Past Recordings

Focus on Middle School: Discourse and Productive Struggle (Taking Action)

Presented by: Mike Steele,
Grades: 3rd to 5th, PreK to 2nd

Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

Building from the effective mathematics teaching practices outlined in Principles to Actions, we explore two of the practices in-depth that have particular relevance in middle grades mathematics. Developing rich, conceptual understandings of key ideas such as proportional reasoning, functions, and bivariate data means that teachers must engage students in meaningful discourse about mathematics and support them as they grapple with important mathematical ideas. Using artifacts from middle school classrooms, we discuss tools and teaching strategies to promote stronger discourse, identify productive struggle, and build a culture of persistence for each and every student in middle school mathematics.

Focus on High School: Eliciting and Using Students’ Thinking and Building Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding (Taking Action)

Presented by: Melissa Boston,
Grades:

Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

In high school mathematics, supporting students to understand important mathematical procedures and concepts is essential in promoting ongoing participation and success in mathematics and other STEM fields. In this session, participants will explore the Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices of (1) building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding and (2) eliciting and using evidence of students’ thinking. We will consider how sequences of tasks can establish a conceptual foundation for building fluency and understanding of procedures by providing opportunities for students to recognize structure and make sense of repeated reasoning. We will analyze students’ work to consider the importance of eliciting students’ thinking and using their thinking to determine our next instructional moves. We will also discuss how the ideas highlighted during the session can generalize to other mathematical topics in the high school curriculum.

Focus on Elementary School: Building Community to Increase Student Engagement (Taking Action)

Presented by: Roshanna Beard,
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Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

We will examine effective, engaging strategies when teaching both in brick-and-mortar and digital settings. The session will focus on strategies to maintain engagement within the hybrid class as well as offer opportunities to practice using strategies that have been used by classroom teachers during this time. Roshanna will answer questions and provide examples of effective practices for teaching mathematics during this time of uncertainty.

Focus on Middle School: Encouraging Discourse and Discussion (Taking Action)

Presented by: Jennifer Perego,
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Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

Online and hybrid learning present multiple challenges to meaningful engagement and discussion in the middle school mathematics classroom. Opportunities still exist for teacher feedback and student-to-student interaction. In this session, Jen will provide strategies within the flipped model aimed at increasing student discourse and providing opportunities for critical thinking and problem solving.

Equitable and Ambitious Teaching of Mathematics (Closing Session)(Taking Action)

Presented by: Robert Q. Berry III,
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Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

The authors of the Taking Action series developed the Mathematics Teaching Framework to illustrate how the eight teaching practices form a coherent framework for equitable and ambitious teaching of mathematics. This session uses the Mathematics Teaching Framework to explore the intersections between authority, mathematical identity, and mathematical agency with the teaching practices. Specifically, this session connects the Mathematics Teaching Framework with research that examines equitable teaching as intentional acts that teachers pursue to view each and every student as capable of doing mathematics.

Focus on High School: Using Meaningful Discourse and High-Quality Tasks

Presented by: Fred Dillon, Anthony Bokar,
Grades:

Taking Action: Bringing the Effective Teaching Practices to Life in your Classroom Webinar Series

Meeting the demands of online and hybrid learning so that students have access to meaningful discourse and high-quality tasks is one of the major challenges for instruction in the high school mathematics classroom. In this session, Anthony and Fred will provide strategies using technology including breakout rooms, collaborative documents, and Desmos aimed at increasing student discourse and providing opportunities for critical thinking and problem solving. Anthony and Fred will answer questions and provide examples of effective practices for teaching mathematics.

NBA Math Hoops: Creating the Next Math Champion! (Sponsored Product Demo)(Open to All)

Presented by: Calvin Sibert, Rebecca Wong,
Grades: 6th to 8th

NBA Math Hoops features a comprehensive community program, digital and physical board game, mobile app, and curriculum that allows students to learn fundamental math and social-emotional skills through the game of basketball and the NBA/WNBA. All program content is developed in alignment with Common Core State Standards and 21st Century Learning Skills, and has been shown to improve students’ foundational math and social-emotional skills. We explicitly strive to reach students who have historically been underrepresented in STEM fields, specifically girls, students of color, and students from under-resourced communities.

Through our webinar, educators will learn best practices for implementing the NBA Math Hoops game and curriculum in either a facilitated or independent learning environment, gain FREE access to the Learn Fresh program management platform and all program materials, and learn about opportunities to extend students’ learning through virtual and in-person community events.