Would you like to elevate word study with the joy of discovery and the active collaboration of BTC? Word inquiry routines weave together phonics, spelling, and vocabulary in powerful ways, using any interesting word from everyday life or academic terms. These engaging word inquiries are collaborative and accessible for multilingual learners and students with learning disabilities. Walk away with quick, low-prep BTC word study tasks you can use right away in whole-class or small-group settings.

Enhancing BTC practice isn’t just about better tasks or whiteboards—it’s about the subtle moves that truly make a difference. From fostering deeper student connections to micro-moves that maximize BTC success, this session unpacks the underrated nuances that lead to sustainable implementation and equitable access to learning. Learn from over a decade of BTC experience and gain practical strategies to refine your daily practice, whether you’re troubleshooting challenges or fine-tuning your approach.

In this session, you'll be asked to resist the urge to write equations to solve problems and be challenged to create meaningful diagrams that show your understanding of the problem and experience how a good diagram can reveal an elegant solution. Word problems and writing equations [to solve them] are two things that students find difficult, so much so that they have a hard time just starting the problem.

In this session, we’ll explore how to create rich, engaging, thin-sliced tasks in secondary classrooms by leveraging multiple resources, including adopted curriculum and online tools, to benefit all students, including neuro-diverse and multilingual learners. Since many educators face challenges with creating thin sliced tasks, we will illustrate how middle school and high school teachers can collaborate to assist in the creation of thin sliced tasks and how professional development time can be used to collaborate across courses. Additionally, we will show how thin sliced tasks can be used to support intervention and extension problems to keep advanced students engaged in the lesson.

We already understand the effectiveness of BTC in mathematics, but what about their impact on science? This session will explore how the Thinking Classroom practices can be specifically tailored to enhance scientific inquiry and deepen student understanding. Join us as we delve into the fundamental elements that can bring BTC to life in your science classroom.