Conference Program
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Wednesday, September 29
6:30-8:30: Opening Session and National Panel Discussion with:
Learn more about our national panelists on our speaker profiles page and access the session in our Conference Community.
Thursday, September 30
6:30-7:30: Cathy Martin Keynote and Colorado Panel Discussion with:
- Joseph Bolz, High School Teacher, Denver Public Schools
- Dominique Conner, Elementary School Teacher, Fountain-Fort Carson 8
- Yunnuen McLaughlin, Middle School Teacher, Mesa County Valley School District 51
- Lindsay Reiten, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado
Learn more about our Colorado panelists on our speaker profiles page and access the session in our Conference Community.
Friday, October 1
5:30-8:00: CCTM Awards Ceremony (open to all, no conference registration required):
- 5:30 Virtual Math Escape Room
- 6:00 Awards Ceremony
- 6:45 Trivia
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83012170039?pwd=dmhPdjFZV0JWUG95T041STVhc3QwZz09
Saturday, October 2
8:30 Keynote: Meeting the Needs of Each and Every Learner
- Presenter: Kevin Dykema, NCTM President-Elect
- Description: NCTM's Catalyzing Change series has pushed us to continue to work to create an equitable mathematics education for each and every student. Let's examine what we can do in our classrooms to help make that goal a reality. In addition, let's look at how we can effectively advocate for policies, structures, and teaching practices to dismantle the inequities that exist.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
9:30 - 10:30 Session 1
5 Strategies to Increase Access to Grade-Level Math
- Presenter: Chrissy Allison, Founder and CEO of Mindful Math Coach
- Intended Audience: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: How can you ensure on-grade level content is accessible for your students with unfinished learning? You already know grade-level learning is essential for all students. It's a non-negotiable for providing equitable math instruction. However, the reality is that many of your middle and high school students come to you without the essential prerequisites from K-5, and you know you need to 'bridge the gap.' In this session, I'll share 5 of my favorite strategies to help you create an 'on-ramp' so all of your students can engage meaningfully in rigorous learning, no matter their starting point. Strategies are proven and practical, and real-life examples will be provided.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Workshop: A Structure for Increasing Equity in the Math Classroom
- Presenter: Heather Palumbo, K-5 Instructional Coach, Summit Elementary School, Cherry Creek
- Intended Audience: Elementary (PK-5), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: Participants will explore how planning for the components of a math workshop supports culturally responsive teaching practices and increases students' mathematical mindset, identity, and agency.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Productive Struggle + Manipulatives = Success!
- Presenter: Kevin Dykema, NCTM President-Elect
- Intended Audience: General (PK-12)
- Session Description: A vital part of today’s mathematics classroom includes rich mathematical tasks that engage students in productive struggle. This session will explore how to use manipulatives as entry points to work through rich mathematical tasks and encourage each and every student to understand how to harness the power of productive struggle and deepen their mathematical understanding.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Pillars & Practices: A Grading Framework to Catalyze Change at the Margins
- Presenter: Nolan Fossum, High School Math Teacher, Trabuco Hills High School, California
- Intended Audience: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: As educators, we seek innovative ways to engage students, close gaps between student groups, and motivate all students to demonstrate their brilliance. But many students are too focused on points, while others feel they are unable to succeed. Come learn how a major overhaul of my grading practices led students to reimagine their own math identities and gain confidence to contribute in rich class discussions. Takeaway strategies to provide meaningful learning experiences for all students.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
10:45 - 11:45 Session 2
Seeing Students, Seeing Ourselves: Mathematics Teacher Noticing for Equity and Justice
- Presenters: Victoria Hand and Michelle Frierson, University of Colorado Boulder
- Intended Audience: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
- Session Description: Issues of equity and justice are often elusive in mathematics classrooms as they are hidden in everyday classroom life. In this session, we will explore what it means to "notice" for equity, or to attend to moments of classroom mathematics teaching and learning in ways that make visible how processes of race, language, etc. are functioning. We will support participants in understanding both what is and is not under their purview, and how to begin to shift classroom practices toward more humanizing experiences for students.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Number Sense Screening: In Search of the Golden Ladder
- Presenter: David Woodward, Forefront Education
- Intended Audience: Elementary (PK-5), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: Number sense is the golden ladder of mathematical cognition. In July of 2020, revisions of the 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 its central importance to mathematics education.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
How to Connect to Students and Inspire Them
- Presenter: Robert Ahdoot, Founder, Yay Math
- Intended Audience: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
- Session Description: What do teachers and parents see when they envision a sensational learning environment? Enthusiasm? Laughter? Everyone being their core selves? What is the fundamental recipe for creating a positive student culture?
The answer: we must fundamentally understand our students' mental and emotional wiring. Ask them and they'll tell you, they crave a meaningful connection with their teachers. Our understanding of how they relate to learning, and to us, is the difference between igniting deep learning, or extinguishing it cold. Once we tune in to the frequency by which they learn, and live, we cultivate the very bond necessary for inspired education. Then they thrive.
How to connect to students and inspire them is, at its essence, an art form. It's about so much more than teaching tactics alone. Tactics are important, yes, and they are an essential part of the conversation. Yet at the heart of any learning exchange lies the very people taking part in that exchange. We all go the extra mile for those whom we feel a deep connection to. Understanding how people learn most effectively is the basis for all our success.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Data Analytics in the High School Classroom
- Presenter: Arty Smith, Math Teacher, Kent Denver School
- Intended Audience: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: "On October 23, 2019, Jo Boaler and Steve Levitt challenged the mathematics community: “What we propose is as obvious as it is radical: to put data and its analysis at the center of high school mathematics. Teaching students to make data-based arguments will endow them with many of the same critical-thinking skills they are learning today through algebraic proofs, but also give them more practical skills for navigating our newly data-rich world” (LA Times, Oct. 23, 2019). In this session, veteran teacher Arty Smith will use data visualization to tell the story of the NBA's search for efficiency. The story will provide a framework to discuss ways in which data analytics can be incorporated into our curriculums.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
12:15 - 1:00 Lunch Session
Considerations for Addressing Unfinished Learning
- Presenter: Mary Pittman, CCTM President
- Description: The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools across Colorado to move to remote learning, creating new and unprecedented challenges. Predictions for learning loss between the end of last school year and the start of the 2020-2021 school year were as high as 50% for mathematics. To tackle this challenge, school systems must focus on strategies proven to support unfinished student learning. Join us to learn about ideas for structuring learning to support grade-level content while also providing just-in-time support to address unfinished learning from last year.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
1:15 - 2:15 Session 3
Teaching Math at a Distance: Virtual Tools for In-Person Learning
- Presenter: Theresa Wills, www.theresawills.com
- Intended Audience: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)
- Session Description: Harness the affordances of remote learning in your face-to-face classroom. This workshop will engage you in a math routine and rich task with purposeful discussion that emphasizes simple uses of technology that gives access to more students.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Making Math Stick: Adjusting Instruction to Support Understanding and Retention of Mathematical Concepts
- Presenter: David Costello, costellomath.com
- Intended Audience: Elementary (K-5), Middle School (6-8), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: Have you ever heard students say "I forget doing that"? Far too often, instruction prioritizes short-term performance at the expense of learning. Making Math Stick is about instructional and learning strategies that support students in recalling and applying previous learning to solve novel situations.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Quick Math Wins: Increase Engagement of Students Who Struggle
- Presenter: Juliana Tapper, Math Intervention Specialist, Collaborated Consulting
- Intended Audience: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Department coordinators/math coaches/math leaders
- Session Description: Created specifically for grade 6-12 intervention, algebra repeater, or special education math teachers, this session will showcase multiple low and no prep engagement activity structures you can use with any math content in any classroom setting (in-person, virtual, or hybrid) to increase engagement of your students who struggle with mathematics.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Support Rich Mathematical Discussions and Investigations Using Interactive Simulations
- Presenter: Amanda McGarry, Math Specialist, PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder
- Intended Audience: General (K-12)
- Session Description: Interactive simulations are flexible tools for exploring many math concepts from place value and fractions to graphing and solving equations. Simulations are exploratory and foster engagement, reasoning, and sensemaking. Learn how to incorporate simulations into K-12 classrooms, facilitate inquiry-based activities, and engage students in mathematical practices and discussions.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
2:30 - 3:30 Session 4
Persevere: It's Not just for Mathematics!
- Presenter: Rob Nickerson, Learning Services Educator, ORIGO Education
- Intended Audience: Upper Elementary (3-5)
- Session Description: All students are mathematical thinkers who can engage in discussions that promote productive struggle and perseverance. Engaging students, and keeping them engaged, in the problem-solving process requires structures and processes to go beyond math. Let's explore structures that promote 'Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them.'
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Teaching About Our World With Mathematical Models and Simulations
- Presenter: Robert Galin, Population Education
- Intended Audience: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8)
- Session Description: In this interdisciplinary workshop, discover activities that bring current events and top global challenges into the math classroom. Explore trends in the environment, global population and more using models, manipulatives and lively group simulations that build middle school math skills while exciting students about math connections to their lives.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
What Does It Mean to "Express Regularity?": Interpreting, Assessing, and Scaffolding the SMPs
- Presenter: Geoff Krall, University of Wyoming
- Intended Audience: General (K-12)
- Session Description: How can teachers scaffold and assess the eight Standards of Mathematical Practice (SMPs)? Despite Common Core's widespread adoption ten years ago, we have relatively few tools to know how well students are learning the SMPs. In this session, we'll examine tasks, student work and strategies to help us equitably assess, teach and understand the SMPs.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
Moving Beyond Jeopardy: New Exciting and Engaging Review Games
- Presenter: Greg Morrison, Mathematics Teacher, Loveland High School
- Intended Audience: High School (9-12)
- Session Description: We all like to provide review before the test, but are you ready for some new and different ways to get students fired up? Moving beyond Jeopardy will introduce you to some original, class-tested review games that will keep students engaged as they prepare for the upcoming exam.
- Conference Community and Zoom access
3:30 Closing Session
Conference Reflections and Door Prizes
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