2011 NCSM Annual Conference
All Sessions
Session information last updated: 3-31-2011
| All Sessions -- Monday, April 11, 2011 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:45 AM to 7:30 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | ||||
Monday Continental Breakfast - Compliments of MIND Research Institute | |||||
| (6:45 - 7:30 AM, ) - MIND Research Institute is a neuroscience and education non-profit corporation dedicated to education program excellence and cutting edge scientific research. MIND Research Institute has transferred more than 30 years of breakthrough brain and learning research into applied education programs for K–12 students. | |||||
| 7:30 AM to 8:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | General | |||
Welcome to the 43rd NCSM Annual Conference | |||||
Lead Speaker: Diane Briars, NCSM President Co-Presenter: Terri Belcher Co-Presenter: Sandie Gilliam | |||||
| 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | General | |||
Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology | |||||
| The National Education Technology Plan articulates a vision for a 21st century model of learning. Cator will provide an overview of the plan and conduct a discussion around the vision, recommendations, and actions, as well as the barriers to adoption. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Cator | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Confronting Boredom in Mathematics Classrooms: Will Common Core State Standards Make Mathematics More Engaging? | |||||
| Interviews with students in widely dispersed settings, conducted informally by the speaker, have revealed that high school students generally find mathematics classes the most boring of their school experiences. For two decades, NCTM has advocated for a mathematics curriculum that included inquiry and investigation among its foundations—a curriculum that could engage students in "doing" mathematics. Unfortunately, boredom has continued to dominate the experience for too many students. Now, with the wide-scale adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), we have a new opportunity. In a report on a summer 2010 conference organized by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC) titled Curriculum Design, Development, and Implementation in an Era of Common Core State Standards, authors Jere Confrey and Erin Krupa wrote that the period of adoption of CCSS "represents a critical transition period, replete with the combined opportunities and responsibilities to define the meaning of the CCSS in relation to classroom practices on a large-scale." What does this mean? Might the CCSS make mathematics more engaging for students? The speaker will unpack this idea, share thinking from the CSMC conference, offer ideas from his perspective as a publisher who is an advocate for change, talk about the CCSS "Mathematical Practices," and show examples of engaging classrooms (revealing his personal interest in technology in the process). | |||||
Lead Speaker: Steven Rasmussen | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Mathematics Specialists/Coaches and Relationships: Navigating the Slippery Slopes of Leadership | |||||
| The Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project (EMS&TL) explores elements of leadership that contribute to your success as a Mathematics Specialist. Session participants will examine leadership issues specialists confront and explore cases, which reflect content and pedagogical needs, adult learning, and effective communication techniques. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Francis (Skip) Fennell Co-Presenter: Kay Sammons Co-Presenter: Jonathan Wray Co-Presenter: Beth Kobett | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Using Great Data to Create Greater Success for Teachers and Students | |||||
| Assessment data gives teachers vibrant information about their students. Once teachers familiarize themselves with the data, they can tailor their instruction and design it to target specific needs, interests, and goals. This session will help teachers decipher the data and lead their students to greater conceptual proficiency. | |||||
Lead Speaker: John Neral | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | JW Marriott: 203 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Coaching Commitments and Skills for Making a Difference in Student Achievement | |||||
| Gain skills for developing coaches to build teacher leaders that will make a difference with struggling learners. Connect to commitments and collaboration methods for traditional or virtual environments. Transform perspectives of coaches, teachers, students, and parents. Research data shows proven success in low socioeconomic schools. Skills aligned with NCSM's PRIME Leadership Framework. | |||||
Co-Presenter: Catherine Dobbins Lead Speaker: Pam Warrick | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Helping Elementary/Middle School Principals Become Strong Mathematics Advocates | |||||
| There is an urgency for principals to become strong advocates for excellence in mathematics. Participants will receive a rubric for self-examination of characteristics of principals who build strength in their mathematics programs. The conclusion will include steps for getting started in the process of creating an exceptional mathematics school. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Patsy Kanter Co-Presenter: Cynthia Costello | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Moving Your Faculty Toward Diagnostic Teaching, Formative Assessment, and Individualized Instructional Techniques | |||||
| Many second-career teachers are teaching before they are certified, relying on instructional techniques with which they were taught. Learn about the strategies that the Math Forum uses to help move teachers, both novice and experienced, toward more effective instructional methods, including diagnostic teaching and formative assessment through evaluating student work. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Steve Risberg Co-Presenter: Annie Fetter | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | General | |||
NCSM Business Meeting and State of the Organization Report | |||||
| NCSM President Diane Briars will present the State of the Organization Report, including progress on the 2010–2011 NCSM projects and initiatives, newly released position papers, enhancements to the NCSM website, and anticipated strategic priorities for 2011-2012. Treasurer Randy Pippen will describe the current financial status of the organization. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Diane Briars, NCSM President Co-Presenter: Randy Pippen | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Implementing the National Research Council (NRC) Early Childhood Mathematics Goals by Integrating Within and Across Number and Geometry Goals | |||||
| A program of activities and materials that implement the goals of the NRC Early Childhood Mathematics Report is described. The approach integrates number and geometry concepts so that students develop (a) geometric concepts, spatial visualization, and relations; (b) number concepts, numerical relations, and operations; and (c) mathematical language. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Fuson Co-Presenter: Lynn Kuske | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Transforming Mathematics Classrooms: Aiding the Transition to Differentiated Instruction | |||||
| Whether your goal is strengthening Tier I instruction for your Response to Intervention (RtI) success, or simply meeting the needs of struggling learners, this session identifies three key components to a differentiated classroom and offers a roadmap for transforming mathematics teaching. Explore ways to help teachers understand, embrace, and apply critical differentiation concepts. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Susan O'Connell | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Supporting Change Through a Coaching Model | |||||
| As districts make changes to their mathematics curricula, professional development is vital. A coaching model can provide teachers with the individual and small group support needed to sustain change. Engage in a discussion of the lessons learned from a coach and elementary teachers experiencing this model for the first time. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Stephanie Martin | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Middle (6 - 8) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
The Impact of Teacher Professional Development on Student Achievement | |||||
| Does inquiry-based instruction improve student achievement? This session will investigate the relationships among professional development, teacher instructional practice, and student achievement using classroom observations and state test data. Results show that students in settings with a high level of implementation of inquiry-based instruction show significantly more growth in test scores. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Patty Lofgren Co-Presenter: John Mayer Co-Presenter: Bernadette Mullins | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
Math Solutions Sponsor Showcase: Let's Talk About Mathematics: Key Discussion Topics and Problems | |||||
| Using classroom discussions effectively can be challenging. How do you facilitate a discussion so that it leads to student insight and discovery? This session presents problems and questions that help students develop deep understanding. Complimentary resources will be given to first 50 attendees. (Intermediate 3–5, General) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Suzanne Chapin | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Didax Education Technology Showcase: Improve Mathematics Instruction with Kathy Richardson's Formative Assessment | |||||
| Learn more about the power of early assessment and how it can impact instruction to improve student learning. Participants will get hands-on experience using AMC Web, the web-based version of Richardson's Assessing Math Concepts. Learn how to use assessment results to provide targeted instruction. (Primary PK–2) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kathy Richardson | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
Panel: The Meeting of the Minds: The Future of STEM Education | |||||
| Instead of thinking about where science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are today, join us for a discussion of what the future holds. Panelists: • Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education • Larry Gilliam, Vice President, Lockheed Martin • Thomas Keller, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences • Diana Thomas, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Montclair State University •Moderator: Suzanne Mitchell, NCSM President-Elect | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Cator Co-Presenter: Larry Gilliam Co-Presenter: Thomas Keller Co-Presenter: Diana Thomas | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 2-3 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
What Mathematics Instruction Should Look, Sound, and Feel Like in the 21st Century: Helping Administrators Make Sense of It All | |||||
| It can be challenging to discern if elementary teachers are providing strong mathematics instruction. Understanding elements of such is key to improving student learning. Participants will leave with tools to frame classroom observations and determine if what is being seen, heard, and felt will deliver the goods for the 21st Century. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Christine Moynihan | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Learning from Analysis of Student Learning | |||||
| This session shares an experience that provided educators with an opportunity to observe student learning. The educators observed one student, reflecting on that student's learning and also on their own learning, as well as the mathematical goal of the lesson. Student work and videos will be featured. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Andrea Miller Co-Presenter: Sam Shaneyfelt | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | JW Marriott: 104 | Middle (6 - 8) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Facilitating the Use of Formative Assessment when Teaching Fractions: A Case of Research to Practice – Vermont Mathematics Partnership's (VMP) Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) | |||||
| The Vermont Mathematics Partnership Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) is a formative assessment system based on mathematics education research concerning students' development of specific mathematics concepts. Participants will engage in activities focused on understanding of fraction concepts and the related mathematics education research that illustrate how OGAP has brought research to practice. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marjorie Petit Co-Presenter: Robert Laird | |||||
| 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM | JW Marriott: 103 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
How to Reach the Unreachable in Algebra I | |||||
| What do you do with students who are in Algebra I but are not ready? Learn about a program that uses rich mathematical tasks and daily formative assessment to support these students. We will connect pedagogical and instructional strategies with classroom management to help students develop algebraic thinking and understanding. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Edward Nolan | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Geometric Reasoning and Problem Solving: Keys to Success for English Language Learners | |||||
| Middle grades mathematics teachers often lack ideas and strategies for engaging English Language Learners (ELLs) in classroom mathematical reasoning and production. Based on recent research and development, this presentation makes the case that regular problem solving opportunities—particularly in geometry—combined with strategies for ensuring access for ELLs, can lead to improved ELL success in mathematics. A critical component is the commitment of mathematics teachers to attend consistently to the development of academic language through real mathematical work on the part of ELLs. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mark Driscoll | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Moving Beyond Typical Professional Development That Doesn't Work and Toward Effective Teacher Development (ETD) That Can Make a Real Difference | |||||
| This session will begin with what we know and what research now confirms: Typical professional development has very little impact on teacher knowledge, teacher behavior, or student achievement. We'll look at why and use this as the basis for an example-laden exploration of the elements of Effective Teacher Development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Steven Leinwand | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Using Number Talks to Build Mental Mathematics and Computation Strategies | |||||
| What are number talks and how do they help students build efficient, accurate, and flexible computation and mental mathematics strategies? Participants will engage in number talks and analyze classroom video clips of K–5 students. Participants will learn how to implement number talks that foster student reasoning and understanding of number. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sherry Parrish | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Lessons Learned from Lesson Study: One School's Experience in Strengthening Teachers' Collaborative Learning and Instructional Leadership | |||||
| Professional development can support teachers' changing beliefs and practices about how to reach all students. This workshop shares documentary videotapes that describe and illustrate the evolutions that resulted from five teachers' participation in a lesson study project supported by the U.S. Department of Education and Mills College. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Anne Nesbitt Co-Presenter: Nancy Kovacic | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
A Framework of Understanding the Mediating Role of District Leaders as They Support Teachers During the Teacher/Curricular Interaction | |||||
| Using data from observations and interviews with two teachers and a district mathematics leader, we will share the impact of the district leader's influence on the teachers' curricular interactions as she supported them during the implementation of standards-based curriculum material, in order to achieve a productive end. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mary Gichobi Co-Presenter: Comfort Akwaji-Anderson | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Common Core: Connecting the Standards for Mathematical Practice to the Standards for Content—Number and Operations in Base Ten | |||||
| Students need opportunities to explore mathematical ideas, with guidance that helps them use the structure and properties of our number system to build their number sense and computational facility. This session examines how to explicitly structure and facilitate those opportunities and connect standards for mathematical practice to standards for content. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Carolyn Felux | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Common Core State Standards: Examining the Standards for Mathematical Practice in Grades 3–5 and Their Impact on Effective Implementation of the Grades 3–5 Content Standards | |||||
| The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe ways in which students should engage with mathematics as they are learning mathematical content. What does this look like in the elementary classroom? Examples, for coaches, elementary specialists, and leaders to help classroom teachers use and assess practice embedded with content, will be shared. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Gojak | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | JW Marriott: 203 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Dynamic Geometric Pathways to Functions Promote Conceptual Understanding of the Variation of Variables and the Behavior of Functions | |||||
| Geometric functions in Sketchpad 5 allow students to drag an input point that determines an output point via transformation or construction. Students' concrete experiences dragging the independent variable and observing the behavior of the function are particularly compelling, and open a window on domain, range, composition, and inverses. Classroom activities provided. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Scott Steketee | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Exploring the Potential of Sorting Tasks in Developing Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Functions Across Representations | |||||
| In this session, participants will engage in a sorting task designed to develop teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching the concept of function and analyze sorts created by teachers. Participants will also discuss how the task might be adapted to support the needs of the diverse teacher audiences with whom they work. | |||||
Lead Speaker: LuAnn Malik Co-Presenter: Amy Hillen | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
Borenson and Associates, Inc. Sponsor Showcase: With Hands-On Equations® You Can Provide Your Students in Grades 3–9 with a Sound Introduction to Algebra! | |||||
| Attend this session and experience this powerful instructional approach developed by Dr. Henry Borenson. By making algebraic concepts visual and kinesthetic, even young students can experience success with algebraic linear equations and word problems! Receive a free demonstration kit! (Grades 3–9) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Bailey Co-Presenter: Carolyn Talton | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Math Solutions Technology Showcase: Face-to-Face vs. Online Professional Development? Do Both! The Power of the Blended Model | |||||
| Blended programs can yield higher performance due to the more frequent interactions between educators and coaches. These models combine face-to-face sessions with online follow-ups giving teachers opportunities to get timely, expert, and peer advice on current instructional issues and topics. (General) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Carolyn Felux Co-Presenter: Marji Freeman | |||||
| 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | JW Marriott: Griffin Hall | ||||
Monday Box Lunch: Sponsored by Didax Education and Math Teachers Press, Inc. | |||||
| The name Didax comes from the Greek, didaktikos, meaning "to teach". For over thirty years, Didax has specialized in helping educators to address individual learning styles and diverse student needs. Tested by teachers, parents, and children, each of their products is designed to meet a district educational need. In 2010, Math Teachers Press celebrated 30 years since they published the 1980 edition of Moving with Math by Topic, a program developed to provide targeted, topic-specific intervention to students in grades 1 through 8. Despite all of the changes across the landscape of mathematics education, the mission at Math Teachers Press remains unchanged: to help all students succeed in mathematics––especially those who struggle most––while making the job of the teacher easier with handy organizational tools, user-friendly lesson plans, and web-based assessment and reporting to monitor student progress and provide accountability. | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Understanding the Challenges Teachers Face in Using a Transformational Approach to Mathematical Similarity | |||||
| This session will explore the opportunity that a transformational approach offers to the teaching and learning of similarity in the middle grades. Using a video case example, we will analyze a video clip and consider specific issues around the work of teaching similarity such as interpreting and representing students' mathematical use of dilation and unpacking students' use of definitions in solving problems. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nanette Seago | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Visible Thinking: A Pathway to Classroom Equity | |||||
| Visible Thinking is a practical approach that can be used by teachers to meet diverse needs of learners. Mathematics classrooms engaged in Visible Thinking activities strongly support ongoing formative assessments and early response to intervention. Leaders will be engaged in Visible Thinking activities that promote equity in mathematics classrooms. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Don Balka Co-Presenter: Ted Hull Co-Presenter: Ruth Harbin Miles | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Tapping Teachers' Strengths to Develop the Mathematical Strengths in Each Child | |||||
| High-level cognitive tasks, student-centered discussions, concept mastery, and effective group work — all mathematics classrooms need these elements if all students are to succeed, yet some teachers struggle to implement them. Learn how to identify teachers' strengths and then differentiate your coaching moves to motivate all teachers to embrace classroom change. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jane Kise | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Quantiles—A Powerful New Way to Track Student Success | |||||
| Quantiles are not just another number. Various assessments will provide you with a Quantile measure. Do you know how these measures will help you meet your Responses to Intervention (RtI) goals? Let's look at some issues and share highlights of how several schools have used their Quantile scores to help teachers differentiate instruction. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jan Scott | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Assessment of and FOR Learning: How to Use Summative Assessments to Inform Instruction | |||||
| Our classrooms are currently inundated with formal and informal data generating and data analysis. This workshop will explore both how to use data and how to design multiple-choice items in ways that maximize what we can learn about students, with the goal of improving learning and instruction. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kathleen Pitvorec Co-Presenter: Jan Haake | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Helping Teachers When Students Say That Their Teachers Talk and Write in a Secret Mathematics Code and They Don't Get It! | |||||
| As standards emphasize the need for intermediate students to begin building algebraic concepts, the leader needs to find ways to incorporate algebra into the curriculum and help teachers enable students to learn/understand "secret code" like 2b^2, lwh, and x + 2y by using concrete manipulatives to build foundations for later abstract algebraic concepts. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Robert Jesberg Co-Presenter: Janie Zimmer | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Designing and Teaching Mathematics Lessons to the iGeneration | |||||
| This session will examine how to design and teach meaningful and grade-appropriate mathematics to the Internet Generation (iGeneration). Participants will be provided with innovative strategies using technology that can lead to better motivation and understanding of mathematics (especially rational numbers) in grades 3–8. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Eric Milou | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Exploring Mathematics in the Middle Grades: Progress Being Made! | |||||
| What can be done to improve middle grades mathematics? Learn about an engaging mathematics curriculum at the middle grades! Learn from a grant project that has been working to improve performance on the EXPLORE assessment and prepare students for success in high school and beyond. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Janet Tassell Co-Presenter: Linda Sheffield | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Middle (6 - 8) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing Mathematics Professional Development Sessions: Planning Conversations and Instructional Decisions That Lead to Improved Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) in District Leaders | |||||
| How do you develop Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) in mathematics leaders? Engage in an algebraic content session used with district mathematics leaders to deepen their understanding of Proportional Reasoning. Learn about the planning discussions and instructional decisions that developed the mathematics in this big idea. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Beth Schefelker Co-Presenter: Melissa Hedges Co-Presenter: Connie Laughlin | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Mathematical Habits of Mind for Teaching: Assessing Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching at the Secondary Level | |||||
| How can "thinking like a mathematician" help teachers use mathematics effectively in teaching? We will introduce mathematical habits of mind for teaching as an organizing framework for secondary teachers' mathematical knowledge, share items to assess these habits, along with illustrative classroom examples, and discuss professional development approaches that support this work. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ryota Matsuura Co-Presenter: Al Cuoco Co-Presenter: Glenn Stevens Co-Presenter: Sarah Sword | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | ||||
It's About Time Publishing Sponsor Showcase: Incorporating Technology with a Standards-Based Program Produces Results | |||||
| This workshop will explore algebra and geometry standards-based activities, that when integrated with appropriate technology, help students better visualize these topics. With a strong professional development program, this approach helped the presenter's school earn state and national awards. (Secondary 9–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: James Kearns | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Carnegie Learning, Inc. Technology Showcase: Launch of the Carnegie Learning® Mathematics Series Featuring Personalized Middle School Mathematics Instruction | |||||
| Experience the new Carnegie Learning® Mathematics Series, whose research-based instruction is framed within real-world contexts using humor and interesting topics. Learn how our software personalizes mathematics instruction to better engage and motivate students, and helps them master mathematics concepts and skills. (Middle 6–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Steve Ritter | |||||
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Tracking Student Thinking Toward Student Success | |||||
| In previous NCSM presentations, we introduced participants to Gillan's Problems Without Figures. In this session, we will examine student responses to additional problems, and report on results of a study comparing student performance across schools before and after practice with these types of problems, to determine impact on student thinking. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Patsy Wang-Iverson Co-Presenter: Richard Askey Co-Presenter: Marian Palumbo Co-Presenter: Dustin Acres | |||||
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Mathematics Coaches Leading Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)—Key Ingredients to Developing Mathematical Understanding | |||||
| The Thinking Through a Lesson Protocol, developed by Dr. Margaret Smith and others at the University of Pittsburgh, engages educators to think deeply about lessons and how students learn mathematics. By anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting student work, teachers develop and deepen students' understanding of key mathematical ideas. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Michael Fierle Co-Presenter: Corinne Murawski | |||||
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Computational Fluency in Multiplication: How Many Strategies Are There? | |||||
| Using video and student work, participants will examine how computational fluency in multiplication develops and consider these questions: What contexts and representations support an understanding of multiplication? What is the importance of studying and comparing different strategies and algorithms? Connections will also be made to professional development for teachers. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Keith Cochran Co-Presenter: Karen Economopoulos | |||||
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Differentiating Problem Solving: Using Open and Parallel Tasks (Grades 3–8) | |||||
| Collaborate with other educators to create problems that target big mathematical ideas by using Marion Small's strategy of developing open and parallel tasks. Use this approach as a powerful way to differentiate assessment for all students. In addition, use the process to design pretest tasks as formative assessments for intervention. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cathy Brown Co-Presenter: Winnie Miller | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Implementing the More Challenging Aspects of Common Core State Standards | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are not "business as usual." Although some aspects of CCSS are familiar, others, such as some of the mathematical practices and topic learning progressions, are difficult to interpret and/or differ significantly from current practice. Learn what you can do now to help teachers and administrators understand and implement these newer, more challenging, aspects of CCSS, and how to use new NCSM tools to do so. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Diane Briars, NCSM President | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
A Panel of NCSM Past Presidents Presents Potential Solutions to Perplexing Problems: Leading with No Money; Educating Unsupportive Bosses; Motivating Reluctant Teachers | |||||
| Be enlightened by the epic eruption of energetic exchange on problems which confront most mathematics leaders. The three topics listed will be examined by the exceptional, eager, ever-knowledgeable, and empathic panel of esteemed past presidents. Emerge with earnest practical solutions to empower leaders to enhance mathematics education. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Larry Bradsby Co-Presenter: Carole Greenes Co-Presenter: Linda Gojak Co-Presenter: Steven Leinwand | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Nurturing Mathematical Leadership in Elementary Classroom Teachers | |||||
| Often, classroom teachers feel they must leave the classroom in order to grow professionally. The big losers are their students. This session will address ways in which mathematics leaders can energize teachers who wish to enhance their professional status, but who choose to remain in the classroom. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Dinah Chancellor Co-Presenter: Janie Schielack | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Lessons from Singapore: Can Singapore's Visual Models and Problem Solving Approach Help Teachers Move Students from Arithmetic to Algebra? | |||||
| As Singapore's curriculum becomes more popular in the United States, we are learning it is much more than just strategies. This workshop will explore how representation of quantitative relationships and complex problem solving can help American students succeed as they move from arithmetic to algebra. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Andy Clark | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Implementing New Curriculum Well: What Does It Take? | |||||
| What are the key dimensions of building a coherent and successful implementation? In this session, we will report on an NSF-funded study investigating the implementation of elementary mathematics instructional materials, with particular attention to the district activities and supports that are intended to strengthen the use of materials and implementation. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Katherine Schwinden Co-Presenter: June Mark | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Learning Together in the Classroom: Principals, Teachers, and Mathematics Coaches Listening to Student Thinking | |||||
| How can principals, teachers, and mathematics coaches support student engagement by learning together in the classroom? In this session, we will share a professional learning structure where teachers, principals, and mathematics coaches spend time together in the classroom using a process to uncover student thinking and identify and clarify differentiation strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Janice Bradley Co-Presenter: Jan Cory Co-Presenter: Courtney Blackmon | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Ordering for Success: Integrating Literacy Strategies and Graphic Organizers to Teach Mathematics Content | |||||
| Literacy strategies and graphic organizers are not limited to teaching mathematics vocabulary. Student work samples show they are important tools for teaching mathematics content to all students, and especially benefit English Language Learners. Experience graphic organizers, stories, and sentence frames as tools to teach order of operations and related content. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sue McMillen Co-Presenter: Ellen Friedland | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Readiness for Algebra I in Grade 8: What Does It Take to Provide Greater Access to Algebra in Our Urban Districts | |||||
| This session addresses Boston's Grade 8 Algebra I Initiative, including how schools equitably identify students for this offering, what student supports we put in place, and how we support teacher practice. We will also discuss the importance of laying strong foundations for algebra in grades 4–7. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Davenport Co-Presenter: Christine Hall | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | Middle (6 - 8) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Why is Learning About Formative Assessment in a Networked Classroom Contagious? | |||||
| Participants will learn how two teams of teachers, who participated in a research project involving formative assessment in a networked classroom, assumed leadership roles and expanded the ideas to all teachers in their schools. The professional development the teachers helped design for their individual schools will be discussed. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Judith Olson Co-Presenter: Melfried Olson | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
High School Mathematics in a Common Core Era: Revolution, Regression, or Life as Usual? | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for redefining high school courses. What about Algebra I/II and Geometry vs. Integrated Mathematics? What 12th grade courses can help all students? Can we provide a coherent mathematics curriculum that implements CCSS, embraces Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, and focuses on reasoning/sense making? | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cathy Seeley | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
ETA/Cuisenaire Sponsor Showcase: Virtual Manipulatives? Interactive Whiteboards? What Does Hands-On Really Mean Today? | |||||
| Interactive whiteboards have brought virtual manipulatives into our classrooms. Learn to use these new tools in combination with traditional concrete manipulatives. See the technology in action and learn strategies for incorporating it into your own classroom, even before the hardware arrives. (PK–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sara Moore | |||||
| 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
ExploreLearning Technology Showcase: Using Online Simulations to Improve Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics | |||||
| Designed for grades 3–12, Gizmos help you take advantage of research-proven instructional strategies that help students develop conceptual understanding. With Gizmos, you can enhance instruction with interactive visualizations of mathematics concepts. Attendees will receive a free 45-day trial of Gizmos. (Grades 3–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Thom O'Brien | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Light Masters in Mathematics Leadership: Helping Students Unlock the Doors | |||||
| Motivation for learning often comes from a light master. Kathleen Parker, a 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner, calls her high school English teacher "the light master"; and holds this teacher with distinction in her life because he changed her life with a flicker of light. There are many students who never experience the turning on of lights in mathematics. A middle school student wrote, "I don't like anything that deals with math." It is hard to tell why this happens, but we as leaders and teachers are continually learning by looking at what works. This presentation will present the HOPE that emerges in the process of "Turning on the Lights." In this session, I use recent research on the relationships between middle school mathematics teachers' instructional strategies, student-identified classroom practices, and students' success in gaining conceptual understanding of mathematics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Carol Malloy | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Productive Teacher Talk—How Does a Mathematics Coach Get It Generated? | |||||
| Mathematics coaches and other instructional leaders will acquire the knowledge of how Southwestern Pennsylvania mathematics coaches structure sessions to engage educators in "high-level talk," talk specifically geared to improving the mathematics learning of all students. Activities that have been incorporated over a 5–6 month period will be experienced. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sam Shaneyfelt | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Translating the Common Core Effectively into Practice | |||||
| The development of next generation items and assessments connected to the Common Core State Standards are touted as the most recent solution for connecting mathematics assessment, instruction, and feedback. This session discusses efficient rollout of new curriculum and assessments and the pros and cons of these plans, with some possible alternative solutions. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Pamela Paek | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Research in Mathematics Instructional Coaching | |||||
| This session describes initial results from a research study investigating knowledge that contributes to successful coaching in two domains: coaching knowledge and mathematics content knowledge. The project is examining the influence of these knowledge domains by investigating correlations between assessments of coach and teacher knowledge and practice in each domain. | |||||
Lead Speaker: David Yopp Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Burroughs Co-Presenter: John Sutton | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Addressing Equity by Strengthening the Mathematics Vocabulary of All Students Through the Use of High-Interest Manipulatives and Marzano's Six-Step Process | |||||
| Consistent use of correct mathematical vocabulary is frequently a stumbling block for students' being able to achieve in mathematics. Leaders need to address this in curriculum and in professional development. Come and investigate how mathematics manipulatives, along with Marzano's six-step strategy, may be used to teach and reinforce academic mathematical vocabulary. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Janie Zimmer Co-Presenter: Robert Jesberg | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Differentiating Computational Problem Solving Instruction for Special Education Students and Struggling Learners Through the Use of Model (Bar) Drawing | |||||
| This powerful tool helps students translate words to visual models, thus they better understand word problems and the actions needed to solve them. Participants will see how the steps of model drawing provide a supportive framework for students while still allowing for differentiation of levels of thinking, mathematics skills, and solution approaches. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Patty Smith | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | Secondary (9 - 12) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
A Discussion on Essential Technology Tools and Useful Tips for Mathematics Education Leaders | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards skirted the issues of technology in the mathematics classroom. This session initiates a discussion of the essential technology for teaching mathematics, introduces some online tools supporting collaboration, and outlines some useful digital tools for mathematics leaders. This presentation describes some developments that may significantly impact mathematics education. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Richard Seitz | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Ethics of Using Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) and Other Advanced Technologies in High School Mathematics | |||||
| Using CAS and other advanced technologies raises ethical questions in classrooms. Is it equitable (fair) for some students to have CAS while others don't? Is it ethical to prepare students with these technologies if they are not allowed on high-stakes tests? These and other ethical questions will be discussed. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Zalman Usiskin | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Student Involvement? Motivation? What Comes First? Using the Principles of Formative Assessment to Motivate Urban Middle and High School Students | |||||
| After reflecting on what we learned from our formative assessment training, we decided to help students reflect on what they know and do not know. Come to hear about the lessons we learned at our urban middle and high schools. We will share the research and tools we use. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nancy Zarach Co-Presenter: Melanie Cifonelli | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
CORD Communications, Inc. Sponsor Showcase: Professional Learning Communities: Building Faculty Cohesion for Teaching Mathematics the Way Students Learn | |||||
| Contextual teaching is a proven strategy for meeting the Common Core State Standards. Creating Professional Learning Communities allows teachers time for professional development, evaluation, and support. This session focuses on building teams and equipping them with needed materials for student success. (Secondary 9–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sandra Harwell Co-Presenter: Claudia Maness | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
ORIGO Education, Inc. Technology Showcase: Facilitating Teachers' Professional Learning Through Online Resources | |||||
| Mathedology is a web-based professional learning resource that empowers teachers with professional learning, both when and where they need it—anytime, anywhere! Come and see how Mathedology, and other exciting online resources by ORIGO Education, can be used to inspire and educate teachers. (PK–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Rob Nickerson Co-Presenter: James Burnett | |||||
| 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Tracking a Course with Professional Learning: Coaching to Promote Mathematics Leaders | |||||
| Why is coaching an emerging professional development strategy? What are characteristics of exemplary coaching initiatives? Examine data regarding the relationship between school-based coaching and student achievement, and lessons learned from six years of action research. Join us to explore coaching as transformative professional learning for mathematics education leaders. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Debra Wallace Co-Presenter: Susie Teague | |||||
| 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Breaking the Cycle of Failure: Middle and High School Students and Teachers Learning Mathematics Together | |||||
| Mathematics Education Collaborative's (MEC) groundbreaking work, in which students with long histories of failure learned mathematics for 14 full days alongside their teachers, has led to profound breakthroughs for both teachers and students. Hear students' stories of overcoming fears and failures and teachers' stories of changed beliefs about who can learn mathematics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ruth Parker Co-Presenter: Lisa Mesple | |||||
| 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 2-3 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Common Core State Standards Instructional Materials Analysis Tools | |||||
| Learn about new tools for assessing the potential of instructional materials to support students' attainment of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS) including the Standards for Mathematical Practice. The tools, and supporting professional development materials, will be disseminated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and NCSM. | |||||
Lead Speaker: William Bush Co-Presenter: Diane Briars, NCSM President Co-Presenter: Valerie Mills Co-Presenter: Donna Simpson Leak | |||||
| 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | Primary (PK - 2) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Inspiring PK–2 Students to Be Problem Solvers | |||||
| Experience each of the components of quality mathematics problem solving lessons—including pretest tasks designed as formative assessments for Responses to Intervention (RtI). Participate in solving tasks intended to reach a diversity of student abilities. We will focus on questioning, scaffolding student sharing, and extending topics for depth using open and parallel tasks. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Winnie Miller Co-Presenter: Giny Christensen | |||||
| 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Analyzing Addition and Subtraction Strategies: Helping Teachers Help Students to Make Connections Across Multiple Representations and to Explain Their Reasoning | |||||
| This interactive session will be based on print and video cases that will examine the mathematical ideas that underlie common strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers. Examining different ways students might represent and express their thinking, as well as teacher moves which support such reasoning will also be included. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Virginia Bastable Co-Presenter: Deborah Schifter | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions: Helping Teachers Move Beyond "Showing and Telling" | |||||
| This session will focus on a pedagogical model that specifies five key practices that teachers can learn in order to use student responses more effectively: (1) anticipating likely student responses prior to the lesson; (2) monitoring students' responses as they engage with the task; (3) selecting particular students to present their mathematical responses; (4) purposefully sequencing the student responses that will be displayed; and (5) helping the class make mathematical connections between different students' responses (Stein, Engle, Smith, & Hughes, 2008; Smith, Hughes, Engle, & Stein, 2009). By making purposeful choices about which responses should be presented, and in what order, teachers can maximize the chances that their mathematical goals for the discussion will be achieved. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Margaret Smith | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Everybody is Talking About Rigor, but No One is Talking About Rigor | |||||
| Educational leaders use the term rigor regularly, but they rarely define it. When it is defined, by administrators or in official documents, the definitions are at times contradictory. This session will explore the various definitions of rigor used in education and the implications of these definitions for mathematics education teachers and leaders. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sara Moore Co-Presenter: William Bintz | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
What's the X? Developing Algebraic Thinking Through Explorations in Number, Measurement, Geometry, and Probability | |||||
| Difficulty with algebra often stems from lack of experience with the big ideas of the subject. "What's the X?" identifies the big ideas for exploration before Algebra I, and demonstrates how learning fundamental ideas can grow and at the same time reinforce learning of number, measurement, geometry, and probability. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Carole Greenes | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
How Do You Know Students Learned What You Just Taught? | |||||
| Learning Intentions and Success Criteria (LI/SC) are the basis for strong mathematics instruction. Explore how including these seemingly simple concepts can improve both teaching and learning. Learn how teachers use curricular materials to anchor instruction around the important mathematics in the lesson, and share learning outcomes that empower students to succeed. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Bernard Rahming Co-Presenter: Lee Ann Pruske Co-Presenter: Rosann Hollinger | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Helping Teachers Establish Environments and Embrace the Importance of Real-Life Problem Solving and the Development of Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning | |||||
| Presenter will discuss the importance of using engaging, real-life problems; developing effective questioning strategies; and creating effective classroom environments as essential elements for helping teachers develop problem solving and reasoning skills with elementary and middle school students. Student work will be showcased, and participants will engage in real-life problem solving. Handouts provided. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Donna Knoell | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Analyzing Student Work: A Powerful Professional Learning Experience | |||||
| How does analyzing student work strengthen teacher content knowledge and promote high-quality mathematics instruction? Explore a professional development model that incorporates a multifaceted approach in developing understanding of key mathematics ideas. Discover strategies to focus coaching sessions on analyzing student misconceptions and exploring alternative instructional practices to deepen mathematical knowledge. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ann Marie Spinelli Co-Presenter: Debbie Vitale | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Mathematics Leaders Make a Difference in the Accuracy of Mathematics Content Delivered in the Classroom | |||||
| This interactive session will challenge mathematics leaders to use appropriate mentoring tools to ensure that mathematics teachers deliver accurate mathematics content. Content mis-examples, research, and role-playing will enhance the understanding of leaders who must find ways to correct teachers' mathematics content. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Suzanne Mitchell Co-Presenter: Linda Griffith | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | Middle (6 - 8) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
Techno Tools for Conceptual Understanding | |||||
| An exciting in-depth look at cutting-edge, technology-based, mathematics applications that develop students' conceptual understanding through game playing and hands-on experimentation with interactive visual tools. The presentation will also discuss implementation strategies, and highlight data that exemplifies what can be achieved with the right tools. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nigel Nisbet | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Middle (6 - 8) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Mathematics Assessment Beyond Quizzes and Tests | |||||
| Engage students in meaningful mathematics assessment investigations, and use mathematics projects linking mathematics to creativity and life applications. Have students be involved in best practices in vocabulary strategies, writing prompts, journaling, reflective thinking, and portfolios. Include the NCTM process standards throughout your mathematics instruction and assessment. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Edna Bazik | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Designing a Continuum of Learning to Assess Mathematical Practice of the Common Core State Standards | |||||
| Using investigations published by NCTM in the book "Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability," a "Continuum of Learning" will be provided that connects the Standards for Mathematical Practice to opportunities for assessing how students reason. Investigate ways to link the NCTM initiative and the Standards for Mathematical Practice. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Henry Kranendonk | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | ||||
Carnegie Learning, Inc. Sponsor Showcase: How Are We Getting Students to Think More Deeply About Mathematics? | |||||
| Come learn about the research-based and pedagogical approach taken to develop a middle school mathematics series based on individualization and increasing student motivation. This session will cover the field-testing conducted in the development process and the initial implementation in an urban district. (Middle 6–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sandy Bartle Co-Presenter: Amy McClure Co-Presenter: Laura Thomas | |||||
| 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Agile Mind Technology Showcase: Using Technology for Student Success in 6–12 Mathematics | |||||
| The Dana Center and Agile Mind have developed online materials that help teachers engage, motivate, and teach students important mathematics concepts. Participants will learn how the materials support both the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice and for Mathematical Content. (Middle 6–8, Secondary 9–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kathi Cook Co-Presenter: Susan Hudson Hull Co-Presenter: Gregg McFarland | |||||
| 5:45 PM to 7:00 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | ||||
Monday Reception - Sponsored by Carnegie Learning, Inc. | |||||
| Founded by cognitive and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with veteran mathematics teachers, Carnegie Learning has the courage to not only question the traditional way of teaching mathematics, but re-invent it. Carnegie Learning, Inc. is a leading publisher of innovative, research-based mathematics curricula for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. They help students succeed in mathematics, creating a gateway to graduation and preparing them for 21st century careers. | |||||
Lead Speaker: No Speak | |||||
| All Sessions -- Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | |||||
| 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom | ||||
Tuesday Breakfast Sponsored by Scholastic Inc. — Common Standards and Uncommon Teaching: Different Paths to the Same Goal | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards provide us with a shared endpoint for mathematics instruction. However, not all students can or will follow the same instructional path or pace to reach those standards. Adaptive technology and data-informed teaching can help guide and manage those various paths. | |||||
Lead Speaker: David Dockterman | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom E | General | |||
The Will to Transform | |||||
| In today's world of education, there are a variety of learning opportunities and support systems to inform how we transform schools into high achieving centers of excellence. The real question for the leader is, "Do we have the will to actually do what we already know is best practice?" As leaders, we will address the concept of the "will," and how you, as a leader, can create this "will" in your team. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Donna Simpson Leak | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: 203 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Confronting the Challenges of Working with Low-Performing Schools: Some Strategies to Get Started | |||||
| "Doom and gloom" hang over everyone's head in a low-performing school. It permeates all discussions and significantly hampers attempts to improve. We will share some strategies that have helped our eight schools break through this culture and begin to create possibilities. The audience is encouraged to share successful strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Judith Fonzi Co-Presenter: Cynthia Callard Co-Presenter: Stephanie Martin | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Fostering Secondary Teacher Leadership Through Multiple Venues | |||||
| Participants will learn about a program designed to develop teacher leaders at the secondary level. Teachers in the program are working on advanced mathematics education degrees and attending leadership workshops designed to help them mentor and coach preservice and inservice teachers in inquiry-based mathematics teaching. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marilyn Strutchens, AMTE President | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom H-I | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Guided Mathematics Groups: Differentiated Learning for Response to Intervention | |||||
| We will engage participants in examples of guided mathematics groups from real practice, both from video and written episodes, in order to analyze the goals of these groups, and the strategies involved in forming and implementing these sessions. The focus will be on students who are having difficulty learning mathematics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Judy Storeygard Co-Presenter: Marta Garcia | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom A | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Use Webinars to Deliver Real-Time, Interactive, Hands-on, Discovery-Based Tutoring and Professional Development | |||||
| Become actively engaged in learning how to use and deliver webinar-based tutoring for after school and inclusion programs, as well as professional development for teachers. Participate in a brief simulated webinar experience featuring Smartboard technology and Communicator Clearboards that focus on topics from geometry, basic operations, and number theory. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Paul Lawrence | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom J | Middle (6 - 8) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Students Held Accountable Through Discourse and Performance: Listen and Learn | |||||
| Are we teaching our students to fish, or merely giving them fish every day? Participate in a lesson study simulation and summarize over 100 bell-to-bell classroom observations. Success rests on our students' ability to actively learn and be held accountable for their knowledge. You will personally experience how this can be accomplished. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Robyn Silbey | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Can Three Wrongs Make a Right? Helping Teachers and Coaches Use Assessment Items to Drive Students' Thinking | |||||
| Teachers can do more with large-scale assessment items than test prep! Coaches and leaders can help teachers use items for more than drill, driving students' thinking to higher levels. Gain insight into test construction, and learn tools and professional development strategies to help teachers use test items to get at students' thinking. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sendhil Revuluri | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
CNECT-ing Mathematics and Career Technical Education | |||||
| CNECT-Math establishes powerful collaborations between career technical education (CTE) and mathematics teachers in Maine. Regional Professional Learning Communities (PLC) of teachers make connections as they co-develop and co-teach lessons, integrating practical, real-world applications with content theory in the areas of measurement, data, and statistics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Margaret (Meghan) Southworth | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom G | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Fostering High-Level Thinking for All with Open-Ended Problems | |||||
| A professional development program for teacher leaders has enabled teachers to utilize, adapt, and create open-ended problems to use in their curricula. The advantage of open-ended tasks is that they engage all students in meaningful mathematics. We will provide ideas for adapting and creating open-ended problems in geometry, algebra, and data analysis. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Brian Lindaman | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
Scholastic Inc. Sponsor Showcase: The Core Within the Core: The Common Core State Standards and Implications for Intervention | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards strive for greater focus and coherence by focusing on key ideas and organizing principles. Learn how to identify the core foundations within the standards, in order to effectively reach your most struggling students. (PK–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marilyn Trow | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Texas Instruments Technology Showcase: TI-Nspire Fosters an Interactive Mathematics Instruction and Assessment Experience with the TI-Nspire Navigator and an Interactive Whiteboard | |||||
| See how the TI-Nspire Navigator is used with interactive whiteboards for formative assessment or review/preparation for high-stakes tests. Hear about inquiry learning resources from NASA, TI, and publishers focused on improving instruction of middle school and high school mathematics topics. (Grades 7-12 ) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sean Bird | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom D | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Coaching Mathematics Teachers to Use Research-Informed Best Practices to Ensure Success for All Students in Mathematics | |||||
| How do we coach teachers to help all students be successful? Examine a mathematics coaching model which has helped an Algebra I team lower their failure rate by establishing a Professional Learning Community, training teachers on "best practices," and leading teachers to perform their own peer observations. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Lisa Miller | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 104 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Addressing the Perfect Storm: Professional Development for Secondary Teachers Focused on Reasoning and Sense Making | |||||
| NCTM and the Common Core State Standards create a new vision for secondary mathematics. How do we support teachers as they rethink mathematics and how it is taught? We will discuss professional development that enhances teacher knowledge of mathematics for teaching, sharpens their focus on student thinking, and develops new pedagogical strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Barbara Kuehl Co-Presenter: Scott Hendrickson Co-Presenter: Joleigh Honey Co-Presenter: Janet Sutorius | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | Secondary (9 - 12) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
Powerful Pedagogical Practices Program Serves as Catalyst for Statewide Move to High School Problem-Based Curriculum Materials | |||||
| How can we motivate our nation's high schools to embrace and move toward a new and innovative vision for mathematics teaching and learning, a STEM-Wise approach centered on problem-based instruction? Learn how Delaware intends to Race to the Top in its pursuit of a new "normal" for high school mathematics classrooms. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jamila Riser | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom B-C | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Algebra Intensification: Research-Informed Strategies to Help Struggling Students Succeed | |||||
| Today, all students must succeed in Algebra I, including those who are underprepared. Additional instructional time alone is not sufficient. Learn about comprehensive research-informed strategies from a current National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to help underprepared students succeed in Algebra I. Highlighted strategies include those from mathematics learning, literacy, social psychology, and special education. | |||||
Lead Speaker: James Lynn Co-Presenter: Maisie Gholson | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 103 | College | Teaching & Learning | ||
Leadership for Equity in Teacher Education: Infusing the NCSM PRIME Leadership Framework into Methods Courses | |||||
| We will share our team's journey of infusing the NCSM PRIME Leadership Framework into our teacher education program through a mathematics methods course. Specific examples and the preservice teachers' end of semester reflections will be discussed to demonstrate the outcomes of our initial efforts. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Comfort Akwaji-Anderson Co-Presenter: Mary Gichobi | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom F | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Panel: Supporting Implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics | |||||
| CCSS Authors & Panelists: • William McCallum , the University of Arizona • Phil Daro, America's Choice • Jason Zimba, Student Achievement Partners • Moderator: Connie Schrock, NCSM Regional Director We will describe various projects that are underway to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, including a technical manual describing higher order structures in the standards, such as a flow of ideas or a tie between different domains; a collection of standards progressions describing the standards in narrative form by domain across grade levels, with commentary on particularly knotty areas of mathematics, or common areas of student difficulty; and the Illustrative Mathematics Project (illustrativemathematics.org), collecting sample tasks and problems illustrating the standards. | |||||
Lead Speaker: William McCallum Co-Presenter: Phil Daro | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom E | General | |||
Dramatic Agency and Transformational Play: Why Should Educators Care About Videogames? | |||||
| Over the last decade, video games and other online media have become one of the most significant forums for the enculturation of youth. Though many academics have little first-hand experience with videogames, two generations of adults have grown up with videogames, and a multi-billion dollar industry has developed alongside these players. In most contemporary videogames, learners do not mindlessly click on buttons, but instead engage in rich narrative storylines and employ complex problem solving strategies as they come to master and appreciate the underlying game dynamics. In addition, videogames stimulate rich forms of participation that enlist membership and identity in ways that occur in only the most advanced curricular designs. In fact, scholars are increasingly documenting the discursive richness, depth of collaborative inquiry, complexity of game play, and multifaceted forms of learning and participation that videogames can support. In this talk, I will begin with an overview of why educators should care about videogames. I will discuss a design methodology that we have used to support powerful learning and engagement as we foster a sense of dramatic agency as part of the learning experience. More than a theoretical discussion, I will ground these ideas in our work on the Quest Atlantis project where we have designed numerous curricular designs to support transformational play in which players take on the role of scientists, reporters, accountants, etc., who use academic content to resolve problematic fictional storylines that unfold in virtual worlds. Specifically, I will discuss the Quest Atlantis (QA) project (QuestAtlantis.org), an international learning and teaching project, that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse over 50,000 children, ages 9–15, in educational tasks. As preparation for this talk, please feel free to explore our site and learn more about this exciting project. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sasha Barab | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Helping Teachers Understand and Implement the Standards for Mathematical Practice | |||||
| The third Standard for Mathematical Practice states that students should construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. This session addresses this standard, what it looks and sounds like in a rich mathematical environment, and what teachers need to know and understand to engage students in these practices. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Patty Clark Co-Presenter: Nickie Rizzo | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom A | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
First Things First: Prioritizing Place Value in Professional Development for K–4 Mathematics Teachers | |||||
| Join us as we explore the critical role place value plays in teaching and learning number and operations concepts. This trainer-of-trainers session will focus on professional development strategies and content to help teachers make the connections between their practices and student learning. Each participant will receive a ready-to-use workshop. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kimberly Rimbey | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom J | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Assisting Struggling Students: Response to Intervention (RtI) Tier 1 and 2 Activities That Build Mathematical Relationships | |||||
| It is recommended that Response to Intervention focus on issues of number, including solving word problems, providing visual representations, and devoting 10 minutes of each session to basic facts. Participants will explore how to help intervention instructors combine all four recommendations by using activities that build mathematical relationships. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Christina Tondevold Co-Presenter: Gay Lynn Erb | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Understanding and Addressing the Challenge of Teaching and Learning Measurement | |||||
| United States students' learning of spatial measurement (length, area, volume) remains weak, and no consensus exists for how to improve it. This session will show how conceptual deficits in our elementary written curricula contribute to the problem, and how professional development using well-chosen measurement tasks can solve this problem. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jack Smith Co-Presenter: Shannon Sweeny | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: 203 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Teaching Mathematics in Depth Using the NCTM Curriculum Focal Points | |||||
| What does it mean to teach mathematics in depth? How does the practice look to an elementary school teacher, and how can coaches make this instruction more transparent? Research from classrooms in a state that uses the NCTM Curriculum Focal Points as the structure for its mathematics standards will be presented. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Joanne LaFramenta | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom H-I | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Research Meets Technology: New Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction | |||||
| Emerging research in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology, neuroeconomics, and mathematics education illuminates differences in student cognitive processing, motivation, attentiveness, background knowledge, language, and culture. This session invites participants to explore how that research can guide the development and use of innovative technology to support a rich, differentiated classroom learning environment. | |||||
Lead Speaker: David Dockterman | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom G | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Orchestrating Mathematical Discourse—What Has Technology Got to Do with It? | |||||
| Orchestrating productive mathematical discourse starts with worthwhile tasks, questions that promote sense making and reasoning, and opportunities for students to share their thinking with the teacher and with other students. Technology can play a powerful role in providing new opportunities for students to share their mathematical approaches, strategies, and solutions. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Thomas Dick Co-Presenter: Gail Burrill Co-Presenter: Jessica Cohen | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Using Screen Capture Movies to Assess Quadrilateral Constructions in Sketchpad | |||||
| In the online master's class I teach, which is focused on using Sketchpad in grades 6 to Calculus, my students make movies to record their interactions with the technology. I've since supported my students' implementation of videos to document and assess their own students' work. We'll focus on examples featuring quadrilateral constructions. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Annie Fetter | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
CASIO AMERICA, INC. Sponsor Showcase: Using Technology and Context to Foster Mathematical Thinking | |||||
| PRIZM, and its correlated book series, offers intriguing, meaningful, investigations targeting "big ideas" in secondary mathematics. Our books build on students' interests and intuition to foster rich mathematical thinking. Never again hear, "When will I ever use this?" Receive a PRIZM and related materials! (General) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Robert Horton | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Math Teachers Press, Inc. Technology Showcase: Using Moving with Math Web-Based Assessment to Improve Achievement and Differentiate Instruction for Response to Intervention (RtI) | |||||
| Participants will access the Moving with Math Web-Based Assessment to learn how easy our summative and formative reports make it to interpret data to improve instructional quality, differentiate instruction, monitor progress, and provide accountability. Reports include state and national standards. (Grades 3–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Caryl Pierson Co-Presenter: Amy Johnson | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Moving Beyond Our Initial Vision of Coaching | |||||
| What do you do when your established coaching program stalls? This session will discuss how one district used a "coach the coach" model to jump start its stalled program. We'll explore one coach's growth in using coaching moves, and its impact on classroom teachers' instructional practice. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Fitte Co-Presenter: Suzie Spedden Co-Presenter: Teresa Hughs Co-Presenter: Jon Hanbury | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing Teachers to Be Learning Professionals | |||||
| How do teachers lead the way to student learning? Join the principal investigator and project staff to explore lessons learned about developing teacher leadership. Drawing from the final report (Fall 2010) of Southwest Pennsylvania Math and Science Partnership's seven years, explore the characteristics of individuals and districts that experienced progress. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nancy Bunt Co-Presenter: Michael Fierle Co-Presenter: Andrea Miller Co-Presenter: Sam Shaneyfelt | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Research to Practice: You Know What They Know, So, Now What? | |||||
| Well designed assessment tools can tell you tons about student understanding. We will look at how these tools are helping teachers better define what it means to "get it," and then describe models and strategies being built into a comprehensive curriculum to help teachers reach more students. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jennifer Leimberer | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom B-C | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Improvisation in Teaching and Teacher Learning | |||||
| We present the results of an experiment to increase teachers' content and pedagogical knowledge—using improvisational theater methods. When teachers were taught to improvise with a set of teaching moves, they were better able to use their content knowledge in supporting higher-level student discourse. Hands-on use of sample materials included. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jennifer Knudsen | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom E | General | |||
Sticking to Your Diet: A Mathematical Approach | |||||
| Research on university learning has demonstrated that students are most engaged by working on problems that are relevant to them. With two out of three Americans deemed overweight, most students identify and respond to applications surrounding weight loss and weight maintenance. The dynamics of weight loss and maintenance can be described using the first law of thermodynamics, and the mathematics can be introduced to students as early as precalculus. Born from this teaching exercise conducted over four years ago, was an explosion of research using mathematical models to predict and monitor weight loss in patients. I am currently working with several weight change experiment sites using mathematics to foster compliance to target diets, identify eating habits, and retrospectively analyze compliance in weight change experimental results. In this presentation, I will describe our exciting collaborations where we take the research of weight management from the mathematical laboratory bench straight to the patient's bedside. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Diana Thomas | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Inviting Children of African Descent into a Mathematics Lesson | |||||
| Students of African descent are generally left in the margin of the instructional pedagogy. This presentation is designed to demonstrate how various activities center the life, family, culture, and history of the students into the mathematics lesson. These openings are designed to "invite" the students into the lesson. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kwame Anthony Scott | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom F | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Measuring the Common Core State Standards: Implications of Common Assessments for Mathematics Leaders and Teachers | |||||
| Consortia of states are collaborating to create common measures for student performance and growth, based on the Common Core State Standards. This session will share the work of one consortium to create assessments that signal good instructional practice and support mathematics leaders' work to improve student learning and teacher development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Wes Bruce Co-Presenter: Jim Mirabelli | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom A | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Role of Electronic Media in Supporting Instruction | |||||
| Public displays of tasks, discussion points, and key mathematical concepts are critical in effective instruction. However, not all opportunities for making this happen involving technologies are equal. Participants will consider the advantages and limitations for student learning of interactive whiteboards, presentation software (including PowerPoint), and web-based mediums, such as web-conferencing. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Calvin Armstrong Co-Presenter: Art Mabbott | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Showing Teachers the Importance of a Deep Understanding of Place Value to Aid the Development of Efficient Mental Strategies | |||||
| This session is designed to show the importance of developing a deep understanding of the concept of place value at an early age, if all students are to develop strong number sense and efficient mental computation strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Brian Tickle | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom G | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Using Diagnostic Interview Assessments to Steer Planning and Instruction | |||||
| In order to navigate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and individual student learning needs, we must use effective assessment tools. Diagnostic interviews illustrate students' "peak performance" while helping teachers stay "on track." We will share a framework, example interviews, and tools for helping teachers develop their own. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jennifer Bay-Williams Co-Presenter: Karen Karp | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom J | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Common Core State Standards—Supporting Instruction | |||||
| Standards identify for educators what students need to learn. This session supports supervisors in helping teachers implement standards by addressing these three questions—What mathematics is embedded in the standard? What do I need to understand and plan to do to teach this standard? How will I know what students learned? | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marji Freeman Co-Presenter: Carolyn Felux | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Middle (6 - 8) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
Using STEM to Link the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and for English Language Arts & Literacy | |||||
| Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects can provide an opportunity to enhance STEM classrooms with rich mathematical experiences through an integrated lens. What really links the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics to this? | |||||
Lead Speaker: Elaine Carman Co-Presenter: Christopher Lazzaro | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom H-I | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Strengthening Connections and Coherence: Using Learning Trajectories, Anchor Tasks, and Analysis of Student Work to Enhance Teachers' Practice | |||||
| This session presents a professional development model for grades 7–12 teachers designed to link mathematical ideas across lessons and courses. Participants will explore the professional development design, beginning with teaching/learning trajectories that make visible the development of big ideas in algebra, and include cognitively demanding tasks used to assess students' progress along the trajectories. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Valerie Mills Co-Presenter: Edward Silver Co-Presenter: Dana Gosen Co-Presenter: Geraldine Devine | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
On Track for Four Years of Mathematics! Discrete Mathematics and Modeling for High School Students AND Teachers | |||||
| Learn what it takes to build a rigorous 4th year curriculum beyond Algebra II, AND give teachers the content knowledge to teach the course. Participants will experience components of the exciting modeling curriculum, and walk away with sample artifacts, "big ideas" for the course, and Assessment for Learning (AfL) strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mona Toncheff Co-Presenter: Jeanette Scott | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | ||||
Key Curriculum Press Sponsor Showcase: Ignite! Speakers Enlighten the Room with Fresh Ideas in Mathematics | |||||
| Presenters entice the audience with five-minutes of fun, upbeat, and informative talks that pique interest, provoke, entertain, and educate. In the Ignite format, timeframes are strictly enforced: five-minutes per presentation and 20 slides that auto-forward every 15 seconds, ready or not. (General) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Coe | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
CASIO AMERICA, INC. Technology Showcase: Transforming Student Perspectives Through Color! | |||||
| PRIZM fosters deeper understanding of concepts via a brilliant 65,000 color high-resolution display. Natural Symbolic & Graphical Display removes any technological barriers to learning, while Picture Plot allows students to use real-life pictures for true inquiry-based learning. Receive a PRIZM & emulator software! (General) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mike Reiners Co-Presenter: John Diehl | |||||
| 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom | ||||
Tuesday Lunch Sponsored by Texas Instruments—Making STEM Real and Accessible for All | |||||
| What does STEM mean to you? We all know that the acronym STEM represents Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, but what does it really mean when put into practice, and how can it help us accomplish our goals? We are seeing STEM included in Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign, not to mention countless other sources. Let's talk about what it can mean in terms of a teacher, a classroom, and a school district. How can in-classroom coaching help our STEM focus? Where can our teachers turn to find mentors in STEM? In mathematics, we are used to arriving at one solution—but in this case there are many. Let's open our minds to an out-of-the-box discussion to stretch our potential. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Scott Eddins | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom E | General | |||
Focus on Mathematical Reasoning and Sense Making: New and Continuing Efforts in NCTM's Long-term Initiative on the Teaching of Secondary Mathematics | |||||
| This past year the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics launched a long-term effort to infuse Mathematical Reasoning and Sense Making into all secondary mathematics classrooms. Starting with a series of publications on Reasoning and Sense Making, the Council is currently developing web-based resources, creating a video library of classroom clips of students engaged in mathematical reasoning, and developing a special conference for secondary teachers and teacher leaders devoted to mathematical reasoning and sense making for the summer of 2011. This session will share the Council's vision and progress on this new secondary initiative, and discuss how this work in Reasoning and Sense Making connects to the new Common Core State Standards. | |||||
Lead Speaker: J. Michael Shaughnessy, NCTM President Co-Presenter: Jenny Salls Co-Presenter: Gary Martin | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom G | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Teachers, Teacher Leaders, and Administrators Share Their Stories of Participation in a National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership Project to Deepen Mathematics Content Knowledge | |||||
| Based on participation in an National Science Foundation (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Project, teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators wrote stories about their personal journeys in the classroom and as leaders. What impacted them? What challenged them? We will share some of these stories and reflect on what we can learn from them. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cynthia Callard Co-Presenter: Judi Fonzi | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom A | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Responding to Intervention Through Mathematics Instruction | |||||
| Denver Public Schools began its journey to include mathematics in Response to Intervention with a focus on instruction grounded in our core mathematics programs. We'll share tools that we created during the selection process and a guide for teachers to differentiate classroom instruction (grades 1–12), and trace our successes and challenges. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cathy Martin Co-Presenter: Kris O'Clair | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom F | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Becoming an Assessment Leader: Formative Assessment in a Summative Assessment World! | |||||
| This highly motivational message will provide deep insight into how a school mathematics leader and coach systemically unveil and eliminate student inequities caused by wide variance in the rigor, writing, grading, and quality of unit and chapter exams. Key research findings for formative assessment cycle development will be presented. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Timothy Kanold | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
How do University Mathematics Educators, Teachers, and Leaders Create a Partnership for Changing Teaching Practices for Increasing Student Learning? | |||||
| Our partnership between university mathematics educators, leaders, and teachers in a school district is grounded in research and practical wisdom using an inquiry process, protocols, and feedback cycles to study, refine, and build generative knowledge to implement effective mathematics teaching and learning practices. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cathy J Kinzer Co-Presenter: Janice Bradley | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Strategies for Embedding Mathematical Discourse Through Shared Storybook Reading | |||||
| This session presents initial results from a study on the effect of instructing early education teachers to embed mathematical discourse in shared storybook reading as a means of increasing "math talk" in the classroom. Discussion will focus on shared reading as a strategy to develop early numeracy skills of children. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Lynn Columba | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom H-I | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Improve Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities by Providing Powerful Professional Development for Teachers | |||||
| Experience professional development activities that help teachers make their lessons more accessible to students with learning disabilities, while maintaining the integrity of the mathematics content. Learn about effective practices, and use a lesson planning process for aligning strategies with students' needs. Leave with professional development activities to use with teachers in your district. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Amy Brodesky | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Research, Instructional Practices, and Technology in Secondary Schools | |||||
| Research suggests instructional practices help or hinder student understanding, depending on their enactment. Participants will consider common practices, such as "launch" of a lesson, recording and discussing student work, and bringing closure in light of research and the potential of interactive technology to make these practices effective in enabling learning. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Gail Burrill | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
ORIGO Education, Inc. Sponsor Showcase: ORIGO Education: Your Source of Inspiration | |||||
| ORIGO Education inspires teachers to develop deep understanding of mathematics with an environment rich in language, thinking skills, games, and visual models. Come and be inspired by ORIGO's Australian president and senior author representing the newest source in innovative mathematics resources. (PK–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: James Burnett Co-Presenter: Rob Nickerson | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Scholastic Inc. Technology Showcase: Using Adaptive Technology to Target Fluency and Facility with Math Facts, Fractions, and Decimals | |||||
| A student's career-readiness is influenced early in their learning. If students haven't mastered the critical foundations for algebra, it impacts their potential for success. Learn how to target struggling students and effectively differentiate instruction using adaptive technology. (Grades 3–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jaclyn Ruszala Co-Presenter: Diane Glass | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Overcoming Resistance to Change: On Track for Equity | |||||
| Overcoming resistance to change is a major factor in forging effective mathematics programs, yet it is rarely discussed. Mathematics coaches and leaders often feel their efforts at improving instruction are being blocked or thwarted. This session provides insights on resistance and strategies that transform classrooms so that all students are successful. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ted Hull Co-Presenter: Don Balka Co-Presenter: Ruth Harbin Miles | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom B-C | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Ten Key Ideas for Designing High Quality Professional Development | |||||
| Good professional development design is critical to achieving the goal of deepening teacher content knowledge, and both empirical research and insights of practitioners inform what good design entails. Ten key ideas are presented, dissected, debated, and applied toward the goal of designing the highest quality professional development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Barbara Miller | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Leading with Passion: Still No Compromise!... Four Years Later | |||||
| What does passion for mathematics education look like? Four years ago we began this journey to "recharge the batteries" of site-based mathematics leaders so that they might have a greater impact on the teachers they work with daily. Join us in this discussion of lessons learned and plans for the future. | |||||
Lead Speaker: John Staley Co-Presenter: Maria Everett Co-Presenter: Leslie Johnson | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Professional Learning Communities: PLC + You = Continuous Commitment to Student Learning | |||||
| Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) can be an effective way to examine personal views about mathematics teaching and learning. In this safe environment, participants will explore two separate PLCs and discuss strengths and weakness of each. Finally, based on this experience, participants will compose their own outline. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Meghan Hearn | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom D | Secondary (9 - 12) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Enhancing the Reasoning-and-Proving Content of Textbook Tasks: A Site for Teacher Professional Development | |||||
| Reasoning-and-proving is a critical topic in secondary mathematics, yet recent analyses show that most textbooks provide few strong reasoning-and-proving tasks. This session presents strategies that can be used to modify textbook tasks to increase the reasoning-and-proving potential, compare modified tasks, and discuss how these strategies can be used in professional development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Michael Steele Co-Presenter: Fran Arbaugh Co-Presenter: Justin Boyle | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom F | ||||
Central Region 1 Caucus | |||||
| Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio | |||||
Lead Speaker: Valerie Mills | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom A | ||||
Central Region 2 Caucus | |||||
| Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin | |||||
Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom G | ||||
Eastern Region 1 Caucus | |||||
| Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Military State AE (Armed Forces Africa, Canada, Europe, and Middle East) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mari Muri | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | ||||
Eastern Region 2 Caucus | |||||
| Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia | |||||
Lead Speaker: Diana Kendrick | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom B-C | ||||
Southern Region 1 Caucus | |||||
| Bermuda, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Military State AA (Armed Forces America) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Susan Birnie | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom H-I | ||||
Southern Region 2 Caucus | |||||
| Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ted Hull | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | ||||
Western Region 1 Caucus | |||||
| Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming | |||||
Lead Speaker: Richard Seitz | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom E | ||||
Western Region 2 Caucus | |||||
| California, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Military State AP (Armed Forces Pacific) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Sara Munshin | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom J | ||||
Canadian Regional and International Attendee Caucus | |||||
| Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon and anyone from outside the United States and Canada | |||||
Lead Speaker: Donna Karsten Co-Presenter: Denise Walston | |||||
| 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | ||||
NCSM Past Presidents Caucus | |||||
| NCSM Past Presidents | |||||
Lead Speaker: Larry Bradsby | |||||
| 5:45 PM to 7:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom | ||||
Tuesday Reception - Sponsored by Pearson | |||||
| Pearson is an international company with world-wide businesses in education, business information, and consumer publishing. The company helps children and adults to learn, business people to make good decisions, and readers to enjoy a good book. | |||||
| All Sessions -- Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | |||||
| 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | ||||
Wednesday Breakfast Sponsored by America's Choice—The Common Core State Standards: The Latest in a Nutshell | |||||
| Phil Daro, a member of the Mathematics Work Group for the Common Core State Standards and a senior fellow at America's Choice, will share his thoughts on how to implement the Common Core State Standards and prepare for the new assessments to be administered in 2014–2015. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Phil Daro | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Panel: Reshaping Assessment | |||||
| The power of formative assessment for improving student learning is well established – provided it is well done. The associated need for professional development is substantial. The influence of summative assessment on what happens in most classrooms is clear. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is one of two multi-state assessment partnerships that received federal funding to development a next generation assessment system to measure the Common Core State Standards. The panel will discuss the status of the goals and current work on developing assessments, formative assessment lessons, professional development support modules, and prototype summative tests and how they may be used. In addition, they will describe and illustrate Formative Assessment Lessons, Professional Development Support Modules, and Prototype Summative Tests, as well as how they may be used. Panelists: • Hugh Burkhardt, Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) - • Dan Hupp, SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium - • Moderator: Valerie Mills, NCSM Regional Director | |||||
Lead Speaker: Hugh Burkhardt Co-Presenter: Dan Hupp | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Learning from Students' Written Work: A Guide for Professional Development, Grades K–6 | |||||
| Too often, students see the goals of mathematics assignments to "do the page" rather than to "do the math." This session presents guidelines for assignments that provide students opportunities to reveal how they reason, and suggests ways for using student work in professional development to help teachers inform their instruction. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marilyn Burns | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Taking Coaching to the Systemic Level | |||||
| Learn how coaches create a cascading effect on practice by cultivating the capacity of teacher leaders, developing lab site classrooms, focusing the lens of principals on evidence of student and adult learning, and increasing the understanding of truly effective instruction. Video clips will be used and handouts will be provided. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Susan Birnie Co-Presenter: Lucy West | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Great Tasks for Leading the Common Core State Standards | |||||
| "Great Tasks" has been updated and revised to reflect the Common Core State Standards. In this session, teachers, coaches, specialists, and leaders will explore how to implement open tasks that support the infusion of formative assessment into classrooms, districts, and state levels. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Connie Schrock Co-Presenter: Richard Seitz | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing Teaching Expertise @ Mathematics: Practice-Based Professional Development for Practicing Elementary Mathematics Teachers | |||||
| Presenters share a distinctive form of web-based professional development materials for elementary mathematics teachers and intending mathematics specialists that integrate core elements of professional learning, and that ground learning opportunities in teaching practice. Session participants explore these core elements and discuss the challenges involved in facilitating practice-based professional development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Meghan Shaughnessy Co-Presenter: Kara Suzuka Co-Presenter: Judith Jacobs | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Lastinger STEM Initiative: Job-Embedded Professional Development for Mathematics and Science Teachers | |||||
| The Lastinger STEM Initiative, led by the presenter, provides a comprehensive job-embedded professional development experience for mathematics and science teachers in high-need, low-resourced middle and high schools. The initiative includes five primary components: professor in residence, job-embedded graduate degree, summer residential experience, visiting scholars, and fellows program. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Thomasenia Adams | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | JW Marriott: 203 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Transforming Teacher Culture and Practice by Coupling Content Workshops, Lesson Study, and Regular Team Meetings | |||||
| This presentation provides an early report on the progress of a university-school partnership designed to help teachers at three Chicago high schools change mathematics instruction to meet students' needs. By using lesson study and regular team meetings to reinforce content-focused professional development, the project supports transformation of the professional culture at each school. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Thomas McDougal Co-Presenter: Carol Caref Co-Presenter: Lydia Clark | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Leadership: It Takes a Team | |||||
| District curriculum coordinators will share how using the NCSM PRIME Leadership Framework and Educational Development Center's (EDC) Secondary Lenses on Learning shifted our district to a larger community of mathematics leaders and problem solvers. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Leslie Knicl Co-Presenter: Polly Hill | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
Assessment: Why Bother? | |||||
| With students taking so many high-stakes tests, why should a mathematics teacher use valuable class time testing what is being done in class? With the right type of assessment, however, students can actually learn. Participants will look at the different assessments with an eye toward what will promote student learning. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Wootton Co-Presenter: Chris Mikles | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
MIND Research Institute Sponsor Showcase: Engage and Inspire: How the Right Technology Tools Can Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning | |||||
| Discover the MIND Research Institute's research-based ST Math Program, where students learn mathematics visually and conceptually. Students become successful problem solvers playing Spatial Temporal computer games that start purely visually and then gradually introduce symbols and language. (PK–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nigel Nisbet | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | ||||
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Sponsor Showcase: Success is the Intersection Where Opportunity and Preparation Meet | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards are the opportunity, so how do we prepare? The new standards will impact current practices in teaching and learning. As leaders, it is our responsibility to assess the needs of our teachers, students, and community and prepare for the Common Core State Standards. (PK–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Meaghan Pavlovich | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
A Blueprint for Student Success on High-Stakes Tests: A Plan from the Rice University School Mathematics Project | |||||
| This session describes the development and implementation of a year-long plan to prepare students for high-stakes tests using stems from released standardized tests. Error analysis, remediation plans, test-taking strategies, and test-day tips will be discussed. Attendees will create interventions based on stems from several standardized tests. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Anne Papakonstantinou Co-Presenter: Richard Parr | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 103 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
The Intel Math Program and K–8 Teacher Content Knowledge in Mathematics | |||||
| Intel Math is an 80-hour professional development program for K–8 teachers in mathematics. The course is based in problem solving, and focuses on the main themes of the K–8 curriculum. We will discuss the program, its strategy, and the evaluation reports from the past three years. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Aubrey Neihaus | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Student-Centered Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: How to Implement Change as You Support Teachers' Success and Student Achievement | |||||
| A key finding in the research is that student-centered classrooms positively impact student achievement. What does that really look like in a secondary mathematics classroom? How do you implement this? What are the benefits and the pitfalls to avoid? How will you, as the administrator, recognize a truly student-centered classroom? | |||||
Lead Speaker: Lori Hamada Co-Presenter: Chris Mikles | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | JW Marriott: 104 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Proven Research-Based Strategies Supporting Assessment and Instruction on Multiplication, Division, and Fractions for Response to Intervention (RtI) | |||||
| Research-based strategies related to formative assessment and differentiated instruction will be applied to NCTM Curriculum Focal Points and Common Core State Standards. Lessons using manipulatives, games, and vocabulary that integrate basic skills and problem solving will be presented. Appropriate for special needs and ELL students. Participants will receive handouts of activities and research. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Caryl Pierson Co-Presenter: Amy Johnson | |||||
| 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 2-3 | Secondary (9 - 12) | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Use of Narrative Cases to Develop Teachers' Knowledge About Reasoning-and-Proving | |||||
| In this session, participants will engage in a discussion and analysis of a narrative case. This case is the first in a series of cases and other materials that comprise a practice- and research-based curriculum designed to develop teachers' mathematical and pedagogical knowledge related to reasoning-and-proving in secondary school mathematics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Gabriel Stylianides Co-Presenter: Margaret Smith | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
The Common Core State Standards and Evolving Assessment Consortia—History, Status, and WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? | |||||
| For two years, the standards and assessment movements have been dominated by political entities whose approach differs strikingly from that of the NCTM professional organization's effort started in the 1980's. Learn about this new process, including current involvement efforts and NEXT STEPS for NCTM, NCSM, and other professional teacher organizations. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Henry Kepner | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Three Voices, One Purpose: Principals, Coaches, and Teachers United in Mathematics Success | |||||
| When the mathematical thoughts and voices of teachers, coaches, and leaders work in concert with each other, children will excel in mathematics. This session will take its participants along a journey that an underperforming school traveled to reach a 10-year sustainable level of excellence in mathematics. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marco Ramirez Co-Presenter: Christine Confer | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | General | Assessment of Students / Assessment of Teaching | ||
A Formative Assessment System That Really Works | |||||
| How does a large K–8 urban school improve mathematics instruction and student achievement for all students? Come and learn how your school can benefit from this two-year implementation study that has resulted in increased student achievement on classroom-based formative assessments and district benchmark tests. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Lee Ann Pruske Co-Presenter: Kim O'Brien | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Activating the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice Through NCSM's Professional Development Model That Incorporates the Inside Mathematics Website Materials | |||||
| NCSM, in collaboration with the Noyce Foundation-sponsored Inside Mathematics website, has developed a series of PowerPoint presentations showing how the Standards for Mathematical Practice can be implemented at various grade levels. Participants will have a hands-on experience that will include high cognitive tasks, re-engagement with the tasks, and a discussion of task implementation. | |||||
Co-Presenter: Valerie Mills Lead Speaker: Sara Munshin | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Solving Discipline Problems in Mathematics Class Using Academic, Social, Learning, and Emotional Empowerment for Elementary, Middle, and High School Classrooms | |||||
| Sometimes the most difficult problems to solve in mathematics class are the discipline problems! In this session, we will analyze specific discipline problems in elementary, middle, and high school mathematics classrooms. We will explore ways to solve these problems using four types of student empowerment – academic, learning, social, and emotional. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jennifer Taylor-Cox | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing Co-Teaching Models to Link the Practices of Special and General Educators | |||||
| Interactions between special and general educators are rare and often difficult. To help foster collaboration, Aurora Public Schools developed a model of professional development that joined regular and special educators. Members of this collaborative used a co-planning/co-teaching model of professional development to challenge and transform each other's beliefs and practices. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Cherie Echols Co-Presenter: Jo Cunningham Co-Presenter: Antonia Cameron | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Building Elementary Students' and Teachers' Understanding of Proof | |||||
| We will present examples, in the context of regular classroom arithmetic instruction, of how elementary students can engage in proving, what teacher learning is needed to provide such instruction to a range of learners, and how one group of teachers learned to integrate work on proof into their instruction. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Susan Jo Russell Co-Presenter: Deborah Schifter Co-Presenter: Virginia Bastable | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Middle (6 - 8) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
Middle School Mathematics Can Be Dynamic! Using Sketchpad to Engage and Increase Understanding | |||||
| Experience engaging, dynamic mathematics using the Geometer's Sketchpad. Help your middle schools' students see and experience number sense, algebra, geometry, and other middle school mathematics concepts by integrating technology effectively and efficiently. See how Sketchpad is a tool to increase students' mathematical understanding and achievement. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Greenhaus | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | Middle (6 - 8) | |||
Pearson Sponsor Showcase: Pearson's New Digits Program—Where Math Clicks! | |||||
| Pearson's new program uses the power of technology to bring best practices of teaching into the classroom. Learn about this exciting new program built for today's digital student, with all interactive whiteboard lessons, online homework and assessments, and automatic grading and reporting. (Middle 6–8) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Elizabeth Lehnertz | |||||
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Marriott Downtown: Lincoln | General | |||
America's Choice Sponsor Showcase: The Common Core State Standards: Getting Ahead of the Curve for Implementation | |||||
| Phil Daro, a member of the Mathematics Work Group for the Common Core State Standards, will discuss the impact of the Common Core on teaching and learning mathematics. This discussion will focus on implications for professional development and student resources as we help schools and classes prepare for the Common Core assessments to be administered in 2014–2015. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Phil Daro | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Using NCTM's Freely Available Reflection Guides to Provide Professional Development to Mathematics Learning Communities | |||||
| Reflection Guides for NCTM journals provide teacher leaders and coaches with a rich resource for professional development. A motivating article from Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, "Using Students' Work as a Lens on Algebraic Thinking," by Driscoll and Moyer, will be the focus to model a professional development session for teachers. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Monique Lynch | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 2-3 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Assessing the Effect of Coaching: Using Video Journals to Document Coach and Teacher Growth over Time | |||||
| What evidence is there that coaching actually impacts and changes teacher practice? In this session, we will use video journals to document coach and teacher growth over time, share tools developed to document that growth, and provide artifacts of student learning directly impacted by changes in practice. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Antonia Cameron Co-Presenter: Stephanie Slabic Co-Presenter: Naomi Berkowitz Co-Presenter: Danielle Iacoviello | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
Designing Equitable Lessons That Positively Impact Students' Mathematics Identity | |||||
| The pedagogical strategies a teacher utilizes when designing lessons greatly impacts how students see themselves as mathematics learners. Participants will gain information about the development of a student's mathematics identity, and experience activities that enable teachers to provide students from diverse backgrounds opportunities to demonstrate their mathematics understanding. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Karen Mayfield-Ingram Co-Presenter: Grace Coates | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Rebuilding Students' Cognitive Structures for Understanding Mathematics | |||||
| There is a basic knowledge core for mathematics that forms the basis for decoding mathematics. Uncover what everyone is concerned about covering to reveal the core structure and connectivity of mathematics. The focus is on helping students make sense of what they've been taught, rather than on reteaching missed skills/concepts. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Marilyn Trow | |||||
| 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Teaching & Learning | ||
"Math Pathways and Pitfalls" Connect Mathematics Concepts and Language Development | |||||
| The "Math Pathways and Pitfalls" program integrates best practices for learning mathematics concepts, developing mathematical language, and confronting common "pitfalls." The lessons and strategies have had a significant impact on student achievement for diverse student populations in urban, suburban, and reservation schools. | |||||
Lead Speaker: José Franco Co-Presenter: Alma Ramirez | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 5 | General | |||
Moving the Mathematics Achievement Needle for Struggling Learners | |||||
| As the expectations for increased achievement in mathematics and science grow, one of the greatest instructional challenges is figuring out ways to close the gap for those students who do not have the foundational competencies to respond to rigorous curricular demands. This presentation will discuss possible strategies of modifying school-wide structures to better accommodate academic diversity among students, as well as describe what research is pointing to as the most effective instructional practices. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Donald Deshler | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Addressing Difficult Issues in Coaching Conversations | |||||
| How might a coach confront critical issues with teachers in ways that open possibilities and avoid shutting down conversations? This interactive session will address problematic moments in coaching, using case studies, role plays, video clips, and examples of coaching moves that differentiate for teacher sensitivities and belief systems. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Lucy West Co-Presenter: Jane Kise | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
How to Achieve the Vision of the NCSM PRIME Teaching and Learning Principle: From Words to Actions | |||||
| This workshop will present how lesson study is used with mathematics teachers to implement the NCSM PRIME Indicators for Teaching and Learning in order to bring rigor, meaning, and relevance to the teacher planning and student learning experience. The session will include sample lessons and participant interaction. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Gwen Zimmermann Co-Presenter: Darshan Jain | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing and Supporting Consumers of Coaching: Expectations and Responsibilities | |||||
| Coaching is a collaborative process that is done with teachers, not to teachers, to increase teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Learn what you as a mathematics leader can do to develop and support teachers as good consumers of coaching by understanding the expectations and responsibilities for coaches and teachers. | |||||
Lead Speaker: John Sutton Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Burroughs Co-Presenter: Clare Heidema Co-Presenter: Arlene Mitchell | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | General | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Supporting Curricular Reasoning as a Way of Developing Effective Teachers | |||||
| Curricular reasoning includes the thinking processes teachers engage in when working with curriculum to plan, implement, and reflect on instruction. Our work with teachers generated approaches for school leaders to use in supporting teachers' curricular reasoning development. Participants will also share their ideas about helping teachers effectively use curriculum materials. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kay Wohlhuter Co-Presenter: Amy Roth McDuffie Co-Presenter: Lynn Breyfogle | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | Primary (PK - 2) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Response to Intervention (RtI): Mathematics Interventions for Struggling Learners | |||||
| Are you trying to implement RtI math? We will discuss the What Works Clearinghouse's recommendations for using RtI to support students who struggle with mathematics. Participants will experience evidence-based intervention strategies, explore materials, hear ideas for organizing the classroom to provide differentiated support, and receive handouts containing references and resources. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Forbringer | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 203 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) | ||
SCRATCH Brings MATH to Life! | |||||
| Animation brings number sense, operations, geometry, integers, and Cartesian planes to life. SCRATCH, a new programming language, was integrated into our curriculum. Igniting interest in STEM, in both tech-poor and tech-rich elementary schools, is a priority. SCRATCH was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is free! | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mary Zocchi Co-Presenter: Ann Potter | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | Intermediate (3 - 5) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Transforming Teaching: Examples That Support Taking Teachers from Dissonance to Depth | |||||
| Teaching for depth is widely supported in the Common Core State Standards. However, what it means to teach for depth is elusive. Explore authentic, classroom-tested examples that contrast common teaching practices with practices that cultivate deep conceptual understanding creating disequilibrium that leads to necessary changes for teachers to teach for depth. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Juli Dixon | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Austin/Boston | Middle (6 - 8) | Teaching & Learning | ||
Providing Professional Development to Meet Common Core State Standards | |||||
| Leaders will examine a professional development prototype designed to provide a rich experience for one teacher or a group of teachers. The emergence of the Common Core State Standards coupled with decreased funding for professional development has created an opportunity for collaboration among school districts. See how one district responded. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Bill Barnes Co-Presenter: Jonathan Wray | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | Middle (6 - 8) | Developing Coaches / Developing Teachers | ||
Developing Leadership in Our Mathematics Community: Identifying and Supporting Teacher Leaders | |||||
| Examine a model of professional development from the Math Forum @ Drexel that provides opportunities for teachers to build their understanding of mathematical concepts, explore ways to create similar experiences for students, and learn more about resources and support, enabling them to become and thrive as leaders in this community. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Suzanne Alejandre Co-Presenter: Ashley Miller | |||||
| 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Marriott Downtown: Santa Fe | General | |||
Texas Instruments Sponsor Showcase: The TI MathForward Program Experience, an Algebra-Readiness Program | |||||
| Participants will engage in an interactive MathForward classroom that integrates the TI-Nspire handhelds and the TI-Navigator system. The program components will be highlighted, and research on the program's effectiveness at increasing student achievement in large urban districts will be shared. (Middle 6–8, Secondary 9–12) | |||||
Lead Speaker: Pamela Bernabei-Rorrer Co-Presenter: Eva Airhart | |||||
| 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | JW Marriott: White River Ballroom | ||||
Wednesday Lunch Sponsored by CASIO AMERICA, INC. and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—Math-Busting with MythBusters! | |||||
| Kari Byron and Grant Imahara, from the Discovery Channel's hit show MythBusters, will link scientific method and discovery-based learning to CASIO's new color graphing calculator PRIZM. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Grant Imahara Co-Presenter: Kari Byron | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 6 | General | Teaching & Learning | ||
NCSM/NCTM Special Interest Group Session: Understanding the Influence of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics: What Do We Need to Know and When Do We Need to Know It? | |||||
| The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM) were released in June 2010, billed as a set of "fewer, clearer, and higher standards" that would be appropriate for all students. The idea is that having common standards across states, with explicit connections across the grades in terms of both mathematics content and mathematical practices, will add focus and coherence to mathematics education across the United States. There are lots of views about the likely impact of the CCSSM, ranging from unbridled optimism about a fully aligned system, to skepticism that any changes will be meaningful ones, to predictions of dire outcomes, e.g., that teachers will not be able to tailor the curriculum to meet the needs of their particular students. This presentation will describe a project that is underway to develop a research agenda for tracking the influence of the CCSSM over time, including: (1) describing the extent to which the mathematics education system is changing consistent with the CCSSM; and (2) assessing the extent to which the alignment/lack of alignment is having positive and negative impacts on teaching and learning. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Iris Weiss | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | JW Marriott: 103 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Enhance Students' Problem Solving Skills Using the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) | |||||
| MOEMS contest problems will deepen students' and teachers' mathematical thinking. Discussion will center on the benefits of pursuing "outside-the-box" problem solving for all students, while demonstrating how using these problems will ensure greater mathematical success for all students. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nicholas Restivo | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | JW Marriott: 101-102 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Toward Pedagogies of Teaching for Social Justice | |||||
| The Benjamin Banneker Association embraces theories and frameworks that move the field of mathematics toward teaching for social justice. The purpose of the discussion is to provide practical examples supervisors and teachers can use to prepare students to use mathematics for empowerment and self-determination. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Jacqueline Leonard | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | JW Marriott: 104 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Walking Our Talk! NCSM PRIME Strategies for Mathematics Education Leaders to Promote and Achieve Equity | |||||
| Leaders recognize mathematics teaching and learning occur when diverse students engage in mathematical tasks set in a culturally meaningful context. North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics (NASGEm) invites participants to discuss ways to use this knowledge to enhance instructional effectiveness with a focus on equity, using NCSM PRIME strategies. | |||||
Lead Speaker: James Barta | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 8-9 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Lesson Study Networking: Join Practitioners, Researchers, and Leaders in Sharing Lesson Study Resources and Questions | |||||
| Lesson study is growing in the United States, yet most teams lack opportunities to connect with others. This Special Interest Group is for networking—identifying common interests, challenges, and questions. Sharing resources (e.g., research lessons, research questions) is encouraged. Those new to lesson study are welcome. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Johannah Nikula Co-Presenter: Jane Gorman | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 2-3 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) | |||||
| AMTE's focus is on the improvement of mathematics teacher education. Join us in this session for discussion of topics of mutual interest, such as mathematics specialists in the elementary grades, teacher preparation policies and practices, and K–12 mathematics education leadership development. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Nadine Bezuk Co-Presenter: Marilyn Strutchens, AMTE President | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 10 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Math 2.0: New Opportunities for Collaborative Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Internet-Based Tools | |||||
| An expanding community of mathematics educators and software developers are utilizing a variety of social networking environments to share new ideas in mathematics education. Join us for a round-table discussion to find out how teachers are taking advantage of these Web 2.0 communities to enhance mathematics learning. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Ihor Charischak Co-Presenter: David Weksler | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | JW Marriott: 201-202 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Emerging Leaders: Focus Question/Answer Time | |||||
| After a conference filled with ideas on "Mathematics Leaders Making a Difference," this session will allow for an open discussion regarding the "how to." Collaborate with other new mathematics leaders to create a network of support. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Mona Toncheff | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | JW Marriott: 204-205 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Equity in Mathematics Education: TODOS | |||||
| Do you teach Latino/Hispanic Students? Are you ready to share your successes and challenges with other educators? Do you want to learn more about TODOS and how you can contribute to the organization? We invite you to participate in the TODOS business meeting and dialogue to shape future discussions. | |||||
Lead Speaker: José Franco Co-Presenter: Carol Edwards | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 4 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Educational Consultants: A Networking Opportunity | |||||
| Join our discussion to share expertise and strategies. Hear from others as to how they got started, and marketing techniques they may have used. This is our time to gain from our collective knowledge and support our work. This session was well attended last year—hope you will join us! | |||||
Lead Speaker: Kit Norris | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 1 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Improving Student Achievement by Expanding Opportunities for Mathematically Promising Students: A New NCSM Position Paper | |||||
| NCSM Position Papers are designed to provide members with support on critical issues, and support of mathematically promising students is one of the most critical. Join us at this session to discuss the draft of this new position paper, and give your input to the Special Interest Group before it is finalized. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Linda Sheffield | |||||
| 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Marriott Downtown: Marriott Ballroom 7 | General | |||
Special Interest Group: Urban Mathematics Leadership Network (UMLN) Forum | |||||
| The UMLN is composed of mathematics directors from some of the country's largest and most influential urban districts. UMLN invites leaders from urban districts to join this open forum about issues that are of particular interest, such as how to support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. | |||||
Lead Speaker: Brian Newsom Co-Presenter: Susan Hudson Hull | |||||
