Proposal Submission

Call for Proposal:

Active Sessions

Each active session facilitator will have 25 or 55 minutes to run their activity and answer questions. We envision that sessions at this conference will engage participants to actively work together on a mathematical idea, task or problem, or with a teaching related task. We invite contributions that align with any of the pillars of inquiry-oriented teaching such as the ones below:

• Different models of active learning (e.g. team based learning, problem based learning, POGIL).

Different models for student buy-in and engagement.

• Assessment (e.g. specifications grading, ungrading,...).

• Equity.

• Other ideas or findings you would like to engage with the community.

We particularly encourage sessions that align with the conference theme "Making equity practical in the mathematics classroom". This may include a number of subthemes such as:

• using data and models to teach social justice in the mathematics classroom.

• sharing your equity minded toolkit for the mathematics classroom.

If you have a great topic, but could use some help making your session active, please feel free to reach out to any member of the conference planning committee.

Failure Stories

Participants will share a brief vignette of a memorable personal experience that describes a teaching or professional failure and how they have grown from it. Potential ideas include course planning & assessment, student buy-in, faculty buy-in, productive discourse, learning

 from a rejected paper, working through a challenging moment with a colleague, etc. Your story can include (surprisingly) successful teaching-with-inquiry moments, or messy / challenging moments. You can prepare a story to share or you can add your story spontaneously

 if you feel inspired to do so.

Networking Activity

We all have needs to advance our personal and professional development. With that, we don’t always know that there are helpful resources right in our network. In an effort to support one another and elevate the professional strength of the NE-COMMIT community

 as a whole, conference participants will have an opportunity to share with the group a professional need or opportunity. Needs are open and can vary: collaborators for a publication, speaking opportunities, teaching observers to write a letter of recommendation, tenure evaluators, etc. This is a chance to see if there is someone who can support your professional development. As each of us advances, the group advances.

Please submit your proposal by September 10th EXTENDED.