2019 CPM Teacher Conference

Of the eight NCTM Principles to Action Practices, why is the first one, Identifying the Mathematical Goal, the most important? Having a clear understanding of the mathematical goal of a lesson is essential for planning around any of the other seven practices. Want to improve Purposeful Questioning? What is the Mathematical Goal? Want to help students with Productive Struggle? What is the Mathematical Goal? Gain a deeper understanding of CPM storylines and how to use them from one of the writers.

Are you frustrated with off-task behavior? Not sure how to stop a child from dominating the team? Do you want to get better at measuring which students "got it"? Having trouble getting lessons wrapped up? Then this session is for you! We will model Study Team & Teaching Strategies to decide how they can help you solve these problems. Leave feeling confident on how to use these effective strategies, to increase mathematical discourse, and build individual accountability in your classroom.

Would you like to see your students engaging in a balanced approach of Mathematics? Imagine strengthening their conceptual and computational fluency simultaneously. Cognitively Guided Mathematics (CGI) starts with what children already know about math and build on it to move them toward deeper levels of understanding. Children will solve the problems in ways that make sense to them. During problem solving, multiple student strategies are shared and featured. CGI in CPM reinforces students' capacities to problem solve by giving them the opportunities to think in creative ways and actively form strategies using what they know, instead of passively receiving information. In CGI, the teacher's role dramatically shifts from teacher to facilitator. Engaging in CPM through elements of CGI can create the same shift.
Teachers will experience how to incorporate CGI in CPM. We will look at different components of a CGI model such as balanced mathematics for fluency, honoring student strategies, number choice in problems, anticipate student strategies, and some number talks to strengthen conceptual understanding. During our time together, participants will actively engage in all of these models through problem-solving using the CPM curriculum. It's our hope that teachers walk away with routines and structures that they can begin implementing in their CPM classroom. 

Detracking our classrooms is often a hot button issue in our schools, and met with resistance by many parents. In this session, we will discuss how you can successfully create a CPM classroom that allows for successful integration of all levels of students, and the data to back up the claim.

This session is repeated on Saturday at 10:05.  The old school way of reviewing before a test needs to be thrown out the window! Get the kids up and moving. Get them talking about what they've learned. Why not let them strut their stuff a little. We will share several of our ideas of some successful chapter closure techniques we have used and open it up for attendees to share some of theirs as well. Using these tools can be so much fun that your students will forget they are studying!

In this session, participants will create a QR code cube, explore Screencastify and Flippity (both are free Google chrome extensions) and Seesaw. Each technology idea encourages student collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. Student samples will be available to look at.  Bring a computer to get the most out of this session.