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All Learners Network (ALN) is pleased to offer our in-person Math for ALL Conference each year with generous support from the Vermont Agency of Education. Our 2023 conference was a huge success! Thank you to all who presented and attended. We are planning on hosting our conference in 2024 - check back often for updates on dates and details.
2023 CONFERENCE schedule
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CHRISTINE KING
Brave + Bold = Better: Creating Shifts to Move Instruction for All Learners
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christine King
Truly educating all learners has always been challenging, but it is even more so now as we live in the post-pandemic educational environment. Educators, families, and students are all feeling the pressures to excel and show growth. This talk focuses on three practical, yet fundamental shifts in instruction that are needed to move all learners. These shifts will require educators to be brave and bold in order to get better..png)
SESSION ONE
GETTING MESSY WITH FRACTIONS
PRESENTER: KATHLEEN LEGG
“It’s important to provide a variety of ways students can learn about fractions.” - Marilyn Burns, About Teaching Mathematics. Spend time experiencing fractions in multiple ways to build meaning. Students need to live in the “messiness” of learning in order to truly understand fractions. In this workshop we will dive into modeling fractional relationships (equivalency, adding, multiplying & dividing) with pattern blocks, fraction tiles, number lines and colored tiles.
USING HIGH LEVERAGE PROGRESSIONS FOR GRADE LEVEL ALIGNED INTERVENTION PK-2
PRESENTERS: ERICA MOY AND GLENN PATTERSON
When considering goals, for interventions, EST plans or IEPs, recognizing the developmental progression and connection among concepts is needed. In this session we will use High Leverage Progressions to unpack and consider models for developing understanding along with High Leverage Concepts (HLCs) and Essential Expectations (EE) to bridge understanding, goals and connections to grade level CCSS. Participants will engage in math using models, look for connections and patterns across grade levels and within CCSS, EE and HLCs.Using Problem Solving Tasks to Develop Mathematical Metacognition
Presenter: Elizabeth Kielty Waters
This presentation will focus on problem solving strategies used in the middle grades to support student metacognitive growth. Participants will be immersed in the problem solving experience that I use with my middle school students. We will look at student work samples and data that support the use of metacognitive strategies in the math classroom. This will be followed by a short talk on mathematical metacognition, what it is, why it is important, and ways teachers can implement it into the classroom.Differentiation, UDL and Inclusion in the Math Classroom
Presenter: Carly Epstein
How do I meet the needs of all learners in a math block? This question is one that resides in all math classrooms. By intentionally shifting our facilitation role, the environment and the types of problems we ask students to engage in, we provide more universal ways to include and support all students’ access and success with rich problem solving experiences. In this session, we will investigate low floor/high ceiling and open middle tasks, facilitation moves and the role of the learning environment as ways to create differentiated and inclusive math lessons.