Building Thinking Classrooms 2025 Annual Conference

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7:00am PDT

Morning Food and Beverage

7:30am PDT

Registration and Information Booth - Open at 7:30am

8:00am PDT

K - 5 BTC Session - Laura Tomas

8:00am PDT

Lakeside Chat - Peter Liljedahl

8:00am PDT

From Principles to Practice: Grading for Equity in Thinking Classrooms

8:00am PDT

Building Thinking Physicists (and we’re ALL born physicists!)

8:00am PDT

Building Thinking Writers: Making the English Classroom More Inclusive

8:00am PDT

BTC for ADHD: Building Thinking Classrooms for Students Like Me

8:00am PDT

Terrace Talk - Sparking Our Curiosity: Challenging Implicit Bias in a Thinking Classroom

8:00am PDT

Active Consolidation: Centering Student Voice and Thinking

8:00am PDT

Staying Organized in the Chaos of a Thinking Classroom

8:00am PDT

"Making Mathematical Thinking Visible: A Title 1 Success Story"

8:00am PDT

Demystifying the Art of Thin Slicing

8:00am PDT

How We Use Manipulatives in a K-8 Thinking Classroom

8:00am PDT

Redefining Student Status in the Mathematics Classroom through A Building Thinking Classrooms Lens

9:15am PDT

BTC and Standards Based Grading: Our Journey towards Clarity

9:15am PDT

Three Years and 12 Practices: How I Found Success with Navigation Tools

9:15am PDT

Intro to BTC: A Beginner's Guide to Toolkit #1 and Beyond

9:15am PDT

Adapting the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework for the English Classroom

9:15am PDT

ReFraming a textbook lesson using BTC strategies

9:15am PDT

Terrace Talk - Integrating Technology within a 6-12 Thinking Classroom

9:15am PDT

Crafting Consolidation and Closure in a Secondary Thinking Classroom (6-12)

9:15am PDT

Building Thinking in Calculus: A Focus on the Post-Secondary Classroom

9:15am PDT

Integrating Fact Fluency in a Thinking Classroom

9:15am PDT

Putting the puzzle pieces together: How to BTC on the Daily with Thin-Slicing

9:15am PDT

Lakeside Chat with Pamela Seda & Peter Liljedahl - Rooted in Brilliance: Assessing in Ways That Honor Marginalized Math Learners

9:15am PDT

Connecting Indigenous Ways of Learning: Capturing & Celebrating the Development of Problem Solvers

9:15am PDT

Coaching in Action: Partnering for Meaningful Teaching Growth

10:15am PDT

Affinity Groups + BTC Partners

10:15am PDT

BTC Partners - Book Signing with Dr. Pamela Seda

11:00am PDT

Lakeside Chat with Peter Liljedahl + Innovamat

11:00am PDT

The Nonsense of Numbers

11:00am PDT

Everything at the Boards: BTC Across the Curriculum in the Upper Elementary Classroom

11:00am PDT

"Reveal"ing the Thinking K-5

11:00am PDT

Why Do We Flip It?: Using Tech With Intentionality to Make the Abstract Make Sense

11:00am PDT

From Imperfect to Inspired – Becoming the Best Thinking Classrooms Teacher You Can Be

11:00am PDT

Balancing the Effective and the Efficient. Maximizing the Benefits and Use of Manipulatives in The Middle Years and Beyond

11:00am PDT

Guiding Gallery Walks: Selecting, Sequencing, and Seeding a 3 Act Task

11:00am PDT

How Digital Interactives Enhance a Thinking Classroom

11:00am PDT

MARTIAN MATH: A BTC Immersion Experience

11:00am PDT

Story Problems For All: Instruction & Assessment with Structured Expressions

11:00am PDT

Armor Against Adversity: BTC & ACEs

11:00am PDT

Leveraging Your Specialist Team to Implement Building Thinking Classrooms Schoolwide

12:00pm PDT

Lunch

1:00pm PDT

How to Use BTC Grading Practices to Support Student Learning and Interventions

1:00pm PDT

Strengthening Collaboration and Perseverance with SEL Practices and Collaborative Rubrics

1:00pm PDT

BTC in the Social Studies Classroom: How I got my most off task students to love learning about maps.

1:00pm PDT

Meaning Making with Multiplication and Division of Fractions: Thin Slicing our Way to Understanding

1:00pm PDT

Getting to Scale: Using Educator Residencies to Launch BTC in a Large Urban District

1:00pm PDT

Leadership in Action: Transforming Professional Development with BTC Strategies

2:15pm PDT

Terrace Talks - The Neverending Story: My Continual Journey Through Assessment

2:15pm PDT

Building Thinking Lessons from Textbook-y Tasks

2:15pm PDT

BTC Coaching Moves: Leveraging Reflective Thinking Classroom Practice with Interviews & Exit Tickets

2:15pm PDT

Reflections on a year of BTC implementation in Algebra 1 and in IB Higher Level Mathematics

2:15pm PDT

Creating Manipulative Based Thinking Tasks in the Thinking Classroom

2:15pm PDT

Equitable Instruction in Action: The Cognitive Science Behind Building Thinking Classrooms

2:15pm PDT

Building Leadership for Thinking Classrooms Success

3:30pm PDT

BTC 2025 Closing