Our first fall conference of 2025, “Beyond Answers: Building Curious and Courageous Math Classrooms,” is a PreK-5 content conference on Friday, November 14th, 2025, at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. This year’s theme invites us to move beyond surface-level correctness and into the rich terrain of student thinking, wonder, and agency.
We welcome classroom teachers, administrators, math coaches, supervisors, college faculty, preservice teachers, and anyone else committed to creating vibrant math classrooms—places where curiosity drives learning, mistakes are embraced as part of the process, and all students feel empowered to explore big ideas.
- Student Thinking as the Driver
How do we use student thinking, misconceptions, and conversation to shape instruction?
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Courageous Teaching, Brave Learning
What does it look like to create math spaces that are culturally responsive, inclusive, and risk-friendly?
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Math That Matters
How do we help students connect math to their lives, their identities, or the real world?
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From Compliance to Curiosity
What routines, structures, or lesson designs foster joyful, inquiry-based learning?
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Powerful Practices in Action
How do we make best practices stick through systems, coaching, or collaborative planning?
Fall PreK – 5 Conference Program can be found by clicking below.
CONFERENCE FEE: $265.00 (members), $295.00 (non-members )
SPECIAL STUDENT PRICE FOR FULL TIME STUDENTS: $100 without a book, $125 with a book.
PD Certificates will be provided for up to 10 hours (6 for the day of the conference and 1 each for the optional online sessions) pending payment and attendance.
Please note: All registrations must be paid in full or AMTNJ will need to have received a purchase order from your school district by November 1, 2025 to confirm your registration. Please submit your registration to your Board of Education as early as possible for Board approval, as sometimes it can take up to 60 days.
AMTNJ does not accept cancellations after one week prior to any conference.
All no-shows for the conference and any registrations cancelled within seven days of the date of the conference will be charged a $50 fee.
f you would prefer to submit by mail or e-mail, please print a pdf copy of this form.
PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IN PRINTING YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT YOU.
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Directions:
From North or South Jersey, use the Garden State Parkway. If you’re driving down from North Jersey be sure to choose “Local Exits” lanes after the Raritan Bridge, not the “Express” lanes.
Southbound, coming from North Jersey and New York
To avoid the congestion of Exit 109-Red Bank, our standard exit, you can use Exit 114. Keep right – pay the toll -and make a right onto Red Hill Road. Then make a left at the next light onto Crawford Everett Road. (St. Catharine`s Church). Follow to the end – and at the T make a left onto Route 520 (Newman Springs Road). Head East on Route 520 past Christian Brothers Academy (on the left) and Thompson Park (on the right). Brookdale will be on your right – look for our red sign at the roundabout.
If you use Exit 109-Red Bank
At the bottom of the exit ramp, turn right onto Route 520 West (Newman Springs Road). Stay west on Route 520 about two miles; just after the town of Lincroft, Brookdale will be on your left – look for our red sign at the roundabout.
Northbound, coming from South Jersey
Use Exit 109-Red Bank and merge to the FAR left at the bottom of the Exit ramp. Make the left onto Route 520 West (Newman Springs Road). Stay west on Route 520 about two miles, through the town of Lincroft; the College entrance will be on the left.
From Western New Jersey
Take Route 33 towards the Halls Mills Road – NORTH exit. This becomes Kozloski Road; follow north `til the intersection with Route 537. Turn right and continue east on 537 unti it intersects with Route 34. Turn left onto Route 34 North. At the next traffic light, turn right onto Phalanx Road; stay on Phalanx about 3 miles. The entrance to Brookdale will be on the left after crossing the Swimming River Reservoir bridge.
From Route 18 Northbound
Exit at 15A-Wayside Road. Follow to Route 537 to Laird Road to Phalanx Road where you will see the College entrance on the left after the Reservoir.
From Route 18 Southbound
Use the Route 520 East exit and follow to the College.