TEACHER TALK 2025 - 2026
Teacher Talk Workshops - Let us know the topics that interest you! NY State teachers are eligible to receive CTLE hours for attending the workshop. These workshops are FREE.
Upcoming Teacher Talks
October 9th, 2025: Register Here
Dr. Bonita Manning-White - Exploring Math Concepts Hands-On
In this session, participants will use manipulatives to explore strategies that help grades 3–5 students connect hands-on learning to abstract math concepts.
Danielle Dargan - Talk Math to Me: Strategies to Boost Reasoning and Communication for Every Learner (Grades K–5)
This workshop shares practical strategies, tools, and routines to help K–5 students explain their thinking, build confidence, and engage in meaningful math conversations.
Christine King- Making Videos to Enhance the Solving of Word Problems
This session shows how to create and use short videos to help students—especially ELLs and SWDs—better understand word problems and build visual literacy.
ATMNE 2024: Teaching Students to Think with AI in the Math Classroom
Session Summary: AI tools are valuable resources to build and extend student thinking. In this session, you'll explore how AI can deepen students' mathematical understanding through the use of creative prompts. This hands-on, computer-based, minds-on experience will immerse you in practical classroom applications of AI. AI novices are welcome!
Resources: Prompts for SlideDeck, Learning About AI, Links to ChaptGPT, Google Gemini
NCTM 2024 - Chicago
Session Summary: Looking to enhance your teaching strategies? If 'Turn and Talk' isn't sparking the discourse and engagement you desire, join this session. You'll experience four easy-to-implement, research-backed techniques that promote peer-to-peer justification, evaluation, and idea synthesis.
ATMNE 2024, NCTE-NCTM 2024 Conference: Letting Learners Lead through Upside Down Teaching
Session Summary: Have you ever heard of upside-down teaching? This teaching structure turns the "I do, we do, you do" teaching structure upside down so that students lead the learning. This session provides participants with a tested, authentic process for implementing an upside-down teaching structure that allows all students to tap into their prior knowledge, collaborate, and show you what they know.
Handout: Upside-down Teaching Structure