5:15- 6:15 PM

How Sexism and Racism can Creep into the Normalized Habits of Schooling

In this session, we will watch and discuss a portion of a talk given by Deborah Lowenberg Ball showing how minute-by-minute decisions we make as teachers can help elevate students as mathematical thinkers, or, conversely, perpetuate sexism and racism without realizing it.

PreK-12 teachers, all subjects

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Strengthening Mathematics Through Connections to Literature

Lisa Stonefoot, Erie 2 BOCES

lstonefoot@e2ccb.org

Students relate to stories and characters. This session will show you some connections of mathematics to literature. We will look at ways to promote the mathematics naturally through stories, have students find mathematics in the stories that they love, and allow students to see themselves in literature and math.

Elementary Educators

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Level the Math, Level the Playing Field

Learn to easily differentiate the math problems you give. In this session you will learn to quickly and easily take a math prompt and "level" it to meet your students where they are in their conceptual understanding. We will begin with an open task and then use PLDs (performance level descriptors) to move students forward through concreate, to pictorial, to abstract thinking. Meeting students where they are at in their understanding will make grade level standards accessible for all students. (This session is best for teachers of grades 3rd-12th. Special education teachers too!) Maximum number of participants is 50.

Teachers, grades 3-12

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