Session Types

Learn more about the types of sessions offered at Innov8.

Team Time

Team Time sessions are designed to give your team time to refine the challenge you face related to struggling learners and to create an action plan for addressing this challenge. In addition to the planned Team Time sessions, teams will have the opportunity to work on the challenge they've identified during some conference sessions.

Video Interactive

Video Interactive session presenters will format their sessions in one of two formats:

• Video of Classrooms: Presenters will show and lead discussions of video of active classrooms including students who struggle and/or teachers discussing mathematics, solving problems, and sharing strategies.
• Using Video in the Classroom: Presenters will demonstrate how to use video to engage students who struggle. Examples might include using video to work on engaging tasks, showcase student solutions (videos, apps, screencasts), and engage students in mathematical discourse.

Sessions are designed to answer these questions: How can video enhance my instruction? How can video help my team (and our school when we return) change our teaching practice?

Lifesaver

Lifesaver session presenters will share a particular idea or strategy that changed the way they teach. Sessions are designed to answer these questions: What transformational idea has changed the way you teach for the better? How has this idea helped to support students who struggle?

Intervention Convention

Intervention Convention session presenters will highlight an intervention that worked with students who struggle. Sessions will include information (timelines, content and curriculum strategies, data collection, assessment) that will support teams in designing and implementing their own intervention. Sessions are designed to answer these questions: What strategies or protocols are most effective for an intervention? How can we evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention?

Task Talk

This motivating session engages participants in solving a rich task, anticipating student responses, and discussing task implementation. Facilitators might share student work samples, video, or other evidence of student learning. Facilitators might also share task design and implementation strategies and adapted versions of the same task for diverse learners.

Content

Content sessions are grade band specific and are focused on helping teachers learn how to facilitate a deeper understanding of relevant mathematics content. Sessions will highlight how struggling students can be supported in learning their grade level content.

Topical

Topical sessions focus on a topic related to supporting struggling students in the mathematics classroom.

Research and Practitioner Paired

Research and Practitioner Paired sessions pair a mathematics education researcher with a practitioner to show how research around struggling students can be implemented in the classroom.

Student Stakeholder

Student Stakeholder sessions bring panels of K-12 students together to share their experiences in mathematics. Students will share their stories of struggle in mathematics and their perspectives on how struggling students can/should be supported. They will talk about how they found success through the help of their teachers.

Master Class

Master Class presenters will focus on the Mathematics Teaching Practices described in NCTM's Principles to Actions. The grade-band specific sessions will focus on how the teaching practices can be implemented in the classroom in a way that supports struggling students.