2nd-8th

John SanGiovanni, Keynote Speaker

A.1: Fluency Isn’t 40 Problems

We once believed that fluency comes about through 40 problems on a piece of paper. Today, we know that fluency is realized through understanding and high-quality, highly engaging practice that features each component of fluency. This session unpacks what that practice looks like and helps participants think about how they can get the most out of practice. A collection of classroom-ready games, routines, and other resources will be provided.

🏫 Room 100: Theater

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K-2nd

Kimberly Meininger, The School District of Clayton, Math Specialist - UMSL,  Adjunct Instructor

A.2: Hands-On Mathematics: Enhancing Understanding through Manipulatives 

Manipulatives!  We know they are an important hands-on way to help students progress from the concrete level to the abstract level of mathematical ideas.  Manipulatives also help students represent math in ways that make concepts more meaningful. Come learn ways to use various math tools to enhance your math lessons.  During this session, we will play and take time to plan for your future students!

🏫 Room 710

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Kdg-2nd

Abby Smith, State Math Consultant,  EdPlus/St. Louis RPDC

A.3: K-2 Number Sense Routines

Number sense routines provide easy and powerful opportunities for students to build classroom community, increase thinking & engagement, and develop an understanding of how numbers work!  Come and experience first-hand a variety of number sense routines that you can use with your mathematicians tomorrow!

🏫 Room 701

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1st-5th

Katherine Schack, K-12 Math Content Leader, Wentzville School District

A.4: Teaching Through Problems: Utilizing  A Building Thinking Classrooms Approach in 1st-5th

Building Thinking Classrooms introduces teachers to how to create a learning environment that promotes thinking collectively, learning together, and constructing knowledge and understanding through activities and discussion. Building Thinking Classrooms encourages teachers to provide a learning environment that promotes risk-taking and utilizes rich math tasks that encourages deep mathematical discourse and engages students in deep thinking. A thinking student is an engaged student.

🏫 Room 709

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3rd-8th

Alexandra Scott-Wright, 5/6 Looping Math Teacher, Maplewood Richmond Heights Elementary

A.5: The Art of Questioning 

Who should be asking more questions, the teacher or the students? This session will discuss the types of questions your students are asking, and teach you how to leverage questioning to increase students ability to critically think and problem solve. 

🏫 Room 702

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6th-12th 

Stacey Maddeaux, State Math Consultant, Agency for Teaching Leading and Learning (SW RPDC); Rhonda Hittenberger Ortiz, Migrant and English Learner Instructional Specialist for Southwest Missouri

A.6: Talking and Doing Math with Multi-Language Learners

Unlock the potential of your multi-language learners. Learn strategies to engage learners and overcome language barriers in the math classroom.

🏫 Room 708

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6th-12th

Emily Pettersen, 7th Grade Teacher, Rockwood Valley Middle School

A.7: Implementing Building Thinking Classrooms in Middle School Math Classes

Practical advice on implementing Building Thinking Classrooms in a middle school math class, including ideas for room arrangement, collaborative groups, vertical work surfaces, questioning, tasks, and more. Presenter will share experiences and challenges from initial year of diving into Building Thinking Classrooms with her classes, and ideas for where to go from there!

🏫 Room 703

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6th-12th

Caity Larson, Desmos Coach, Desmos Classroom @ Amplify

A.8: Using Desmos to Increase Student Talk

Come explore different instructional strategies and routines to get students thinking and talking about math inside Desmos! As we experience Desmos Activities through the lens of a student, we will learn how to intentionally critique, correct, and clarify our math understanding, make connections through telling a story, and share thinking through notice and wonder in order to foster a classroom culture of mathematical conversations.

🏫 Room 707

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Kdg-12th

Carmen Stayton, Math314, Institute for School Partnership

A.9: The Five Equity-Based Mathematics Teaching Practices: Leveraging Multiple Mathematical Practices

This session introduces one of the five equity practices introduced in Aguirreʼs book, “The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics Learning and Teaching.”  Participants will engage in practices and tools that can be used to leverage what students current strengths are to increase their learning. 

🏫 Room 704

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Kdg-8th

John SanGiovanni, Keynote Speaker

B.1: Making Problem Solving Routine

Teaching problem solving is hard. It is about helping students learn to make sense, think, and reason. Simply, problem solving is not a procedure. Problem solving is not delivered it is developed. And in this session, participants learn how to do just that through engaging daily problem-solving routines. Classroom-ready resources will be shared.

🏫 Room Room 100: Theater

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PreK-2nd

Denise Bigham, Elementary Math Instructional Coach (K-2), Rockwood School District

Stephanie Reeder, Elementary Math Instructional Coach (K-2), Rockwood School District

B.2: Early Numeracy for Early Childhood 

During this interactive presentation we will dive deeper into the progression of early numeracy and how to support students along the way. You will leave with engaging activities to develop true understanding of numbers and quantity within 20. 

🏫 Room 710

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PreK-8th

Gretchen Guitard, Hand2Mind Consultant

B.3: Developing Number Sense through Daily Math Fluency Strategies

The recent news of the NAEP Math scores increases our focus on students' mathematical understanding by reimagining early detection and intervention. Join us as we explore hands-on math experiences so that students can gain a better understanding and find success. Specific hands-on strategies through the use of daily math fluency instruction will be provided. This presentation will be an interactive opportunity for participants to learn more about ways to implement math fluency into their daily instruction.

🏫 Room 701

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Kdg-5th

Susan Bergman, Math Curriculum Coordinator, Webster Groves School District

B.4: Fun with Facts

Learn fun ways to practice facts! Put away the flashcards and online fact practice. Kids will beg you to practice their facts with these fun activities! Participants will learn a simple card trick that will reinforce combinations of 10, fun partner games that can be used to practice either addition and subtraction or multiplication and division, and an individual game to practice single and multi-digit addition.

🏫 Room: Library

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3rd-5th

Erin Hausmann, Math Instructional Coach, Rockwood School District

Hannah Tucker, Math Instructional Coach, Rockwood School District

B.5: Teaching Math Through Read Alouds

Have you ever wondered how to approach an upcoming unit using a context that students will enjoy and understand? Come to our session to learn about using picture books to help teach a mathematical concept in a fun and engaging way. You will leave this session with ideas to implement into your classroom right away. 

🏫 Room 708

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6th-8th

Rebecca VanSant, 6th grade teacher, Fort Zumwalt West Middle School

B.6: Creating a Culture of Collaboration in a Problem Based Classroom

Love the idea of problem-based instruction yet struggle getting students to talk about math productively? This session will explore some intentional moves we can make as teachers to create a classroom culture that invites students to explore mathematical ideas, value mistakes as part of the learning process, and persevere through challenging problems. 

🏫 Room 702

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6th-12th

Katherine Schack, K-12 Math Content Leader, Wentzville School District

B.7: Teaching Through Problems: Utilizing A Building Thinking Classrooms Approach in 6-12

Building Thinking Classrooms introduces teachers to how to create a learning environment that promotes thinking collectively, learning together, and constructing knowledge and understanding through activities and discussion. Building Thinking Classrooms encourages teachers to provide a learning environment that promotes risk-taking and utilizes rich math tasks that encourages deep mathematical discourse and engages students in deep thinking. A thinking student is an engaged student.

🏫 Room 709

💻 SHARED NOTES

6th-12th

Caity Larson, Desmos Coach, , Desmos Classroom @ Amplify

B.8: Using Feedback to Move Student Thinking Forward With Desmos

Feedback is critical for learning, but not all feedback is created equal. Evaluative feedback—simply telling a student they are right or wrong—can be frustrating and unproductive. In this session, we’ll consider alternative forms of feedback that will move student thinking forward with Desmos Activities.

🏫 Room 707

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9th-12th

Michael Dougan, State Math Consultant, South Central Regional Professional Development Center

B.9: Mathematical Discourse - Secondary Mathematics

This session will introduce the Number Talk routine as a way to facilitate mathematical discourse at the secondary level, leading to students reasoning through and communicating about different strategies to solve problems. If you're looking for ways to provide students opportunities to communicate their thinking and building multiple pathways to solve problems, Number Talks is an exceptional tool. 

🏫 Room 703

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Kdg-5th, 6th-8th Interventions

John SanGiovanni

C.1: Foundations for Fluency

Fluency is built on a foundation of understanding and skill within a range of concepts. This session unpacks those essentials helping participants recognize how they build toward greater fluency. It is perfect for the primary teacher or anyone designing interventions for students in later grades. A collection of classroom resources will be provided. 

🏫 Room 100: Theater

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PreK-Kdg

Corrie Hamilton, Early Childhood Special Education Itinerant Teacher, Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center

C.2: The Mud Kitchen: Using a Mutli-Disciplinary, Project Based Learning  Approach to Outdoor Education

After the session, participants will be motivated to brainstorm research questions to help guide project based learning both in their classrooms and in the school-wide environment.  This will help the audience target research questions in order to observe how students interact with materials, how to link the learning across different subject areas, and how to guide the student’s learning and research to a year end culminating project.  This session will offer collaboration tips in order to use cross-curricular decision making between a host of different teachers.  Lastly, the attendees will be able to see how to decipher where math learning is taking place in the play in order to use it as a guiding force to improve student learning through project based learning experiences.  All this while linking student’s culture with their learning styles across varying subject areas. 

🏫 Room 702

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PreK-5th

Taylor Pierce, 5th Grade Teacher, Affton School District

C.3: Number Talks and Number Strings

Number talks and number strings are quick and easy classroom routines that build a foundational understanding of arithmetic. Join this session to learn about each activity and plan how to implement them in your own classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to play with numbers at each grade level PreK to 5th grade.

*Based on Sherry Parrish & Catherine Fosnot’s work*

🏫 Room 703

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PreK-5th

Denise Bigham, Erin Hausmann, Stephanie Reeder, Hannah Tucker; Rockwood Elementary Math Instructional Coaches

C.4: Choral Counting and Counting Collections

In this session teachers will learn about routines that help students engage with numbers and operations and mathematical sense-making in meaningful ways through counting. Based on the Stenhouse book, Choral Counting and Counting Collections. 

🏫 Room 710

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3rd-5th

Abby Smith, State Math Consultant,  EdPlus/St. Louis RPDC

C.5: 3-5 Number Sense Routines

Number sense routines provide easy and powerful opportunities for students to build classroom community, increase thinking & engagement, and develop an understanding of how numbers work!  Come and experience first-hand a variety of number sense routines that you can use with your mathematicians tomorrow!

🏫 Room 701

💻 SHARED NOTES

6th-12th

Stephanie Valli, 6th-8th STEM Coordinator, Parkway School District

C.6 Assessment in Math - Secondary

In this session, we will dive into Procedural, Conceptual, and Application math understanding. We will focus on Conceptual assessment and understanding and support teachers with building more balanced assessments.

🏫 Room 709

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