Building Thinking Classrooms 2025 Annual Conference

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TBA

Think and Tinker Tank

7:00am PDT

Registration and Information Booth - Open at 7:00am

7:30am PDT

Welcome and Opening Keynote - From the Margins to the Center: Meeting the Needs of Marginalized Learners with ICUCARE & BTC

8:30am PDT

Morning Food and Beverage

8:45am PDT

Affinity Groups + BTC Partners

9:45am PDT

Lakeside Chat with Peter Liljedahl

9:45am PDT

Terrace Talk - Team Focused Assessments

9:45am PDT

The Art of the Launch: How to Elevate the Quality of Mathematics Tasks

9:45am PDT

Just a Phase You're Going Through.

9:45am PDT

Word Study Tasks in the Thinking Classroom

9:45am PDT

Meet the BTC Partners - Book Signing with Dr. Pamela Seda

9:45am PDT

One Size Fits EACH: Unit Planning and Lesson Planning for Thinking

9:45am PDT

Making Moves to Reach all Learners: A Game Plan

9:45am PDT

Co-Teaching Geometry for Emergent Multilingual

9:45am PDT

Starting Strong: Building Inclusive Thinking Classrooms Together

9:45am PDT

Numbers Aren't Always What They Seem - Launch To Close For K-12

11:00am PDT

Beyond the Test: Assessment and Grading in the Thinking Classroom

11:00am PDT

3..2..1..Launch

11:00am PDT

Picture This: Using Picture Books and Photographs to Ignite Literacy in the Thinking Classroom

11:00am PDT

Teaching Data Science with the BTC Toolkits

11:00am PDT

Terrace Talk - Playing with Structure then Naming it: Verbing Mathematics in a Building Thinking Classroom Framework

11:00am PDT

How do I know what I know? Consolidating and Mapping Learning

11:00am PDT

Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: Facilitating Meaningful Mathematical Discourse

11:00am PDT

Peeling Back the Layers of Thin-Slicing for K-5

11:00am PDT

The Underrated Nuances of BTC: Small Moves, Big Gains

11:00am PDT

Empowering Student Rights through Hinge Points: A Framework for Inclusive, Student-Centered Math

11:00am PDT

Integrating Equity in Education: Accessible Strategies for Diverse Thinking Classrooms

11:00am PDT

Lakeside Chat with Pamela Seda - Brilliant by Design: Centering Culture and Cognition in Math Tasks

11:00am PDT

Meeting the needs of IEPs: CRRP in the Mathematics Classroom

11:00am PDT

From “One More Thing” to “Let’s Try:” Growing Building Thinking Classrooms

12:00pm PDT

Lunch - Break

1:00pm PDT

Grading for Growth: How we Grade in a Thinking Classroom.

1:00pm PDT

Shifting Assessment & Evaluation from “Who They Are” to “Where They Are”

1:00pm PDT

Bringing the Mathematical Practices to Life Through Rich Tasks in a Thinking Classroom

1:00pm PDT

BTC & Neurodiversity: Goes Together like PB&J

1:00pm PDT

Do, Say, Think, Feel: Pulling the Curtain Back On Our Very Best Practical Moves

1:00pm PDT

Let’s sketch diagrams to solve word problems!

1:00pm PDT

AI as a Tool to Accommodate BTC for Neurodiversity

1:00pm PDT

Math Afterschool Enrichment

1:00pm PDT

Navigating Discretionary Spaces: Cultivating Connection in a Thinking Classroom

1:00pm PDT

Terrace Talks - Histematics: Using Black History to Teach Mathematics and Increase Student Engagement

1:00pm PDT

BTC Coaching in Action: From Observation to Co-Teaching

1:00pm PDT

Supporting a District Wide shift to BTC

1:00pm PDT

This is NOT a success story. It’s a story of moving the needle from resistors to “maybe I’ll try it”

2:15pm PDT

Terrace Talk - Nova Katz

2:15pm PDT

Measuring What Matters – Using Rubrics to Promote Cultural and Mathematical Competence

2:15pm PDT

Non Curricular Tasks for the Thinker

2:15pm PDT

Using Thinking Tasks to Foster Student Engagement

2:15pm PDT

Think, Speak, Learn: Empowering Multilingual Learners in Social Studies

2:15pm PDT

BTC Practices + Core Curriculum = IMPACT

2:15pm PDT

Empowering All Students with Thin Sliced Tasks Using Your Adopted Curriculum and Online Resources

2:15pm PDT

Breaking Barriers with BTC: Practical Strategies for Diverse Classrooms

2:15pm PDT

Lakeside Chat with Pamela Seda - Unleashing Brilliance: Creating Space for Marginalized Math Learners

2:15pm PDT

Pillars & Practices: A Framework for Cultivating Engagement and Thinking in the Classroom

2:15pm PDT

Launching Strong, Landing Stronger: Storywork and the Bookends of BTC

2:15pm PDT

Leveraging a Lab Cohort as Job-Embedded Learning of BTC

3:30pm PDT

Lakeside Chat with Peter Liljedahl + Magma Math

3:30pm PDT

Grading and Norming work at the Boards

3:30pm PDT

Year One Insights - Building a Thinking Classroom and School from the Ground Up

3:30pm PDT

DNA of Building Thinking Classrooms in Science

3:30pm PDT

Revolutionizing Social Studies Through Building Thinking Classrooms

3:30pm PDT

IB, BTC, MYP, OMG!

3:30pm PDT

AI Meets Thinking Classrooms: Fostering Collaboration Across Grades

3:30pm PDT

Designing Thin-Sliced Tasks: Fostering Conceptual Learning in BTC

3:30pm PDT

Equity in Action: Building Thinking Classrooms for Students Who Struggle in Math

3:30pm PDT

How to Build a Community of Mathematical Thinkers in the Classroom

3:30pm PDT

Terrace Talk - Social Justice through Mathematics Instruction

3:30pm PDT

Partnering to Prioritize Thinking Classrooms