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7:15am EDT

Breakfast - Day 2 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Cafeteria

8:00am EDT

Book Signing: Tom Nobili, Isobel Stevenson, & Andrew Volkert Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium Natural Habitats - BTC in the Science Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 BTC Beyond the Math Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 Like it, Love it, Gotta Have it: Set Your Sub Up For Success Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Coaching That Builds Thinking Classrooms: Using Thin-Sliced Tasks to Support Teacher Concept Development and Student Understanding Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Less Helping, More Thinking: Teacher Moves That Build Confident Problem Solvers Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast: Building Momentum towards Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 How to Build a Community of Mathematical Thinkers in the Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Seeing and Being Seen in Math Class Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 Leading Thinking Classrooms: Steps to rolling out BTC with teachers Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Creating the Conditions for Thinking Classrooms: A Cross-Department Leadership Journey from The Morgan School Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Roots Before Results: Cultivating the Conditions for Authentic Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Graphs of Rational Functions Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Investment Growth with Exponentials Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Stick the Landing: Consolidation, Guided Notes, and CYU That Drive Learning Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Subtraction is the Achilles Heel, But It Doesn't Have To Be Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 Empowering All Students Using Your Adopted Curriculum and Online Resources Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Using BTC in the AP Calculus Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 When Students Drive the Thinking: Figuring Out a Phenomenon Using BTC + NGSS Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 406 Experiences Before Explanations: Turning Science Lessons into Thinking and Writing Powerhouses Shubert Theatre - Cabaret Thinking Tasks for Little Learners: Building Mathematical Thinking in PK-2 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 202 Centering Teachers as Learners: Leveraging the BTC Framework for Effective Professional Development Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Counted Out Film & Discussion Shubert Theatre - Main Theater Building Thinking Classrooms Using Data Science Concepts: A Collaborative Approach to K–12 Education Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415 Integrating Basic Fact Fluency Practice in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 Teaching Precalculus Through the Toolkit Functions: A Thinking Classroom Approach Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 Think BTC isn’t sustainable in the classroom? Think again. How a geometry teacher taught all the state standards with BTC. Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404

9:15am EDT

Book Signing w/ Chase Orton Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium From Shakespeare to Genetics: BTC Across the Curriculum Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 Helping Families Understand BTC: From Deficit Protection to Asset Celebration Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 Lighting the Fuse: Coaching Approaches That Ignite BTC Momentum in Schools Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Okay, I Built the Thinking Classroom...Now What? Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 How We Lead for Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Igniting the Spark: A Differentiated Approach for Building BTC Momentum -- Returning from a summer institute with excitement is easy; sustaining that momentum in a busy district is hard. How do you move beyond the "one-and-done" workshop to create a... Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 Leading the Way: Fostering and Sustaining Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Get Your Think On: Exploring Tasks in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 Implementing a Thinking Classroom K-2 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Let's Have Some Fun! Blending BTC with IM Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 Lights, Camera, Action: Real Students, Real Thinking, Real Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Making Thinking Visible: The BTC Note-Making Routine Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Decoding Binary Code Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Pattern Inquiry Cubes Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Building Joyful Classroom: Implementing BTC in K-2 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Integrating Technology in a 6-12 Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Where Am I in My Learning?: Cultivating Student Responsibility Through Navigation Tools and Student-Led Data Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239

10:30am EDT

Book Signing w/ Maegan Giroux & Kim Rimbey Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium BTC Meets NGSS: Leveraging Practices to Promote Student Thinking Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404 Building a Social Studies Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Adapting Building Thinking Classrooms to a Block Schedule Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 202 How do I know what I know? Consolidating and Mapping Learning - Magma sponsor session Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Coaching for Thinking Classrooms: Scaling Success Across a District Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 New Light Through an Old Window: Looking at the Foundations of Teaching to Understand How to Build a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 BTC in Inclusion Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 Building Thinking Systems: Scaling BTC from One Classroom to District-Wide Momentum Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Lighting the Way: Growing Thinking Classrooms from a Single Spark to a Districtwide Movement Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Building a Thinking District: Structures and Supports for Sustainable Change Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 Reimagining Math Intervention Through Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Beyond Skip Counting: Developing Multiplicative Reasoning Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 238 Integrating BTC with District Requirements & Recommended Curriculums Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Z-Score Thin Slicing Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Square Pegs in Round Holes: 10 ways to make BTC get along with your curriculum resources...even Desmos! Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 Avoiding Implementation Burnout: How to Thrive as an Educator in the Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 Beyond Tasks: Making Self-Evaluation Work in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Revealing The Thinking K-5 Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415 Strengthening Collaboration and Perseverance with SEL Practices and Collaborative Rubrics Shubert Theatre - Cabaret Integrating Technology in a 6-12 Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 BTC & Learning Differences: Goes Together Like PB&J Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 406 Small Groups, Big Thinking: BTC in Intervention Settings Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301

11:55am EDT

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

1:00pm EDT

Book Signing w/ Georgina Rivera Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium Becoming the BTC Teacher You Want to Be Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Selling the Shift: Building Trust and Shared Purpose in a Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Small Practices, Seismic Shifts — Tiny Classroom Moves with Outsized Impact Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Bite-Sized BTC: A Tweak a Week Toolkit for Instructional Leaders and Coaches Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 Stand, Choose, Retain: Using Vertical Menus & Spaced Retrieval to Make Professional Learning Stick Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 328 Bridging the Gap: A Practical Continuum for Supporting Teacher Readiness for Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Building a Culture of Learning Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Seeing Kaden: The BTC Practices That Helped a Silent Thinker Find His Voice Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Evaluate What You Value: Building Competencies with Behavior Rubrics Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327 Problem Solving with Noyce Fellows: Carpet Squares Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Using Building Thinking Classrooms to Promote Communication, Collaboration & Thoughtful Reflection Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 Using Technology in the BTC Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 304 High Tech goes Low Tech: Pairing Amplify Desmos with Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Designing Spaces for Thinking: Transform Your Math Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 236 Formative Assessment: From Informing Teaching to Informing Learning Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 Micromoves, Major Thinking: Launching Engagement in the K-5 Thinking Classroom Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Building Community Through Student Voice and Joyful Discourse in Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Developing Number Sense in a Thinking Classroom Shubert Theatre - Cabaret Slice, Slice Baby: Grade 6-8 Thin Slicing Secrets Revealed Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 202 Counted Out Film & Discussion Shubert Theatre - Main Theater Leadership That Lifts Thinking: Coaching, Culture, and Conditions for Building Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404 MTSS CONNECTIONS: HIGH SCHOOL LITERACY INTERVENTION IN A BUILDING THINKING CLASSROOMS Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 415 The Power of BTC: How can BTC bring excitement to the least creative lessons in your curriculum? Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 405 Thriving Thinkers: Elevating Engagement and BTC Practices to Ignite Student Ownership Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 406

2:15pm EDT

Book Signing w/ Peter Liljedahl Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Gymnasium Rich Problems Deserve Deep Thinking: Innovamat + BTC Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 239 Small Practices, Seismic Shifts — Tiny Classroom Moves with Outsized Impact Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 206 Coaching That Builds Thinking Classrooms: Using Thin-Sliced Tasks to Support Teacher Concept Development and Student Understanding Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 240 MTSS in Elementary Mathematics: A Case Study Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Lecture Hall 111 Inspire & Engage: Building Better Classrooms Together Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 301 Setting the Conditions for Thinking Classrooms: The Work of School Leaders Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 330 Cultivating a District-Wide BTC Ecosystem through Collaboration and Culture Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 329 Leading for Thinking Classrooms: Creating the Conditions for Thinking to Flourish Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 302 BTC for ADHD: Building Thinking Classrooms for Students Like Me Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Ballet Studio 209 Demystifying BTC Style Assessment and Grading Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Auditorium 115 Happy Hacks for Math Class: Encouraging Mathematical Well-Being in Thinking Classrooms Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 326 Sticking to the Keys - Practices that Unlock Student Thinking Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 332 Thin-slicing Lab: Creating thinking sequences Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 Tips and Tricks to Enrich and BTC-ify Any Activity Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Black Box 118 Mapping Math Success: A Student-Centered Navigation Tool Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 327

3:30pm EDT

Conference Closing Keynote w/ Peter Liljedahl: Beyond Thinking: The Broader Impact of Building Thinking Classrooms Shubert Theatre - Main Theater