Workshops For Teachers

A myopic focus on teaching algorithms or a step-by-step, procedural fluency approach to solving mathematical problems is insufficient to transfer the most valuable approach to teaching mathematics to mastery: conceptual understanding. This workshop will build teacher capacity to link concepts to be assessed to engaging, meaningful, real-world mathematical tasks.

The demands of the Common Core Standards require that students have the ability to engage in careful, sustained interpretation of a variety of texts. This workshop will build teacher capacity to model for students the process of reading with a greater emphasis on the particular over the general with strategic attention to individual words, syntax, and […]

Textbooks and curriculum guides are not a substitute for long term instructional planning and beginning with the end in mind (backward mapping). Individual teachers and teams of teachers need a succinct roadmap to effectively plan the scope & sequence of instruction, choose appropriate strategies; and identify “best-fit” materials of instruction. This workshop will equip teachers and […]