Session I: Regular Sessions
10:15-11:15

Session Number
Audience
Title
Room Number
1
General Interest
Build More Resilient Kids by Implementing Growth Mindset
3109
2
General Interest
CoveRing the bAses: CRA Using Base Ten Blocks -
Part 1
3140
3
General Interest
Communicating Understanding in Math
3145
4
PreK-5
Manipulatives as a Tool for Differentiation
3116
5
PreK-5
Rethinking the School-Home Connection
2181
6
PreK-5
Solving Rigorous Math Tasks Using a Team-Based Approach
3146
7
PreK-8
Making Math Matter: Using activities to humanize mathematics for all students
3106
8
PreK-8
Strengths-Based Teaching Turnarounds: Discover and Leverage Your Students Strengths through Instructional Design
3110
9
6-8
Fostering Curiosity about Volume Formulas
2172
10
3-5
Multiplying Fractions is More than Just a Rule!
2182
11
6-12, Leaders
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About! - Building Mathematical Language and Understanding Through Discussions
3118
12
6-12
Math Talks in the Secondary Classroom
2179
13
6-12
Building Activities in Desmos Activity Builder, Part I
2180
14
6-12
Creating Activities and Polygraphs in Desmos
2186
15
6-12
OMG! ON for some MATH GROWTH
3119
16
6-12
Where’s the Financial Risk?
3121
17
6-12, Exhibitor Showcase
College Preparatory Mathematics
3156
18
9-12
Integration: More than area under a curve
3139
19
9-12
Writing to encourage learning in Mathematics
3138
20
9-12
Taxicab Geometry: Playing in a Mathematical City
3134
21
9-12
Math Soup
3133
22
9-12
Logarithms: We Can Do Better!
3120
23
Leaders
What makes math coaching successful? Tales from a research study on MQI Coaching
3127

Session I Descriptions

1
Build More Resilient Kids by Implementing Growth Mindset
General
Do your students give up too easily? Are they afraid to approach a challenge because they're worried they might not “look smart”? Hear how Growth Mindset has transformed one school into a place where “pedestal kids” have become “gritty kids.”
Mark Minkus
Community Day School 
Room 3109

2
CoveRing the bAses: CRA Using Base Ten Blocks - Part 1
General Interest
The base ten block is the most unappreciated manipulative that we all have.  Join in this session to "play" with blocks to develop early estimation, addition, subtraction strategies.  Learn new ways for using "snap" cubes to develop understanding and ways to move into using these gems to breathe new life into your math class and students' understanding through the CRA approach.
Ryan Amore
Charles County Public Schools
Room 3140

3
Communicating Understanding in Math
General Interest
This workshop will encourage student voice to deepen their mathematical understanding through exploration. Teachers will learn instructional & technology integration strategies to improve student critical thinking, writing, and communicating mathematical concepts to increase understanding and long term retention. 
Chris McCaffrey
Wilson School District
Room 3145

4
Manipulatives as a Tool for Differentiation
PreK- 5
Come explore how to use virtual manipulatives to help differentiate instruction in your class.  Strategies will be shared to help students with disabilities and students working at different levels.
Kevin Dykema
Mattawan Consolidated Schools
Room 3116

5
Rethinking the School-Home Connection
PreK-5
Tips for creating and fostering a positive school-home connection concerning elementary math education.  The session will address navigating around guardian math anxiety, strategies that don't always align with classroom instruction and how to build support and parent capacity for helping students at home.  Alternatives to traditional homework structures will also be shared.      
J. Megan Maletto
Charles County Public Schools
Room 2181

6
Solving Rigorous Math Tasks Using a Team-Based Approach 
PreK-5
This session will help teachers choose rigorous tasks for all learners using a team-based structure. We will show the elements of a rigorous task and how to create a team structure using roles in order to engage students for a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts.
Casey Ament
Megan Dooley
Charles County Public Schools
Room 3146

7
Making Math Matter: Using activities to humanize mathematics for all students.
PreK- 8
In this session, participants will learn about innovative ways to engage all learners of mathematics through creating and administering interest surveys, matching curriculum to community, and giving students the tools to create success criteria for their individual learning style.
Taniesha Goulbourne
Julie Rankin
Charles County Public Schools
Room 3106

8
Strengths-Based Teaching Turnarounds: Discover and Leverage Your Students Strengths through Instructional Design
PreK-8
We have been traditionally taught to identify and remediate students' mathematical misconceptions and weaknesses. This session is about reframing students' mathematical learning opportunities by identifying students' strengths to develop powerful and strategic learning opportunities that capitalize on those strengths to build mathematical success.
Beth Kobett
Stevenson University
Room 3110

9
Fostering Curiosity about Volume Formulas
6-8
In this session we will share several ideas for fostering student curiosity about the formulas for volume of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres. We will focus on the derivation of the formulas and connections amongst them. 
Christy Graybeal
Victoria Green
Hood College
Room 2172

10
Multiplying Fractions is More than Just a Rule! 
3-5
Multiplying fractions needs to be taught conceptually not through a rule. Participants will compare mathematical representations vs strategies when multiplying fractions and apply both using manipulatives and visual models. Participants will have an opportunity to  connect what they have learned and apply it to high quality tasks in context.
Kelly Healey
Denise Bogart
Howard County Public School System
Room 2182

11
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About! - Building Mathematical Language and Understanding Through Discussions
6-12, leaders
Develop mathematical language routines through class discussions that help students build precision in developing and communicating ideas.  Explore the use of Discussion Supports, Take Turns, and Critique, Correct, Clarify, and consider how you can use these strategies regularly in your math classroom.
AnnMarie Varlotta
Greta Richard
Howard County Public School System
Room 3118

12
Math Talks in the Secondary Classroom
6-12
In this session, you will learn the what, how, and why of math talks.  We will share resources to get you started using math talks in your classroom and explore discourse in the secondary classroom.
Salli Waraksa
Laura Potter
Baltimore County Public Schools
Room 2179

13
Building Activities in Desmos Activity Builder, Part I
6-12
Participants will develop comfort with the platform. They will determine how to utilize Desmos Activities in their classrooms, features of the calculator, and how to use the Calculator as an effective teaching tool in their classrooms.
Brett Parker
Chris Wright
Baltimore County Public Schools
Room 2180

14
Creating Activities and Polygraphs in Desmos
6-12
Participants will learn how to create activities, polygraphs and card sorts in Desmos. Activities can be used to teach conceptually while polygraphs and card sorts can be used as assessment. Participants will need to bring their own laptop or tablet.
Todd Moyer
Towson University
Room 2186

15
OMG! ON for some MATH GROWTH
6-12
It is high time that we increase student scores and boost their confidence to aim for success.This session will offer some meaningful activities for our Math learners  using a mixture of traditional and technology-related resources. Now is the time for students to fully contribute and be highly accountable for their own learning.
Janice Magauay
Charles Carroll Middle School
Mbulwa Musyoki
Prince George's County Public Schools
Room 3119

16
Where’s the Financial Risk? Breaking the Consistently Inconsistent Informational Cycle as it pertains to Risk Management and Insurance Standards within Financial Literacy Curricula.
6-12
If financial risk is an important aptitude to understand, then why aren’t risk management standards within financial literacy curricula specifically focused on this competency? This session intends to help evolve, advance, and understand this question through new research and discussion.
Michael Ladick
Allegheny County Public Schools 
Room 3121

17
College Preparatory Mathematics
6-12, Exhibitor Showcase
The purpose of this session is to expose you to a mathematics curriculum that will engage your students in collaborative learning, problem-based learning, and mixed spaced practice.  
JC Lewis
Timothy Scripko
CPM Educational Program
Room 3156

18
Integration: More than area under a curve
9-12
Participants will experience a Calculus lesson that introduces integration without the typical focus on area under the curve.  The activity will help high school teachers see how topics they teach, such as constant rate of change, are leveraged in Calculus.
Kristin Frank
Rachael Talbert
Towson University
Room 3139

19
Writing to encourage learning in Mathematics
9-12
Session will provide strategies and activities to use writing in Mathematics to provide equity and rigor for all students.  Writing creates a safe space for students to think and process the topic at their level.
Crystal Green
Sarah Roden
Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Room 3138

20
Taxicab Geometry: Playing in a Mathematical City
9-12
In this interactive session, we will explore and play in a non-Euclidean geometric system called Taxicab Geometry.  We will investigate familiar ideas like lines and circles in an unfamiliar way to experience novel geometry while attending to structure.
Sandy Spitzer
Michelle Tarr
Alyssa Eller 
Kourtney Harrison
Towson University, Howard County Public School System
Room 3134

21
Math Soup
9-12
A technique for explaining concepts of common multiples and factors is developed making use of analogies to logic questions facing a chef who is wondering what ingredients need to be bought. 
Robert Koca
CCBC
Room 3133

22
Logarithms: We Can Do Better!
9-12
Ever wonder why students have such an aversion to logarithms?  Students can estimate the square root of 7, yet ask them to estimate log base 2 of 7 and they are stumped! Participants will discuss the root causes behind why the traditional instruction on logarithms fails our students.  Walk away with a better approach to instruction that begins with number sense and number talks. Then use that foundation to foster student discovery and understanding of the properties, graphs, and solving with logarithms. Additionally, embedded in the lessons are instructional and language routines to reinforce the teaching and student math practices.   
Meredith Adams
Howard County Public School System
Room 3120

23
What makes math coaching successful? Tales from a research study on MQI Coaching
Leaders
The Mathematical Quality of Instruction rubric (MQI) grew from a research instrument to a tool for improving instruction. In this session, participants experience elements of the MQI Coaching model and hear research findings from a randomized trial of the intervention.
Jackie Kearney
Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
Room 3127