Building Thinking Classrooms Conference 2026: Full Schedule

1:20pm EDT

Metacognition, Identity, and Reflection in a Thinking Classroom

Monday June 29, 2026 1:20pm - 2:15pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303

Participants will walk away with practical, ready-to-implement routines that help students reflect on their mathematical identity and thinking throughout the year. They will learn how structures like “Math History Timelines,”by MidSchoolMath’s Gladys Grahm, student self-assessment, reflection sprints after BTC tasks, and 1:1 learning conversations can deepen student ownership and strengthen the final BTC practices around responsibility, perseverance, and “Where to next?”Teachers will leave with concrete examples, templates, and prompts they can use immediately to help students notice their growth, name their strategies, and understand themselves better as mathematical thinkers. The session emphasizes identity and agency first, with data and assessment serving as one optional lens for reflection.

Speakers

Kristy McElravy

Teacher/Math 8, Cascade Middle School/Bethel School District

Dan Hedberg

Director of Secondary Education, Bethel School District

Sharyn Gray

Handout Metacognition, Identity and Reflection in a Thinking Classroom pdf

Monday June 29, 2026 1:20pm - 2:15pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Teaching; Coaching, Mild

Grade Level or Subject Area 46181

1:20pm EDT

The Cross-Curricular Thinking Classroom

Monday June 29, 2026 1:20pm - 3:30pm EDT

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404

Key Takeaways: You will learn how to:Use BTC's Toolkits to create a climate of intellectual challenge for any subject.Integrate data analysis (scatter plots, functions) to build compelling inquiries in history and science classrooms.Implement non-math "thinking tasks" that require visible, peer-to-peer knowledge mobility.Design assessment and reflection tools (Meaningful Notes, Navigation Instruments) that synthesize learning across disciplines.

Speakers

Kari Baransky

Grade 8 Math Teacher, NOYCE Fellow, Meriden, NOYCE

I am a grade 8 math teacher at the middle school level in Meriden, CT. I have been in the education field for over twenty years. I have had the pleasure of teaching elementary school and middle school. I have taught grades 2, 6, 7, and 8. I am the Math Subject Area Specialist at my... Read More →

Amy Bishop

Teacher/SAS, Meriden Public Schools

Monday June 29, 2026 1:20pm - 3:30pm EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 404 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

BTC outside of math, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area 46181

9:15am EDT

Okay, I Built the Thinking Classroom...Now What?

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

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303

During the session, participants will engage in a sixth-grade ratios and proportions thin slicing task. They will begin by huddling up to recall how to find equivalent fractions and apply this to solving ratio and proportions problems using different representations. Facilitators will assign participants to random groups of three at whiteboards. Following problem solving, attendees will return to their seats to consolidate the lesson using pre-selected problems. Participants will head back to whiteboards to create notes to their future selves using a graphic organizer, then return to their seats one more time to tackle mild, medium, and spicy check your understanding problems. Finally, participants will use the Tuning Protocol to ask clarifying questions and give warm and cool feedback.

Speakers

Katherine Becraft

Middle School Math Academic Specialist, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Mary Rathlev

Middle School Math Academic Specialist, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Session 2 Now What pptx

Tuesday June 30, 2026 9:15am - 10:10am EDT
Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School - Room 303 177 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Coaching; Teaching, Medium

Grade Level or Subject Area 46181

1:20pm EDT

1:20pm EDT

9:15am EDT

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