Building Thinking Classrooms 2025 Annual Conference

This session explores strategies for co-teaching a geometry class for emergent multilingual students, focusing on fostering critical thinking and equitable access to content and language. Participants will learn how to design engaging, thought-provoking tasks that promote deep thinking, transitioning from non-curricular to curriculum-based tasks. The session emphasizes the power of collaborative learning through random grouping, ensuring active participation and breaking down social barriers. Additionally, it introduces the use of vertical non-permanent surfaces (VNPSs) to transform the classroom into an interactive space, encouraging risk-taking and sustained engagement in mathematics for all students.