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Wore my #mathisfigureoutable holiday tee to my staff party yesterday. Love making people smile about math. @pwharris, @kimmontague, and team have the best shirts!

I always love working with and learning alongside teachers and leaders. Today was extra special because the sports enthusiast in me LOVED presenting in the gym at @GC_CSC High School. What an amazing setup and facility they have! Slides on the scoreboards? Let’s go!

Whomever the kind soul is that found my water bottle and took it to the registration desk at #NCSM24, you WIN today! My water intake has been stellar at this conference, and I was feeling very disappointed in my irresponsible actions:)

Check out this full house of dedicated Indiana educators who spent their day with me and @Jeffharker314 who put in the WORK today to better understand effective Tier 1 instruction for Checkpoint 1 in mathematics. Their students are some seriously lucky kids!

Today was First 20ish Days workshop day. How we start our year in math class sets the tone for the entire year. If we want kids to be successful at learning math, we have to actually set them up for success. So honored educators chose to spend their day thinking about this!

Busy week started with an awesome day at @PikeSchools doing 4 sessions on some of my favorite topics at ElevatED. So much collaboration and so many great questions. Loved being there!

Watching @KinartailTanika, @RMurrayKINL, and @LenaDarnay lead educators through the entire TIE-IN experience is just a real treat. The way @KeepINLearning has grown and the people we have creating relevant, practical, and implementable PD and experiences is truly phenomenal.

We are 30 min in to the inaugural TIE-IN event & the panel from @IndianaFever has me 🤯 on how we can connect jobs in the sports industry to our classrooms. The TIE-IN opportunity from @EducateIN, @CIESCtweetsand @KeepINLearning is the real deal for educators. Check it out!

The opportunity to connect with other educators from all over is instrumental to my growth as a math educator and leader. These people and so many more are such a great support system whether online, via text, or showing up at my presentations. I’m so lucky.

Presenting at #BTCC24 this year was truly such a treat and an honor. Grateful for the opportunity to share and learn alongside so many educators. There is so much great math work happening out there and so much good work to continue to do. I’m here for it.

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Great time this weekend at #ICTM24! I did a terrible job taking pics to mark memories but I did an amazing job making memories. Shout out to @ryanflessner and @mccainm and very special shout out to @bscribb (all the way from Vermont!) for playing key roles in the memory making!

Hello, @nytimes. While “diamond” has become a socially acceptable term, the more mathematically correct term is “rhombus.” Please for the love of all that is good can we normalize the word “rhombus.” I don’t want to hear an argument about either being fine. It’s a rhombus.

Absolutely loved doing some model teaching @WISRocks this week. Students were phenomenal working collaboratively-some at vertical surfaces and some not depending on the tool they opted to use to solve problems. Kids can do just about anything when we give them a chance to do so!

Watching @ryanflessner prep for PD and teaching is genuinely fun. Each kit is carefully packed so everyone has what they need to play fact fluency games. These kits are for a cadre he has this spring. Lucky group of teachers! Supplies listed in replies:)

Grade 6 Courtney encourages you to register for Road to MidCon! Starts with @rickwormeli2 in January. I recently watched him present, and he is a DON'T MISS. Register now for Road to MidCon. It's free for a limited time! Let's go!

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Always a pleasure seeing you in action, @ryanflessner. Thinking alongside you and bringing all the participants on the mix is just plain fun. 💚 #NCTMDC23

The day after I modeled #choralcounting in a grade 4 classroom to help teach multiplicative comparison, another teacher tried it. She asked me to come to her room whenever I could to show me what her students had done with the same task. Her mind was blown. Kids are AWESOME.

Having lots of fun using @gfletchy and @TracyZager fact fluency games in the classrooms I’ve been doing some model teaching! @RitaCookZB I promise @ryanflessner isn’t the only Flessner using them😀. The Building Fact Fluency kits are really an awesome resource!

My first time in the audience in two days! What a great opportunity to be able to hear from educators who embrace BTC in their everyday work. #BTCC23

Who’s ready for #BTCC23 Day 1? It’s going to be an incredible day of learning, collaborating, and fun! Team @KeepINLearning and @myfcs is ready for you! Let’s go!

Recently, I’ve wrapped #IMLA22 and #EMPACT22 (with @ryanflessner), interviewed @TammyMcMorrow for @mathandothers, been working diligently on the #BTCC23 schedule of presenters, and was introduced to @MagmaMath. The gratitude I have for educators DOING THE WORK is abundant.

Just so you know, because I haven’t mentioned it enough on this platform, this conference will NOT be a waste of your time. Get yourself registered!

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Hard at work scheduling for the #BTCC23 Conference. I know I keep saying it’s going to be such a great two days, but seeing it all laid out is getting me pretty excited. You should register for these two days! @JLMillerIC @RMurrayKINL #thinkingclassrooms @pgliljedahl

K teachers sorted dot cards today and then we’re asked to depict their sort on the @Wipebook charts. The conversations and collaboration were so cool! When done, they looked at each other’s documentation in a museum walk, made observations, and reflected on what they learned.

Today, first grade teachers documented their thinking on @Wipebook charts. They’re playing the best fact fluency game, Bump, listening to each other, and writing down what their partner is saying. The vertical surfaces make the ability to learn from each other so much easier!

Over the course of 2 days, I did the “Save the Last Word” protocol from @SchoolReformInc with grade 2-5 teachers reading @NCTM’s procedural fluency statement. Every word teachers chose is on this @Wipebook chart to preserve until I add K-1 teacher’s words in April!

During a break, grade 4 teachers continued the conversation we were having on procedural fluency using documentation from math teachers did. pairs/triads of teachers moved around the room noticing the thinking on @Wipebook charts. VNPS made this possible! #thinkingclassrooms

Today, 5th grade teachers moved new (to me) games from @gfletchy and @TracyZager’s #buildingfactfluency to vertical surfaces on @Wipebook charts to document mathematical thinking. While one partner described her thinking, the other scribed using numbers and symbols. LOVED this!

This afternoon second grade teachers played fact fluency games and scribed their mathematical thinking on @Wipebook original charts. A museum walk afterwards engaged them in incredible conversation about how important it is to teach students there’s no one way to think!

Third grade teachers thin-sliced this morning using @Wipebook original charts that were sent to me to use in PD! Teachers did the coolest thinking and the “reusable”chart paper is CLUTCH!

@KeepINLearning has given me the chance to think alongside and with the coolest people. Such a pleasure presenting at @IndianaCTM #ICTM23 today! Proud to be a part of this group!

We are underway with Day 5 of #IMLA22. 5 cohorts in, and I continue to be in awe of the growth teachers and leaders have going through this process. Indiana has some amazing math leaders!

Amazing meeting with @myfcs yesterday talking through all the logistics of the Building Thinking Classrooms Conference June 29-30 in Franklin, IN. Call for proposals and registration coming SOON. More info here: keepindianalearning.org/events/buildin…. Conference is open to ANYONE! @pgliljedahl

@LenaDarnay you taught me something today, and you don’t even know it. I am so very grateful for your support, trust, guidance, and leadership. #INLearningPartner

I’ve had the privilege and honor to lead @KeepINLearning’s IMLA, Project EM-PACT, and Big Math Ideas Instructional Leadership Cadre. Each group is achieving different goals, and I learn so much alongside each member. #INLearningPartner

@ryanflessner, I learn more and more every year with you. Cheers to all the learning thus far and all that is to come. We’re kind of tired, but we’ve only just begun! #INLearningPartner @ryanflessner @butleru @ButlerCOE

Some days are harder than others. And on the very hardest days, I know my team has my back. @LenaDarnay, @e_johnson2022, @JLMillerIC, @mlhoofer, @MorganKMason, @KinartailTanika, @Jeffharker314, @AMcCammon_, @AmandaCulhan you all are the very best.

So grateful for the #elemmathchat community on Twitter and hoping to stay connected in 2023. @ElemMathChat - thank you for scheduling these amazing chats and making this happen! #INLearningPartner

Project EM-PACT participants are starting Day 4, our first day together since school started, by sharing celebrations and hearing about how they’ve applied what they learned over the summer. Teacher collaboration across districts is a key component of Project EM-PACT. #EMPACT22

#IMLA22 participants engage in @thinkingclssrms non-curricular tasks on vertical surfaces and then notice which of the @nctm 8 effective teaching practices were in place while doing so. Thanks to @Jeffharker314 for guiding us through this process! @KeepINLearning

Day 4, first gathering since summer, of #IMLA22. 45 minutes in and the discussions of leading schools in ambitious and equitable math teaching is already so powerful! @KeepINLearning

@MandyMathEd graciously credits the grad students who shared this image with her. Then, she shares they told her to thank the Staples website. Why have I NEVER thought of getting images from such sources? Learning lots more but wanted the internet to know this one! #NCSM2022

Anyone who knows me knows how much the unstructured “turn and talk” makes me crazy because it doesn’t guarantee discourse. @AmyLucenta and @GraceKelemanik have awesome thoughts around this: steps in reply! #ncsm2022

@Jeffharker314 opening @myfcs PD day for the entire district. I’m so proud of him and honored to work and learn side by side with him. The @KeepINLearning professional learning team is seriously fab.

It was a serious joy visiting @MrsAugerMath’s 7th grade classroom today. Her routines truly create a space where children collaborate and think while she moves around and facilitates learning. Every child deserves to learn this way. What an inspiration!

I’m doing a thing that I’ve thought about forever, and it’s evolved into something I think is going to be super cool (if I do say so myself). Follow @mathandothers and check out the trailer on @Spotify and @iTunes for Math and Other Things. Episode 1 coming soon!

Project EM-PACT is about bringing teachers together to engage in mathematics as a learner & teacher. You come with a partner, set goals, & so much more. This first group to guide through this process is a real gift - as is @ryanflessner, MY thinking partner. #EMPACT22

Day 2 of #EMPACT22 and the pattern blocks are out! (P.S. Can someone PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE make some pattern block emojis? All I can find are 🔷 and 🟧) @ryanflessner @KeepINLearning

When @ryanflessner starts organize pattern blocks you know things are getting real. #iteachmath #yaymath

I just love all of the thinking and learning happening at the #CGIFlorida conference! Participants in our session this morning worked so hard collaborating and reflecting on using student work as mentor texts to guide classroom dialogue. I’m legitimately impressed!

Hey @ryanflessner! We took a selfie in our session at #CGIFlorida this morning to say, hi and we missed you! Thanks for all you do to inspire even from a distance!

“You need to believe you can teach every child.” - Dr. Moscardini. Focus only on the right side of this table! #CGIFlorida

I could analyze and talk about student work all the live long day. I sure do wish the kid who did this were here right now! #CGIFlorida

I am in awe at how hard the elementary math teacher leaders are thinking this afternoon! #IMLA22

#IMLA22 - IN PERSON! - is underway @KeepINLearning. We are hearing about the history of the Indiana Math Leadership Academy from @SherylStump and gearing up for 3 FAB days of learning!

I love technology. @wbny Zooming in to talk phonics, the need for a structured scope and sequence, how phonics is about building off ideas from week to week, and designing a schedule that will provide appropriate time for students to practice. Loving this opportunity! #KNLit2022.

It’s an awesomely packed house of Indiana educators @KeepINLearning today listening to a seriously fabulous keynote by @nellkduke. So many takeaways. If you’re not already, make sure you follow her work! #KINLit2022

@ryanflessner and I are presenting together (for the first time in a long time!) next week at @KeepINLearning #VirtuallyDifferent Conference. You should sign up (it's $25 for a LOT of great content), and it's all virtual. Just do it! keepindianalearning.org/conferences-su…

Just in case you didn’t see the last tweet, here’s the link for you again. Even I pulled these up today to use as a resource. So handy. Really excited for next week’s round 2 of progressions too. Teachers NEED these. Please share! keepindianalearning.org/big-math-ideas/

Totally amazing modeling of finding change in a classroom this morning. Arrow language and manipulatives that kids can count when they’re done. Amazing listening to them think and discuss what should come next. #yaymath