Join us for a transformative session on creating equitable and thinking-centered math classrooms. We'll delve into the unique challenges faced by Black female students and explore strategies to foster growth mindsets, encourage meaningful conversations, and build inclusive learning environments. Leave with actionable steps to empower all students to thrive in math.
Come explore how using virtual manipulatives like a function machine, algebra tiles, a balance scale and more can help students make meaning of algebraic ideas. We'll use the free Polypad virtual manipulatives from Desmos Classroom.
It’s time to move past teaching students to simply cross multiply to solve proportions and focus on building a strong conceptual understanding of proportional reasoning! Engage students in their learning by starting with hands-on activities to introduce and explore ratios. Next, learn a variety of representations that can be used to solve problems from unit rates and percents to constants of proportionality and proportional relationships. Walk away from this session with new strategies to implement in your classroom tomorrow!
To build the competencies we desire most in our students such as: perseverance, collaboration, willingness to take risks, we must evaluate those competencies. What we evaluate tells students what we value. Learn how we (a coach and a kindergarten classroom teacher) transformed the thinking culture in our elementary schools by using rubrics and implementing Building Thinking Classrooms Practice 12: What We Choose to Evaluate.
