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Classroom Strategies

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Explore classroom guidance, techniques, and activities to help you meet the needs of ALL students.

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Shaking Up High School Math

Executive Functions and Literacy Skills in the Classroom

Connecting and Communicating With Families to Help Break Down Barriers to Learning

Tools and Resources

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Discover new tools and materials to integrate into you instruction.

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Culture, Community, and Collaboration

Vertical Progression of Math Strategies – Building Teacher Understanding

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

Materials Adaptation

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Find instructions and recommendations on how to adapt your existing materials to better align to college- and career-ready standards.

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Helping Our Students See Themselves and the World Through the Books They Read in Our Classrooms

Textbooks: Who Needs Them?

Standards-Alignment Information

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Learn what it means for instructional materials and assessment to be aligned to college- and career-ready standards.

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Let’s Not Make Power ELA/Literacy Standards and Talk About Why We Didn’t

What to Consider if You’re Adopting a New ELA/Literacy Curriculum

Not Your Mom’s Professional Development

Research and Reflections

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Delve into new research and perspectives on instructional materials and practice.

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Summer Reading Club 2023

Synergy between College and Career Readiness Standards-Aligned Instruction and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Children Should be Seen AND Heard

Achieve The Core

Shaking Up High School Math

The XQ Math Badging Initiative

09/21/23, Shelbi Cole, Ph.D

Part 9

Culture, Community, and Collaboration

How discovering student assets helped me create a culture of community and collaboration

08/16/23, Ariel McDaniel

5 Strategies to Create Spaces that Spark Interest and Investment

08/14/23, Rachel Fuhrman

Part 7

“Can I have this? Can I have that?”

What happens when students are able to request any tools they might want to help solve a problem?

07/26/23, Jana Bryant

Part 6

How Can We Uncover and Leverage What Students Do Know Rather Than What They Don’t Yet Know?

07/19/23, Rachel Erickson

Part 5

Classroom Structures and Math Milestones™

07/07/23, Katiria Caceres

Part 4

Using Math Milestones™ Tasks in a Vertical PLC

06/28/23, Dr. Beth Joswick

Part 3

Using a Task as a Pre-Assessment

06/21/23, Josh Deis

Part 2

Unexpected Assets: Beyond the “Right” Answer

Highlighting the Standards for Mathematical Practice in Math Milestones™ Tasks

06/15/23, Megan Smith

Part 1

Using Math Milestones to Activate Student Agency

01/06/23, Josh Deis

Small-Group Work: Real-World Roles

Structuring small-group work in the math classroom to facilitate learning and engagement

05/03/22, Lane Walker

Learning From Mistakes: Easier Said Than Done

How can you turn mistake-making into mistake-learning in your classroom?

02/04/22, Zak Cohen

Sparking Engagement: Getting Silly to Find Joy

Creative ideas for building classroom community

12/12/21, Dr. Megan Olivia Hall

Debunking the Myth of the “Math Person”

What messages are we sending students?

11/19/21, Jessica Lauer Tilli

Lesson Plans Should Be Seasonal

Varied learning activities can highlight diverse student strengths

11/02/21, Dr. Megan Olivia Hall

Culturally Responsive Literature in Mathematics

Providing windows & mirrors beyond the literacy classroom

10/12/21, Jessica Lauer Tilli

Part 6

Tackling Slope

Digging into 8th-grade standards 8.EE.B.5 and 8.EE.B.6

07/30/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

Part 5

Solving Multi-Step Equations

Digging into 8th-grade standards 8.EE.C.7 and 8.EE.C.8

07/16/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

The Power of Students’ Self-Perception

Countering stereotypes and promoting positive math self-identities

07/08/21, Alicia Tackitt

Part 3

Amplifying Student Brilliance in Mathematics Is Critical

How to see more than one ray of mathematical sunshine

07/06/21, Leah Baron

Part 4

Problem Solving With Rational Numbers

Digging into 7th-grade standard 7.NS.A.3

07/02/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

Part 3

Contextualizing Properties of Operations

Digging into 7th-grade standard 7.EE.A.1

06/18/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

Part 2

Bridging the Gaps in Middle School Math

Digging into 6th-grade standard 6.NS.A.1

05/28/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

Part 2

The False Construct of Readiness in Mathematics

A New Lens on an Existing Problem

05/21/21, Ashley Powell, Kristin Gray

Part 1

A Process to Address Unfinished Learning in Middle School Math

Using the "Understand-Diagnose-Take Action" model to address unfinished learning related to 6.NS.C.7.a

04/23/21, Chrissy Allison, Becca Varon

Should We Reconsider Personalized Learning?

3 Reasons to Rethink Your Approach

03/05/21, Chrissy Allison

Solutions to Unfinished Learning in Math Must Go Beyond Academics

How to support students in the math classroom

02/19/21, Chrissy Allison

Part 3

Re-Humanizing Assessment through Building Internal Capacity

The What: Knowledge and Beliefs

02/05/21, Jody Guarino, Jiwon Lee, Michelle Sperling, John Drake, Shelly Mymon, Christina Selstad

What Happens When You Focus on What Kids Know and Can Do?

How to help your students access grade-level math

01/29/21, Chrissy Allison

Part 2

Why Re-Humanize Assessment?

Social-emotional well-being in the math classroom

01/15/21, Jody Guarino, Shelly Mymon, Christina Selstad, Michelle Sperling, John Drake

Part 1

What We Pay Attention to Matters

Humanizing math assessment

01/08/21, Jody Guarino, Shelly Mymon, Christina Selstad, Michelle Sperling, John Drake