuss simple and straightforward ways you can support your teachers using existing PL structures to plan and incorporate storytelling… or if this structure doesn’t exist, how you can begin to introduce storytelling to your teachers.

Lead Speaker: Kathleen Sheehy
Co-presenter: Amy Alznauer

Empowering Communities of Teachers as Change Agents Results in More Ambitious Mathematics Teaching and Impact at the Classroom Level

A central goal of professional learning includes translating teacher learning to more ambitious teaching, and in turn, student learning. But how does this translation occur? What models produce results and how can we leverage the capacity of teacher leaders to enhance the process? In this session, we will examine the essential elements of a research-based statewide video-based program that empowers communities of teachers and results in more ambitious teaching and impact at the classroom level.

Lead Speaker: Jamila Riser
Co-presenter: Paul Damask
Co-presenter: Shellee Wong

To Boldly Go: Defining Effective Mathematics Practice & Rigor Systemically to Lead for Change, Equitable & High-Quality Mathematics for All

One district’s journey to: Aspire. Defining effective mathematics teaching & rigor. Conceptualizing NCTM’s Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices as tools for systemic change. Defining rigor in mathematics while aligning assessment, curriculum and instructional design.  Activate. Activating district leaders, lead teachers, and math coaches as agents of change through the Leading for Mathematical Proficiency and Teaching for Robust Understanding Frameworks. Act.  Leveraging cooperative teams & Launch-Explore-Summarize lesson planning to make the vision a reality.

Lead Speaker: David Mattoon
Co-presenter: Marcie Curcie

A New View of Pre-Assessment: Coaching Through Student Interviews

Why is student thinking the key to great coaching and teaching? Come discover the power of student interviews. Coaches can learn to leverage formative assessment in a student-centered format to impact teachers. All children bring mathematical knowledge to the units we teach. It's time to tap into it!

Lead Speaker: Joseph Lamb
Co-presenter: Kim Webb

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

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: Megan Kean
Co-presenter: Marcus Blakeney

Amplify The Voices of ALL Students With Number Talk Routines And Explicit Connections To The 5 Practices For Orchestrating Mathematical Discussions

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

Shifting Student Identities as Mathematics Learners: Using Locally Relevant Tasks to Engage Our Underserved Students and Their Communities

Many of our students are disengaged from mathematics and think of themselves as not being able to do mathematics successfully. Social justice tasks can meaningfully engage these students and shift how they think and feel about themselves as mathematics learners.  But are these tasks of local relevance to our students and their communities? In this session we describe strategies for adapting, updating, or extending tasks to ensure local relevance to our students and their communities

Lead Speaker: Linda Davenport

Leadership Exchange:  This Ain't Your Grandma's PD:  Designing Effective Professional Development That Translates Into Results

Brian Buckhalter

Join us in the Exhibit Hall, at the Leadership Exchange area for casual conversation with several of our Major and Spotlight speakers around important topics for leaders in mathematics education. In this session, participants will discuss "This Ain't Your Grandma's PD:  Designing Effective Professional Development That Translates Into Results."

Lead Speaker: Brian Buckhalter

Our People, Our Knowledge, and Our Systems

Javier Garcia

The pandemic has raised questions about our educational systems that some have been pointing to some time. Will the post-pandemic return to school be a “return to normal” or will we see these questions through and establish better solutions than those that existed before the pandemic? When our positions within the system color our perspectives, what can we do to improve communication and understanding between various organization layers and ensure efforts are aligned? How do we work in a way that upholds the humanity of each person of the community? We’ll share promising practices from experience, recent literature and research, as well as highlight principles and potential pitfalls. We’ll discuss navigating the many complex layers and power dynamics of our systems and consider how we might reshape things to do right by our students and our communities. 

Lead Speaker: Javier Garcia

Fact Fluency for All: Supporting an Innovative School-Wide Tactic for Making Sense of Basic Facts

Juli Dixon

Support teachers to create a culture of grounded fluency for the multiplication facts through the Fact Tactical Fluency (TM) process. Grounding occurs when students make sense of multiplication and build on that sense making by deriving products from known facts. Explore 6 tactics for supporting each and every student with strategies connected to sense making. Learn how to introduce this process to teachers and support them in implementing it with students.

Lead Speaker: Juli Dixon

Activating Teachers as Leaders of Purposeful, Productive Professional Learning Communities

Are your Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) meeting their full potential? The Dana Center’s planning process, when implemented with fidelity, leads to increased professional expertise, alignment of system competencies, sustainability, and success. A strategic planning guide and cyclical PLC schedule provides educators with opportunities to engage in action-oriented, reflective conversations and job-embedded professional development focused on the standards, student work analysis, and improving teaching and learning in mathematics.

Lead Speaker: Jacqueline LeJeune
Co-presenter: Shelly LeDoux

Designing from the margins: Rethinking access and inclusion within math classrooms

Students with disabilities often face barriers to high-quality mathematics education that are institutional, widespread and complex. We offer a framework that positions teachers to design radical alternatives, capable of dismantling these barriers. We will demonstrate how this new framework (an integration of Universal Design for Learning and Design Thinking) empowers teachers as designers, centers all design on empathy, challenges deficit paradigms of students, and leads to innovative prototypes of systems, spaces and interactions.  

Lead Speaker: Kara Imm
Co-presenter: Rachel Lambert
Co-presenter: Heidi Espindola

What makes a Great Task better? Come join us to find out

NCSM debuted the "Great Tasks" books in 2013 to help mathematics leaders and teachers make sense of the then-new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. We have now updated the teacher notes for each task and modified certain tasks to model culturally relevant teaching. Join us to learn more about this revised resource and how it can help you and your teachers better utilize rich, meaningful mathematics tasks.

Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock
Co-presenter: Natalie Crist
Co-presenter: Shelly Jones

Unlocking the Mystery: Five Strategies for Taking a Leadership Role to Support Mathematical Modeling Education

Both state standards and professional recommendations include a focus on mathematical modeling. Unfortunately, lack of instructional resources and quality professional learning opportunities for teachers have kept most schools from making that focus a reality. We explore how incorporating mathematical modeling provides opportunities for teachers to implement equitable teaching and employ NCTM’s Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. We share compelling reasons for leading the way with respect to modeling and offer five ways you can get started.

Lead Speaker: Michelle Cirillo
Co-presenter: John Pelesko

“Who Can Be a Mathematician?” Fostering Mathematical Identities through Problem Solving

Understanding the role identity plays in shaping students' self-efficacy in mathematics is central to their current academic achievement and long-term career attainment. Helping students learn what it means to do mathematics can also be a challenge especially if the focus of learning mathematics centers on procedures or discrete concepts. In these situations, students do not see themselves as capable student mathematicians. This presentation shares the process one group of teacher leaders used to help students, from diverse backgrounds and cultures, better understand what it means to be a mathematician and do mathematics through authentic problem solving experiences.

Lead Speaker: Cory Bennett
Co-presenter: Kenneth Johnson
Co-presenter: Minette Lewis

A NEW Way To Diagnose and Address Math Learning Needs for Every Student in the K-8 Math Classroom

Savvas has partnered with WestEd to create validated and normed assessments for use with enVision or any K-8 Core Math Program. Savvas Math Screener & Diagnostic Assessments work together to provide information students’ proficiency levels and provide brand new resources to address unfinished learning and offer acceleration. Join us for a sneak peek! 

Lead Speaker: Kurt Whited

Great Curriculum is Not Enough: Daily Planning for Meaningful, Engaging, Affirming Instruction

Curriculum is not an instruction manual to follow, but a tool to use.  This session introduces the UnboundEd Planning Process, a daily lesson planning protocol that helps teachers clarify what students must learn and then bring that learning to students in a meaningful, engaging, affirming way.  Participants will see the process modeled, and then will be able to practice it themselves.  Leaders will be able to bring aspects home to improve their coaching and/or teaching.

Lead Speaker: Deborah Peart

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: Catherine Castillo
Co-presenter: Caity Larson

Developing an Instructional Routine to Build Students’ Capacity to Model with Mathematics: A Window into the Process

Instructional routines are powerful vehicles for teachers to develop their own practices as well as students’ mathematical practices. In this session, we’ll share a draft instructional routine that develops students as mathematical modelers. We’ll then use it as an example as we explore how to design an instructional routine with specific math practice goals and repeatable designs for interaction that provide access and engagement for all students and equitable teaching practices in buildings and districts.  

Lead Speaker: Amy Lucenta
Co-presenter: Grace Kelemanik

Beyond the PLC: Supporting and Sustaining Mathematics Professional Learning in the 21st Century

In an era in which time for deep teacher learning is increasingly constrained, how can we redesign and reimagine professional learning communities in ways that support sustained engagement in research-based mathematics teaching practices? Using lessons learned from several professional learning initiatives, I share ways in which research frameworks, action research, and microcredentials can be used to engage teacher communities in meaningful learning both within and beyond district structures. 

Lead Speaker: Michael Steele

Assessment Interviews: Moving Beyond Timed Test

Most fluency assessments focus on accuracy of facts.  This session will highlight how to use student interviews to assess the other components of fluency: flexibility and efficiency. Tools for creating and conducting these assessments as well as data tracking tools to target specific need and provide prescriptive instruction will be shared.  

Lead Speaker: Susan Loveless

Reconceptualizing Problems as Opportunities: Managing change, affecting culture, and promoting equity for students via purpose, voice, and relationships

Creating a student-centered culture of equity while managing change, fostering teacher buy-in, and reaching your goals is complex.  Resistance to your role as a change agent can derail opportunities for students.  How can we leverage problems for change?  Come discuss how to use problems as opportunities while aligning your purpose to foster equality of voice while capitalizing on relationships to provide high-quality mathematics curricula and instruction for all students.

Lead Speaker: Sean Nank
Co-presenter: Jackie Murawska

Building a Community of Coaches: Ongoing Professional Learning to Support Reflective and Evolving Coaching Systems

“Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning” (Learning Forward, 2011). Learn how we created a coaching learning community to build the capacity of mathematics coaches in our region.  We will explore how we engaged coaches to deepen their understanding of coaching and how it can broaden their reach as leaders to spread quality mathematics teaching and learning.

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Kruger
Co-presenter: Melissa Staloff
Co-presenter: Stephanie Martin

Bold Actions as Mathematics Leaders: Providing a Professional Space

Taking bold actions to advocate for high-quality equitable mathematics teaching and learning for each and every student is imperative for every leader. How do leaders create spaces for professional collaboration giving opportunity for reflection on beliefs, engaging in professional learning, and fostering an asset-based approach for students and teachers? How do we prioritize instructional time and develop coherent pathways with curriculum and assessments? Let’s explore bold actions to catalyze change in teaching and learning mathematics.

Lead Speaker: Trena Wilkerson

Leadership Exchange:  Developing Equity-Mindedness In Ourselves and the Educators We Serve

Lisa Brown

Join us in the Exhibit Hall, at the Leadership Exchange area for casual conversation with several of our Major and Spotlight speakers around important topics for leaders in mathematics education.  In this session, participants will discuss "Developing Equity-Mindedness In Ourselves and the Educators We Serve."

Lead Speaker: Lisa Brown

Building Fact Fluency Through Mathematical Storytelling

Graham Fletcher

When we ask students to memorize their facts, we are essentially asking them to memorize over 100 isolated equations. This approach doesn’t allow students to explore the relationships between numbers which is foundational to building a conceptual understanding of mathematics. In this session, we’ll explore the important role that context plays in developing fact fluency so that students can begin to make connections and develop an understanding that is scalable well beyond single digits. 

Lead Speaker: Graham Fletcher

Points of Inflection: Mathematics Leadership to Activate Change

Brea Ratliff

Mathematics leaders are responsible for making critical decisions to promote student success and affect change at many levels. This session will equip you with tools to transform mathematics instruction at the classroom, building and district-levels. Learn how to develop effective mathematics leadership teams, facilitate courageous conversations and champion positive mathematics identities for all stakeholders.

Lead Speaker: Brea Ratliff

Amplifying Leaders to Prepare New Generations of Mathematics Teachers

How well prepared are your new teachers to face the challenges of the mathematics classroom? Learn how the Dana Center and Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) collaborated with Louisiana higher education and K-12 faculty to align preservice outcomes with K-12 expectations.  Participants of the LDOE Believe and Prepare Math Collaborative will share reflections on the process they engaged in to develop model mathematics methods course outlines comprised of course design principles and student learning outcomes.

Lead Speaker: Jacqueline LeJeune
Co-presenter: Connie Richardson

Fostering Social and Emotional Learning for All Students in Grades K-5 Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Come experience how embedding social and emotional learning (SEL) in grades K-6 mathematics can positively influence students’ mindset and confidence as mathematicians. This interactive session will include gaining awareness of The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Competencies and the natural integration with the Standards for Mathematical Practice, mathematics routines and strategies. Join us as we appreciate how SEL in mathematics teaching and learning can advance equity and excellence for all students.

Lead Speaker: Suzi Mast

Using MathCuts Videos for Just-in-Time Virtual Professional Learning about Sparking Interest and Engaging Students through Meaningful Mathematics Strategies

Are you looking to enhance your math instruction and engage diverse learners? MathCuts are open-access videos made for teachers that showcase research-based mathematics teaching strategies in a quick, accessible, and immediately applicable way. The strategies shown spark interest through visual approaches perfect for number talks that support diverse learners in your classroom! Come talk to the creators about building routines around collaboratively exploring strategies presented in MathCuts, identifying key takeaways and planning for classroom use.

Lead Speaker: Michael Greenlee
Co-presenter: Mary Davis

Proportional Reasoning: Unpacking the Mathematics 

Let’s build our capacity to help teachers and students develop deep understandings of proportionality. Understanding proportional relationships is critical for mathematical proficiency in mathematics. But what does it mean to develop a deep understanding of proportionality? How can we make proportional reasoning more visible in number, algebra, measurement, geometry, probability, and statistics? Bring your ideas as we look at what it takes to support teachers in developing student proportional reasoning in deep and flexible ways.

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

Helping Teachers Use Grouping Structures to Formatively Assess and Meet the Needs of All Students

Are you looking for simple, effective ways for teachers to formatively assess and provide feedback to students? Come to this session to experience a variety of classroom grouping structures that have provided teachers with valuable information about levels of student understanding. Strategies for addressing students’ needs through differentiation are embedded into these structures. These discourse and collaboration structures have been successfully used with a variety of diverse learners to move learning forward. 

Lead Speaker: Amy Herman
Co-presenter: Connie Horgan

Don’t Regret, Rehearse! Making Challenging Conversations a Site for Mathematics Teacher Leader Learning

Developing the skills necessary to become an effective mathematics teacher leader supporting each and every student’s learning is challenging. This specialized knowledge is best learned through professional development that centers on common problems of practice. Teacher leader rehearsals simultaneously support leader learning while engaging them in challenging conversations designed to elicit leadership knowledge. 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

Closing the Revolving Door for Novice Teachers

Have you struggled to retain novice mathematics teachers in your school or district? You are not alone. Almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession after 5 years in spite of having developed effective teaching skills. Research shows that solving this problem and retaining quality mathematics teachers is within our power. Come explore strategies for retaining novice teachers through a multi-faceted system of support that you can begin to implement immediately in your school or district.

Lead Speaker: Amanda Merritt

Teacher trajectories of learning towards high-quality mathematics instruction: What do they look like? How can they inform our leadership?

As teachers transform their mathematics teaching to center students’ ideas, they are developing practice and coming to identify with a vision for high-quality mathematics instruction. This learning happens along a trajectory. In this session, we will co-construct and examine what teacher learning trajectories can look like. We will consider how viewing teacher learning through the lens of these trajectories can support our leadership of powerful instructional change and foster development of shared instructional vision. 

Lead Speaker: Alison Resnick

Connecting mathematics to the world can open doors for students: Implications for Teacher Educators

Mathematics is a fascinating discipline and investigating mathematical relationships can be an enriching experience but one that often does not resonate with students. Structuring activities that involve real data and real contexts from analyzing climate change to herd immunity can engage more students in doing more mathematics. How do we help teachers make the shift from textbook exercises to productive investigations while still building conceptual understanding and procedural fluency?

Lead Speaker: Tom Dick
Co-presenter: Gail Burrill

Equitable Acceleration of Learning through Coherence, Rigor, and the Mathematical Practices

An equitable learning environment for all students includes the acceleration of learning grade or course-level content. Utilizing students mathematical knowledge and other assets, providing access to and implementing materials built upon coherence, rigor, and the mathematical practices facilitates this acceleration and addresses unfinished learning that exists. Three different Geometric progressions, and their connections to other topics, will be utilized as examples.

Lead Speaker: Tim Truitt
Co-presenter: Lynn Smith

Engaging, Empowering, and Retaining Mathematics Teacher Leaders

Creating widespread, sustainable change takes extraordinary effort by a network of stakeholders. PK-16 mathematics student achievement continues to dictate conversations the local and national level. In this session, we will share strategies for schools and districts interested in developing mathematics leadership capacity. We will share specific ideas of how to engage potential teacher leaders, empower and retain new teacher leaders through collaborations between PreK-12 schools and districts, community colleges and universities, and community partnerships.

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

Speed Leading: Connecting Emerging Leaders with Experienced Mathematics Leaders

This session will connect emerging leaders with experienced mathematics leaders. This fast paced session will allow you to network with amazing mathematics leaders. 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. Space is limited so plan to attend!

Lead Speaker: Brian Buckhalter
Co-presenter: Samantha Wuttig
Co-presenter: Jacob Sisson
Co-presenter: Gwen Zimmermann
Co-presenter: Cathy Boutin

Tasks, Tools, and Talk: Building Capacity of Teachers and Leaders in A Space Where Everyone Learns Together

Looking for ways to build capacity of teachers and leaders?  Engage in experiences of one elementary school in their journey to become a community of learners.  Experience the tasks, tools, and talk that lead 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 like and sound like and its role within a coherent system of learning.

Lead Speaker: Jody Guarino
Co-presenter: John Drake
Co-presenter: Duane Cox

Leadership Exchange:  Walking the Equity Talk:  Moving From Theory To Action  

Pam Seda

Join us in the Exhibit Hall, at the Leadership Exchange area for casual conversation with several of our Major and Spotlight speakers around important topics for leaders in mathematics education.  In this session, participants will discuss "Walking the Equity Talk:  Moving From Theory To Action."

Lead Speaker: Pamela Seda

Monday Reception (ticketed event)

Come join us in the Marquis Ballroom A/B for a reception sponsored by SAVVAS Learning Company, as NCSM celebrates our 53rd year.

This is a ticketed session.

Tuesday Breakfast (ticketed event)

Moving Learning Forward

How do we address learning loss AND keep students moving forward with grade-level content? It can be tempting to want a quick fix, a crash course over the summer or at the start of the year, but a more effective strategy to accelerate student learning is to move forward with new content while scaffolding in prerequisite skills along the way.

Speakers: Erin Ross (National Mathematics Consultant, Big Ideas Learning) and Amanda Shelley (Education Consultant, Big Ideas Learning)

Sponsored by Big Ideas Learning

Leadership That Opens Mathematical Gates

Marian Dingle

For decades, algebra has been seen as the gatekeeper in mathematics. Without access to it, the very mathematical trajectories of students can be limited. However, there are many kinds of gates that prevent our educational systems and organizations from offering equitable mathematics education. To open those gates, bold and unapologetic leaders are needed to forge new paths, not simply follow logical trends. Let us take a deep dive into what gatekeeping looks like on the ground so that we can begin to imagine and create a new mathematics trajectory for students.

Lead Speaker: Marian Dingle (Bio)

From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Equity Mindedness is for Everyone

Lisa Brown

Committed to equitable outcomes yet your equity gaps are not closing for students, especially those most marginalized by systemic inequities? Do you need fresh ideas and research-based strategies that support you and your colleagues in making changes in your professional approach that lead to removing barriers to student succes? Explore a framework for taking equity-minded action and renewed commitment. Join us to actively collaborate with peers, deepen professional knowledge base, and walk our equity walk!  

Lead Speaker: Lisa Brown
Co-presenter: Danielle Seabold

Aspire to Support Your New Teachers by Acting to Create a Strengths-Based Induction Program

New 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. Their learning must continue, their strengths amplified. Come discuss the components for a strong induction 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

The Anxiety in the Room: Strategies for Coaching Teachers with Math Anxiety

How can math coaches and supervisors support teachers with math anxiety? This session will explore research and stories from the field on coaching as an intervention for teacher math anxiety. The presenter will highlight her recent doctoral studies with coaching elementary teachers with math anxiety.  

Lead Speaker: Heidi Sabnani

Tackling Transfer: A Two-Pronged Approach to Bridging the Gap Between Professional Development and Classroom Practice

This presentation unpacks a unique professional learning structure that pairs practice-based professional development sessions, focused on decomposition and approximation of responsive teaching, with cross-school, grade-level Lesson Study cycles that include lesson planning, video-based reflection on enacted lessons, lesson plan revision, and the curation of lesson resources. The structure supports the development of network-wide communities of practice, model classrooms, and a bank of collaboratively designed task-based lessons, which serve as mechanisms for nurturing high-quality mathematics instruction.

Lead Speaker: Lindsay Goldsmith-Markey
Co-presenter: Caroline Ebby
Co-presenter: Brittany Hess
Co-presenter: Jennifer Valerio
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Pecora
Co-presenter: Joy Anderson-Davis

Coaching PLCs to Move Beyond Admiring Data

Data plays a key role in meeting the needs of today's diverse student population. Many Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) look at data, but are they using it to change practice? Participants will explore how to effectively lead a PLC through a data protocol in order to personalize learning for their students. Come experience a refined data cycle moving through the stages of understanding, analyzing, looking at root causes and responding to student work. 

Lead Speaker: Rachel Fruin
Co-presenter: Kathleen Williams

Cultivating Agency, Mathematical Understanding, and Conversation through Mathematical Language Routines

How do we prepare learners to take an active role in their own sense-making of mathematics? How might we support all students in developing mathematical language to communicate their thinking through writing and speaking? Let’s consider how Mathematical Language Routines both create a need for students to converse with others about math and empower students to share their ideas around mathematical problems in ways that foster understanding.

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Wilson
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Ramirez

Championing Excellence: Creating an Equitable, Gold-Standard Mathematics Program in Your School

In this presentation, you will see statewide efforts to define and implement a gold-standard mathematics program of excellence in each of its schools. Following an introduction to the work, you will learn how you can utilize Title IV.A funds to create your own equitable mathematics program of excellence at the school, district, and state levels.

Lead Speaker: Christine Koerner
Co-presenter: Levi Patrick

Positioning Multilingual Learners (ELs) 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: Jim Ewing
Co-presenter: Kathryn Chval
Co-presenter: Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis

Bringing the World to the Classroom

What happens when you combine the most trusted high-impact teaching strategies with engaging and real-world applications from National Geographic Explorers? Big Ideas Learning's brand new Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 curriculum does just that! Every chapter brings the world to the classroom by encouraging students to learn math through the lens of STEM.

Lead Speaker: Thomas Rhea

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: Danielle Curran
Co-presenter: Grace Kelemanik
Co-presenter: Mark Ellis

When Hattie met Marzano....Utilizing Hattie's hingepoint to empower teacher and student growth using Marzano's proficiency scales

Hattie's research has proven that just about every intervention a teacher uses has a positive effect size. The Alabama Math Science and Technology Initiative (A.M.S.T.I.) partnered with Marzano Research to use proficiency scales to enhance student achievement and promote collective teacher efficacy. Let's explore how Hattie's research can be paired with Marzano's proficiency scales to promote access to grade-level content for all learners. Come and see how we partnered with coaches to guarantee quality instruction.

Lead Speaker: Clint Vandiver
Co-presenter: Leanne Helums

Empowering Leaders as Lifelong Learners: Lessons 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

Designing Innovation and Engineering Creativity with Grants for Mathematics Education

What are the Mathematics Education Trust (MET) resources that can help you be a creative leader in mathematics teaching and learning?  Collaborate on designing innovative ideas and improving your classroom, school, and district mathematics program by using MET grants.  We will look at which grants you can apply for and provide tips on how to write powerful proposals.

Lead Speaker: Suzanne Mitchell

Classroom Teachers ARE District Math Leaders

As a fast growing district, we realized that a top down approach was not best practices for delivering math content to teachers. Buy-in was low, equity in instructional clarity was non existent. Through professional learning communities, district math collaboration, teacher created professional learning experiences, and mathematical mind shifts, our teachers have become the front line for mathematics empowerment. Let's dig into HOW transforming teachers into district math leaders can move the math instruction for ALL! 

Lead Speaker: Kimberly Burch
Co-presenter: Brooke Morphew

Conceptualizing Instructional Perseverance in Early-Childhood Mathematics Settings

Engaging with challenging mathematics in early childhood is a vital foundation for children’s future mathematics learning, yet early-childhood students continue to be marginalized as lacking in sophisticated knowledge of mathematics. In this session, we examine how early-childhood instructional perseverance can facilitate access to a lesson’s mathematical goals. Mathematics education leaders will learn how to conceptualize what perseverance looks like in early-childhood mathematics settings and how the role of teacher facilitation is interwoven into classroom actualization.

Lead Speaker: Katie Monahan
Co-presenter: Jennifer Ward
Co-presenter: Joseph DiNapoli

Not Your Grandparents Algebra: Producing Productive Pathways for Developing Algebraic Understanding for All Students

This talk will explore algebraic tasks from a contextual, problem-based curriculum. In this curriculum, students identify the variables embedded in a context; identify and represent the relationship between the variables in tables, graphs, and symbols; and then use these representations to solve problems. This function-based approach to algebra develops understanding of both functions and algebra.  Evidence of students’ mathematical understanding and sense making will be discussed through classroom videos, student work, and longitudinal research data.

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

Administrator's Day Kickoff

Come join us for a networking and celebration session designed to "kick-off" the Administrator Leadership Strand.  We will introduce the newest NCSM resource for site-level leaders entitled, "NCSM Essential Actions:  Instructional Leadership in Mathematics Education."  The book supports site-based administrators with strengthening classroom instruction by improving the quality of instructional conversations that occur before, during and after the lesson.

Lead Speaker: Bill Barnes

Leadership Exchange:  Engaging Teachers in Figuring Out Fluency -- From Basic Facts to Algebraic Thinking  

Jenny Bay-Williams

Join us in the Exhibit Hall, at the Leadership Exchange area for casual conversation with several of our Major and Spotlight speakers around important topics for leaders in mathematics education.  In this session, participants will discuss "Engaging Teachers in Figuring Out Fluency--From Basic Facts to Algebraic Thinking."

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Bay-Williams

Bold Mathematics Leadership: What does it take?

Mona Toncheff

Every mathematics leader is charged with forging a path which leads to improved student learning through meaningful commitments to those they serve. The NCSM vision statement is crystal clear.  Mathematics leaders aim to “guarantee that all students engage in equitable, high-quality mathematical experiences” to “improve the world” in which they live. Courageous mathematics leaders work within school systems to champion the changes and shifts needed to continuously improve learning. They intentionally focus on equity and access when driving systemic change.     How can you ensure the learning of the adults and the students you serve go hand in hand?  Through examples, Mona will explore the Empower guiding principle of the NCSM Essential Actions Series: Framework for Mathematics Leadership.  Walk away with bold leadership strategies to empower a culture of productive professionalism and continuous improvement.   

Lead Speaker: Mona Toncheff

Broadening The Lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion In Our Math Content and Pedagogy Through History/Storytelling

Sunil Singh

In order to explore and examine the most critical aspects of equity and anti-racism math education, accessible portals to the rich and collaborative history of mathematics should be made available to all our math communities. In this session, math leaders will get a powerful answer to "Why Math History Matters" and numerous supportive resources to begin implementing philosophical and structural changes in schools immediately, as well as nurture future discussions of this emergent theme.

Lead Speaker: Sunil Singh

Spiraling Up Together: Emergent Mathematics Teacher Leaders

Join us to discuss a model for empowering teachers as leaders with ongoing professional development sessions focused on teaching, pedagogy, leadership and equity via dynamic collaborative groups spanning multiple grade levels. We will provide the focus and format of our teacher leadership academy and share samples of initial data documenting various levels of growth in teachers’ mathematics teaching practices and their leadership capacity.

Lead Speaker: Dee Crescitelli
Co-presenter: Funda Gonulates

School Leadership for Anti-Racist, Ambitious Mathematics Instruction

School leadership has the potential to shape students’ learning experiences in mathematics. These experiences are racialized, or structured by the relations of race that exist in the larger society (Martin, 2009). At both individual and systems levels, students and teachers have mathematical identities and learning opportunities that are informed by their race(s). We investigate how elementary school principals lead towards disrupting racial inequity in mathematics instruction.

Lead Speaker: Jessica Rigby
Co-presenter: Stephanie Forman
Co-presenter: Casey Jeannot
Co-presenter: Melissa Pointer
Co-presenter: Kathy Emerick

Addressing Racism and Antiblackness in Mathematics Education

Robert Q. Berry, III

Uprisings against racist acts and policies have brought systemic racism to the national forefront—making it imperative to catalyze a national conversation on racism and antiblackness. As a result, leaders across the country ask how they can (a) examine their own beliefs and actions and (b) foster an environment where they can push conversations about race, racism, and other equity issues. This interactive lecture will engage leaders in navigating these topics through addressing racism and antiblackness in mathematics education, brainstorming ideas for framing antiracism in mathematics education, and identifying actions to take.

Lead Speaker: Robert Q. Berry, III

Mathematical Rigor Mortis: The Quest for a Cure

We often talk about mathematical rigor, even though it lacks a shared, rigorous foundation. Sometimes, though, our conceptions of rigor kill mathematical progress and instead result in mathematical rigor mortis. In this lighthearted (yet serious) talk I will provide a definition for mathematical rigor mortis and offer suggestions for a cure.

Lead Speaker: Ted Coe

How Do I Leverage Students’ Mathematical Thinking in Special Education Settings? Strength-Based Approach to Interventions

Most teachers recognize the need for differentiated instruction (DI) (Tomlinson & Imbeau 2010). Even though differentiation is clearly needed to ensure that all students have access to their own ways of making sense, it is not always clear how to differentiate interventions and assessments in a manner that promotes productive struggle in a special education setting.  We unpack how teachers can differentiate strength-based interventions using knowledge of student thinking elicited via diagnostic interviews.

Lead Speaker: Sararose Lynch
Co-presenter: Jeremy Lynch

Redesigning School Improvement Structures: Leveraging School Coaching Teams as Direct Support to Schools

Leveraging change in the mathematics classroom requires strong instructional leadership (NCSM Essential Actions: Instructional edit Leadership in Mathematics Education, 2019). In this engaging session, participants will examine innovative ways to enhance the school improvement planning process to build leadership capacity, provide ongoing support to schools. Participants will examine how a school coaching team model may be used to facilitate school improvement planning, develop administrators as instructional leaders, and provide ongoing support to school teams.

Lead Speaker: Jenny Novak

Room to Grow: A Math Podcast

 Join us for a live Question and Response recording of the "Room to Grow" math podcast, and include your voice in the conversation as we consider ideas that "Activate Teachers as Leaders." Bring your questions for a group discussion focused on continuous improvement in our practice as teacher leaders.  

Lead Speaker: Curtis Brown
Co-presenter: Joanie Funderburk

Turn Learning Loss into Learning Recovery! - School-Year Free Trial of Get More Math for any new to GMM schools!

This fall, math teachers will face an intensified version of the same old dilemma: how can students learn grade-level content if they don’t have mastery of concepts from prior grades? This session will explore both the importance of promoting and monitoring long-term retention and Get More Math as a tool for this purpose. School-Year FREE Pilot included for any new-to-GMM schools that attend the session.

Lead Speaker: Joshua Britton

5 Tell-All Signs Your Staff is Teaching Mathematics with the Brain in Mind (or Not)

Discover the five most common mistakes teachers make when following fads instead of succeeding with science. Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science reveal five fresh, powerful tools your staff can use in 90 seconds or less to boost mathematical proficiency. Amplify your staff’s pedagogical efforts and activate student learning with this highly-engaging and interactive session. Join international expert/author on the brain and get your complimentary “7 Tools to Boost Math Motivation”.

Lead Speaker: Liesl McConchie

Collaborating with School Teams to Use Data to Differentiate Math Instruction

Today’s math teachers have tons of data at their fingertips, but may not have the training to know how to effectively use it to differentiate instruction. In this session, math leaders will learn the ways that they can guide their teacher teams to leverage data, such as Quantile measures, to collaboratively map learning paths for all students in their schools.

Lead Speaker: Bernard Frost

Closing the African American-White Achievement Gap in Math with Culturally Responsive Teaching

By exploring tenets of culturally responsive teaching and how each support the 8 math teaching practices, the capacity of participants will be developed to create equitable math classrooms that benefit all subgroups while narrowing the African American-White achievement gap in math.

Lead Speaker: Gail Boyd

Math-Positive Mindsets: How to Leverage Family Engagement to Maximize Students' Learning Potential

Elementary teachers are tasked with building students’ math-positive mindsets but are sometimes undermined by caregivers’ fixed attitudes. Learn how to grow familial mindsets by leveraging traditional family engagement structures--parent conferences, school newsletters, and family math night--as well as innovative approaches like take-home math literacy bags. We’ll share how we’ve adapted Stanford’s Project for Education Research that Scales (2015) to teach families the malleability of intelligence and growth mindset beliefs, actions, and language.

Lead Speaker: Carrie Cutler

Catalyzing the Change Within: Navigating the Journey toward Anti-Racist Coaching

Becoming an anti-racist leader is essential, but where does one start? Explore possible actions for the complex journey that must occur if we are to deconstruct existing barriers. In this session we share resources from our own journeys in becoming anti-racist educators and facilitate critical conversations on assessing and initiating change within schools, goal-setting, analyzing data in ways that does not perpetuate systemic inequities and implementing coaching practices that advance learning opportunities for all students.

Lead Speaker: Courtney Baker
Co-presenter: Melinda Knapp

Identity-Building Assessment: From a Number to a Showcase of Knowledge

Most assessment structures detract from the joy of mathematics while actively harming students’ mathematical identity. In this session, we’ll look at an alternative system of assessment that yields better information about what students know while supporting the learning of young mathematicians. How do rich tasks unlock student self worth? And how can we create a system of assessment that promotes student identity? We’ll discuss how to implement a system of portfolio assessment at your school.

Lead Speaker: Geoff Krall

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 all reform-oriented teachers' professional growth. 

Lead Speaker: Mark Cote
Co-presenter: Judith Kysh
Co-presenter: Lara Jasien
Co-presenter: Penny Smits

Leadership Exchange:  Attending To The Professional Wellness Of Your Faculty And Staff:  Four Dimensions to Avoid Emotional Exhaustion and Burnout!  

Tim Kanold

Join us in the Exhibit Hall, at the Leadership Exchange area for casual conversation with several of our Major and Spotlight speakers around important topics for leaders in mathematics education.  In this session, participants will discuss "Attending To The Professional Wellness Of Your Faculty And Staff:  Four Dimensions to Avoid Emotional Exhaustion and Burnout!"

Lead Speaker: Timothy Kanold

I See You Care: Using Equity as a Lens to Frame Your Mathematics Instruction

Pam Seda

Implementing instructional strategies without attending to the inequities that have resulted from decades of ignorance, discrimination and racist structures will not improve academic outcomes for marginalized students. Without an intentional focus on equity and access, even well-meaning teachers will perpetuate inequitable practices that have resulted in the current achievement gaps in mathematics. In this presentation, participants will learn to use strategies of an equity framework to make equity a reality in their mathematics classrooms.

Lead Speaker: Pamela Seda

Supporting Primary Teachers as they Reflect on Practices That Promote Productive Math Struggle

We know productive struggle is important but how do we provide these opportunities for our young learners? We'll consider specific actions to assist K-2 teachers in thinking about how they can help their students begin to see why struggle is important for learning mathematics. We will discuss how we can prompt teachers to reflect upon how they interact with students as they engage in such struggle. Practical ideas to share with teachers will be shared.

Lead Speaker: Susie Katt

Empowering and Inspiring Teachers as Agents of Change

In this session, teacher leaders will learn strategies for inviting all voices to be heard without inspiring chaos!  We will engage in activities to model the strategies our district used to develop our mission and vision, define our roles, and understand how those roles work together. Since change is not instantaneous, we must establish a sequence of smaller goals and provide research, evidence, training, support, and accountability to ensure we meet our goals.

Lead Speaker: Judy Dunmire

Taking Action with the Teaching Practices

Want to take action with the effective mathematics teaching practices and improve mathematics instruction for an entire district?  Come hear about one district's journey in providing specialized training for building level math teacher leaders and how it improved mathematics instruction and student learning for all.

Lead Speaker: Beth Fugate

The Tortoise & The Hare: How Math Class Missed The Moral and What We Can Do About It

When your colleagues think back to moments from their mathematical learning experience, what  memories do you think come to their minds?  Do memories of recalling facts, steps, and procedures come to mind or moments of problem solving, productive struggle and constructing understanding? Join us as we explore the two systems for thinking in the brain and how mathematics education often only serves one and what we can do to fix this.

Lead Speaker: Kyle Pearce
Co-presenter: Jon Orr

Intentional Change: Refocusing your Mathematics Vision and Plan

As mathematics leaders, we often find ourselves exploring multiple ideas of innovation and change to enhance mathematics practices and experiences. Once implemented, these ideas frequently fall short of the intended outcome. During this session we will unpack and refocus your math vision and incorporate research-based practices such as data analysis, backwards planning, and S.M.A.R.T. goal setting to identify and target 2-4 impactful goals and create an outline of a mathematics action plan.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Kendra Thurmond

Math Anywhere! Meeting Famililes in the Places they Go

Perceptions about math can form early and last a lifetime. How can we cultivate positive relationships with math, even before children begin school? Math Anywhere! partners with local organizations to spread joyful math throughout our community. Learn about our core strategies and how we adapted our approach to reach families at home when public events were cancelled and businesses were shutdown. Leave with free family math resources to use in your own community.

Lead Speaker: Molly Daley

Moving Away from the Return of Teacher Talk

As in-class teaching becomes the "new normal" once again, many teachers may find it challenging to shift from the necessity of "Zoom Lecture Teacher Talk" to the return of purposeful and dynamic in-class engagement with all learners.  Author Shannon McCaw will share re-engagement strategies that benefit from an instructionally-balanced math curriculum that allows students to process mathematics in a variety of ways.

Lead Speaker: Shannon McCaw

Paradigm Shift: Walch Education launches print-on-demand program with Cobb County Schools and HP

Come check out Walch Education, Cobb County Schools and HP Publishing Solutions demonstrate how teacher leaders can create and print on-demand customized and cost-effective student resources. Walch Education’s Curriculum Engine gives district leaders control over their resources, using a simple four-step wizard to assist them in developing coherent, aligned, and targeted digital curricula. Using HP Publishing’s cost-effective network, Walch’s novel print-on-demand approach is designed to increase accessibility and affordability for school districts, ensuring that all students have the resources they need to succeed. Tailored, readily available student workbooks can help close achievement gaps, improve equity and access, save money and lessen environmental impacts (through reduced waste).  

Lead Speaker: Joanne Whitley
Co-presenter: Michelle Mikes

Teachers and Families Working in Partnership to Remove Barriers and Provide All Young Children with Meaningful and Relevant Mathematics Experiences

Learn about an innovative program that can transform the mathematics learning environments of preschool children. Researchers and curriculum developers partnered with teachers, family engagement specialists, and families from several Head Start programs to co-create, test, and re-design mathematics activities that are meaningful, engaging, and enjoyable for all. The intervention—teacher professional development and complementary school, home, and community math activities—had a significant positive effect on preschooler’s mathematics learning compared to a business-as-usual comparison group.

Lead Speaker: Kristen Reed
Co-presenter: Jessica Young

Say their Name: Building Teacher Leader Epiphany

Building teacher leaders is the fruit of the sustainment of our approach to improving mathematical and pedagogical content knowledge.  Learn how to develop leaders who understand clearly what high-quality math instruction looks like to meet the needs of all students.  We share a field-tested, set of high-impact, instructional materials that diminish teacher planning time, clarify the demands of the curriculum standards, provide formative assessments for all ability levels, and supply exemplar complex texts.  

Lead Speaker: Jordan Smith Jr
Co-presenter: Karin Lee

Activate and Amplify Rigorous Teaching and Learning

We all know that math instruction should be rigorous, but what does rigor really look like in a mathematics classroom?  Through classroom video analysis, participants will explore how the use of a classroom walkthrough tool focused on observable teacher and student actions can turn an often-nebulous term like “rigor” into something that is concrete and, when incorporated into a continuous improvement cycle, lead to actionable next steps that will directly impact teaching and learning.

Lead Speaker: Denise Thornton
Co-presenter: Michael Greenlee

Activate and Aspire All: Learning Uniqueness through Indigenous Math Lessons

With Montana having 7 reservations with 13 tribes, it is paramount all educators incorporate the indigenous tribes in our teaching as much as we can. This session will discuss the uniqueness of cultures and share MT Tribal math lessons available on our Office of Public Instruction website. Time to explore the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians and how this knowledge can be applied to other cultures. Active participation is expected.

Lead Speaker: Georgia Cobbs

Affirming and Developing Math Identity: The Missing Link

Enacting a high quality curriculum is not enough! Students who see themselves as powerful doers of mathematics are empowered to engage with the curriculum in a more meaningful way. How should leaders support teachers in developing and affirming student mathematics identities? Explore lessons learned during professional development designed to prepare leaders and teachers to develop and affirm complex student math identities as they implemented a high quality curriculum.

Lead Speaker: Rolanda Baldwin

Tuesday Luncheon (ticketed event)

Equity in Mathematics: The Role of Mathematics Leaders

Mathematics remains a particularly challenging and critical context for advancing equity. Now, more than ever, districts and communities need mathematics leaders who will aspire, activate, and act to advance equity in their local contexts. How can mathematics leaders help their organizations aspire to equitable mathematics programs, practices, and outcomes? What does it take to activate these aspirations within your organization and community? How can mathematics leaders act to advance equity? Explore why equity work is for all of us-and will require all of us.

Speaker: Michelle Rinehart

Sponsored by Texas Instruments

Attending To The Heart & Soul Of Your Leadership Life!

Tim Kanold

In these times of relentless stress, is mathematics teaching and leading your vocation or merely your career? Are your daily professional wellness routines busy or hurried, balanced or exhausting, compassionate or compassionless? Research-affirmed strategies and pedagogy for mathematics are only as good as the positive state of health and well-being of the professionals providing them. Our aspirations for a successful mathematics teaching and leading life are built on a soul story mountain of defining moments – good and bad. Creating moments of vulnerability and trust, gratitude and grace, quietude and joy on your professional timeline is the reason others will follow you.

Lead Speaker: Timothy Kanold (Bio)

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 higher 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

Screening for Number Sense: Using Assessment to Focus on Number Sense, Increase Equity, and Recover from a Pandemic

Number sense is the golden ladder of mathematical cognition.  In July of 2020, revised Universal Screeners for Number Sense were released as open source documents to support schools in understanding student thinking, measuring progress, and focusing instructional time and efforts toward the development of number sense. Come learn about the 12 year history of this project and join our conversation about number sense and it’s central importance to mathematics education.

Lead Speaker: David Woodward

Equip, Impact, and Empower: Developing a Deep Understanding of Content Standards

In efforts to advocate for equitable high-quality instruction, we must equip and empower teachers to understand the meanings, progressions, and connections of the content standards. This session will explore the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative’s (AMSTI) use of structured professional development to promote teacher understanding using a variety of tools including Alabama course specific focus maps, Mathematics Unit Planning in a PLC at Work, Grades 6-8 (Kanold, 2019), and proficiency scales (Marzano, 2019).

Lead Speaker: Nicholas Fink
Co-presenter: LeShell Smith
Co-presenter: Elizabeth Hammonds

Assessment Through the Lens of Equity

This session will engage thought leaders by looking at assessment through the lens of equity. By examining assessments from blueprints to data analysis, participants will learn the considerations that play into equitable assessments. Universal design, bias and sensitivity, learner outcomes, and consistency and collaboration in scoring impact the validity and reliability of assessments. Discover how to create more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive assessments that assess all students' math understanding.  

Lead Speaker: Amy Leach
Co-presenter: Amanda Simcock

Increase Instructional Leadership Capacity: Using the UCLA Curtis Center Observation Protocol to Improve Instruction and Feedback to Mathematics Teachers

The Curtis Center supports principals and coaches in their roles as instructional leaders. In this talk, we introduce the Curtis Center Observation Protocol which focuses on student actions indicative of engagement in the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.  We use video and role play to practice using the protocol as a meaningful frame for post-observation conversations and introduce it as a tool for measuring growth of student engagement in the Math Practices over time.

Lead Speaker: Eden Murphy

Math LeaDs: A Bold Rural Leadership Development Model 

This presentation will share the structure and outcomes of the Math LeaDs project. The overarching goals of the Math LeaDs project are to improve student achievement, support effective educators and school leaders, and transform the math teaching and learning environment by building leadership capacity and knowledge. Math LeaDs participate in training, develop and implement their own professional development plans, provide deliverables used for professional learning leaders state-wide, and engage in the Math LeaDs collaboration network. 

Lead Speaker: Angela Godfrey
Co-presenter: Veronica Blackham
Co-presenter: Dr. Catherine Beals

Giving English Learners a Voice in Mathematics by Leveraging the Capabilities of Technology

In this session we will explore how to orchestrate productive mathematical discourse to intentionally support English Learners. Desmos activity builder has capabilities that can leverage students' language and culture to enhance mathematical learning in a safe environment. Implementation will center around NCTM's publication of the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions. Desmos allows us to leverage technology in order to more efficiently implement the 5 practices.

Lead Speaker: Martin Cardenas

The Status Quo in High School Mathematics is Unacceptable

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

Storytelling within Amplify Math: Allowing students to see connections in math

All students ask “Why do I need to know this? When am I ever going to use this?” Amplify Math advisor Sunil Singh will discuss how infusing math with history and storytelling allows students to see connections between math and their everyday lives. This approach also helps students see and appreciate the relevance of the math they’re working on and can contribute to more equitable and exciting experiences for students.

Lead Speaker: Sunil Singh

Promote Fluency, Expand Equity, Engage All Students and Get Results using Games

Let's think about approaching math instruction differently. Teachers use math games frequently but often struggle to integrate meaningful activities that deepen student understanding.  Attendees will learn how to use games to personalize instruction, build fluency, then use aggregated performance data to determine next steps with each student. Join us to experience how game-based learning can give your students the superpower of knowledge!

Lead Speaker: Sean Reidy

How to Lead Your Teachers to Anti-Racism in the Math Classroom

Participants will learn how to identify barriers that are in place prohibiting learners from receiving access to equitable instruction, including discussions around their own identity work and how that interacts with institutional practices. Participants will learn how to interrogate current instructional practices and leverage current structures to build and sustain anti-racist math classrooms.

Lead Speaker: Brett Parker
Co-presenter: Amber Cook

Social Emotional Learning and Mathematics: Not One or The Other, and Both!

The intersectionality of social emotional learning (SEL) practices and mathematics is often overlooked.  Mathematical Practices and High Leverage Teaching Practices marry well with SEL to support learners who have not historically done well within the mathematics classroom.  Building on relationships, promoting self-awareness, and self-regulation assists students with engaging in rigorous mathematics. Learn how our district has utilized these two frameworks to support marginalized learners to engage and achieve at higher levels in mathematics.

Lead Speaker: Natalie Crist

Mathematics Screening: What Do We Look for and How Do We Intervene?

This session will provide the most current research-based guidelines on the foundation and design of effective mathematics screening systems. Common misconceptions about math screeners will be addressed in detail. New and innovative K-2 and 3-6 grade level math screeners will be presented that include the some of the most substantive research basis currently available in math screeners. These screening systems also include targeted intervention activities and invaluable reporting features for school and district administrators.

Lead Speaker: Jonathan Brendefur
Co-presenter: Sam Strother
Co-presenter: Jeff Johnson

Coaching to Promote Equitable Instructional Practices through Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical modeling tasks and online collaborative tools can engage each and every student. They provide us with opportunities to invite students into the mathematical conversation, supporting students' identity and agency.  In this session, we will share resources that can support and inspire mathematics  leaders and teachers as they work to infuse mathematical modeling into their classrooms. Come explore how modeling spans grade bands, fosters inclusion, and amplifies student voice.

Lead Speaker: Benjamin Galluzzo
Co-presenter: Jennifer Suh
Co-presenter: Maria Hernandez

Fostering equitable interactions and belonging with the 5 Practices: Supporting teachers in removing barriers to meaningful student discourse

Engaging students in mathematical discourse can be hard for teachers, especially fostering equity of student voice. Come discuss how to lead for equity through effectively inspiring interactions between students, teacher, and the math.  Learn how to help teachers track student interactions, examine the data for implicit bias, and have conversations that transform classroom equity. We will learn actionable steps to address biases and involve all students’ diverse mathematical thinking and experiences in classroom discussions.

Lead Speaker: Kathleen Sheehy
Co-presenter: Sean Nank

Using Data to Guide Decisions around Multiplication Fluency

When assessing multiplication, are flexibility and efficient strategy assessed along with accuracy? How might we strengthen the foundational understanding of multiplication fluency so tthat our young learners are prepare for deeper, more complex work as the grow? We use Google's DataStudio to help teachers visualize assessment data to make informed decisions about efficacy, accuracy, flexibility, and efficient strategy.  In this session we will share our assessement, results, and our differentiation plan along with how me coached three grade levels of teachers to "do things differently" to get different/better results.  

Lead Speaker: Jill Gough
Co-presenter: Kerry Coote

The Fundamental Five: Five Essential Strategies That Transform the Teaching of K-5 Mathematics

How do we ensure that our students develop a deep understanding of mathematical concepts? How do we help them think like mathematicians? How we teach is as important as what we teach. Join us to identify five instructional practices that deepen students' conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning. Examine some simple investigations that highlight these five teaching practices and gather ideas to help your teachers embrace these strategies as a part of their everyday instruction.

Lead Speaker: Sue O'Connell

NCSM Regional Caucus: Central Region 1

Steven Shadel

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Steven Shadel

NCSM Regional Caucus: Central Region 2

Astrid Fossum

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Astrid Fossum

NCSM Regional Caucus: Western Region 1

Denise Trakas

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Denise Trakas

NCSM Regional Caucus: Western Region 2

Rosa Serratore

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Rosa Serratore

NCSM Regional Caucus: Eastern Region 2

John SanGiovanni

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: John SanGiovanni

NCSM Past President Caucus

Connie Schrock

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock

NCSM Regional Caucus: Canada

Cheryl Cantin

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Cheryl Cantin

NCSM Regional Caucus: Eastern Region 1

Cathy Boutin

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Cathy Boutin

NCSM Regional Caucus: Southern Region 2

Katey Arrington

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington

NCSM Regional Caucus: Southern Region 1

Bernard Frost

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Bernard Frost

NCSM Regional Caucus: International

Bill Barnes

This networking event provides opportunities for you to connect and celebrate regional success with fellow leaders.  Join us and provide input into the direction and work of our organization.  There will be door prizes!  We look forward to connecting with you.

Lead Speaker: Bill Barnes

Reception- Sponsored by Amplify. (ticketed event)

Come join us in the Marquis Ballroom A/B for a reception sponsored by Amplify, as we celebrate NCSM's 53rd year.

This is a ticketed session.

Wednesday Breakfast (ticketed event)

Join us for breakfast sponsored by Imagine Learning. Learning Optimization for Mathematical Instruction: Informed by a recent research initiative, Imagine Learning's Director of Market Research, Dr. Nari Carter, Ph.D., will review four key pillars essential to addressing the need for learning optimization, with a focus on increased family engagement in mathematics and the creation of stronger community relations. *This is a ticketed event.

How to Teach the Problem-Solving Mindset while Teaching

James Tanton

How do we model and practice uncluttered thinking and joyous doing in the classroom? How do we foster deep understanding while encouraging the art of successful flailing? Our complex society demands of its next generation not only mastery of quantitative skills, but also the confidence to ask new questions, explore, wonder, flail, persevere, innovate, and succeed. Let’s not only send humans to Mars, let’s give our next generation the confidence to solve problems and get those humans back if something goes wrong! Let me play with some standard curriculum math and explore how to use it as a vehicle for teaching confident thinking.

Lead Speaker: James Tanton (Bio)

Transfer of Learning Through Mathematics Professional Development to Support Teachers

Kandi Hunter

Lowanna Jones

Transfer of learning through PD to mathematics instruction is essential for teacher instructional practices to change student-learning outcomes. When teachers receive both the right type and amount of support, it is assumed that the educational excellence of students will follow (Jacob & McGovern, 2015). This presentation will examine strategies for leaders to support teachers of mathematics to increase the quality of the learning experience for students.

Lead Speaker: Kandi Hunter
Co-presenter: Lowanna Jones

Online Video Coaching: Using Content-Focused Coaching Practices Online

Online Video Coaching (OVC) provides access to high quality, content-focused coaching for teachers where face-to-face coaching cycles are difficult to sustain.  We will share our OVC model that offers enhanced opportunities for both the coach preparing for the phases of the coaching cycle, and for the teacher engaging in reflective practices.  Attendees will consider how to maintain core aspects of face-to-face content-focused coaching practices in an online space.

Lead Speaker: Cynthia Carson
Co-presenter: Genie Foster

Centering on Student Thinking During Vertical Articulation as a Vehicle to Transforming the Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: An Urban District’s Journey

This session positions student thinking as a vehicle for change in the secondary mathematics classroom.  Join us in exploring how teams of 4th grade through algebra 1 teachers collaboratively developed abilities to become better listeners, sense-makers, and strategic facilitators of using student thinking as a foundation for learning for all students.  We will look at students’ mathematical reasoning via student work and video to investigate and refine teacher practice and broaden our notions of mathematics.

Lead Speaker: Kristine Ho
Co-presenter: Jennifer Hagman

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 in district mini-conferences. 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: Marjorie Huber
Co-presenter: Natevidad Casas

The I'm W.O.K.E. Project (Widening Options through Knowledge and Empowerment)

The I’m W.O.K.E. Project embeds mathematics content into contexts related to social change and community activism. The project facilitates equitable teaching practices to deepen understanding of mathematics content. Students engage in critical thinking activities and platforms for intellectual conversations, exposing their strengths and passions while encouraging transformed teacher perceptions. The project provides a compelling curriculum that uses mathematiccal modeling to humanize mathematics and quantify injustice to disrupt community norms. It provides students with dispositions to excel and teachers’ with professional knowledge.

Lead Speaker: Tonya Clarke
Co-presenter: Tiffanie Nealy
Co-presenter: Charlene Matthew
Co-presenter: Marsha Lee
Co-presenter: Kenneth Andrews

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 JMEL. Join us and 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: Brian Buckhalter
Co-presenter: Erin Lehmann

Shame, shame, go away: Leading teachers to promote productive struggle in fostering doers of mathematics

This session begins with an overview of productive struggle incorporating research on the shame-pride axis and equitable mathematics teaching. An examination of participants' mathematics histories will illustrate the presented findings. A framework of action will be introduced on how teachers can reposition struggle, minimize shame, and foster students identifying themselves as doers of mathematics. The session ends with attendees sharing and receiving resources for moving this work forward in their own practice.

Lead Speaker: Joel Amidon
Co-presenter: Candies Cook
Co-presenter: Ann Monroe

Eliminating Deficit Views of Mathematics (TK-12)

Are you a teacher/leader that wants to promote equitable change within your classroom or organization?  How can you continue to improve the system from within for all students? Participants will discuss deficit views towards historically marginalized children, including English learners, learn about current research, discuss how systems can change from within, and leave knowing how social justice ideas around math education can directly impact district and classroom practices to leverage the strengths and meet the needs of English learners.

Lead Speaker: Karon Akins
Co-presenter: Dennis Regus

Celebrating student brilliance

Problem-based learning puts students in engaging, social situations that make math feel real and relevant. Two of the biggest mindset shifts are around moving from “sage on the stage” to “guide on the side” and learning how to celebrate student thinking during classroom discussions. Learn more about how problem-based instruction can work for you, no matter your instructional setup. Participants will walk away with ideas and strategies they can implement the very next day.

Lead Speaker: Francia Ogata

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Mathematics Classrooms: A Catalyst to Activate Diverse Learners

Curious about UDL in a mathematics classroom? Join us as we share our experiences using the UDL framework and Design Thinking process to fully engage learners. Begin incorporating this framework to co-construct your mathematics learning community to better support all learners by minimizing obstacles to provide equitable access in mathematics classrooms. This session will equip you with tools and resources to rethink collaborative support for educators and stakeholders as you embark on your UDL journey.

Lead Speaker: Ma Bernadette Salgarino, Ed.D.
Co-presenter: Danielle Letts
Co-presenter: Sandhya Raman

Teachers Supporting Teachers on the Journey to Student-Centered Classrooms: A Model for Leveraging Early Adopters to Create a Critical Mass

Ongoing campus support of student centered classrooms can best be provided by our own teachers. Participants will explore structures for development and early-state implementation of peer support teacher leaders. Participants will leave with tools for organization, resources, and tips to grow their own teacher leaders.

Lead Speaker: Natevidad Casas
Co-presenter: Marjorie Huber

Hope for Teachers: Developing Emergent Bilinguals' Language in Mathematics Class

This motivating, research-based session reveals how you can easily develop emergent bilinguals’ language in mathematics. There is a myth that mathematics is straightforward for emergent bilinguals because it is a universal language and yet these students are struggling (Author, 2020). Committed educators understand that emergent bilinguals will not improve unless we develop students' language in every subject. Attend this event to obtain foolproof strategies that your teachers can implement immediately to develop mathematical language.  

Lead Speaker: Jim Ewing

Creating Clarity, Building Capacity, Growing Leaders: One District’s Story of Change

As mathematics leaders, ensuring clarity of expectations for those we support can be challenging. Come learn about one district’s journey to implement structures that support high quality mathematics teaching and learning through collaborative teams that were supported with professional learning experiences that built capacity and developed leaders. Leave with ideas on how to implement these tests of change in your own school or district. 

Lead Speaker: Susan Loveless

The Concepts-Procedures-Application Unit Progression

In order to fully understand mathematics, students need to experience math topics in a progression that begins with conceptual understanding, then continues to procedural fluency, and moves onto application of the skills. Experience a journey of an actual unit of study that embraces this C-P-A progression and see the phenomenal results that occurred with students.

Lead Speaker: Chris Shore

Mathematics Leadership in a Post-Pandemic Future: What have we learned? Where do we go from here?

Jon Wray

Most agree that going back to pre-pandemic “normalcy” is not the best direction for improving mathematics education. In fact, many educators hope to see certain practices and innovations used during the last 18+ months carry forward into mathematics classrooms. In this session, we’ll reflect on what we’ve learned, examine some guiding principles for improving mathematics teaching and learning, and share actionable ideas for supporting the unique needs of K-12 students now and into the future.   This session is part of the Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert Speaker series.

Lead Speaker: Jon Wray

Coaching to Empower Effective (and Ineffective) Ways to Support Diverse Learners

Jenny Bay-Williams

Maggie McGatha

Effective equitable mathematics teaching includes supporting and challenging students. Yet, many strategies for supporting emergent multilingual students and students with special needs fall short of this goal (e.g., pre-teach vocabulary). We will explore research-based effective (and ineffective) mathematics teaching strategies for these learners, then investigate professional learning activities and coaching tools that help teachers become more effective in empowering their diverse students.

Lead Speaker: Jennifer Bay-Williams
Co-presenter: Maggie McGatha

Developing a Problem Solving Culture in the Elementary Grades

There are three critical components to developing a problem-solving culture within a school: problem selection, teacher instructional moves, and administrator support. We’ll solve  problems that can be used to instigate mathematical excitement in the elementary grades, consider how those problems can be used in the school and classrooms, and we’ll consider the roles of educational leaders in fostering the culture. Come have some fun and find out what part you can play.

Lead Speaker: Patrick Vennebush

Looking at Language to Leverage Change: Analyzing Teacher and Student Discourse as a Productive Coaching Practice

This session demonstrates the power of capturing and analyzing language-based interactions during math class, and explains how it is a meaningful and productive coaching practice that supports teachers in deepening awareness, reflecting, evaluating, and identifying alternative ways of saying, thinking, and doing. Using typed transcripts, which include a coach’s questions, comments, and suggestions, participants will explore the richness and accessibility of this approach to teacher development.  

Lead Speaker: Laura Grandau

"Rise Up: How to Have High Expectations for ALL Students"

 This session will explore ideologies and strategies aligned with greater success for at-risk students in mathematics.  Participants will learn how high expectations, a challenging mathematics curriculum, and a growth mindset are fundamental for student and school success. The presenters will share engagement techniques to close existing learning gaps in mathematics and to reach ALL learners regardless of their diverse needs.

Lead Speaker: Vinita Prasad
Co-presenter: Tykier Brown

Working Together to Prepare Secondary STEM Teachers: Networking and Supporting Teachers So They Can Change the World 

UTeach started at the University of Texas at Austin, but it didn’t stop there. UTeach’s approach to preparing and supporting exemplary secondary STEM teachers has spread to 45 universities and produced thousands of alumni who are working to improve education. How? Through leveraging the power of networking! Come learn how this national network provides a community for educators to amplify and achieve our vision for STEM instruction. 

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington

Learning to Listen: Using Interviews to Uncover Student Thinking

Listening to student thinking can have profound changes on our teaching. However, student voice is often missing from team meetings and professional development. In this session, we will practice our interviewing and listening skills and learn how student interviews can be used in our professional learning communities.

Lead Speaker: Nicora Placa

Your Front-Row Ticket to Taking Math from Teardrops to Mic Drops with Music-Based Learning

Why do students struggle with math yet know the words to ALL their favorite songs? Muzology’s algebra-readiness platform uses educational music videos to make learning math fast, fun & effective. Developed by a team of learning experts, PhDs & hit song-writers, Muzology presents challenging math skills/procedures in a clear & engaging manner. With support from the National Science Foundation & US Department of Education, Muzology exists to enable ALL learners to reach their full potential.

Lead Speaker: Dr. Lana Israel

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

Algebra I and College Preparatory Diploma Outcomes among Virginia Students: Findings and Discussion

This session will engage participants in an examination and rich discussion of differentiated outcomes in Algebra I completion and college preparatory diploma attainment for students who achieved the same mathematics proficiency levels on their statewide mathematics assessment in grade 5. You will discover the study results, explore how pathways differed for various students within one statewide cohort, discuss implications for access and equity, and consider what the findings suggest for mathematics placement policy and practice.

Lead Speaker: Jill Neumayer DePiper
Co-presenter: Deborah L. Jonas
Co-presenter: Ryoko Yamaguchi
Co-presenter: Rebecca A. Schmidt

Connecting Computational Thinking to Current Curriculum Content

Computational Thinking is the recognized prerequisite to coding and computer science in general. However, current references to “computational thinking” can be difficult to interpret. This session will examine the four recognized key aspects of computational thinking as they relate to elementary school mathematics - decomposition, patterning, algorithm thinking, and the process of abstracting. Practical activities from the current content of typical K-5 mathematics curricula will be used to demonstrate the four aspects.

Lead Speaker: Sara Moore

Vision to Reality: A Journey to Becoming an NCSM State Affiliate

How do you form a National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) affiliate in your state? Learn about one state's journey of turning the vision of being an NCSM affiliate into a reality. In addition to becoming one of the largest NCSM state affiliates, this organization had a direct impact on mathematics instruction across the state. Challenges and successes will be shared to help aspire mathematics leaders in your state to organize an NCSM affiliate. 

Lead Speaker: LeShell Smith
Co-presenter: Sheila Holt
Co-presenter: Lisa McDonough

How Might We Rethink Intervention?

Do you have students who struggle and need intervention? What is the answer? Pre-teach? Vocab drill? More practice? Join us to experience intervention redesigned; a course focusing on relationships, problem-solving, and enjoying mathematics. Experience activities to support students as they rebuild their mathematical identity and hear comments from student surveys.

Lead Speaker: Karen Wootton

If Mathematics is the Gatekeeper, Language is the Key

Enhancing student language development is key to supporting mathematics learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). Students can better engage in the Standards for Mathematical Practices if teachers help them strengthen their mathematical language skills. This session explores strategies to facilitate language development for ELLs at different proficiency levels and makes connections among the Equity Practices and the Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices to show that research on effective mathematics instruction aligns with best practices for supporting ELLs.

Lead Speaker: Elizabeth Hammonds
Co-presenter: Jeanne Simpson

Committing to Actions that Move Equity Work Forward

Linda Fulmore

Taking bold leadership for equity is a continuous process of examining current strategies while searching for what’s working in other places. This session will highlight initiatives that have promise to move equity work forward. We will look at one school’s antiracism initiative, study equitable math instruction efforts, and examine components of equity-focused lesson study. A goal is to inspire new actions that can complement work already in progress.

Lead Speaker: Linda Fulmore

Coaching Teachers Through Classroom Video Study

Pamela Harris

How can we help surface underlying beliefs about teaching and learning, equity, and the nature of mathematics to help teachers make decisions based on what they actually believe instead of reverting to teaching by habit from their school experience? We’ve designed a purposeful cycle of teacher tasks from coaching to classroom and back to coaching to provide for continuing, sustained, collaborative team and teacher support.

Lead Speaker: Pamela Harris

Virtual Math Coaching: Learnings and Leverages for Each and Every Student

In March of 2020, math coaching cycles changed dramatically when teachers in SFUSD went fully virtual. However, with partnerships of Stanford and UC Riverside, I was able to hold continuity in coaching while using a reflective tool called the practical measures; a student survey that yields instant data about students’ experiences in their math classes. This session will take an in-depth look at virtual one to one coaching while reflecting on the practical measures.

Lead Speaker: Alisa Brown
Co-presenter: Zuhal Yilmaz
Co-presenter: Emma Trevino

Designing More Equitable and Useful District Assessments

Districts use a variety of data points to monitor mathematical achievement. Many traditional diagnostics or placement tests have shown to be sources of systemic inequity and do not align well with the vision of the Common Core, nor do they provide much useful information to directly inform instruction, curriculum, and professional learning. We will share assessments that encourage student agency and growth by eliciting evidence of knowledge, application, and communication supported by mathematical language routines.

Lead Speaker: Patrick Callahan
Co-presenter: Alexandra Martinez

Meaningful Virtual Professional Learning: Creating Flexible, Online Mathematics PD Experiences for Teachers Centered on Classroom Video Clips

More than ever, teachers need easily accessible, high-quality opportunities to enhance their professional knowledge. The Video in the Middle project works to create free interactive, bite-sized online PD modules that can be arranged and facilitated in a variety of ways, each centered around a classroom video clip and focused on specific learning goals. Two recent studies showed that coaches and teachers found four algebra-focused modules engaging, effective, and accessible for a wide range of participants.

Lead Speaker: Angela Knotts
Co-presenter: Katie Salguero

How Leaders Can Cultivate Curiosity Among Communities of Mathematics Educators Toward a Vision for High-Quality Mathematics Instruction

Curiosity about mathematics, students’ learning and experiences, and instructional decisions is vital to working toward a high-quality instructional vision. But how can leaders cultivate collective curiosity? In this session, we (a school principal and university partners) will share how experienced school leaders nurtured curiosity among a middle-grades mathematics department.  We will also engage participants in exploring how they can nurture this culture in their own contexts, with a focus on principles, routines, practices, and tools.

Lead Speaker: Mike McCarthy
Co-presenter: Kara Jackson
Co-presenter: Anita Lenges

Removing Obstacles for English Language Learners in the Mathematics Classroom

English Language Learners (ELLs) come up against many obstacles in the mathematics classroom. What evidence can be used to determine and remove obstacles for our ELLs? What structures are needed to ensure high quality math instruction for ELLs? Ideas will be explored using work samples from ELLs, research from The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of  English Learners and Beyond Good Teaching: Advancing Mathematics Education for ELLs.

Lead Speaker: LeShell Smith
Co-presenter: Lisa McDonough

Move Over Pedagogy - It’s Time to Get Andragogical!

Coaches play an important role in our educational system – their greatest role is in transforming adult behavior. Most coaches are former teachers, who have studied pedagogy their entire lives, but have received little to no training on adult learning theory. If we want to transform adult behavior, we have to know about how adults learn. Come to this session where we will get andragogical and focus on US, adults.

Lead Speaker: Dina Mendola
Co-presenter: Hilary Kreisberg

M3 Challenge: Roadmap to Math Modeling Coaching for Student Teams’ Success

Let’s take the shortcut on the road to math modeling and competition success. Learn about the best tips and tricks, the resources all students/teams should be using (and they are free), and best ways to motivate students to form teams. Focus is on MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, but skills can be broadly applied. Participation prizes available at this session.

Lead Speaker: Michelle Montgomery
Co-presenter: Karen Bliss

Supporting Equitable Teaching in a Post-COVID World: Lessons Learned from This Past Year

Teaching during COVID has forced us to rethink what it means to teach math equitably, specifically by helping students see math as a tool for solving culturally relevant problems. To activate leaders and teachers in implementing equitable practices, we empowered them to adapt their existing curricula to build student agency. Come experience some powerful activities and strategies that helped teachers focus on getting through to their students rather than getting through a textbook.

Lead Speaker: Ivan Cheng
Co-presenter: Lucy Rodriguez
Co-presenter: Alma Pacheco

Innovating in STEM Education: Engaging in Critical Conversations and Partnerships

Mathematics and science teacher education are currently facing unprecedented challenges. Interest in pursuing teaching is low, district and campus needs for well-prepared STEM classroom teachers are high, states are sending mixed messages to certification programs, and COVID-19 has radically changed the work of teachers, teacher educators, and educator preparation programs. This presentation highlights the critical conversations, partnerships, and innovative approaches needed to address these challenges to STEM education.

Lead Speaker: Suzanne Nesmith

Improving Student Achievement through Engaging and Equitable Lesson Design by Supporting Teachers through Collaborative Processes

Teaching mathematics based on student interest, student needs, and background is a major component of engagement in learning.  How do we design lessons that not only engage students but are equitable for those who are marginalized? What structures and professional learning must be in place for teachers?  Learn how to support teachers in engaging students in rigorous, equitable mathematics instruction through the lessons learned in a high poverty, greatly diverse, urban school system. 

Lead Speaker: Natalie Crist

What does successful virtual coaching look like? Tales from a research-based coaching model

In our coaching program, MQI Coaching, we have been implementing online, remote, video-based, and math-specific instructional coaching since 2014. In this session, we will share some of our practical tips and strategies for coaching successfully online, based on our research-developed model and years of experience. In particular, we will focus on strategies for building relationships when coaching remotely and on how to effectively use video as a tool for instructional coaching.

Lead Speaker: Claire Gogolen
Co-presenter: Carrie Maierhofer

The Pursuit of Happiness: A Model of Collaboration between Schools and Teacher Preparation Provider to Implement Restorative Practices in Mathematics

A unique collaboration in Central Texas is supporting implemention of restorative practices in middle school math classrooms and is proving to have positive impact across multiple levels of the education system. Are you seeking to improve the learning environment for a diverse group of students and provide your teachers with support and experiences in creating those environments? Come hear about the project, its impact, and the model of collaboration that is being developed.

Lead Speaker: Katey Arrington
Co-presenter: Lauren Beniot

Powerful ways of thinking: Blowing things out of (or into) proportion

High-quality mathematics instruction involves combining ways of doing with ways of thinking. In this session we will illustrate the importance of ways of thinking by examining how a single--and often missed--key way of thinking can easily and sensibly connect otherwise cluttered ways of doing that are associated with proportional relationships.

Lead Speaker: Ted Coe
Co-presenter: Kyle Pearce
Co-presenter: James Tanton

Think Alouds:Enhancing Student Thinking and Learning in Mathematics

Think alouds in language arts have been widely documented to improve learning, so why not use them in math class? Teacher-led think alouds enable all learners to have access to the covert self-talk that is employed during the thinking process.  Learn how to use think alouds in practical ways to enhance student self-talk and develop critical, self-directed  learning skills in mathematics. I will share many strategies based on my current research with students and teachers. 

Lead Speaker: Cathy Marks Krpan

Wednesday Luncheon (ticketed event)

Join us for Wednesday luncheon. *This is a ticketed event.

Build Your Team: Creating a Mathematics Whole School Agreement

Barb Dougherty

Is your school using consistent mathematical language across the grades? How are representations growing in sophistication and utility from one grade to the next?  The Mathematics Whole School Agreement process aligns mathematical language, notation, representations, rules and generalizations across and within grades in a cohesive approach to teaching mathematics!

Lead Speaker: Karen Karp
Co-presenter: Barbara Dougherty

A Game Plan for Invigorating High School Mathematics

Steven Leinwand

We all know that since the Common Core, the K-8 curriculum is so much stronger.  We know that colleges are adopting sensible pathways that expand opportunities.  But High School is stuck with little coherent guidance other more of the same, a non-integrated Algebra and Geometry sandwich, for too much attention to obsolete skills and far too little attention to statistics and modeling.  We'll look at why and to change this situation.

Lead Speaker: Steven Leinwand

Blended Lesson Study - Growing Together Even When Apart

In this session we will explore best practices for modifying Lesson Study to become a model of blended professional learning and to capitalize on the affordances of socially distant environments. We will focus on facilitation strategies, structures, and resources that will support you in effectively leading Blended Lesson Study at your school.

Lead Speaker: Andrea Barraugh

Maximizing the Impact of One-on-One Coaching: Two Strategies for Addressing the Challenge of Improving Mathematics Teaching at Scale

In this session, we share two strategies for maximizing the impact of one-on-one mathematics coaching. First, we describe a rigorous screening process for selecting prospective mathematics coaches that attends to coaches’ visions of high-quality mathematics instruction and views of students’ current mathematical capabilities. Second, we describe how coaches can select the teachers with whom they work based on qualitative data about the teachers’ views of students’ mathematical capabilities, views of instruction, and influence in the school building.   

Lead Speaker: Jessica Slayton
Co-presenter: Nicholas Kochmanski
Co-presenter: Paul Cobb

Toward a Pedagogy of Equity: Rooting Out the Traits of White Supremacist Culture in our Math Instruction

The persistence of White Supremacy culture in math instruction profoundly affects Black and Brown students, English Language Learners, students with disabilities, and other historically marginalized populations, limiting access to the economic opportunities represented by STEM professions. How do we interrogate our math practices to disrupt white supremacy culture in the math classroom? What would an actively “disruptive” approach to math require? What classroom and school level practices need to be developed, enacted, fought for?

Lead Speaker: Nadine O'Garro
Co-presenter: Glen Sherman

Leading the Conversation for Change:  Narrowing the Gap Through Family Education 

How might leadership partner with helping families/caregivers to advocate for learners? In this session, participants will create/ provide meaningful high-quality resources, build caregivers knowledge of math and help caregivers advocate for students’ mathematics education, as well as build their capacity to understand mathematics.  

Lead Speaker: Rob Nickerson
Co-presenter: Andrea Kotowski

Coaching Mathematics Teams - Which actions produce results?

Teachers working in collaborative teams can greatly impact student learning.  How does a mathematics coach work with teams to strengthen the learning of both teachers and students? What are the foundational team actions required to do the work well?  How do protocols help teams make sense of standards, design common assessments, and analyze data and respond?  A coach is a key part of building team and teacher capacity to plan for and analyze student learning.

Lead Speaker: Sarah Schuhl

I’m All Ears - Listening to Understand Students’ Ways of Thinking in a Formative Setting

By presenting a single task to students and leveraging it to elicit student conversations using clustered questioning around a formative assessment, teachers can better understand how their students are currently thinking about key ideas in mathematics. Learn how to guide instruction by using a progressive questioning strategy to elicit evidence of students’ ways of thinking about a topic or concept.

Lead Speaker: Desiree Spikings
Co-presenter: Fenesha Hubbard

Aspire, Activate, Amplify Teacher Leaders and Coaches: A Coaching Community

Is there a need for qualified math coaches in your area? Learn how a local coaching community was built to activate teacher leaders as mathematics coaches and to amplify skills of current mathematics coaches and became a statewide reality. Resources to develop content knowledge and pedagogy and leadership skills will be shared to assist you in creating a coaching community to develop and sustain mathematics coaches in your area and your state. 

Lead Speaker: Carrie Plank
Co-presenter: Sheila Holt
Co-presenter: Lisa McDonough
Co-presenter: LeShell Smith
Co-presenter: Jeanne Simpson
Co-presenter: Beth Balch

How Our District Used Illustrative Mathematics Curriculum to Provide Access and Equity and Shift Beliefs About Teaching and Learning

In this session, participants will engage in tasks from Illustrative Mathematics (IM) to promote discussion and collaboration to identify characteristics of tasks and practices that support access and equity. I will also share how we transitioned to IM to provide students’ access to a rigorous, meaningful curriculum; how our teachers apply high-leverage teaching practices and tasks that are meaningful and relevant; and how we provide support to meet the needs of each of our students.

Lead Speaker: Judy Dunmire

Building Understanding of Fractions through Number Lines: Interactive Ways to Support Teachers to Deepen Content Knowledge While Gaining Instructional Strategies

How can we engage teachers with student work and task analysis? Come solve fraction number line tasks and consider how you might use them with teachers. Deepen your understanding of critical aspects of the number line and how this model supports student fraction understanding. Plan to use these OGAP (the Ongoing Assessment Project) tasks and student work with teachers to develop the critical understandings they need to incorporate the number line model into their fraction instruction.

Lead Speaker: Mary Abele-Austin
Co-presenter: Karen Reinhardt

Cultivating Mathematics Leadership Through a Professional Learning Network

Creating leaders as change agents is vital as we turn challenges into opportunities in mathematics education, especially in our current contexts.  Join us as we share the evolving journey of our regional mathematics leadership cadre of K-12 coaches, teachers, and administrators who are putting research into practice through an annual multi-day professional learning experience. Participant discussion is encouraged as we continue in “collectively and collaboratively supporting one another in moving toward improved instruction” (NCTM, 2014).

Lead Speaker: Stephanie Martin
Co-presenter: Cynthia Callard
Co-presenter: Jennifer Kruger
Co-presenter: Melissa Staloff

Language and Discourse as Tools for Access and Equity in Mathematics

Language is a tool both for understanding mathematics & for sharing our understanding.  Particularly for students learning English and mathematics simultaneously, language serves as a gatekeeper.  This session will share guiding principles and specific strategies for supporting teachers who are building language and discourse in elementary mathematics classrooms.   Integrating best practices in literacy and mathematics, this session emphasizes tools for fully engaging every learner in rich mathematical tasks and discourse.  

Lead Speaker: Sara Moore
Co-presenter: Kimberly Hayden
Co-presenter: William Bintz
Co-presenter: Nara Olivas

Interweaving Multidimensional Professional Growth Opportunities: Structures for Developing Mathematics Leaders Who Support Thriving Learning Communities

Are you a mathematics coach, district leader, mathematics supervisor, or teacher leader who wants to create a thriving learning community in your school or district?  In this session, we promote expanding professional engagement to create a school and community culture where multiple stakeholders can continuously learn and interweave their evolving understanding of the teaching and learning of mathematics. We also introduce a philosophy and framework that supports collaboration, communication, and ongoing learning across all stakeholders. 

Lead Speaker: Charlene Marchese
Co-presenter: Anne Burgunder

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

In this session we will describe the design of a fully online professional learning model to support mathematics coaches in rural districts to grow in their journey in mathematics leadership.  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 as change agents in rural districts.

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

A Pandemic PLC: How a Flipped Classroom Propelled Learning in High School Mathematics

When a teacher team sought solutions during the Covid19 crisis to lessen the load of in person/hybrid/virtual teaching, a coached PLC around the Flipped Classroom allowed us to proactively plan for high quality instruction everyday for every student. Learn how a global pandemic inspired innovation in instruction so all students could thrive!

Lead Speaker: Angela Boratko
Co-presenter: Michelle Kellogg

Practical Measures for Supporting Mathematics Leaders in Analyzing and Improving their Facilitation of Professional Learning Experiences

Mathematics leaders who facilitate professional learning experiences for teachers often have limited ways to get systematic, targeted feedback about their practice. In this session, we will share practical measures of professional learning experiences and routines for analyzing the resulting data. The measures focus on key aspects of leading one-on-one coaching cycles and teacher collaborative meetings, and are intended to provide leaders with frequent feedback that enables them to assess and adjust their practice. 

Lead Speaker: Cara Haines
Co-presenter: Kara Jackson
Co-presenter: Hannah Nieman
Co-presenter: Zuhal Yilmaz
Co-presenter: Nicholas Kochmanski
Co-presenter: Paul Cobb
Co-presenter: Hilda Borko

Facilitating Mindfulness Practices in K-12 Schools to Support the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

Participants will engage in a series of informal guided mindfulness and embodiment activities that have been used with preservice teachers in mathematics education courses (such as focused breathing, mindful movement, journaling, and applying a protocol in times of heightened stress). Participants will be given time to reflect on their experiences engaging with the practices, debrief with peers, ask questions, and consider how they can support their K-12 teachers to implement these practices into their classrooms. 

Lead Speaker: Rachael Welder
Co-presenter: Heidi Eisenreich
Co-presenter: Megan Burton