Workshops
Bringing Math to Life
This full day workshop provides fresh ideas to scaffold learning with easy-to-implement tools. The tools will be applied to operations, strip diagrams, equations, geometry, and measurement, and can be easily applied across the curriculum.
Audience: 3rd –5th grade math teachers and interventionists, special education math teachers, instructional coaches, and other math instructional leaders
This full day workshop provides fresh ideas to scaffold learning with easy-to-implement tools. The tools will be applied to operations, strip diagrams, equations, geometry, and measurement, and can be easily applied across the curriculum.
Audience: 3rd –5th grade math teachers and interventionists, special education math teachers, instructional coaches, and other math instructional leaders
Start Quick and Ramp It Up! series or Master series Book Look*
Half-day book look sessions focus on the activities and the instruction support in each book. Introduction to activities focuses on the different activity structures in the resources, and their use in teacher-facilitated instruction, centers, tutoring, intervention, and special education classrooms.
Instruction support includes understanding the TEKS and content knowledge necessary for effective instruction. This session may blend multiple grades with similar vertical book topics.
Audience: 2nd-5th grades (Master series), 3rd-5th grades (Start Quick and Ramp It Up! series), math teachers including Special Education, interventionists, instructional coaches, and other math instructional leaders
*books must be available for teachers to use during the learning lab
Half-day book look sessions focus on the activities and the instruction support in each book. Introduction to activities focuses on the different activity structures in the resources, and their use in teacher-facilitated instruction, centers, tutoring, intervention, and special education classrooms.
Instruction support includes understanding the TEKS and content knowledge necessary for effective instruction. This session may blend multiple grades with similar vertical book topics.
Audience: 2nd-5th grades (Master series), 3rd-5th grades (Start Quick and Ramp It Up! series), math teachers including Special Education, interventionists, instructional coaches, and other math instructional leaders
*books must be available for teachers to use during the learning lab
Start Quick and Ramp It Up! series or Master series Book Look + Content Knowledge Development*
Full-day sessions focus on the activities and the instruction support in each book. Introduction to activities focuses on the different activity structures in the resources, and their use in teacher-facilitated instruction, centers, tutoring, intervention, and special education classrooms. It will include adapting the activities for different student groups, and managing an active classroom.
Instruction support includes understanding the TEKS and development of the content knowledge necessary to teach them to their depth and complexity.
Audience: 2nd-5th grade math teachers and interventionists, special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
*books must be available for teachers to use during the learning lab
Full-day sessions focus on the activities and the instruction support in each book. Introduction to activities focuses on the different activity structures in the resources, and their use in teacher-facilitated instruction, centers, tutoring, intervention, and special education classrooms. It will include adapting the activities for different student groups, and managing an active classroom.
Instruction support includes understanding the TEKS and development of the content knowledge necessary to teach them to their depth and complexity.
Audience: 2nd-5th grade math teachers and interventionists, special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
*books must be available for teachers to use during the learning lab
Fostering Fraction Fluency
This full-day, active, hands-on session focuses on helping teachers eliminate Fracnophobia in the classroom! The course takes a close look at how fraction concepts develop from grade 2 through grade 4. Participants will learn the big ideas that students must know in order to deeply understand fractions. Join us as we explore and use a variety of concrete models that can be used to teach these essential understandings. This course is designed to help you boost your teacher content knowledge and to allow you to explore a wide variety of instructional strategies that you can use as classroom activities and/or intervention strategies. Participants will leave understanding how the fraction TEKS at their grade level build toward and impact future success. Circle models, pattern blocks, strip diagrams and Cuisenaire rods are among the many models we will explore.
Audience: 2nd-4th grade math teachers and interventionists, 2nd-5th grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
This full-day, active, hands-on session focuses on helping teachers eliminate Fracnophobia in the classroom! The course takes a close look at how fraction concepts develop from grade 2 through grade 4. Participants will learn the big ideas that students must know in order to deeply understand fractions. Join us as we explore and use a variety of concrete models that can be used to teach these essential understandings. This course is designed to help you boost your teacher content knowledge and to allow you to explore a wide variety of instructional strategies that you can use as classroom activities and/or intervention strategies. Participants will leave understanding how the fraction TEKS at their grade level build toward and impact future success. Circle models, pattern blocks, strip diagrams and Cuisenaire rods are among the many models we will explore.
Audience: 2nd-4th grade math teachers and interventionists, 2nd-5th grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
Problem Solving in the K-2 Classroom
This full-day, active, hands-on session focuses on focuses on the development of operation sense in the primary grades which is the foundation for problem solving. Come explore instructional strategies for problem solving experiences including story mats, concrete models, exemplar problems, and open tasks. Participants will be actively engaged in problem types and instructional strategies that will allow their students to develop the operation sense necessary for successful problem solving in the math classroom. Learn to help your K-2 students build the confidence necessary to tackle problem solving in Grade 3 and beyond!
Audience: K-2 math teachers and interventionists, K-3 grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
This full-day, active, hands-on session focuses on focuses on the development of operation sense in the primary grades which is the foundation for problem solving. Come explore instructional strategies for problem solving experiences including story mats, concrete models, exemplar problems, and open tasks. Participants will be actively engaged in problem types and instructional strategies that will allow their students to develop the operation sense necessary for successful problem solving in the math classroom. Learn to help your K-2 students build the confidence necessary to tackle problem solving in Grade 3 and beyond!
Audience: K-2 math teachers and interventionists, K-3 grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
Measurement
This full-day, active workshop focuses on the vertical alignment of measurement concepts to help teachers connect the models and learning from grade-to-grade. Teachers will leave with classroom activities that they can directly or adapt to their grade level.
This may be combined with a book walk should the district purchase Start Quick and Ramp It Up! Measurement books. Should the district combine this session with a book walk, books must be available for teachers to use during this session.
Audience: 3rd-5th grade math teachers and interventionists, 3rd-5th grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
This full-day, active workshop focuses on the vertical alignment of measurement concepts to help teachers connect the models and learning from grade-to-grade. Teachers will leave with classroom activities that they can directly or adapt to their grade level.
This may be combined with a book walk should the district purchase Start Quick and Ramp It Up! Measurement books. Should the district combine this session with a book walk, books must be available for teachers to use during this session.
Audience: 3rd-5th grade math teachers and interventionists, 3rd-5th grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders
Getting Started with Guided Math
This training is designed for teachers who have little or no experience with Guided Math. Join us as we explore this highly effective method of instruction that uses small groups to better meet the needs of all students. A guided math classroom includes purposeful independent workstations, paired with high quality small group instruction designed to get students thinking as deeply as possible. Join us for this beginner’s workshop where we will study the elements of quality guided math lessons and investigate the logistics of getting guided math started in your classroom.
Audience: K-2 math teachers and interventionists, K-2 grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders, bilingual/ELL teachers
This training is designed for teachers who have little or no experience with Guided Math. Join us as we explore this highly effective method of instruction that uses small groups to better meet the needs of all students. A guided math classroom includes purposeful independent workstations, paired with high quality small group instruction designed to get students thinking as deeply as possible. Join us for this beginner’s workshop where we will study the elements of quality guided math lessons and investigate the logistics of getting guided math started in your classroom.
Audience: K-2 math teachers and interventionists, K-2 grade special education math teachers, instructional coaches and other math instructional leaders, bilingual/ELL teachers
Math with Meaning: Kindergarten
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content at the Kindergarten level. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content at the Kindergarten level. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
- Beginning Number Concepts
- Hierarchical Inclusion – Setting the Foundation for the Number Line
- Comparative Language of More, Less, and Same
- Composing and decomposing numbers to 10
- Developing Operation Sense – Writing the Number Sentence
- Problem Types and Problem Solving
- The Graphing Continuum
Math with Meaning: Grade 1
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content in grade 1. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content in grade 1. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
- Beginning Number Concepts
- Developing Operation Sense through Problem Solving
- Problem Types for Grade 1
- Understanding the Number Line
- Foundations of Linear Measurement
- Introduction to Place Value
- Comparing and Ordering Numbers
- The Graphing Continuum
Math with Meaning: Grade 2
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content in grade 2. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
In this session, participants will explore the conceptual development of math content in grade 2. Teachers will think deeply about the math content they teach and explore meaningful ways to teach these concepts to young children.
Topics include:
- Conceptual Development of the Addition Algorithm
- Conceptual Development of the Subtraction Algorithm,
- Introduction to Multiplication and Division
- Conceptual Development of Fractional Parts
- The Graphing Continuum
