2008NCSM Annual Conference - Major Sessions
Information accurate as of 04/13/2008 -- subject to change
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| Major Sessions -- Monday, April 7, 2008 | |||||
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| 7:45-9:00 | LA Grand Ballroom ABC | All Grades | Keynote | ||
| A Passion for the Mathematics in Everyone's Life | |||||
| Using metaphors, stories and practices from his community, Eric 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Timothy D. Kanold, NCSM President, Chicago, Illinois | ||||
Speaker(s): | Eric Jolly, President, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota | ||||
| 10:15-11:15 | LA Grand Ballroom ABC | All Grades | Major | ||
| Weaving ALL Children (and Teachers) into Mathematics | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Tod Shockey, University of Maine, Orono, Maine | ||||
Speaker(s): | Florence Glanfield, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | ||||
| 11:30-12:30 | LA Grand Ballroom ABC | All Grades | Major | ||
| 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. Bill McBride will weave humor with specific strategies to promote instruction that supports both male and female brains. | |||||
| Presider: | Carol Newman, NCSM Southern Region 1 Director, Broward County Schools, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | ||||
Speaker(s): | Bill McBride, Consultant, San Francisco, California | ||||
| 1:00-2:00 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | Grades 3-8 | Major | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Steve Viktora, NCSM Central Region 1 Director, New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois | ||||
Speaker(s): | Lois Moseley, NUMBERS Mathematics Professional Development, Houston, Texas | ||||
| 2:15-3:15 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | All Grades | Major | ||
| 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? | |||||
| Presider: | Laurie Boswell, NCSM Eastern Region 1 Director, Lyndonville, Vermont | ||||
Speaker(s): | Lucy West, Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities, New York, New York | ||||
| 3:30-4:30 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | Grades 3-8 | Major | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Ruth E. Harbin Miles, NCSM Central Region 2 Director, Hays, Kansas | ||||
Speaker(s): | Janet K. Scheer, Create A Vision, Foster City, California | ||||
| Major Sessions -- Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | |||||
| 9:15-10:15 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | All Grades | Major | ||
| 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 Advisory Panel report. | |||||
| Presider: | Janie Zimmer, NCSM Eastern Region 2 Director, Research-Based Education, LLC, Reading, Pennsylvania | ||||
Speaker(s): | Francis (Skip) Fennell, President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Reston, Virginia | ||||
| 11:00 -12:00 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | All Grades | Major | ||
| Crafting Creative Thinkers | |||||
| Here we celebrate the real prize in teaching: inspiring students to be imaginative and creative within mathematics and 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Ralph Connelly, NCSM Canadian Region Director, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada | ||||
Speaker(s): | Edward Burger, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts | ||||
| 2:45-3:45 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | Grades PK-5 | Major | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Suzanne Mitchell, NCSM Southern Region 2 Director, Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas | ||||
Speaker(s): | Mari Muri, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Petey MacCarty, Mountain States Mathematics Sherry Thompson, Wyoming Indian Elementary Schools, Ethete, Wyoming Robert Wright, Southern Cross University, Australia | ||||
| Major Sessions -- Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | |||||
| 8:00-9:00 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | Grades 3-5 | Major | ||
| 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 mathematics instruction, with an emphasis on integrating computation, problem solving, and number sense. | |||||
| Presider: | Linda M. Gojak, NCSM Past President, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio | ||||
Speaker(s): | Marilyn Burns, Math Solutions Professional Development, Sausalito, California | ||||
| 9:15-10:15 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | All Grades | Major | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Jim Barta, NCSM Western Region 1 Director, Utah State University, Logan, Utah | ||||
Speaker(s): | Julian Weissglass, University of California, Santa Barbara, California | ||||
| 10:30-11:30 | LA Grand Ballroom AB | All Grades | Major | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Presider: | Cheryl Avalos, NCSM Western Region 2 Director, Hacienda Heights, California | ||||
Speaker(s): | William F. Tate, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri | ||||
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![Lucy West](javascript:popopen('Speaker Bio',500,400,'<img src=../../Images/portraits/west.jpg align=right> <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}
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. 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}
 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}
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. His Washington University leadership portfolio includes serving as Chair of the Department of Education and as a member of the executive committee of two academic programs-Urban Studies and Applied Statistics & Computation. He has served on the National Research Council\'s Mathematical Sciences Education Board.')){kind=link}
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