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Monday, June 30
 

8:45am PDT

Affinity Groups Intermediate 3-5
Monday June 30, 2025 8:45am - 9:30am PDT
Monday June 30, 2025 8:45am - 9:30am PDT
West Seattle

9:45am PDT

Making Moves to Reach all Learners: A Game Plan
Monday June 30, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
When implementing site-based/division-wide initiatives have you ever questioned how your current practice fits with new information and asked, “but what about...?” We will reflect on the “moves” we researched, observed, and tried through the lens of Building Thinking Classrooms that helped answer the “what about . . .” questions through a modeled lesson. We will collaboratively discuss prioritizing pedagogy while planning by using a task to reach and engage all learners to transform your practice.
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Bethany Lightfield

Bethany Lightfield

Math Coach, Prince William County, VA
avatar for Kylie Samko

Kylie Samko

Math Coach, Prince William County VA
Kylie Samko is a dedicated middle school math coach in Prince William County, Virginia, with 11 years of educational experience. She has primarily worked with middle school students and has recently expanded her expertise to consult with elementary and high school educators. Kylie... Read More →
Monday June 30, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am PDT
West Seattle

11:00am PDT

Picture This: Using Picture Books and Photographs to Ignite Literacy in the Thinking Classroom
Monday June 30, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Let’s use picture books with characters and settings from Central America, the Middle East, India, Africa and multi-ethnic America to explore literacy concepts in the Thinking Classroom! How can we incorporate photographs to help students make connections between their world and the greater world around them? Let’s explore some activities and strategies together!
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Heidi Sabnani

Heidi Sabnani

Consultant and Author, Sabnani Educational Consulting
Heidi Sabnani is always surprised that she works in math education. She developed math anxiety as a young student and spent much of her school life and early career avoiding math. After teaching English in the United States and Guatemala, and earning her MA in World Literature, she... Read More →
Monday June 30, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
West Seattle

1:00pm PDT

Math Afterschool Enrichment
Monday June 30, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
This is an after school enrichment math camp that focuses on kids with special needs who may or may not be open to math.  It combines BTC techniques with Boaler's mindset using lessons from Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom and Boaler's, Aunty Math and JRMF websites.  
2025 Conference Presenters
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Laurie Ines

Student Services Coordinator, Ka'elepulu Elementary School
Monday June 30, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
West Seattle

2:15pm PDT

Leveraging a Lab Cohort as Job-Embedded Learning of BTC
Monday June 30, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm PDT
The Hawaii Lab Cohort is a professional development model where a small group of teachers gather over the course of a year to learn together, reflect on artifacts of practice, and provide feedback through peer observations. In order to take a deeper dive into the shifts of BTC, our learning was anchored in the four toolkits at the pace of one toolkit per quarter.  Participants will get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to structure this type of job-embedded learning from the perspective of both facilitators and teachers.  
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Candice Frontiera

Candice Frontiera

School Renewal Specialist, Hawaii Department of Education
Candice Frontiera supports the Kailua-Kalaheo Complex Area district team  in serving 14 schools with 6,212 students total on the Windward side of Oahu. She has since scaled that deep teacher learning model at her school and across other elementary schools over the years with a focus... Read More →
avatar for Kathleen Trifonovitch

Kathleen Trifonovitch

Elementary Math Teacher, Maunawili Elementary School
Kathleen Trifonovitch has over three decades of elementary classroom experience. A National Board Certified Teacher, she was a key member of the Maunawili Elementary School team that received the 2018 Shirley Hord Learning Team Award at the Learning Forward conference as part of the... Read More →
Monday June 30, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm PDT
West Seattle

3:30pm PDT

IB, BTC, MYP, OMG!
Monday June 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
How can Building Thinking Classrooms be integrated into a Middle Years IB Programme, with IB’s required rubrics and assessment criteria? A group of middle school teachers finishing up year one of a switch to a Building Thinking Classrooms model share what we’ve learned about synthesizing two systems as a model for how other teachers can adapt BTC to fit with their school’s or district’s requirements. We will look specifically at an algebra unit on solving inequalities built around the MYP's Criterion B and Criterion C. Additionally, we will share how MYP Criterion B, C, and D assessments can provide rich tasks and exciting assessments for non-IB classrooms and share tasks we've created

Gretchen Voskuhl, Lower and Middle School Math Specialist, Annie Wright Schools, gretchen_voskuhl@aw.org, Katie Miller, Middle School Math Teacher, Annie Wright Schools, katie_miller@aw.org, Linh Phan, Middle School Math Teacher, Annie Wright Schools, linh_phan@aw.org
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for David Firestein

David Firestein

Teacher, Annie Wright Schools, Tacoma, WA
avatar for Gretchen Voskuhl

Gretchen Voskuhl

Lower and Middle School Math Specialist, Annie Wright Schools
avatar for Katie Miller

Katie Miller

Middle School Math Teacher, Annie Wright Schools
avatar for Linh Phan

Linh Phan

Middle School Math Teacher, Annie Wright Schools
Monday June 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
West Seattle
 


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