Building Thinking Classrooms Conference 2026

Participants will leave this session confident in their ability to transform word problems into meaningful sense-making opportunities for all students. By experiencing and scripting a 3 Listens Launch, educators will learn how to adapt the familiar 3 Reads language routine to promote thinking, collaboration, and equitable access to any word problem. Through active participation—experiencing the routine as learners, analyzing its structure, and practicing with peers—participants will gain the tools to design and facilitate verbal launches that keep students from “number-plucking” and steer them instead to problem-solving as they surface key quantities and construct mathematical meaning in context.