Description: Participants will be challenged to reflect on and think deeply about unconscious biases and how those biases influence our teaching, classroom environment, and interactions with families and the community. During the session the group will learn what microaggressions are, finding when they are used in the classroom and learning replacement thinking and language so […]
Description: Fizz Buzz is a beautiful, low-floor high ceiling coding task that all learners can be successful with! Our coding solution is a portable, offline programming solution, overcoming access issues for students without devices or high-speed internet. Our solution provides a grades 7-10 menu-driven solution that bridges the elementary block coding solutions with more sophisticated […]
Description: This session will focus on the importance of low floor and high ceiling math tasks. These tasks will be accessible to all students in a classroom while giving the freedom and flexibility for students to explore mathematics. Our goal is to engage all our students and make them feel that they can achieve deep […]
Description: On a daily basis educators are challenged to meet the needs of all learners in their classrooms. Understanding differentiated instruction in regards to equality vs equity can assist all educators/administrators when planning and implementing instruction. We will also discuss strategies that can immediately be implemented in the classroom.
Description: With the pandemic, educational inequity has been magnified. How can we do our part, as mathematics teachers, to provide equity in the mathematics classroom? This introductory equity session will provide the opportunity for mathematics educators and administrators to discuss equity, race, and pedagogical practices and begin reducing racial disparities in their mathematics classrooms. Participants […]
Description: Working from a strength or “asset-based” mindset increases equitable outcomes for our mathematicians. This session will identify language that creates a deficit mindset for our students and teachers, and provide an opportunity for participants to shift that language to convey the strengths ALL students bring.
Description: In this session, participants will consider how individual students and groups of students may be experiencing math class. Issues will include tracking, labeling, classroom environment, language and opportunity contexts.
Desmos is an incredible tool that can diversify the way we teach and the way our students learn mathematics. In this session, we will explore the basics of what Desmos activities are, how to use them, and the teacher/student view for the activities. The Desmos library is full of amazing activities, and together we will […]
Desmos activities can be used as a warm-up, lesson activity, exit ticket, or assessment, and in this session, we will cover the basics of creating your very own activities using the Desmos Activity Builder. From starter screens to checking for understanding, we will go over each component and tool that allows us to create activities […]
Do you understand the basics of creating Desmos activities? Well, now let’s kick it up a notch! In this session, we will focus on working with the computation layer of Desmos. The Computation Layer can self-check a student’s work, give students feedback OR allow students to build on their work from a previous slide. How […]