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7:15am EDT

Breakfast - Day 1 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Cafeteria Registration Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Main Entrance

8:15am EDT

Conference Opening Keynote w/ Rydell Harrison Shubert Theatre - Main Theater

9:35am EDT

Magma & BTC: Replaying Student Work to Reveal Brilliance and Struggle Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Strengthening Growth Through Coaching Conversations Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Courageous Conversations in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 The Magic Before the Math: Building Thinking Classroom Culture Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Math Teacher Leadership w/ Peter & the Noyce Fellows! Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 The integral role school and district leaders play in shifting instruction to Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Building Better Behaviors: Conversation and Collaboration on Classroom Management Strategies Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Picture this: Launching Math and Literacy Tasks with Picture Books Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 BTC in Motion: Designing a Classroom That Thinks Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 Navigating Student Data with Ease Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Math Vocabulary in BTC: Experience First, Formalize Later Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 The 'A-ha!' Huddle: Where Thinking Classrooms Meet Small Groups Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Begin with Behavior: You Don't Have Time NOT to Build It Shubert Theatre - Cabaret Beyond Math: BTC Structures for ELA and Other Content Areas Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 202 Rewriting Math Stories: Engaging Families in the Work of Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Building a Culture of Flexibility, Grit, and Belief Through Rich Problem Solving and Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 406 Thinking Classrooms in Action: Engage, Analyze, and Strengthen a Five-Part Workshop Series Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Counted Out Film & Discussion Shubert Theatre - Main Theater Building Translanguaging Classrooms: 14-ish Practices for Enhancing Languaging in Mathematics Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415 Techniques for Thin-Slicing Building Thinking Classroom Tasks Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 The Proof Is in the Practice: Geometry as the Ultimate Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 BTC-ing is Believing: How Peer Observation Deepens Thinking Classroom Practice Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404 Landing the Plane: Consolidating a BTC Lesson by Centering the Discussion of Student Work Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 Integrating Technology in a 6-12 Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111

10:50am EDT

Thinking Beyond the Subject Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Coaching into the Closing: Assisting Teachers with Making the Learning Stick for All Learners Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Leveraging Building Thinking Classrooms to Coach for Instructional Change Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Building and Maintaining A Classroom Community To Promote Student Agency Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 Creating Access to Rigorous Mathematics for Emerging Multilingual Learners Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Cultivating the Conditions: Leadership for Sustainable Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Designing a Schoolwide BTC Approach: Tasks, Tools, and Teacher Support Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Achievement First Hiring Workshop: Resume, Interviews, and Beyond Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 Consolidating Thick Slices: Making Rich Problems Stick Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 Crafting Consolidation and Closure in a Secondary Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Curricular Thin Slice on Pythagorean Theorem Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Thin slice on permutations for secondary Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Building Independence through BTC Structures for ALL students Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Book Signing w/ Peter Liljedahl Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium

11:50am EDT

Lunch - Day 1 Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale - Ballroom 2nd Floor

1:20pm EDT

Who Is a Math Person? Enriching Building Thinking Classrooms Through Shifting Student Narratives, Ownership, and Empowerment Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 Book Signing w/ Kyle Webb Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium Getting Messy with Subtraction: Making Connections Across Representations in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Grading for Growth: How we Grade in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Equitable Engagement: How BTC strengthens learning in the IB MYP Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 From Thinking to Learning: Consolidation in the Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Probability with the Last Banana Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Traffic Jam Curricular-Supporting Task Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Ready, Set, Launch! Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 Metacognition, Identity, and Reflection in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 The Goldilocks Zone of Teaching: 'Just Right' Direct Instruction in BTC Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Centering Student Voice Through Self-Correction Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 Thinking Bigger: Building a Statewide Teacher Support Network Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Creating Manipulative Based Thinking Tasks in the Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 The Cross-Curricular Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404 Catalyzing Thinking and Equity through Justice-Centered Phenomena and Partnerships Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 Before Studenting: Building Thinking Classrooms with Our Youngest Learners Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 From Observation to Partnership: Supporting BTC Teachers Through Student-Centered Coaching Shubert Theatre - Cabaret Your First Day of BTC—Even if It’s the Middle of the Year Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 202 Counted Out Film & Discussion Shubert Theatre - Main Theater Building the Thinking Not Just the Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Small Tasks, Big Thinking: Exploring Thin Slicing in a Building Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 406 Inventing Arithmetic: Re-Engagement, Reasoning, and Confidence Through BTC Tasks Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415

2:35pm EDT

Book Signing w/ Rydell Harrison & Isobel Stevenson Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium The Nonsense of Numbers Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Equity in Action: Layering Building Thinking Classrooms for Diverse Learners Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Redefining Student Status in the Mathematics Classroom through a BTC Lens Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Building Collaborative Learning Communities Across Grades and Content Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 From One Classroom to Many: Supporting Teachers with Systems for Sustainable BTC Growth Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Teachers Leading the Work: A Districtwide Approach to Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 BTC for Multilingual Learners: Increase Access, Preserve Rigor Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Breaking Barriers at the Board: Adapting Curriculum for Inclusive Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Making IM Work in a Thinking Classroom: Using Illustrative Mathematics Through the BTC Lens Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 My Math, My Story: Amplifying Confidence, Identity, and Belonging in the Elementary Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Curricular Thinking Task using Volume Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Multiplying like Rabbits Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Using BTC when Students have Unfinished Learning: Situating Mathematics in Contexts Worth Exploring Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Revealing The Thinking 6-12 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 3 Listens: Revisioning the Three Reads Routine for Word Problems Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Homework vs. Check-Your-Understanding Questions: Why Students Do One and Avoid the Other Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115

3:55pm EDT

Panel Discussion: BTC as an Inclusionary Practice Shubert Theatre - Main Theater