2008 NCSM Annual Conference - Keynote and Major Speakers
Information accurate as of 04/13/2008 -- subject to change
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Keynote and Major Session Speakers
Distinguished speakers will be featured throughout the conference. Each will address important issues in mathematics education and leadership. Each of the celebrated speakers below will present plenary sessions over the three-day conference in Salt Lake City.
Keynote Speaker
Join our renowned keynote as we launch the first day of the Salt Lake City NCSM Conference.
Monday, 8:30am - 10:00am
Eric J. Jolly, Ph.D.
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A Passion for the Mathematics in Everyone's Life
Using metaphors, stories and practices from his community, Dr. Jolly will discuss the power of making mathematics meaningful for all children. This address will highlight the ways teachers and supervisor can foster broader community commitment to science and math success for all.
Major Session Speakers
Each of the celebrated speakers below will present plenary sessions over the three-day NCSM Conference in Salt Lake City.
Monday 10:15am - 11:15am
Florence Glanfield, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA
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Inviting Teachers to "See" Themselves as Mathematical and Hence a Mathematics Teacher
How might leaders help to define mathematics for all children and all teachers? How might all children (and all teachers) be invited to think about mathematics as a way of describing their world? In my talk I will highlight, from a Native American perspective, the relationship between mathematics, power, and peace and then describe the role that story (narrative) can play in helping all children and teachers see themselves in mathematics.
Monday 11:30am - 12:30pm
Bill McBride, Author of "Entertaining an Elephant", San Francisco, CA
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Girls will be Girls, Boys will be Boys: Teaching to Gender Differences
Many boys are failing in our schools. Statistics clearly show that boys make up the bulk of our discipline problems, drop outs, and even inmates. Schools may be contributing to these failure rates by not considering differences in male and female brain development. Gender differences in brain development affect our children's' behavior, emotions, and ability to process information. Dr. McBride's speech will weave humor with specific strategies to promote instruction that supports both male and female brains.
Monday 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lois Moseley, NUMBERS Mathematics Professional Development, Houston, TX
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Getting to the Point: A Different Way to Differentiate Instruction
Traditionally instruction is differentiated based on student responses to pre assessments. This session will address strategies for differentiating instruction by analyzing the quality of questions students ask, reinforcing the language elements (Academic, Symbolic, and Content Language) students use in formulating questions, and flexible multi-level groupings.
Monday 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Lucy West, Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities, New York, NY
![Lucy West](javascript:popopen('Speaker Bio',500,400,'<img src=../../Images/portraits/west.jpg align=right class=photo> <strong>About the speaker:</strong> Lucy West\'s particular expertise is effective effort-based instruction and her thoughtful approaches to professional learning that foster and sustain it have earned her recognition and professional partnerships internationally. She is presently a national consultant working with school districts from coast to coast. Ms. West\'s book, CONTENT-FOCUSED COACHING: TRANSFORMING MATHEMATICS LESSONS, "provides a vision of the possible for American schools" and is a result of the collaboration between Community School District 2 in New York City (a lighthouse district recognized for its remarkable professional learning opportunities) and the Institute for Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. West began her career as a classroom teacher and served NYC schools in a variety of roles including Deputy Superintendent of Region 9. She was principal investigator in a National Science Foundation Grant: RECONCEPTUALIZING MATHEMATICS EDUCATION THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT during which she collaboratively created an extensive differentiated menu of professional learning opportunities for teachers and coaches. Her latest work weaves the threads of Professional Learning Communities, Content-Focused Coaching and Lesson Study.')){kind=link}
Coaching and Capacity Building
Coaching is a growing strategy for improving student achievement across the country. Is it working? In many cases, not particularly well. This session will raise questions and offer suggestions for utilizing coaching strategically to upgrade instruction and learning at all levels. Where does coaching fit in the landscape of professional learning opportunities designed to cultivate skillful, courageous and inspired teaching in every classroom?
Monday 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Janet K. Scheer, Create A Vision, Foster City, CA
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Another Piece of the Puzzle: Empowering Parents to Participate in Their Children's Mathematics Learning
Since I began teaching, I have heard parents complain that their children aren't "doing" math in school - they're just playing with blocks. OR They wish they could help their children with their math, but they don't get it because they didn't learn math that way. OR, the most common mantra is that they were "bad" in math and hated it. Therefore, they won't even attempt to work with their children or help them. This session will provide you with information about everything you'd want to know about providing parent workshops from how to get parents to attend, the content of the workshops and the follow-up.
Tuesday 9:15am - 10:15am
Francis (Skip) Fennell, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Reston, VA
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Issues - for Leaders and for Teachers - An Update on NCTM Initiatives and More!
This session will focus on issues impacting mathematics leaders as well as teachers of mathematics, linking issues of leadership to the classroom. Current initiatives of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics will be discussed as well as implications from the recently released National Mathematics Panel findings.
Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm
Edward Burger, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
. Burger was awarded the 2000 Northeastern Section of the MAA Award for Distinguished Teaching and 2001 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics. The MAA named him the 2001-2003 Polya Lecturer. In 2002-2003 he was the Ulam Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was awarded the 2003 Residence Life Teaching Award. In 2004 he was awarded Mathematical Association of America\'s Chauvenet Prize and in 2006 he was a recipient of the Lester R. Ford Prize. Burger is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and a trustee of the Educational Advancement Foundation. In 2006, Reader\'s Digest listed Burger in their annual "100 Best of America" as America\'s Best Math Teacher.')){kind=link}
Crafting Creative Thinkers
Here we celebrate the real prize in teaching: inspiring students to be imaginative and creative within mathematics & beyond. Our celebration will involve entertaining antics, new technologies, and methods that allow us to foster the joyful pleasures of creative thinking while still preparing students for the stressful reality of standardized exams.
Tuesday 2:45pm - 3:45pm
Mari Muri, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
 from the CT Department of Education as the Mathematics Consultant. Currently she provides consulting services to CT elementary schools through PIMMS (Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science) at Wesleyan University. She has served on the NCTM Board of Directors, NAEP Standing Committee, and currently serves on the Math Recovery Council and Advisory Board to the CSMC (Center for the Study of Math Curriculum).')){kind=link}
Math Recovery Professional Development as an Agent of Change
This session will describe Math Recovery, a comprehensive approach to address the needs of young children's mathematical learning, from the perspectives of a school-based math coordinator, a professional development mentor and a researcher-developer. The results of a three-year Math Recovery implementation conducted in collaboration with schools through a National Center serving Native American populations also will be presented, including its impact on teacher practice and student achievement.
| Panelists: | Petey MacCarty, Mountain States Mathematics |
| Sherry Thompson, Wyoming Indian Elementary School | |
| Robert Wright, Southern Cross University, Australia |
Wednesday 8:00am - 9:00am
Marilyn Burns, Math Solutions Professional Development, Sausalito, CA
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Making Assessment an Integral Aspect of K-6 Mathematics Instruction: A Focus on Number and Operations
This session focuses on techniques for teachers to use to assess students' understanding and skills, and how these can impact professional development for K-6 teachers. The focus is on Number and Operations, the cornerstone of elementary math instruction, with an emphasis on integrating computation, problem solving, and number sense.
Wednesday 9:15am - 10:15am
Julian Weissglass, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
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Success for Every Child and Other Related Revolutionary Ideas
We will discuss the meaning of success for every child and how it may set traps for us. Participants will talk about what mathematical success for every child means to them and what kind of society and schools it would require. And, we will consider the implications of other social and scientific revolutionary ideas for mathematics education.
Wednesday 10:30am - 11:30am
William F. Tate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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The Political Arithmetic of Metropolitan Education: Moving Beyond Uncertainty in METS Leadership
The session will focus on sociological factors that are deeply influencing the nature and extent of opportunity to learn in the mathematical sciences in metropolitan America.
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