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Synchronous Stratagies for the "New Normal" - Zahir I. Latheef

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Connecting with students is one of the most rewarding aspects of a professor's job. Some faculty hesitate to teach online, frequently offering the rationale: "I want to with my students. There's just not enough interaction and engagement online!" Faculty are not alone in yearning for this connection - students want it too!

Frustrated by the lack of real-time exchanges with students, I incorporated live or synchronous sessions into my online classes a few years ago. I experimented with the latest tools and made adjustments each semester based on feedback from students. To my surprise, students consistently requested more synchronous engagement. After doing so, I gained a new appreciation for the potential of creating meaningful connection virtually.

When many universities rushed to provide remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I leaned on my synchronous experience to train faculty on the pedagogical potential of platforms like Zoom. Training amidst this crisis gave me insights on what instructors new to synchronous teaching struggled with the most. In this article, I share these insights and provide four strategies for optimizing the student experience in synchronous sessions.
#1. Plan and Organize Thoughtfully
Organization and course design are especially important in online environments. In designing your synchronous sessions, think through the pedagogical value of each component, placing your students' learning and experience at the heart of your plan.

Part of being student-centered is recognizing their limited attention spans and planning accordingly. Gavett (2014) notes that many employees spend their virtual meetings doing other work, cooking, eating, or Amazon shopping. Online students are now multitasking more than ever, balancing the extra demands on their time. Running long sessions, especially past 60-90 minutes, increases the likelihood of competing distractions. Carefully review your game plan before each session and create a minute-by-minute schedule. Sharing an outline at the start helps students follow along and you can save valuable time by opening all files you will need ahead of time.

Being efficient requires the instructor to recognize asynchronous portions as complements to live engagement. Ask yourself, "Can I accomplish the same goal asynchronously?" For example, student introductions can be time-consuming in a larger synchronous class. Instead, have students use a Discussion Board or a video-based platform such as FlipGrid. For largely one-way communication, record a video and ask students to watch it before/after class.
#2. Clarify Purpose, Norms, and Expectations
While synchronous sessions may be new to some instructors, oftentimes students are also unfamiliar with this format. Even if they participated in synchronous sessions before, those experiences may vary greatly. Laying the foundations of why and how you conduct your class helps set expectations, creating a shared class culture where students take more responsibility for their participation.

Record a video before your first live session explaining the purpose ("How will these sessions contribute to student learning and growth"), any equipment they will need (e.g., camera/mic), and your expectations of engagement. Clarify aspects such as, "Are these sessions required or optional? How does this fit into my grade? Is there an asynchronous alternative if I cannot join?"

Establishing an expectation of cameras turned on can greatly enrich the experience for students and instructor. For students, cameras create a focused learning environment with less distraction - one much better than "dialing-in from the road." Video also helps the instructor know when students are lost, bored, or at least that they're still present!

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah reminds Comedian Jon Stewart on looking into the camera when speaking.

Instructors should model for students an effective virtual presence. Ensure the lighting in your environment allows students to see you clearly. Stay in the center of the frame and look into the camera when speaking (Don't worry, even Comedian Jon Stewart had to be reminded by The Daily Show host Trevor Noah on how to do this correctly).

Consider investing in an HD webcam, headset, or an external mic (e.g., Blue Yeti). While these may seem like luxuries, being able to see and hear the instructor well greatly enhances the student experience.
#3. Build Community through Faculty-Student and Student-Student Interaction
Social check-ins create community. If I only turn on my camera and audio right at the start of class, that would be similar to walking in the door of my in-person class right at the scheduled start time and going straight into teaching. Whether in-person or online, those precious minutes before and after class are critical for answering questions and connecting with students. Login several minutes before class and greet students as they come in. Consider starting with fun virtual exercises.

Synchronous technologies have evolved considerably from text-based chat rooms common in the 90's. In Zoom, breakout rooms can be used to create student-student interaction for think-pair-share or team-based exercises. Just make sure directions are extra clear before you send them to their virtual rooms and post in your Learning Management System (LMS) beforehand any worksheets or instructions they will need. Zoom even allows you to float the room, checking-in on groups as they work. Students are often most surprised by breakout rooms - they never expected live interaction with their peers in online learning!

#4. Use Technology but Be Careful of Going Overboard

Today's platforms are equipped with so many engagement tools it can feel overwhelming, even for students. I suggest starting with polling as a relatively easy to use option, especially since instructors may already use them in the classroom. Polling can be an effective way to engage students with practice exam questions, ice breakers, or general pulse checks ("Rate your understanding of this concept"). Build polling into your game plan as warm-ups or transitions between activities. Polling can also be used to create student-centered discussion similar to the use of Clickers.

Accessibility is often a challenge in online courses. Thankfully, a number of tools have made accessibility easier. When using cloud recording, Zoom auto-captions the session enabling students to watch a closed-captioned recording after class. If using GoogleSlides, students can see live captioning during class.

In sum, when it comes to technology, take a gradual approach. Sometimes, when faculty learn about all the tools available, in our zeal to create the best possible experience for students, we run the risk of trying to do too much. Avoid jumping headfirst into the bells and whistles, giving yourself time to grow incrementally. As you gain more experience, you'll learn which tools best fit with your teaching style and pedagogical strategy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has many of us teaching in unfamiliar situations. Perhaps a silver lining has been the widespread practice of synchronous instruction, a potential remedy for the connection students and faculty often miss in traditional online classes. The exponential growth of synchronous sessions will likely shape a "new normal" for online learning, long after the pandemic has passed.
Zahir I. Latheef is an assistant professor of management at the University of Houston-Downtown teaching courses on leadership, teams, and nonprofits. Once a skeptic of online learning, Zahir is now an OLC Advanced Certified Instructor and regularly provides training and coaching for faculty on synchronous instruction. References
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Each webinar will be presented at 7 p.m. Eastern time on 100 selected days between April 1 and October 15.

After carefully considering the health and safety of participants and the uncertain future of events with large gatherings the NCTM Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to postpone the NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition in St. Louis from October 21-24, 2020 to April 21-24, 2021.

To continue the celebration of NCTM's Centennial year and to support the math education community, we will be announcing a new, separate special virtual learning opportunity to be presented this fall.

The Zoom rooms used for the sessions are limited to 1000 participants. In the event that we reach capacity and you are unable to enter the session, you can watch the session on Facebook Live or view the recording on www.nctm.org/100. The recording will be posted the day after the live event.

Resiliency, Creativity, and Adaptations: Telling our Stories

April 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Robert Q. Berry III

Webinar description: The current context has demonstrated the importance of building resilience in a rapidly changing landscape. While many of us face challenges, such as quickly adapting the ways we teach, adapting work responsibilities with family responsibilities, and adapting approaches to engage in self-care and connecting to others. We are incredibly resilient, and the current context reminds us that we are preparing learners for an unpredictable world requiring informed decision making, creative problem solving, and adaptability. This webinar focuses on stories of resiliency, creativity, and adaptations.

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Suggested Publications:
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Elementary Mathematics

Using Math to Make Sense of Our World: Pandemics, Viruses, and Our Actions

April 2, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: David Barnes, Beth Kobett, Jeff Shih, Sarah Bush, and Dan Teague

Webinar description: Our world has changed with the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19 and mathematics provides a tool to better understand what is happening, why we are acting differently, and how to use mathematics and statistics to consider various statements about the situation. Spanning elementary through high school we will consider ways to engage in understanding the situation using mathematics.

Vulnerability as Self-Care

April 3, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Laila Nur

Webinar description: Not much can prepare us for the emotional strength and investment that is required to be an educator. We give so much. The emotional toll of teaching can cause us to suppress "negative" emotions as a defense mechanism, but this does more harm than good. This session will work to create a safe space for us to process, reframe, and learn how to share those emotions as an act of vulnerability for our own self-care.

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From Knowns to Unknowns: A journey into Teaching Mathematics

April 6, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Trena Wilkerson

Webinar description: For me teaching has been a journey encountering things I knew would happen and then at times, things that were unknown. Knowns may be our students, our goals, or our purpose in teaching. Unknowns might include changes in curriculum and assessment, life experiences, and global events such as we are experiencing now. All these happenings shape us as individuals, as a learning community, and as teachers of mathematics. Join me in exploring this journey and ways NCTM can connect, support, and grow our mathematics teaching and learning community in the knowns and in the unknowns.

Discover and Leverage Your Students' Strengths through Powerful Asset-Based Instructional Design (Grades K-6)

April 7, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Beth Kobett

Webinar description: We have been traditionally taught to identify and remediate students' mathematical misconceptions and weaknesses. This session is about reframing students' mathematical learning opportunities by identifying students' strengths to develop powerful and strategic learning opportunities that capitalize on those strengths to build mathematical success.

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Suggested Publications:
Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Elementary Mathematics
Principles to Actions
Taking Action (K-5)
Taking Action (6-8)
Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics: 5 Teaching Turnarounds for Grades K-6

Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions: Overcoming the Challenges (Grades 6-8)

April 8, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Margaret (Peg) Smith

Webinar description: The 5 Practices - anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting - provide a model for effectively using student responses in whole class discussions. Enacting the model, however, is not easy. This session will focus on identifying the challenges associated with the 5P's and providing insights on how to address those challenges.

Suggested Publications:
5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Discussions (Second Edition)
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Elementary School Classroom
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your High School Classroom

The Five Practices in Practice: Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions in High School (Grades 10-12)

April 9, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Mike Steele

Webinar description: Productive mathematics conversations around rich high school mathematics content are possible with each and every learner! We share brand new video and resources to explore the five practices for productive mathematics discussions - anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting - and how they come to life in the classroom.

Division by Zero: The Math, the Myth, and the Legend (Grades 3-5)

April 13, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Joann Barnett

Webinar description: Our students ask, 'Why can't you divide by zero?' Even if the calculator is used as the authority, the 'Division by Zero Error' result is not enough to convince our students nor help them understand why you can't. In this workshop we will use hands-on, contextual problems to help students understand that there's more to this than 'You just can't.'

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It's Not Always Simple to Make a Problem Simpler: Seeking Connections That Aren't Apparent (Grades 6-8)

April 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: William Speer

Webinar description: This session explores the problem-solving strategy of 'Make It Simpler' in a context that goes far beyond only using more convenient numbers. Problems that do not appear to have clear pathways to solution are used to illustrate how 'making it simpler' through metaphor and context shifts can lead to increased discourse and deeper comprehension.

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Recommendations for Statistics in the Secondary Curriculum: Implications for Teachers (Grades 10-12)

April 15, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Gail Burrill and Chris Franklin

Webinar description: Catalyzing Change recommends essential statistical concepts as part of the curriculum for every high school student, building on the foundation laid in the middle grades. The challenge: statistics is different from mathematics. What do we need to know to teach statistics well? What is important and how should we think about teaching it?

Suggested Publication:
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics

Your Mathematics Heart and Soul: Living the Quadrant II Life! (General Interest)

April 16, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Timothy Kanold

Webinar description: You choose the teaching profession, promising to be a force for positive change. Yes! And then you wonder, 'How do I show up every day and maintain a positive mindset?' 'How do I develop academic self-efficacy in mathematics, and avoid burnout? In this inspirational session, you will examine the secret to sustaining a healthy professional life!

The 5 Practices in Practice: Taking on Classroom Challenges (Grades 3-5)

April 20, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Victoria Bill

Webinar description: One of the five practices of orchestrating discussions, anticipating, will be the focus. Consideration will be given to strategies students use when solving a challenging task; how to respond to student work; and which student strategies address the mathematics to be learned. Challenges and how to address them will be considered.

Suggested Publications:
5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Discussions (Second Edition)
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Elementary School Classroom
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom
The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your High School Classroom

Math + Language Teaching Strategies = Success! (Grades 6-8)

April 21, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Cathy Marks Krpan

Webinar description: Math is a rich, exciting language! Many of the strategies we use in language arts are extremely effective for teaching math. During this engaging session, we will explore how to use think-alouds, as well as effective strategies to help students to read and understand word problems. You will leave with practical ideas you can use to support and enhance student thinking.

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Solving the Problematic: Creating Tasks, Lessons, and Projects That Model Our Actual, Messy World (Grades 8-10)

April 22, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Carl Oliver

Webinar description: Modelling helps students apply math, are they applying it in the world they actually live in? Learn how to use math to explore systems from our world, even the messy ones. Pull ideas from tested examples, find topics that are relevant for your students, discuss best practices and cautions for designing your own routines, lessons, and projects.

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How We Move from Equality to Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teaching (General Interest)

April 23, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: José Vilson and Marian Dingle

Webinar description: How do we move towards equity for all of our children? We will discuss how our schools can redistribute power in and out of the classroom. We include issues of community, reparations, and the work we must do to assure our students have supportive environments. We pay special attention to issues of culture and diversity from multiple lenses.

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Engaging Families in Math Fact Fluency (General Interest)

April 27, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jennifer Bay-Williams

Webinar description: Are you creating positive change by teaching basic facts with strategies and games, while eliminating timed tests? Then parent outreach is essential! Parents need to know why traditional fact activities are changing. Come explore a collection ways to help parents see the value of a strategy-based approach and better support their child's fluency.

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The Future of Mathematics Education: Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Efficient Feedback (Grades 6-8)

April 28, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Hilary Kreisberg & Cristina Heffernan

Webinar description: Daily communication has become easier and quicker with the help of smart technology. Suggested replies and text messages allow us to easily click and send rather than spending time writing. In this workshop, you will learn about how artificial intelligence is advancing the mathematics education field and how you can play a role.

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Problems to Ponder: You Know You Have a Really Good Problem for You and Your Students When . . .(Grades 8-10)

April 29, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: J. Michael Shaughnessy

Webinar description: In this session I propose to share with the participants some of the best 'Problems to Ponder' that I have encountered and used with many different groups of students and teachers for more than 40 years--with elementary, middle, and secondary math teachers, perspective teachers and their students! Participants will engage in collaborative pondering.

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Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics
Principles to Actions

Challenging Dis/Abilities: Leveraging the Potential of All Students as Math Problem Solvers (General Interest)

April 30, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Cathery Yeh, Emilia Frias, and Melissa Brennan

Webinar description: How can I leverage the potential of ALL students, including students with dis/abilities, as problem solvers and risk takers? Come engage in math play and learn how to adapt current math curriculum to promote deeper engagement in math concepts and account for and leverage student differences. This session is for general and special educators.

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Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Elementary Mathematics

See It, Move It, Grasp It: Math with Virtual Manipulatives (Pk-2)

May 4, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Chrissy Newell

Webinar description: Manipulatives are important tools that help young mathematicians make sense of complex math ideas. What changes or stays the same when students engage with virtual manipulatives alongside or in place of concrete ones? What are the opportunities and limitations? Explore these ideas using free virtual manipulatives - BYOD!

4 Strategies to Help Students Start Math Problems and Stick with Them (Grades 6-8)

May 5, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr

Webinar description: Frustrated with how easily some of your students just give up in math class? Let's Make Math Moments That Matter with these strategies we use to help build resilience and perseverance in all of our students. Walk away with strategies and the resources necessary so you can use these new ideas in your classroom immediately.

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Creativity and Storytelling in Mathematics Lessons (Grades 6-12)

May 6, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Phillipp Legner

Webinar description: For many students, learning mathematics is simply about memorizing abstract rules and procedures. In this talk, we want to explore how storytelling and real-life applications can make the content more accessible and engaging, and how creativity and problem-solving can show students the great power and surprising beauty of mathematics.

Is 2020 Vision Good Enough? Looking Ahead to What Comes Next (General Interest)

May 7, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Cathy Seeley

Webinar description: For decades, NCTM has put forth a vision to prepare every student to think mathematically and solve problems. An Agenda led to action in the form of Standards, Principles, Focus, and more Action, followed by a Catalyst-all to make the vision a reality. What priorities should guide our work for the next decade and beyond? What actions will we take?

PK-8 Curriculum Focal Points

Principles to Actions
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics

The Practice of Statistics: YES, We Can Do It at School! (Grades 3-5)

May 11, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jane Watson

Webinar description: This session focuses on the 5 Big Ideas of Statistics "Variation, Expectation, Distribution, Randomness, and Informal Inference" and the Practice of Statistics from the GAISE Report for schools. Activities from grades 3 to 6 in STEM-related contexts are presented, emphasizing the importance of context, without which there would be no statistics!

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Pancakes, Pizza, and Fast Food: Great Contexts for Great Middle School Lessons and Projects (Grades 6-8)

May 12, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Steven Leinwand

Webinar description: This fast-paced, example-laden presentation will draw from a range of fast food contexts and data that provide great platforms for engaging students and reinforcing important skills and concepts. We'll look at accessible ways to milk pizza, pancakes, world records, ice cream, and hamburgers to support a full range of middle school mathematics.

The Mathematics of Game Shows, Anniversary Edition (Grades 10-12)

May 13, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Bowen Kerins

Webinar description: Game shows are filled with logical and statistical questions, from the players' perspective but also from the producers' perspective. How are budgets estimated? How are games built toward a particular probability of victory? We'll play games and win prizes, then discuss the math from both sides of the games.

Celebrating 100 Years with 100 Problems Involving 100 (General Interest)

May 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Patrick Vennebush

Webinar description: Celebrate NCTM's Centennial with 100 problems involving the number 100. We won't have time to solve them all, but you'll solve some, discuss others, and leave with a full set! Along the way, we'll discuss some deep mathematics, talk about problem posing, and maybe even generate a few new problems. Come to this session and centuplicate your fun!

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May 18, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Kimberly Rimbey

Webinar description: The ten-frame has been used as an organizational structure for numbers 0-10 for decades. However, this amazing tool has utility far beyond the early primary classroom. Join us as we explore ways to use the 'infinite' ten-frame structure to represent and operate with multi-digit numbers through classroom games and activities.

Productive Struggle for All: Supporting Students with Disabilities in a General Education Class (Grades 6-8)

May 19, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Malia Hite

Webinar description: Creating, fostering, and supporting productive struggle is key to effectively teaching mathematics to ALL students, but particularly students with disabilities. Learn specific strategies to engage students, individually and collectively, in productive struggle through task implementation and teacher responses to struggle.

Why Is That True? How Does It Work? Finding Multiple Answers for Mathematical Classroom Situations (Grades 6-8)

May 20, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Connie Schrock

Webinar description: What are the common mathematics classroom questions asked by your students as they learn? Are you ready to explain why? Why can't we divide by zero? What do you know about the data when you only have the box plot? When can you circumscribe a polygon? Why is a negative times a negative a positive? Help students explore to find their own understandings using multiple methods.

Practices, Practices, Practices: 8 for Teachers, 8 for Students--How Do They Relate? (General Interest)

May 21, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Travis Lemon

Webinar description: 8 Effective Teaching Practices and 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice can make for an overwhelming amount of things for teachers to keep track of, implement and monitor. Come and reflect on all of these practices, consider how they relate to one another and consider a framework that simplifies it to 3 but robust enough to handle it all.

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Catalyzing Change Across All Levels: Opportunities and Challenges

May 26, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Trena Wilkerson, NCTM President and Robert Q. Berry III, NCTM Past President

Webinar description: The current situation sharpens our view of inconsistencies and inequities that exist within the teaching and learning of mathematics across all grade levels. NCTM's series of Catalyzing Change publications, including the recently released

Catalyzing Change in Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics, and

Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics

highlight critical issues and provide guidance areas of focus for critical conversations and decision making in this time of significant need and opportunity.
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Catalyzing Change: An Overview of the 4 Key Recommendations for Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics

May 27, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: DeAnn Huinker, Cathery Yeh, Nicole Rigelman, and Anne Marie Marshall

Join us in this informative webinar as we take a closer look at NCTM's recently released Catalyzing Change in Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics. As we launch children on their mathematical journeys, we need to broaden the purposes of learning mathematics, create equitable structures, implement equitable instruction, and develop deep mathematical understanding. We will discuss and provide examples highlighting wonder, joy, and deep learning of mathematics. Special attention will be given to considering how the messages of Catalyzing Change challenge us to dismantle inequitable policies and practices in order to ensure the highest-quality mathematics education for each and every child.

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Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations Centered on the 4 Key Recommendations

May 28, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Sarah B. Bush, Christa Jackson, George J. Roy, and Eric Milou

Our current situation further brings to the forefront inequities and inconsistencies that exist within middle school mathematics programs. We will explore the four key recommendations from NCTM's recently released Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics to examine the roles of middle schools in broadening the purposes of learning mathematics, creating equitable structures, implementing equitable instruction, and developing deep mathematical understanding. Special attention will be given to how Catalyzing Change can provide structure and guidance during our current situations - positioning the development of students' positive mathematical identity and strong sense of agency at the forefront. Let's work together to rightfully empower young adolescences through mathematics!

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Suggested Publications:
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics
Catalyzing Change in Elementary Mathematics

Representation, Computation, Communication: Purposeful Use of Routines within Curriculum Materials (Grades 3-5)

June 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Kristin Gray and Jody Guarino

Webinar description: Instructional routines within the Illustrative Mathematics K-5 Curriculum support student and teacher learning. Participants will unpack the trajectory of instructional routines within the curriculum from two lenses; teacher learning and student learning and experience instructional activities that promote access and sense-making for all students.

100 (or So) One Hundred Grid Activities for the Algebra Student (Grades 6-8)

June 2, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Elena Contreras Gullickson and Lesa Covington Clarkson

Webinar description: The 100 grid is often used in elementary mathematics classrooms to introduce students to number patterns, addition, and subtraction. This workshop extends this tool to the middle school and high school learner beyond number sense and moves into algebraic thinking and problem-solving.

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Creating a Math Classroom of #DreamChasers (Grades 10-12)

June 3, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Joanna Stevens

Webinar description: The 2014 Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year will share how she helps all students in her rural, low socioeconomic school chase their dreams with a growth mindset. The strategies will focus on establishing culture, engaging instruction, and leading the learning as teachers to empower all students to call themselves mathematicians.

You've Got Stories: Now It's Time to Write!

June 4, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Angela Barlow, Thomasenia Lott Adams, Rick Anderson, Roger Day, Clayton Edwards, Alison Langsdorf, Sandra Madden, and Rebecca Robichaux-Davis

Webinar description: Teachers have educational stories from which other teachers can learn. But writing an article - where do you start? This webinar will feature members of the MTLT Editorial Board and focus on the process of writing for publication. From identifying the idea to writing the manuscript, this webinar will include helpful hints, strategies, and resources to aid in this process.

Teaching Elementary School Students to Participate in Mathematics Discourse: Techniques that Work (PK-Grade 2)

June 8, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Paola Sztajn, Dan Heck, and Kristen Malzahn

Webinar description: This session shares the idea that elementary school students need to learn to talk in productive ways during mathematics instruction and that ready-made techniques, when used in very purposeful ways, can effectively teach students how to talk in math class. Techniques from a successful professional development program will be shared.

Suggested Publications:
Principles to Actions
Supporting Sense Making with Mathematical Bet Lines
Launching a Discourse-Rich Mathematics Lesson

Building Agency, Fostering Identities, and Promoting Social Change via Social Justice Contexts (Grades 6-8)

June 9, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Marilyn Strutchens

Webinar description: In this session, participants will experience how children's literature and other social justice contexts can be used to build agency, foster identities, and promote social change. NCTM's (2014) Mathematics Teaching Practices and other equitable teaching strategies will be highlighted. Participants will also examine student work and vignettes.

Suggested Publications:
Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics
Access and Equity: Promoting High-Quality Mathematics in Grades 9-12

Supporting Students' Pathways through the Cycle of Inquiry and Justification (Grades 8-12)

June 10, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Michelle Cirillo and Jenifer Hummer

Webinar description: The Cycle of Inquiry and Justification was delineated as an essential concept for High School Mathematics (NCTM, 2018). After spending three years observing this cycle in classrooms, we identified the transition from conjecturing to proving as a key site for conceptual obstacles. These obstacles and strategies for overcoming them are explored.

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Proof in Secondary Classrooms NCTM Webinar

Turning Adversaries Into Allies: Building Community-Wide Support for Your Initiatives in Mathematics Education (General Interest)

June 11, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Mike Flynn

Webinar description: Any initiative in mathematics education, whether classroom-based or state-wide, requires support from stakeholders (students, parents, administrators, school board, etc.) if it is going to be successful. However, building and sustaining that support can be challenging, especially if there are pockets of skeptics actively working against your goals. This session will address these challenges and provide educators and leaders with strategies and resources to help them build momentum in their communities to support meaningful and powerful mathematics education for each and every student.

Making the Most of Children's Literature: A Context to Explore Math and Understand the World (Grades 3-5)

June 15, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Sue O'Connell

Webinar description: We recognize the value of children's literature in giving a context to explore math skills and concepts, but what if we could also spur students' understanding of the world and enhance their social consciousness through our selection of stories? Join us to explore books that engage students in thinking about mathematics and the world around them.

Positioning Reluctant Students as Math Thinkers and Doers! (Grades 6-8)

June 16, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Claudia Bertolone-Smith, Lynda Wiest and Heather Crawford-Ferre

Webinar description: I don't get it!!!! Do you have students who position themselves as novice math thinkers and doers? Come view the answer to this question through the self-portraits and prose of middle school math students. We will discuss ways to understand what is underneath student positioning and how teachers can structure math learning to empower students!

Suggested Publications:
The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practice

Rich Tasks Require Rich Implementation for Rich Learning to Result (Grades 8-10)

June 17, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Peg Cagle

Webinar description: Research documents the critical role of tasks in generating high-quality opportunities for student learning. Examine pedagogical choices that maintain richness of risk-taking & sense-making throughout implementation. Explore rich uses of everyday tasks. Expand capacity to engage students as mathematicians to build efficacy, agency & math identity.

Suggested Publications:
Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development, Second Edition

Promote Equitable Teaching Practices AND Focus on Content & Connections - Don't Settle For Only One! (General Interest)

June 18, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Farshid Safi

Webinar description: Engage in this interactive session that will showcase ways to promote equitable teaching practices while maintaining an intentional focus on connections & coherence. The power and promise of each and every student's identity and mathematical thinking should be visible and guide classroom instruction fostering mathematical notions and experiences.

Supporting Students' Voice in the F2F and Virtual Mathematics Classroom (Grades 3-5)

June 22, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Thomasenia Lott Adams

Webinar description: In any mathematics learning community, students should have an opportunity to meaningfully engage in learning. For both F2F and virtual learning communities, teachers who plan for and encourage interactions that lead to the exchange of ideas create the engagement opportunities that give students valuable voice in the learning experience.

It's All about Connections: Let's See Why Geometry & Algebra Belong Together! (Grades 6-8)

June 23, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Karen Greenhaus

Webinar description: Come explore many algebra and geometry connections at this dynamic math webinar. Engage in learning activities that incorporate movement, visualization, data collection, graphing, and geometric constructions using free dynamic math technology, (ClassPad.net). The session focuses on building understanding of geometry concepts and applying algebraic reasoning. Math is about doing and seeing and connecting - join the fun! Free, ready-to-use lessons will be shared.

Sharing Skepticism and Arguing Constructively in Math Class (Grades 10-12)

June 24, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: David Wees

Webinar description: Do you want students to argue in class and build their capacity to construct and critique mathematical arguments? In this workshop, we will experience the Sharing Skepticism instructional routine designed to inclusively develop ALL students' ability to argue mathematically. We will unpack the routine together and prepare to enact it ourselves.

Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk: Routines for Math Workshop (Coaches/Leaders/ Teacher Educators)

June 25, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Le'Vada Gray

Webinar description: Research states that developing academic talk for underserved students is an effective method for teachers to help their students access mathematical concepts. In this session, teachers and coaches will examine number sense routines and discussion strategies to increase all underserved students' reasoning and discourse in a Math Workshop setting.

Suggested Publications:
Rehumanizing Mathematics for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Students

Playing with Mathematical Ideas (PK-Grade 2)

June 29, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Janice Novakowski

Webinar description: What is math? Where is math? Who does math? The goals of our district's math studio is support students' mathematical learning through connected and playful experiences while also creating opportunities for student agency through meaningful projects. Stories and examples from a three year project in a math studio with K-3 classes will be shared.

Developing Powerful Creators of Mathematics through Rich Argumentation Discourse (Grades 6-8)

June 30, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Jennifer Knudsen, Teresa Lara-Meloy, and Harriette Stevens

Webinar description: Argumentation discourse has the potential to help students develop as powerful users and creators of mathematics in a classroom community. This requires specific attention to creating safe environments to engage all youth. Come learn how to help your students take on mathematical authority through rich activities and powerful teaching moves.

Making Math Culturally Relevant Through Experiential Learning (Grades 10-12)

July 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Breedeen Pickford-Murray and Kevin Davis

Webinar description: Culturally relevant teaching is important, but it can seem like an impossible task to do it well. Often the missing ingredient in the classroom is student choice. Allowing students to develop their own projects gives them a space that honors who they are as individuals, helping them to form and develop their mathematical identities.

Amplifying Language in Sense Making Routines (Grades 3-5)

July 6, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Nichole Lindgren

TODOS: Mathematics for All 100 Days of Professional Learning series speaker

Webinar description: How do you introduce the language that students will need to access and participate in a sense making routine and avoid a disconnected, rote introduction? In this session you will learn how to embed strategies into sense making routines to amplify language, provide access, and encourage participation for emergent multilingual students.

Supporting ELs through Mathematical Inquiry and the Discursive Assessment Protocol (Grades 6-8)

July 7, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Richard Kitchen

TODOS: Mathematics for All 100 Days of Professional Learning series speaker

Webinar description: A research-based protocol will be shared in this session that is specifically designed to support the mathematical learning of English Learners. The "Discursive Assessment Protocol" (DAP) supports equitable mathematical learning of ELs, while providing teachers with a useful tool aligned with best practices and the CCSS-M Mathematical Practices.

Translanguaging to Persevere: Exploring Latinx Bilingual Students' Collective Problem-solving (Grades 8-10)

July 8, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Hector Morales, Joseph DiNapoli, and Craig Willey

TODOS: Mathematics for All 100 Days of Professional Learning series speaker

Webinar description: This workshop explores the collaborative efforts of Latinx students drawing on their bilingualism to make meaning of mathematics. Through shared vignettes, student artifacts, and mathematical activity, we engage participants in analysis and discussion to inform ways of leveraging translanguaging to persevere in mathematics classrooms.

Humanizing Online Mathematics Teaching: Possibilities and Resistance (General Interest)

TODOS: Mathematics for All 100 Days of Professional Learning series speaker

July 9, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Mary Raygoza, Kelsey Macias, and Nima Harirchian

Webinar description: This webinar explores building beloved classroom community, fostering equitable participation, engaging students in collaborative group work, connecting mathematics to students' lives and the world we are in, and centering trauma-informed and healing-centered practices in the online classroom. We will also explore resisting oppressive and inequitable aspects of shifts to distance learning.

Hands Down, Speak Out: Exploring the Crossover between Math and Literacy Talk (PK-Grade 2)

July 13, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Thompson

Webinar description: Come learn about Hands-Down Conversations, a structure for dialogue in which students take the lead, building agency and understandings as mathematicians and readers. We'll dig into strategies for engaging in argumentation and explore the crossover between the content areas.

Empowering Students in Math Through Entrepreneurship (Grades 6-8)

July 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Erin Krupa, Michael Belcher, and Jere Confrey

Webinar description: Learn about the Design & Pitch Challenges in STEM: a curricular framework that situates middle grades mathematics learning in entrepreneurial pitch competitions. Participants will experience a challenge and explore how entrepreneurship can support interdisciplinary STEM learning, with a mathematics focus, to increase students' excitement for STEM.

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A Lesson on Social Justice, What Should Be In It? (Grades 8-10)

July 15, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Kwame Anthony Scott

Webinar description: Lesson Planning too often neglects to include the lifestyles of students of African ancestry. So, too often these students see no relevance in the lesson and it is not delivered from their point of reference. Thus, this presentation will merge a social justice approach to their life experiences with a mathematics topic with CRT.

High Impact Strategies for Sustaining Girls' Academic Interest and Career Pursuits in Mathematics (General Interest)

July 16, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Lorraine Howard, President, Women and Mathematics Education

Webinar description: From a Whole Child Approach to Education, we know student academic learning develops in direct connection to social and emotional skills development. In alignment with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework, this webinar will-

address the need for accelerating the science of human development into the teaching and learning of mathematics, especially as it applies to girls; and

identity the SEL competencies, their effective teaching and learning strategies, and best practices for engaging and transforming girls' sustaining approach in learning mathematics.

Participants will come away from the webinar with an enhanced understanding of effective strategies for incorporating the SEL competencies into the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Making Fractions Fun! It is Possible! (Grades 3-7)

July 20, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jennifer Wilson

Webinar description: Don't dread teaching fraction concepts and skills to your students! Join us as we learn engaging activities that teach the fraction standards and allow your students to have fun at the same time! We will share and practice strategies that involve games and manipulatives to make fractions fun again that you can use immediately!

Kandinsky, Klee & Mondrian: Using Abstract Art to Teach Geometric Concepts & Fractions (Grades 6-8)

July 21, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Kristina Barnaby

Webinar description: Join me as I showcase three lessons that infuse art into the math classroom. Students learn how shapes play a role in artistic design and apply mathematical concepts while creating their own interpretations of works by Kandinsky (area of circles), Klee (fractions), and Mondrian (area and perimeter of quadrilaterals). Student work will be showcased.

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All Are Invited! Creating a Culture of Learning for Each and Every Student (Grades 8-10)

July 22, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jacqui Lehmkuhl

Webinar description: Participants will experience my 'mathemagical' learning wonderland where a culture of purpose, caring, and fun is the norm. Simple to implement strategies will be provided to start a revolution of positive change where even the most reluctant learners experience the joys, creativity, and the belief of themselves as mathematicians.

How to Help Students Become Problem Solvers, Not Math Robots (Grades 6-12)

July 23, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Robert Kaplinsky

Webinar description: If you're frustrated because students seem like they understand what you teach them until you see their test scores, then you'll love using problems with open middles. Come learn how to implement problems that will clearly show what your kids know, help them become problem solvers, and have them begging for more.

July 27, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Kevin Dykema, Fawn Nguyen, Theresa Wills, Zak Champagne, Shawn Towle, Michelle Berry

Webinar description: This beginning of a new school year will be all new, for everyone! Let's come together and look at challenges, opportunities, and strategies as we work to meet the needs of each and every student as well as supporting families and communities.

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July 28, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Kevin Dykema, Fawn Nguyen, Esther Song, Naomi Jessup, Hilary Kreisberg

Webinar description: Many challenges lie ahead as we approach the start of a new school year. Join us as we look at ways to support mental health for teachers and students in these unprecedented times.

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July 29, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Nevels Nevels, Lorie Huff, David Martin, Trena Wilkerson

Webinar description: What opportunities do we, as mathematics education leaders, have as we look toward the beginning of the new school year? We acknowledge the challenges and explore what decisions and opportunities exist to support our students and teachers. Also learn about unintended consequences, the potential to exacerbate current challenges, and alternatives to support each and every student in learning mathematics.

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July 30, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speakers: Gary Martin, Barb Dougherty, Robert Berry, Cathy Martin, Christina Lincoln-Moore, Darwin Mills

Webinar description: As a building or district administrator, are you approaching back to school with fear or excitement? This is uncharted territory, and the beginning of this school year will have a lasting impact on the lives of your students and teachers. Explore recommendations for helping to create structures and policies to meet the needs of each and every student in mathematics.

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August 3, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Marian Small

Webinar description: Let's explore the position that implicit in any set of math standards are ideas that students need to meet, not just skills to learn to perform. Teachers need to gain an understanding of those ideas to provide rich instruction; that is the math they need to know. We will explore a number of K-8 standards to see what this looks like.

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August 4, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Gladis Kersaint

Webinar description: Participants will engage in mathematics activity (e.g., Numbers, Geometry) that highlights the role of the mathematics teaching practices in developing students' conceptual understanding through authentic mathematics discourse.

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August 5, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Joleigh Honey and Dewey Gottlieb

Webinar description: Join us to discuss essential components that utilize student thinking in class discussions that affirm mathematics learners' identities. Student voice provides rich data, allows for engagement, empowers learners, and positions students to own the mathematics.

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August 6, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Fred Dillon, Jennifer Outzs, Mario Martinez, and Latrenda Knighten

Webinar description: Every profession benefits from the shared knowledge of its practitioners. Who better to contribute to professional development than classroom teachers themselves? What do you want to share? Are there things your students are doing that you are proud of? What is something you have tried that was successful with your students? What's keeping you from sharing your ideas? We are here to help you learn about the proposal process, give tips on how to write a high-quality proposal and to give a successful presentation, and be an active contributor to NCTM's conferences!

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August 10, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jill Gough

Webinar description: We want every learner in our care to be BOTH the author and illustrator of their mathematical understanding. Explore how to deepen understanding, promote productive struggle, and increase flexibility by using and connecting mathematical representations. Providing multiple pathways to success invites diverse learners' ideas to the conversation.

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August 11, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Melanie Janzen and Catherine Vittorio

Webinar description: This workshop will focus on a strategy to help students make sense of mathematical tasks and assist all learners in persevering and engaging in critical thinking. Participants will leave with resources that can be used in their classrooms on Monday.

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August 12, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Ben Sinwell

Webinar description: We will look at how key concepts in algebra have been taught during the past 100+ years. We will accomplish this by looking at how textbooks, instruction, manipulatives and technology have changed, or remained the same, over the years. The session will conclude by looking forward at the ways in which we may teach algebra in the future.

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August 13, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Maggie McGatha and Jennifer Bay Williams

Webinar description: Join us to learn tips for asking invitational questions to engage students & explore questions that focus on mathematical reasoning (via the mathematical practices). We will explore strategies & tools to help us as teachers and coaches to support the mathematical practices in our students, thereby helping students become mathematically proficient.

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August 17, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Susan Weiss

Webinar description: We will explore how to use a variety of apps for the elementary grades which are available on any computer, tablet, or Chromebook. Learn how to adapt these apps to make your math teaching in both geometry and problem solving even more exciting. In using NCTM illuminations' apps, Scratch, and more, you will find great ideas to engage you students.

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August 18, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Sherrie Martinie and Julie Thiele

Webinar description: 'Problem solving' is often linked to story or word problems, but this can be a very limited notion. In this session, we will explore a much deeper conception of problem solving. We will revisit past approaches to problem solving and dive into current practices. Finally, we will consider the problem solving of the future.

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August 19, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Patrick Honner, Mike Larson, and Ashley Goetz

Webinar description: Looking for new and engaging ways to get students making math? Or for rich and flexible ways to expand the remote learning experience?

Join us as we explore how to simply and meaningfully integrate computer science into mathematics while leveraging online coding environments as distance learning platforms. We will share tools for learning, assessing, and collaborating at the intersection of math and computer science, that are suitable for both face-to-face teaching and remote learning. And we will provide ready-to-go resources for day one of the school year. No programming experience is necessary, but coders are welcome. We've got something for everyone!

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August 20, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Lisa Lunney Borden

Webinar description: Moving Achievement Together Holistically (MATH) focuses on supporting Indigenous learners in Mi'kmaw communities in Canada. Session participants will see what it looks like to engage Indigenous students in math tasks that honour community ways of knowing, being and doing. Inspired by elders, these ideas are essential for some but good for all.

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August 24, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Beth Terry and Dana Islas

Webinar description: Assessing while you teach and using evidence of student understanding is vital for promoting achievement in mathematics! Dylan Wiliam (2011) states, 'Formative assessment should be more work for the recipients than the donors.' Join us as we highlight strategies for involving students in the assessment process via self-assessment and reflection.

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August 25, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Brian Dean and Rebecca Few

Webinar description: There are some standards, regardless of the teacher, the school, or the district that seem to be commonly misunderstood. We do not believe this is ever done intentionally. For this session, we will learn and grow our brains together as we engage in a series of aligned tasks that highlight the true intent of these commonly misunderstood standards.

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August 26, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Claudia Mathison and Katelyn Hayes

Webinar description: We will explore (and practice) strategies for using pathways and self-assessment to facilitate student agency. We will discuss the way(s) we have used self-assessment to inform learning pathways, allowing for exploration and collaboration-activities that meet students at their learning levels, engaging multiple perspectives to deep.

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August 27, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Diane Briars

Webinar description: Since its inception, assessment has been a critical issue for NCTM. What can we learn from NCTM's past recommendations for effective assessment policies and practices, and how can these lessons help us move forward to create classroom, district, state and national assessments that support each student in attaining mathematical proficiency.

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August 31, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Jenny Ainslie, Valerie Faulkner and Jessica Hunt

Webinar description: Knowing how to supporting students when they struggle is grounded in how well we understand the mathematics. Want the biggest bang for your buck? Have a better understanding of our Base Ten system! We will give you experiences to reframe your thinking, as well as activities and strategies to implement in your classroom. (teachers, leaders, coaches)

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September 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Cory Bennett

Webinar description: Reasoning talks are similar to number talks as they help students reason about mathematics and develop conceptual understanding but are structurally different. This session shares strategies on how to implement reasoning talks by diving deeper into the process and planning. Come ready to learn, collaborate, and practice your own reasoning talk.

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September 2, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: W. Gary Martin

Webinar description: Historically, the study of quadratics directly followed the study of linear equations and functions. However, newer recommendations emphasize the study of exponential functions following linear functions. Exactly how do quadratics fit in? Mathematical, contextual, historical, and learning lenses will be used to better untangle this quandary.

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September 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Dan Battey

Webinar description: A number of classroom norms limit students' sense of mathematical competence including focusing on answers, individualism, and competition. The session will support teachers in identifying ways to build students' mathematical competence, particularly with underserved students.

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September 15, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Amy Lucenta and Grace Kelemanik

Webinar description: Modeling with mathematics is essential for ALL students and often difficult - it takes repeated and explicit development in inclusive ways. Participants will learn an instructional routine that builds students' capacity to make sense of models and to develop questions to ask themselves when modeling, all the while including designs for interaction.

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September 16, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Douglas Guyette

Webinar description: Explore how student work can be evaluated holistically without awarding 'points'. The goal is to help students transition from answer-getting toward better communication and problem-solving. Problems with the traditional approach to grading math will be discussed, and an alternative, student-centered evaluation process will be introduced.

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September 22, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Alicia Burdess and Jessie Shirley

Webinar description: Big Beautiful Problems can be life-changing for teachers and students alike as they show how math becomes alive and is connected to our world. See how much fun math can be as we get caught up in the challenge, excitement, and flow of learning. Deepen your skills, confidence, and joy as we experience and explore some of our favorite problems.

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September 23, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Matthew Rosenberg and Chris Nho

Webinar description: Join us for a non-traditional math experience designed to open our eyes to the feelings and anxieties of our students. Hear the voices of Chicago Public Schools high school students, captured through a city-wide listening project. As a group, we will discuss and reflect on what resonates with us and what we can gain from their experiences.

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September 28, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Latrenda Knighten

Webinar description: To support the mathematics learning of all students, effective teachers establish an environment where students regularly engage in productive mathematics discourse. Attend this workshop to learn strategies to facilitate productive discourse and promote problem solving, reasoning, and critical thinking skills in a student-centered classroom.

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September 30, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Joy Hsiao

Webinar description: Learn geometry through paper folding! See how geometric theorems are applied in drawing crease patterns. Topics include polyhedra, special triangles, Pythagorean theorem, and transformations. We will pose and prove conjectures. Come with a laptop to construct crease patterns and leave with beautiful origami models!

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October 1, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Kathy Ernst

Webinar description: How do teachers support students to build agency for mathematics and foster positive mathematical identities? In this session, participants will learn how to develop classroom norms and routines that create emotionally and socially safe spaces for students to engage in problem solving through productive struggle, risk taking, and metacognition.

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October 5, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Amanda Jansen

Webinar description: In this workshop, we will explore how to treat the process of doing mathematics as generating a rough draft, gaining new insights, and revising. Rough draft thinking is a process of continuously developing understanding. When mathematics teachers welcome students' in-progress ideas, learning mathematics can be less threatening and more meaningful.

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October 7, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Beth Kobett, Marian Small, Patrick Vennebush, and Roger Day

Webinar description: Beth Kobett moderates an Author Panel Talk given by authors Marian Small, Patrick Vennebush, and Roger Day, who share useful tidbits fromGood Questions Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction in the Standards-Based Classroom,fourth edition;One-Hundred Problems Involving the Number 100: Celebrate NCTM's First Century, and The Activity Gems series (including the PK-2 and 3-5 books currently available).

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October 13, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Desha Williams and Jasia Clark

Webinar description: What does culturally sustaining mean? How does it connect to the teaching and learning of rigorous mathematics or align with the mathematics practices? Come to this session and find out! In this session, participants will engage in tasks that promote culturally sustainability for Black and Latinx youth while teaching concepts from 6-8 curricula.

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October 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. EDT | Speaker: Dave Ebert, Robert Q. Berry III, John Staley, Paulo Tan, and Beth Kobett

Webinar description: Dave Ebert moderates an Author Panel Talk given by authors Robert Q. Berry III, John Staley, Paulo Tan, and Beth Kobett, who share useful information aboutHigh School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice,Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education: Forging New Paths, andStrengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics: 5 Teaching Turnarounds for Grades K-6.

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Webinar description: In this session we will focus on the joy and excitement of seeing where math lives in dozens of cities in North America that have been sites of NCTM Conferences. We will coddiwomple with Ron Lancaster as he illustrates the math to be found by going for a walk, slowing down, paying attention to the little things, taking photos and asking questions.

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100 Days of Professional Learning - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Each webinar will be presented at 7 p.m. Eastern time on 100 selected days between April 1 and October 15. After carefully considering the health and safety of participants and the uncertain future of events with large gatherings the NCTM Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to postpone the NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition in St.

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Professional Development: Build Math Minds Virtual Summit

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Professional Development: Build Math Minds Virtual Summit

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Key Features in Engaging Math Lessosn

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Seesaw and Foundational Literacy Slides PDF

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Ready-to-use number talk slides.

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Welcome to Math Talks for Slides!
This site was created to fill a need for finding ready-to-use slides that can easily be copied and pasted into my daily meeting slide decks for distance learning. I wanted to have a hub of these engaging resources that I could access for distance learning as well

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Good Morning Everyone! Here is your work for today! Have a GREAT day!

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Ambassadors ignite deeper learning with Seesaw

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Seesaw Ambassadors are a learning community of connected educators in over 115 countries around the world

Meet Adrienne, an Ambassador from Virginia Beach, VA

"I am SO loving being part of the Seesaw Ambassador Community. In fact, it has changed my teaching and how I cultivate meaningful relationships so much with my students and their families that it was part of why I was just awarded Teacher of the Year 2020-2021 for my school! THANK YOU Seesaw and fellow Ambassadors for helping me completely transform what I think about teaching and reaching my students every day. I CANNOT imagine teaching without it ever again."

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Some more tips to remember about remote teaching

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Some more tips to remember about remote teaching

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1. Start slow and work up to the tips below

2. Embed or share the Zoom links in Seesaw

3. Minimize the number of activities you send out (Multipage)

4. Host small group learning on Zoom and follow up with activities

5. Embed supports into activities (Recordings, Video)

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Use the attached template to complete Word Work for the week. There are directions on each page. You can click save a draft if need to come back and finish later.

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Creating a Template Background to Use in Seesaw

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Creating a Template Background to Use in Seesaw

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Creating a Template to Use as a Background in Seesaw

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Example of Schedule- Can be done in Powerpoint too

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New Teachers Start Here: Seesaw Quick Start

Complete this on-demand training before attending the trainings below. Get set up and learn the Seesaw basics in about 10 minutes.

Create Your First Seesaw Activity

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Remote Learning on Seesaw

Support powerful learning moments inside and outside the classroom.

Beyond the Basics Mini Trainings

There's so much more you can do with Seesaw! Master Seesaw skills that support students to be their best. Click on a topic below to access the training and checklist.

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Complete this on-demand training before attending the trainings below. Get set up and learn the Seesaw basics in about 10 minutes. Create multidimensional activities that ignite students' curiosity, creativity, and love of learning. Connect families on Seesaw to create a powerful learning loop that deepens learning.

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Today, you will analyze a character from a choice reading book and complete a reading response. 1. Choose a character from a fiction book you have been reading. 2. Analyze what the character says, does, and thinks. Infer character feelings and traits. Use the Character Traits Handout to help. 3.

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How to Use the new "Link" feature in Seesaw

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How to Use the new "Link" feature in Seesaw

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How to Create a Tabbed Notebook Activity

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What is Flipgrid?

Flipgrid is a video discussion platform where students can verbalize their learning. It can be used in a variety of ways including personal introductions, book chats, lesson reflections, Q&A, and more. Students create short video clips and can respond to one another through video response.

How do I access Flipgrid?

You can access Flipgrid directly from the web or as an app on your iOS or Android device. It can also be loaded onto classroom iPads for easy use by students. The device will need to have camera and audio capabilities for recording responses into the grid. Teachers have the ability to create a Grid (which is your classroom) and topics within that grid to engage students in discussion. Students will access the grid through a Flip Code shared by the teacher. They will need to log in with their Microsoft account to record.

How do I log into Flipgrid?

Signing up for Flipgrid is free. Navigate to the Flipgrid site and choose "Sign-up. It's FREE!" You can then sign up with your Microsoft account. Students will need to sign in with the Flip Code and their Microsoft account (which is their username + @issaquah.wednet.edu and their computer password).

Helpful Hints & Links

Integrate Flipgrid with your Microsoft classroom instruction such as Teams or Class Notebook.

Learn more right here on the BNP.

Explore the Disco Library for topic templates and ideas.

Check out the Flipgrid Blog for more resources.

Don't forget to read terms of service and privacy policy. They also have a consent form!

Where can I get help with Flipgrid?

Each school building has an Ed Tech Lead (a fellow staff member) who can help you with any questions you might have. You can find out who your Ed Tech Lead is here.

You can also learn more about Flipgrid and other application by taking an online Kyte Learning course or you can contact any of the Instructional Technology Specialists in the Ed Tech department as well. We are here to help.

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Create a poll in your meeting settings. During a meeting, launch the poll from the host toolbar,

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The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single-choice or multiple-choice polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your participants. You also have the ability to download a report of polling after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.

Full details of the poll results, such as each participant's answers and submission times, are contained in the polling reports, which are available after the meeting by default but can also be made available during the live session.

You can also create and launch advanced polls and quizzes.

Creating standard polls or advanced polls in a webinar is also available.

This article covers:

Prerequisites for conducting polls in meetings

*Note: Host can create and edit polls directly on the desktop client with version 5.13.0 and higher.

**Note: Users on the iOS or Android mobile app can participate in polling, but hosts need to be using the desktop client to manage the polls.

Limitations of meeting polls

By default, only the original meeting host can edit or add polls during a meeting. If the host or co-host role is transferred to another user, that user will only be able to launch polls already created. Alternative hosts can add or edit polls if the setting is enabled in the web portal and the host selects the option when scheduling a meeting.

You can create a maximum of 50 polls for a single meeting, with each poll having a maximum of 10 questions.

If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching.

How to add poll questions for a meeting

Polling questions can be created in advance of the meeting, or done during a live session. If you create or edit a poll during a live meeting on version 5.12.9 and lower, you will be directed to the web portal. Hosts on desktop client 5.13.0 or higher will be able to create and edit in the polling window in the meeting.

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

2. In the navigation menu, click Meetings.

3. Click the topic of your scheduled meeting. If you do not have a scheduled meeting, schedule a meeting.

4. At the top of the page, click the Polls/Quizzes tab.

5. Click + Create to begin creating the poll.
If advanced polling and quizzes are enabled, you will have two options: Poll and Advanced Polls and Quizzing.

6. Select Polls.

7. (Optional) Select the Add to Polls/Quizzes library checkbox.
After your poll is created, it will be saved to a library where you can access it for other meetings.

8. Click Next.

9. Click Untitled Poll to change the name of this set of polls.

10. Click the question area to edit the following details:

Click the Untitled Question area to edit the name of that polling question.

To the right of the name of the polling question, click the dropdown menu to choose the type of question:

Single Choice: Poll participants can select only one of the provided answers.

Multiple Choice: Poll participants can select multiple provided answers.

Click the blank box for each choice to enter an answer for participants to select from.

Click + Add Choice to add additional answer options.

: Delete the current polling question.

: Duplicate the current polling question as it currently is.

11. (Optional) Click Add a Question to create an additional question.
Note: Each question and individual answers for a question can be reordered as needed.

12. Click the More button to access the following options:

Require answers to be anonymous: Poll participants can choose to have their answers associated with themselves or to provide answers to the poll anonymously.
Note: If this option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You need to contact your Zoom admin.

Add to Polls/Quizzes library: Your created poll will be saved to a poll/quiz library, where you can access and reuse your poll again for future meetings. You can go to "Meetings > Polls" to view this item.

13. Click Save.

During the meeting, all questions under a single poll will be asked when launched. You can create additional polls to ask questions at different times during the meeting.

How to use the Polls/Quizzes library

If enabled by an admin, you can manage a central library of polls for meetings. You can create or edit polls and use them for Personal Meeting ID (PMI) and non-PMI meetings. When a poll is marked as available to all meetings, it will appear in the list of polls that can be launched in a meeting.

Notes:

You can only enable up to 10 polls for your meetings.

Accessing polls created in the central poll library when in a meeting requires version 5.10.3 or higher.

Access the Polls/Quizzes tab

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

2. In the navigation menu, click Meetings.

3. Click the Polls/Quizzes tab.
Note: If the tab is labeled as just Polls, advanced polling and quizzes have not been enabled.

Create a poll in the Polls/Quizzes tab

Create a first saved poll that can be enabled with all your meetings.

1. Access the Polls/Quizzes tab.

2. Select Polls.
Note: If advanced polling and quizzes are enabled, you will have two options displayed: Poll and Advanced Polls and Quizzing.

3. Create a poll.
After your poll is created, it will be displayed in the Polls/Quizzes tab.

4. (Optional) To enable your created polls for all your meetings, under Enable, click the toggle to enable or disable it .

5. (Optional) To create more polls, click + Create.

Multiple polls will display the Name, Type (Polls, Quiz, Advanced Poll), Question(s) (number of questions), and Enable information.

Use actions for individual polls

After creating a poll in the Polls/Quizzes tab, you can select actions for it:

1. To the right of a poll, click the pencil icon to edit your poll.

2. To the right of a poll, click the ellipsis , then select from the following actions:

Duplicate: The poll will be duplicated.

Delete: The poll will be deleted.

Use batch actions for multiple polls

After creating multiple polls in the Polls/Quizzes tab, you can select actions for them:

1. By Name, select the checkbox.
All polls' checkboxes will be selected.
If you do not want to select all polls, you can select the poll check boxes that you want.

2. Select from the following batch actions for the multiple selected polls:

Disable for My Meetings: Under Enable, the toggles for the selected polls will be disabled and unavailable for all your meetings.

Enable for My Meetings: Under Enable, the toggles for the selected polls will be enabled and available for all your meetings.

Duplicate: The selected polls will be duplicated.

Delete: The selected polls will be deleted.

Filter the Polls/Quizzes tab

Click the All Types dropdown menu to display different filters. You can filter your polls/quizzes by Polls, Advanced Polls, or Quiz.

How to launch a poll in a meeting

Polls are not immediately available to meeting participants, as the host needs to launch a poll for participants to respond to. These polls can be created before the meeting starts, or during a live session, but in either case, the poll must be created in the web portal.

1. Start the scheduled Zoom meeting that has polling enabled.

2. In the meeting controls, click the Polls button.

3. At the top of the polling window, select the poll you would like to launch (if multiple polls were created)

4. Click Launch.
The participants in the meeting will now be prompted to answer the polling questions. The host will be able to see the results live.

5. Once you would like to stop the poll, click End Poll.

6. Click the More button to access the following options:

Re-launch Poll: Launches the poll again.
Note: If a poll is relaunched in a meeting, the poll report will only display the last poll occurrence. If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid relaunching.

Download results: This will launch your default web browser so that you can download the entire poll report, which shows what each participant chose, instead of the percentages of each choice.
Note: To have this feature enabled, contact Zoom Support.

View Results from Browser: Launches your default web browser and displays the same polling results on the web page.

7. Click Share Results to share the results with the participants in the meeting.

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Use Insights to Get Data on Student Engagement

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Microsoft Teams is great for interacting and engaging with students but it can be a little hard to know how much they are interacting and using Teams.

Sure there are some obvious ways to check on how engaged your students are in Teams (cough, cough Assignments) but those are proxies at best.

Fortunately, Microsoft offers an excellent analytics tool that can give you a more precise and comprehensive picture of how your students

This tool is called Insights and easy to add to your classes.

Install Insights

1. Open the Team you want to install the app on

2. Click into the General Channel and then click the + button at the top to add a tab

3. Use the search query to look for Insights. It looks like this:

4. Click on the icon to install it.

5. It will ask you permission for access to the data. Click Add

6. On the next screen, toggle Post to channel off and then click Save

That's it, the app is installed and you will now be able to see your data.

To see you data, click on the Insights tab where you see a dashboard that shows you real time data on student activity, average grades, how they are doing on turning in assignments, how long it takes you to give feedback and an overall picture of communication in the team.

The Five Categories of Data

Digital activity

The Digital Activity tile shows student Teams activity over time:

Posting and reaction to messages

Viewing and editing files

Turning in assignments

By default, the report shows data for Today. Select Specific day, 7 days, or 30 days for other time ranges.

Average grade

The Average grade tile presents the calculated average grade from all graded assignments. On the graph, each dot on the line represents a specific assignment; hover over a dot to see the grade data for that assignment.

Only assignments that have been assigned a point value and returned back to a student with a grade will be shown in the Average grade graph.

On-time assignments

The On-time assignments tile presents the percentage of assignments that were turned in on time. In the graph, you can also see the total percentage of assignments that were late and missing (not yet turned in), as well as submission status (on time, late, or missing) for each specific assignment.

Average time for feedback

Average time for feedback shows you the average length of time, in days, between a student submitting an assignment, and when it's returned back to them.

The number on the tile is an average of the time for feedback across all students and assignments. On the line graph, each dot on the line represents an assignment; hover over the dot to see data for a specific assignment.

Communication activity

Communication activity presents data on posts, replies, and reactions in channel conversations.

Note: This data reflects only student activity, and will not include posts, replies, or reactions from teachers.

The number shown on the tile is the total number of all student posts, replies, and reactions. In the graph, you can use the dropdown menu and select options to see activity across all channels, multiple channels, or a single channel.

The graph reflects data from the students you've selected (all students or an individual student) in your filters. On the column list in this section, you can see student names and a Total number, which calculates all posts, replies, and likes the student has made. Select one of the bars on the graph that corresponds to a specific date, and the column will change to only show activity from that date.

You can learn more about Insights in the video below or watch the class we offered last week. Then read on to learn about the data categories.

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Teams: Use Insights to Get Data on Student Engagement

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You CAN reuse an assignment you created in the past and/or in another Team. Here’s how:

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Microsoft Teams allows you to re-use assignments you've created in any team, whether it's from another class you're currently teaching or a past class you've archived. To re-use an assignment:

1. Navigate to the General channel of your current class, then select Assignments.

2. Select Create > From existing.

3. Choose the class where you originally created the assignment and select Next.

4. Then, choose the assignment you'd like to re-use and select Next again.

5. The assignment will recreate all the information you included before. Edit any assignment details you need to change, then choose classes or individual students to assign the work to.

6. Select Assign. This will notify your student of their new assignment.

Additional resources for educators

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Per lesson. Select your grade level tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

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A math routine that encourages discourse and problem solving in a low risk environment. More images K-5 can be found at: https://wodb.ca/

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Look at the picture. Use the :drawing: to circle which one doesn't belong :mic: yourself explaining WHY the one you circled doesn't belong OR :caption: and write a sentence explaining WHY the one you circled doesn't belong. Use the following sentence frame.

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Resources for Microsoft Teams PD for support

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Resources for Microsoft Teams PD for support