Math & Mindfulness Summit: Full Schedule

8:00am PDT

Registration & Coffee

Saturday September 9, 2017 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Theater Foyer

General Information

8:50am PDT

Welcome & Keynote (Ed Campos)

Speakers

Ed Campos

Math/Computer Science, Orosi High School

Ed is a high school math & computer science teacher with 12 years of teaching experience and a huge advocate for classroom redesign, especially rethinking the learning space in the math classroom. He’s a Level 2 Google Educator, a CUE Innovative Educator, as well as a LEC Online/Blended... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 8:50am - 9:50am PDT
Theater

Welcome

10:00am PDT

Mastery Learning & Assessment

A system of assessments that allows students to demonstrate mastery at different rates. The assessment focus on getting students to learn key concepts without penalizing them for not learning it fast enough. This method is easy to administer and provides critical data to students and teachers on areas that students have mastered or need to improve.

Speakers

John Cooper

Instructional Coach and Math Teacher, Placer Union High School District

I have been a math instructor for the past 30 years. I have been an author and editor for multiple CPM books. Currently I work as an instructional coach at PUHSD with the hope of assisting our district teachers and improving on the instruction in our schools.

Saturday September 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:55am PDT
Room 207

50 minute Session

10:00am PDT

Purposeful Student Discourse Through Math Talks

The most effective way to assess student learning is through intentional math talks. We will go through a variety of strategies and discuss how and when they are most appropriate. Math talk resource handout and planning tool included.

Speakers

ELLEN BYRON

Math Coach, Elk Grove Unified School District

Ellen Byron is both a mathematician and an experienced engineer. Currently honored to be a secondary math coach in Elk Grove School District. Graduated in Industrial Engineering at California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo and had a 15-year career in manufacturing engineering in the... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:55am PDT
Room 204

50 minute Session

10:00am PDT

Unlocking the Transformative Power of Patty Paper

Wondering what patty paper is and how to use it in your class? Utilizing this inexpensive kitchen hack, we will see strategies that will to transform the way you teach. Join us as we unlock secrets of geometry, empowering all students to learn at greater depths.

Resource Link: www.carnegielearning.com

Speakers

Sarah Galasso

Director of Instructional Design, Math (6-12), Carnegie Team

Saturday September 9, 2017 10:00am - 10:55am PDT
Room 212

50 minute Session

10:00am PDT

360 Degree Math: a Classroom rEVOLUTION

Flip the script in the math class by putting your students center stage with 360 degree math. Transform the learning environment with any given budget. Get your students up, performing, solving, and persevering by livening up the environment with whiteboard surfaces, music cues, and visible random groupings. Use an iPad and Airserver to untether yourself from your doc cam and fully mobilize yourself in the classroom. Attendees will experience what it's like teach and learn in a 360 degree math class. They'll also leave with the resources(inventory, implementation, tech integration) to go back to their sites and have their classrooms join the 360 Math revolution.

Session Resource Link: 360 Degree Math: a Classroom Revolution

Saturday September 9, 2017 10:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room P2

2 Hour Session

10:00am PDT

Unleash the Creativity: Animation & Google Slides

Learn how to use Google Slides to make stop-motion animations. Teach your students a creative way to share what they learned. Students can animate anything from a history timeline, scientific processes to math equations using this simple technique.

https://sites.google.com/a/dcjesd.us/google-training/stop-motion-animation-1

Speakers

Corey Coble

7th Grade Science Teacher, Creekview Ranch K-8

I have been a classroom teacher for 28 years and since the 90's I have been integrating technology in the classroom from grades TK to 7th.I have presented for CUE and CLS at the Technology Conference in Monterey. I have hosted the Hour of Code for students in Kindergarten to 5th grade... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 10:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room P1

2 Hour Session

11:05am PDT

Desmos: More than a Graphing Calculator

In this hands-on session we will explore the many activities, lessons, and features available on Desmos. Participants will leave with a user-friendly Hyper-Doc containing links, descriptions,ntips and tricks for each Desmos application. Strategies will be shared for using these activities with your current math curriculum to increase engagement and collaboration, strengthen academic vocabulary, and make thinking visible.

Resource Link

Speakers

Levi Fletcher

Math teacher, Roseville High School

Saturday September 9, 2017 11:05am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 212

50 minute Session

11:05am PDT

Increasing Student Participation through Math Tasks

Session Resource Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17o7vxsIaEpf1LxwmK9yP9VPnm8YO09i9JjTA-uEEbeo

Speakers

Lori Fury

Math Instructional Coach TOSA, Western Placer Unified School District

Position at Company ABC.

Saturday September 9, 2017 11:05am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 207

50 minute Session

11:05am PDT

The 40% = [Building Resilience]

The neuroscience of resilience and how this can be applied to a STEM classroom!

Session Resource Link: Bit.ly/the40

Speakers

Janet Baird

PD Specialist/Coach, Roseville Joint Union High School District

I have been in public education for the past 20+ years. I taught English at both comprehensive and alternative sites in 5 districts in Northern California and Austin, TX. Currently I am a Professional Learning Specialist and Transformational Coach for the Roseville Joint Union High... Read More →

Julie Bohn

Instructional Coach

I began my path of service 30 years ago with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, an organization committed to a more just and hopeful world, focusing on social justice. For the past 20 years, I have taught in public elementary schools. Currently, I am an instructional coach and provide ongoing... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 11:05am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 204

50 minute Session

12:00pm PDT

Lunch & Learn Playground

STEM Showcase
360 Math rEVOLUTION
Makerspace and Math Manipulatives
Green Screen
and more!

Saturday September 9, 2017 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Cafeteria

Lunch

12:00pm PDT

Lunch (sponsored by Carnegie Learning)

Saturday September 9, 2017 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Cafeteria

Lunch

12:25pm PDT

Breakout Edu: Problem Solving & Critical Thinking in One Little Box

Do you love games and enjoy giving your students a challenge and watching them struggle until they reach ultimate success? Then join us for an exciting game of BreakOut EDU. In this session you will work in teams to solve a series of puzzles leading to the opportunity to create your own game for class next year.

Resource Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vNhD7Xe_gYob12gAg13VEy-k4SJZ-vWz4lGX7O8XrBA/edit?usp=sharing

Speakers

Marie Criste

Coordinator of Insructional Tech, Roseville Joint Union High School

Marie is currently the Coordinator of Instructional Technology for the Roseville Joint Union High School District who is passionate about inspiring, sharing and teaching others how to seamlessly incorporate technology to promote creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 12:25pm - 12:50pm PDT
Cafeteria

Lunch

1:00pm PDT

Building Community & Connecting with your Students

Session Resource Link: https://sites.google.com/site/learnwithjohneick/-mathandmind2017

Speakers

John Eick

Executive Director, Westlake Charter School

John’s first edu-gig was volunteering to direct a high school play. Little did he know that 15 years later he would have been a teacher, a department chair, a vice principal and eventually the proud principal of that same school. During his teaching tenure, he wrote grants to launch... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:55pm PDT
Room 212

50 minute Session

1:00pm PDT

Google Classroom for Math

Session Resource Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wlpwNnS3oxyOIRiWvd9FXmUp0KVu9CBZCEFsAZcLcA4/edit?ts=59b6ce1d#slide=id.p

Speakers

Jenny Weast

Teacher, Roseville Joint Union High School

Saturday September 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:55pm PDT
Room 506

50 minute Session

1:00pm PDT

The 40% = [Building Resilience]

The neuroscience of resilience and how this can be applied to a STEM classroom!

Session Resource Link: Bit.ly/the40

Speakers

Janet Baird

PD Specialist/Coach, Roseville Joint Union High School District

Julie Bohn

Instructional Coach

Saturday September 9, 2017 1:00pm - 1:55pm PDT
Room 204

50 minute Session

1:00pm PDT

Bootstrap: Coding Videogames with Algebra

Teach your students to code and reinforce their Algebra skills using this FREE Common Core aligned Computer Science curriculum out of Brown University that runs on a Chromebook! Students write, compile, and troubleshoot their code with WeScheme, a cloud based programming environment. Your students will program their own video game using code and Algebra(order of operations, linear equations, piecewise functions, compound inequalities, and distance formula).

Session Resource Link: Bootstrap Algebra: Coding Video games with Algebra

Speakers

Ed Campos

Math/Computer Science, Orosi High School

Saturday September 9, 2017 1:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room P2

2 Hour Session

1:00pm PDT

Engaging Activities for the Middle School Math Classroom

Have you heard that Twitter is an amazing place for professional development, but don’t quite believe it? In this session, we will share our stories of becoming connected to each other and to teachers around the world through the Math-Twitter-Blog-o-Sphere, and how those connections have dramatically impacted our teaching. We will share numerous resources with which we have found success in our classrooms. Among others, experience and explore Open Middle, Visual Patterns, Which One Doesn’t Belong, Mathalicious, Desmos. Learn about the resources, how we use them in our 7/8 classrooms, and how our online collaborations have allowed us to deepen the learning in our classes.

Session Resource Link: http://bit.ly/2vQHm1E

Speakers

Kathy Henderson

Math Teacher

Casey McCormick

5-8 Math Teacher, Our Lady of the Assumption

Saturday September 9, 2017 1:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room P1

2 Hour Session

2:05pm PDT

Engaging Questioning Strategies in Math

Session Resource Link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Du7YBP5lE-T3BDcThGT3ppNUk

Speakers

Heidi Espindola

STEM Coordinator, Placer County Office of Education

With experience in STEM education, I now work with districts, schools and teachers to facilitate strategic planning through improvement science and professional learning, including coaching and lesson study in all areas of STEM. I am focused on building capacity and improving service... Read More →

Saturday September 9, 2017 2:05pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room 204

50 minute Session

2:05pm PDT

Learning Walks to Enhance Student & Teacher Learning

Come see how RJUHSD implemented a staff-wide learning walk over the school year, and are using data from the walks to drive professional development.

Session Resource Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1peL5UoBE3zhK-6W9RkK2Spmz0j-DwfSYn9Zd5A06MaE/edit?usp=sharing

Speakers

50 minute Session

2:05pm PDT

Modeling WITH Mathematics: The Myths and The Facts

Ask anyone what it means to model with mathematics and you will get different responses each time. Utilizing a variety of modeling tasks, we will uncover the myths and truths of Math Practice 4 (model with mathematics) and how to support students as they develop the ability to model with mathematics.

Session Resource Link: http://achievethecore.org/aligned/digging-deeper-into-smp-4-model-with-mathematics/

Speakers

Sarah Galasso

Director of Instructional Design, Math (6-12), Carnegie Team

Saturday September 9, 2017 2:05pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room 212

50 minute Session

3:05pm PDT

Inspire (John Eick) & Closing Raffle

Speakers

John Eick

Executive Director, Westlake Charter School

Saturday September 9, 2017 3:05pm - 3:45pm PDT
Theater

General Information