Effective & Equitable Practices and Improving Mathematics Instruction

This program series will provide an opportunity for mathematics educators to learn or enhance their knowledge and skills in facilitating high-quality mathematics learning in an independent school setting. This series is open for educators across grades Pre-K to Grade 12. It is ideal for elementary classroom teachers, middle and upper school math teachers, math specialists and coaches, and other leaders of mathematics who are eager to collaborate and grow professionally. Throughout both sessions, educators will also explore how evidence demonstrates a shift in mathematics teaching practice and how educators can sustain this shift in teaching and learning. Educators will have the opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon shifts in their own teaching by modeling practice(s) and exhibiting evidence of the impacts on student learning.

Participants will:

• Investigate and engage in effective teaching practices in mathematics that ensure access to high-quality mathematics for all students.
• Learn how to use assessment to motivate and support students, and to make mathematics instruction more effective.
• Have opportunities to apply concepts and skills shared throughout the program, as well as the opportunity to receive feedback and support from the facilitators and fellow participants.

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Effective & Equitable Teaching Practices in Mathematics

What are the essential practices that invite all students into meaningful learning experiences in mathematics? In this two-day deep dive workshop, educators will learn and develop effective teaching practices in mathematics that ensure access to high-quality mathematics for all students. Educators will learn about teacher and student mindsets that develop cultures of mathematical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving. They will analyze their belief systems about learning mathematics and understand how their beliefs impact student learning. Educators will then learn how to implement rich mathematical tasks that promote inquiry and problem-solving, and how to build from deep conceptual understanding toward essential procedural fluency.

Improving Mathematics Instruction through Sound Assessment Practices

How can we ensure mathematical success for all students through the effective use of assessment for learning? In this one-day workshop, educators will learn how to use assessment to motivate and support students, and to make mathematics instruction more effective. Educators will develop strategies for assessing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and mathematical reasoning, while also using formative assessment as a means to improve learning for all students in mathematics.

AUDIENCE

This program is designed for elementary classroom teachers, middle and upper school math teachers, math specialists and coaches, and other leaders of mathematics who are eager to collaborate and grow professionally.

SESSION DATES

• SESSION 1: January 12, 2024 | 9:00am - 2:30pm | Pilgrim School

• SESSION 2: April 12, 2024 | 9:00am - 2:30pm | Pilgrim School

COVID-19 SAFETY PROTOCOLS

CATDC and Pilgrim School will be working together to do all we can to ensure your health and safety during our two in-person sessions, monitoring closely nationwide, state, and local updates and recommendations. We ask that you do not attend if you are infected with Covid, have Covid symptoms, or have had close contact with someone who is infected in the last 10 days.

Starting February 2023, we will no longer check vaccination status at the first session of our workshops, but we strongly encourage all CATDC participants to be fully vaccinated.

Given the nature of our in-person programs which gather individuals together from a variety of schools and regions, CATDC may also require or strongly recommend masking indoors and/or testing on a program-by-program basis. Any updated recommendations or requirements will be communicated to participants in a timely fashion prior to a program or session. All Covid-related refund requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Thank you for your understanding and your cooperation.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for. Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.

Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.

For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop.

You will receive a full refund if CATDC chooses to cancel this event.