Building Thinking Classrooms Conference 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

Less Helping, More Thinking: Teacher Moves That Build Confident Problem Solvers

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239

How do we create mathematics classrooms where all students engage, persist, and see themselves as capable problem solvers? In this interactive session, participants will explore instructional practices that cultivate mathematical confidence by strengthening student agency, discourse, and perseverance.
Together, we will examine observable student behaviors that signal confidence, analyze teacher moves that either hinder or foster agency, and unpack classroom conditions that support student driven problem solving.
Participants will leave with practical strategies and actionable next steps for cultivating classrooms where students take risks, reason together, and confidently engage in meaningful mathematics.

Speakers

Stephanie Fitzpatrick

Director of Growth and Learning, HMH

I am dedicated to supporting teachers, coaches and leaders to achieve successful student outcomes.

Talk to me about:strengthening classroom practice improving student outcomes.building confidencerefining craftcreating systems that actually work in real classrooms.
My approach is grounded in practical strategies and a belief that growth happens through collaboration and reflection... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Coaching, Mild | Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-8, AGA, Teachers, Instructional coaches

8:00am EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Graphs of Rational Functions

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209

Join in on this engaging curricular thin-sliced task to explore key features of the graphs of rational functions. Best suited for Algebra II and Precalculus courses.

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Jenn Downes

Math Teacher, Manchester High School / Manchester, CT

Maureen Ringrose

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area algebra II & precalculus

8:00am EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Investment Growth with Exponentials

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206

Come problem solve and learn how to become a millionaire with this exploration into exponentials.

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Cleo Alberts

PhD Student, Curriculum and Instruction, Secondary Math Ed, University of Connecticut Neag School of Education

In-training mathematics teacher educator (Ph.D.) at the University of Connecticut for secondary mathematics. Program Manager for the UConn Noyce Math Teacher Leaders (MTL). Former mechanical engineer, as well as Hartford Public Schools and CTECS teacher in Connecticut. Happy to be... Read More →

Carson Dunn

Teacher of Mathematics, Hartford Public Schools

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

8:00am EDT

Stick the Landing: Consolidation, Guided Notes, and CYU That Drive Learning

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329

Participants will see the value in trying different BTC consolidation strategies and see what’s works for different classes and concepts. We want them to take away an example of a process to get the consolidation up and working and give time for them to plan and practice. Planning time is so valuable when trying something new.

Speakers

Dee Dee Dyer

Teacher, CIS303 Leadership and Community Service Academy

Damen Davis

Assistant Principal, CIS 303: The Leadership and Community Service Academy

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area Algebra; 6-8; Instructional Coaches

8:00am EDT

Subtraction is the Achilles Heel, But It Doesn't Have To Be

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238

Building Thinking Classrooms and other pedagogcal structures require teachers to be flexible in the moment responding to the thinking of their students, but in my experience as a consultant for 7 years, I have found teachers' own conceptual understanding of subtraction is limited to the traditional US algorithm. I am hoping to either begin or to deepen participants' ownership of various flexible strategies and also various models that can be used to make this thinking visible. In this way, teachers can be sure to be providing access to each and every student to use strategies that make sense to them and for the numbers they are asked to calculate with. After this session, participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the operation of subtraction, how these strategies can be applied to all sets of numbers, models that can help these strategies visible, as well activities and routines they can incorporate in their classrooms to develop these understandings by their students.

Speakers

Ann Elise Record

Founder, Lead Consultant, Ann Elise Record Consulting LLC

Ann Elise Record is a national consultant, speaker, and author who is passionate about building positive math identities and agencies of each and every student by providing experiences for students to engage in rich math discourse, connect multimodal representations of thinking, and... Read More →

Subtraction is the Achilles Heel Resources 2026 docx

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:55am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; Instructional Coaches

8:00am EDT

Building Thinking Classrooms Using Data Science Concepts: A Collaborative Approach to K–12 Education

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415

Participants will leave the session with practical strategies to integrate data science into K–12 classrooms using Building Thinking Classrooms practices. They will understand how Building Thinking Classrooms practices and a data mindset work together to foster critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving. Attendees will gain other ways to incorporate Toolkit #1 and #2 in their classroom.

Speakers

Andy Boyd

WA Math Regional Coordinator, North Central Education Service District

Andy Boyd, PhD
Sci/Math Specialist | North Central ESD 171
Regional Math Coordinator
phone: 509-665 - 2646
email:
address: 430 Olds Station Road, Wenatchee WA 98801
Kindness Counts NCW

... Read More →

Cari Haug

Regional Science Coordinator, North Central ESD 171

Cari Haug has served as the Regional Science Coordinator at North Central Educational Service District for over six years providing professional learning to educators regionally, state and nationwide, on science instruction. Supporting science education is important to Cari because... Read More →

New Haven BTC Using Data Science Concepts pdf

NCESD New Haven BTC Card Sort pdf

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; 6-8; Algebra; Geometry; Trigonometry; Statistics; Calculus; Instructional Coaches; Building Leaders; Central Office Leaders

8:00am EDT

Integrating Basic Fact Fluency Practice in a Thinking Classroom

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405

Participants will understand how students can work on building basic fact fluency using some of the practices from Building Thinking Classrooms (VNPS, visible random groups, teacher as the facilitator, and defronting the classroom).Participants will see how the integration of developing fact fluency can be a simple addition to any math block.Participants will understand that rich authentic tasks can even include a simple game played with a deck of cards.Participants will understand how vertical surfaces provide opportunities for student discourse and how this discourse is integral to building fact fluency.Participants will have the opportunity to engage in rich mathematical discourse using student work (they will play the role of the students) on VNPS as the mentor text for explicit teaching.

Speakers

Courtney Flessner

Director, Keep Indiana Learning - CIESC

Courtney is currently the Director at Keep Indiana Learning, the professional learning department of the CIESC in Indianapolis, IN. Prior to joining KINL in 2021, Courtney spent 17 years working in traditional public, private, and public charter schools in Indiana, New York City... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; Instructional Coaches; Building Leaders

8:00am EDT

Teaching Precalculus Through the Toolkit Functions: A Thinking Classroom Approach

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330

This session offers a clear, adaptable framework for teaching precalculus through the 11 toolkit functions in ways that feel coherent, student-centered, and aligned with Building Thinking Classrooms practices. Rather than memorizing isolated transformation rules, participants explore how the toolkit functions can anchor a semester-long arc that helps students recognize structure, connect function families, and link graphing to solving equations. Through thin-sliced tasks, vertical non-permanent surface work, and purposeful gallery walks, we build from parent functions to layered transformations and increasingly complex equations. Participants gain ready-to-use tasks, questioning strategies, and consolidation routines that elevate thinking, collaboration, and joy in the precalculus classroom.

Speakers

Laurie Allen

Mathematics Department Chair, Western Reserve Academy

Hi there! I love math and absolutely cherish the journey of teaching high schoolers how to think mathematically. As a presenter this year, I’m always eager to swap classroom stories and strategies. Off duty, you’ll find me outdoors—hiking, traveling, or hunting down the best... Read More →

Brad Justice

Mathematics Faculty, Western Reserve Academy

Tuesday June 30, 2026 8:00am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area Algebra; Calculus; Trigonometry

9:15am EDT

Get Your Think On: Exploring Tasks in a Thinking Classroom

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327

Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how different types of mathematical tasks can be used to promote thinking, reasoning, and collaboration in a Building Thinking Classroom. Together, we will explore the characteristics of rich, non-routine tasks. Educators will experience several task types firsthand and reflect on how each can be used to engage diverse learners in meaningful mathematics.

Speakers

Emily Myers

Senior Math Specialist, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Dr. Emily Myers is the Senior Mathematics Specialist at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), where she leads professional learning experiences designed to strengthen mathematics teaching and learning across the state. With a deep passion for mathematics... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area 3-5; 6-8; Algebra; Instructional Coaches; Building Leaders; Central Office Leaders

9:15am EDT

Implementing a Thinking Classroom K-2

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329

Teachers will learn how to transform their K-2 math class into a thinking classroom. Teachers will walk away with tasks, tips, and practical steps to get started with their own thinking classroom. Based on Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms and research.

Speakers

Amanda Jagentenfl

Owner/Math Specialist, Mathematical Minds LLC

I have a passion for teaching mathematics so ALL children understand. I work closely with teachers, coaching them on best practices, and helping them to discover their strengths in teaching mathematics. I am a NH Certified K-6 Math Specialist, OGAP Additive Facilitator, owner of Mathematical... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2

9:15am EDT

Let's Have Some Fun! Blending BTC with IM

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240

If you were like me, one day you were told, “We are going with a new resource. “ This session will help alleviate some of that stress. Together we will see how seamless BTC blends with Illustrative Mathematics and enhances engagement. From card sorts to cool downs, we will use banner problems and gallery walks to make our way through a sample IM day.

Speakers

Jared Kubanoff

4th Grade Math/Science, Colonial SD

Jared began his teaching career in Madrid, Spain, and returned to the U.S. to spend 10 years with Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia. For the past seven years, he has taught in the Colonial School District. Over the course of his career, he’s primarily taught 2nd and 4th grades... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area 46086

9:15am EDT

Lights, Camera, Action: Real Students, Real Thinking, Real Classrooms

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111

Go behind the scenes to explore what a Building Thinking Classroom looks and sounds like in action. In this session, participants will view and analyze multiple video clips from real elementary classrooms implementing Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms framework. Together, we’ll unpack the intentional structures, routines, and teacher moves that promote student thinking, collaboration, and engagement. Whether you’re new to BTC or a seasoned practitioner, you’ll leave with fresh insights, practical strategies, and inspiration to strengthen a culture of thinking in every math lesson.

Speakers

Ashley Smith

1st Grade Teacher, Pleasant Knoll Elementary School/Fort Mill School District

Tammy McMorrow

teacher, Cynthia Mann Elementary, Boise School District

Tammy McMorrow has been teaching first grade for 32 years in Kuna, Idaho. In 2022 she began building a thinking classroom inspired by the work of Peter Liljedahl and was quickly won over by its magic and messiness. Determined to start a movement, she created a Facebook page for K-2... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; Instructional Coaches

9:15am EDT

Making Thinking Visible: The BTC Note-Making Routine

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118

I hope participants leave feeling confident that they can facilitate an intentional, student-centered note-making process in their own classrooms, using flexible, “in the moment” structures and concrete routines to support students from initial board work to meaningful notes.

Speakers

Angie Schuck

Math Teacher, Huntsville High School

I am in my 12th year of teaching - 6 years in CA, and now in Arkansas. I discovered BTC during Covid and it was just what I needed as we transitioned back to "normal" school. I have been incorporating BTC into my classroom for the past 4 years and still have a lot to learn, but I... Read More →

Note Making Not Note Taking 2026 pdf

Notes Template BTC pdf

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area Algebra; Geometry; Instructional Coaches

9:15am EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Decoding Binary Code

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209

Experience a thin-sliced binary code task perfect for kicking off the school year (Grades 5–12). Connect students to the math of AI coding while opening a powerful conversation about why we use symbols to communicate efficiently.

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Marta Soto-Johnson

Math Teacher, Meriden Public Schools/Noyce

Cleo Alberts

PhD Student, Curriculum and Instruction, Secondary Math Ed, University of Connecticut Neag School of Education

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area 5-12

9:15am EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Pattern Inquiry Cubes

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206

Join this problem solving session that promotes pattern recognition and spatial reasoning, and is a great task for establishing classroom discussion norms and a positive math mindset. This task applies to grades 6 –12, but can readily be adapted to others. Accessible to all teachers!

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Shane Donahue

Mathematics Teacher, Putnam Public Schools

Jessica Jane

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

10:30am EDT

Beyond Skip Counting: Developing Multiplicative Reasoning

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238

Too often when students are unable to retrieve a multiplication fact from memory, they resort to skip counting to figure it out rather than thinking multiplicatively about relationships to other nearby facts or to breaking apart the factors in flexible ways that are more efficient to them. Participants will learn about the learning trajectory from counting strategies to additive strategy of skip counting to deriving basic facts using multiplicative reasoning. Further, participants will walk away with routines and games that can be implemented within a BTC classroom that help facilitate this fact fluency journey for each and every student.

Speakers

Ann Elise Record

Founder, Lead Consultant, Ann Elise Record Consulting LLC

Additive to Multiplicative Resources 2026 docx

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area 46086

10:30am EDT

Integrating BTC with District Requirements & Recommended Curriculums

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304

It is my hope that participants understand that just because their district says they have to teach a certain curriculum and they may even say they have to teach a certain component a certain way, that doesn’t mean there isn’t wiggle room to be able to allow some discourse and student engagement, if not in math, then in some other subject. They wouldn’t be at the conference if they weren’t looking for that way in.

Speakers

Kristen Kuri

4th/5th Grade Split, Clover Park School District

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; 6-8

10:30am EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Z-Score Thin Slicing

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206

isit this problem solving activity to experience a fun deep dive into Z-Scores and the Empirical Rule. Best suited for statistics courses.

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Courtney Sobanski

Mathematics Teacher/ Secondary Curriculum Leader, Thompson Public Schools

Shawn McClory

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area Statistics

10:30am EDT

Square Pegs in Round Holes: 10 ways to make BTC get along with your curriculum resources...even Desmos!

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240

Participants will take away creative strategies for getting students on their feet and thinking while using district perscribed resources. Strategies for adapting Amplify Desmos Math and other resources.

Speakers

Beth D'Angelo

Teacher, Plymouth Canton Community Schools

Tuesday June 30, 2026 10:30am - 11:25am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area 6-8; Instructional Coaches

1:00pm EDT

Evaluate What You Value: Building Competencies with Behavior Rubrics

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327

Are your students struggling to collaborate, persevere, or stay engaged during Building Thinking Classrooms tasks? This hands-on workshop offers simple, practical solutions — including a ready-to-use tool you can bring into your classroom tomorrow.
By the end of this session, participants will:

Recognize the alignment between valued competencies and BTC structures
Reflect on their own classroom practices and identify opportunities to "evaluate what they value"
Understand how to co-create a rubric with students and leave with concrete ideas for implementing the K-5 behavior rubrics

Speakers

Jessica Curtis

Numeracy Coach, Milford CT Public

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5; Instructional Coaches; Building Leaders

1:00pm EDT

Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Carpet Squares

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209

Join in a fun problem solving session that leads into perfect squares, square roots and irrational numbers. Well suited for grades 7 - 9. Accessible to all teachers.

Step into a lively problem-solving space where conference attendees can collaborate on engaging math tasks facilitated by experienced Noyce Math Teacher Leader Fellows. Participants will tackle rich problems, and experience the creativity, challenge, and joy that come from doing mathematics together. This session will be interactive with room for Q & A.

Speakers

Jennifer Roggi

8th Grade Mathematics Teacher, NOYCE Fellow, Vernon Public Schools/NOYCE

Kelsey Onofrio

8th Grade Math Teacher, NOYCE/Manchester Public Schools

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area 7-9

1:00pm EDT

Using Building Thinking Classrooms to Promote Communication, Collaboration & Thoughtful Reflection

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302

In this session we will explore how evaluating what you value along with the use of random groups and vertical non-permanent surfaces (VNPSs) helps to promote communication, collaboration and thoughtful reflection. Following a shared experience where participants will participate in a lesson that follows the tenets of Building Thinking Classrooms we will make a meaningful note to help consolidate our learning and explore some of the research outlining why random groups are so effective and delve into the positive impact this work has on a student’s math identity, self-efficacy and status. My goals for participants are:Participants will understand the importance of evaluating what they value and the importance of using random groups to promote communication and collaboration in their classrooms. Participants will understand the impact random groups have on students’ math identity, self-efficacy and status.

Speakers

Mike DiCicco

Math Consultant & Instructional Coach, Mansfield Public Schools

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area 3-5; 6-8; Central Office Leaders; Building Leaders

1:00pm EDT

Using Technology in the BTC Classroom

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304

Using technology in the BTC classroom is a challenge for teachers. How do you have students work at VNPSs and at the same time, use technology to improve understanding. This session will demonstrate how to incorporate using technology such as graphing calculators, Desmos, and coding in the BTC classroom.

Speakers

John Failor

Math Teacher, Traverse City Central High School

BTC Technology Presentation BTC 2026 Failor pdf

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area Algebra; Trigonometry; Calculus

1:00pm EDT

The Power of BTC: How can BTC bring excitement to the least creative lessons in your curriculum?

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 3:10pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405

When I talk about BTC or facilitate workshops, I often begin by engaging teachers in rich, low-floor, high ceiling tasks. As with students, beginning this way is incredibly powerful. However, in my opinion, the real power of BTC in the classroom is the way it transforms repetitive and mundane tasks. Too often, I have seen teachers lean towards only using BTC with rich tasks. I hope that participants will walk away from my session with the confidence to use BTC to enrich even the most procedural, repetitive parts of their curricula.

Speakers

Rachel Woolley

Math Coach, NYC DOE

Tuesday June 30, 2026 1:00pm - 3:10pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area K-2; 3-5

2:15pm EDT

Demystifying BTC Style Assessment and Grading

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115

BTC style assessment and grading is the fourteenth and final BTC practice. It is one that many teachers find implementation to be difficult, confusing, or overwhelming. As I am in my fourth full year of implementing BTC style grading as outlined in chapter 14, I will discuss how, when, and where I collect grading data and how I implemented it in my school’s Learning Management System, which is designed more for traditional style grading. I hope that by demystifying BTC style grading, participants will leave with a better understanding of ways to gather BTC grade data and develop a sense of how this can work in practice.

Speakers

Donald Newman

Middle School Math Teacher; 8th Grade Dean, The Boys' Latin School of Maryland

I teach algebra at an all boys K-12 college prep school in Baltimore, Maryland. I've been teaching with BTC for five year, and I'm one of the admins of the Building Thinking Classrooms Facebook group.

BTCC Presentation 6 30 26 pptx

Unit 7 Rubric standards definitions pdf

Student Self Assessment Rubric Unit 7 pdf

Unit 7 Grading Rubric pdf

Quiz on 7 4, 7 5, and 7 6 pdf

Algebra 1 Quiz Retake Form pdf

Gradebook screenshot jpg

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching

Grade Level or Subject Area 6-8; Algebra; Geometry; Trigonometry; Statistics; Calculus; Instructional Coaches

2:15pm EDT

Happy Hacks for Math Class: Encouraging Mathematical Well-Being in Thinking Classrooms

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326

We hope that through this session, participants will learn ways to foster mathematical well-being in thinking classrooms. We will share simple interventions, which we call “happyhacks”, that teachers can easily integrate into their classroom to promote students’ well-beingin math. We will engage our participants in these happy hacks and also share research from a5th and 6th grade classroom showing the effects of the interventions on student well-being.

Speakers

Mindy Green

Teacher, Revere School

Erin Rich

Clinical assistant professor, Indiana University

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area 3-5; 6-8; Instructional Coaches

2:15pm EDT

Sticking to the Keys - Practices that Unlock Student Thinking

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332

Conference participants will leave with: a. A clear understanding of the key moves in designing and facilitating a BTC lesson.b. Practical strategies for effective monitoring and questioning that deepen thinking.c. A framework for structuring consolidation that honors student voice and amplifies learning.d. Renewed confidence to lead students toward independence and intellectual risk-taking.

Speakers

Brendan Scribner

Math Consultant, Scrib Mather, LLC.

With over 30 years in math education, I am passionate about designing meaningful professional learning that empowers educators to help students think critically, reason deeply, and communicate with confidence. I bring the practices of Building Thinking Classrooms into every space... Read More →

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area 3-5; 6-8; Instructional Coaches; Building Leaders; Central Office Leaders

2:15pm EDT

Thin-slicing Lab: Creating thinking sequences

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303

Participants will get an overview of creating thin-sliced sequences, see some examples of how making small changes can help students grasp key concepts, particularly when going from different levels (Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3) questions. Finally, participants will applying these concepts by developing or refine thin-slicing sequences of their choosing. Participants are encouraged to bring their own example problems for which they would like to develop or improve thin-sliced sequences.

Speakers

Nathan Woodward

Secondary Math Teacher, Katherine Johnson Middle School / San Juan Unified School District

BTC Practitioner for 5 years. Talk to me about how to Thin-Slice anything. [email protected] Find me on the Btc Facebook group!

ThinSlicingLab pptx

Tuesday June 30, 2026 2:15pm - 3:10pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

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Grade Level or Subject Area Algebra; 6-8; Geometry

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