Ventura County Math Council 

Mini-Conferences

4:00 - 6:30 pm

Fall - October 17, 2024     Spring - March 20, 2025

Presentation Links From the Fall 2024 Mini-Conference

Link to Flyer

Link to Registration Page Coming Soon

2025 spring flyer - Cultivating Math Thinkers & Doers in Your Classroom.docx

2024 Spring Mini-Conference 

2023 Framework: The Why, the How, and the What

March 14, 2024


Presentation Links From the Spring 2024 Mini-Conference

Opening: Jeff Linder

K-1 Abbey Shaw-Linder / Rosslyn Nikula

2-3 Mary-Allyn Garcia, Tanya Gonzales Cruz, 

  Janet Lanning, Erika Henderson

2-3 Cori Orlando

4-5 Kelsey Bartlett

4-5 Rachel Sutherland

6-8 Rebecca Pariso

6-8 Fawn Nguyen

HS Fawn Nguyen

HS       Dan Shuster Resources

Presentation Links From the Fall 2023 Mini-Conference

Opening: 

K-1 Brooke Cloud and Stacy Allison TK-1st presentation- Let's Play with Numbers!

K-1 Ann-Marie Matter & Mary Beth Stovall What's So "Big" About Measurement

2-3 Eva Cherrie

2-3 Rickey Koga

4-5 Sonali Pillai

4-5 Matt Haber

6-8 Joe Stewart & Andrew Van Conas

6-8 Dr. Brennan Pope Adding Rigor to Lessons

HS Elizabeth Martinez & Meta Davidson Math In The Real World

Presentation Links From the Fall 2021 Mini-Conference

Opening: Vicki Vierra, VCOE: Opening Session: Welcome and Opening Activity - 4 Strikes You're Out!

K-1 Katherine Leppaluoto, Oxnard School District: Active Thinkers and Doers of Math

K-1 Abbey Shaw-Linder, Rio Schools:  Playing With Numbers - Activities to Build Number Sense and Logical Thinking in the Primary Classroom

2-3 Rossslyn Nikula, Ventura USD: A Number Routine a Day: Making the Mathematical Practices Come Alive in the Classroom

2-3 Amy Rosen, Las Virgenes USD: Math and Movement: Actively Engaging Mathematical Thinkers and Doers

4-5 Iris VanDyke, Las Virgenes USD: Integrate and Differentiate: Take Engagement from Good to Great!

4-5 Gina Young, Ventura USD, TOSA: Capturing Quantities, A Routine for Reasoning

6-8 Michael Hunt, Retired Oxnard School District, Math Education, CSUCI:      Mathematical Modeling and Wildfires

6-8 Rebecca Pariso, Hueneme Schools: Using Desmos for Low Floor, High Ceiling Tasks

HS Jim Short, VCOE: Engaging Students in Thinking About and Using Linear Functions 

HS Jim Short, VCOE: Engaging Students in Thinking About Using Quadratic Functions