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Keynote Presentation Susan May, UT Dana Center Building Thinking Classrooms In this session, participants will make connections between principles from Building Thinking Classrooms and design elements of Agile Mind. We will look at ways to use resources within Agile Mind to build engagement and student thinking. Choice Session MTP 1 & 7: Establish Math Goals to Support Struggling Students Educators engage in a rich task and analyze responses to student struggle when implementing this task while considering the connection between these two Math Teaching Practices. Educators then reflect on how they utilize goals and objectives to support their students and choose a lesson or task from their course to apply these Math Teaching Practices.
In this session, participants experience the 5 Practices and collaborate with colleagues to consider how to leverage the five practices when facilitating learning tasks in an Agile Mind lesson.
Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) and the related mindsets and skills are foundational to their engagement, motivation, and sense of belonging in school. In this session, educators explore SEAD competencies in the mathematics classroom and discuss practical strategies for applying them in daily learning experiences. Fostering a growth mindset, and using proven strategies and metacognitive routines to manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in problem solving are key areas of focus.
Equitable access to high-quality instructional resources helps educators create rich learning environments for all students. In this interactive session, participants consider the humanizing pedagogical framework that drives the development of Agile Mind programs and explore strategies and routines to be responsive to all students' unique experiences and communities. The session combines key ideas from culturally responsive instruction and related resources in Agile Mind programs to support effective teaching and help participants engage all their students in rigorous mathematics learning.
Keynote Presentation Sherri Jones, UT Dana Center Agile Mind's approach to assessment In this session, we will discuss how to leverage Agile Mind for diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. We will also investigate practice opportunities in Agile Mind.
Choice Session MTP 3 & 6: From Multiple Representations to Procedural Fluency Explore how the Concrete, Representational, Abstract model in Agile Mind develops conceptual understanding in support of procedural fluency. Educators also examine example progressions from their course.
Educators consider the intersection of these two Math Teacher Practices as they engage in a lesson study with a focus on questioning and discourse. Educators examine dialogues for patterns of questioning and discuss impacts of questioning on equitable participation by students.
