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Tuesday, July 1
 

8:00am PDT

Terrace Talk - Sparking Our Curiosity: Challenging Implicit Bias in a Thinking Classroom
Tuesday July 1, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
The 14 practices promote accessibility and equity in the classroom, but our own implicit biases, often influenced by institutional labels, can still get in the way of effectively enacting these practices.  In this session, we will explore how these biases can impact our perceptions of student capabilities.  Let’s think together about how we can shape the classroom environment to highlight students’ brilliance and spark our own genuine curiosity about students’ mathematical thinking.
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Amy Chang

Amy Chang

BTC Team Member, US Consultant, Building Thinking Classrooms
Amy Chang (they/them) is a K-12 math coach and an educational consultant specializing in helping educators turn their classrooms into thinking classrooms. They are a dynamic educator who has been cultivating curiosity, agency, and joy in students, educators, and leaders for over twenty... Read More →
Tuesday July 1, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Bellevue I

9:15am PDT

Terrace Talk - Integrating Technology within a 6-12 Thinking Classroom
Tuesday July 1, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Technology can serve as a powerful platform to greatly enhance students’ active learning experiences within a thinking classroom.  In addition to serving as an exploratory, computational, and coding tool, we will actively explore tasks through which technology can also help foster fluency, enhance discovery, and provide hints and extensions. Come with a device (larger than a phone) and experience what it can be like to take the role of a student within a technology-infused 6-12 mathematics thinking classroom!  
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Tim Brzezinski

Tim Brzezinski

Middle & High School Mathematics Teacher (New Haven, CT) & Independent MathEd Consultant, MS + HS Math Teacher; MathEd Consultant
Tuesday July 1, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Bellevue I

11:00am PDT

The Nonsense of Numbers
Tuesday July 1, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
As teachers, so much of what drives our assessment practices revolves around numbers. But do these numbers really tell us what we think they do? In this session, we will unpack our grading and reporting practices, interrogate their purpose and validity, and explore whether they truly serve all of our students. Together, we’ll challenge some of the assumptions we hold about numbers in our grade books and consider what might lie beyond them.
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Kyle Webb

Kyle Webb

BTC Team Member, Canadian Consultant, Building Thinking Classrooms
Kyle Webb (he/him) is a dedicated Mathematics Learning Consultant based in Regina, Saskatchewan with a passion for transforming mathematics education. Never satisfied with the status quo, he continuously seeks to improve educational practices, explore innovation, and connect with... Read More →
Tuesday July 1, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Bellevue I

2:15pm PDT

Terrace Talks - The Neverending Story: My Continual Journey Through Assessment
Tuesday July 1, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm PDT
Join Maegan Giroux, as she walks through how she and her grade 6/7 students' assessed a full unit, from start to finish. Maegan will share student work and comments on the assessment approach including the various ways the class chose to embed conversations, observations, and technology into the assessment. This session will include time for Q&A and open discussion around the unit was planned and assessed.
2025 Conference Presenters
avatar for Maegan Giroux

Maegan Giroux

BTC Team Member, Consultant, K-5 Author, Building Thinking Classrooms
Maegan Giroux (she/her) is an passionate instructional coach, dedicated to empowering educators across all levels to excel in their teaching practice. With a specialized focus on literacy and numeracy, she walks alongside teachers as they implement dynamic initiatives to enhance student... Read More →
Tuesday July 1, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm PDT
Bellevue I
 
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