Workshops
These are some of the most popular workshops requested by schools and districts across the country. Each is based on best-selling professional resources and packed with practical, classroom-ready tools that teachers can implement right away.
All workshops are customized to meet the unique needs of your team, and additional topics are available upon request. Whether you’re planning a full-day workshop, a multi-session series, or a virtual event, I’ll work with you to design professional learning that is engaging, relevant, and grounded in meaningful and effective math instruction.
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Figuring Out Fluency Beyond Facts and Algorithms
Bring the national best seller to life in a workshop focused on developing computational fluency through practical strategies, effective instruction, and ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Fluency Foundations: Instruction and Intervention
Explore research-based strategies centered on number sense, estimation, decomposition, and reasoning to support all learners by building—or restoring—their foundational computational fluency.
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There’s Nothing Basic About the Facts: Recall that Lasts
Support students in moving from counting to automatic recall through an approach that emphasizes instruction, understanding, strategy use, meaningful practice, and purposeful assessment.
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Number Sense and Numeracy
What is number sense and how is it realized? Explore engaging, high-quality tasks and routines that strengthen students’ number sense, reasoning, and fluency in daily instruction.
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Productive Math Struggle
Transform “I can’t” into “I can” by learning essential teaching actions that promote productive struggle, perseverance, and student success in mathematics.ption goes here
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Better Problem Solving: From Number Pluckers to Thinkers and Doers
Learn to use practical instructional routines to develop students’ problem-solving skills, confidence, and mathematical reasoning.
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Fraction Sense: Beyond Round Foods and Shaded Parts
Deepen students’ understanding of fractions through conceptual learning, reasoning, and high-leverage instructional strategies.
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More Than Numbers: Geometry, Measurement, and Data in Elementary and Middle School Mathematics
Ensure essential—but often overlooked—topics receive meaningful instructional attention for stronger student understanding and better achievement.
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Putting the Math Practices into Action
Dive into the mathematical behaviors that define what it means to do math, and learn how to integrate the practice standards into instruction to foster problem-solving, reasoning, and mathematical communication.
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Student Agency in Mathematics
Cultivate student ownership, confidence, and independence in mathematical thinking and decision-making through doable actions and classroom-ready resources.
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Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices
Unpack NCTM’s research-based teaching practices with actionable strategies to enhance engagement, discourse, and problem-solving in your math classroom.
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Hands-On Math: Teaching Math Conceptually
Get a hands-on experience with strategies and manipulatives that build students’ conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning.
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Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Mathematics
Tackle the challenges we weren’t taught to expect with real-world strategies that support engagement and achievement for all students.
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Mine the Gap: Quality Tasks, Formative Assessment, and Meaningful Feedback
Expose and address learning gaps by selecting high-quality tasks, using formative assessment to monitor understanding, and delivering meaningful feedback that moves learning forward.
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Topics on Demand
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