TEACHER TALK 2024 - 2025

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



May 15th, 2025: Register Here

  • Danielle Dargan - Minilessons for Math Practice: Versatile activities adaptable to various contexts.

    Let’s dive into fun math activities that students will love!

  • Dr. Cindy Washington - Supporting Students with Math Reasoning for Deep Understanding 

    Do you find yourself reteaching the same topics? Student understanding is a key factor in how often you have to reteach. Developing math reasoning for deep understanding involves fostering both conceptual understanding and the ability to explain, justify, and apply mathematical thinking. Come check out strategies for deepening student understanding!

  • TJ Jemison - Exploring the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions

    The way we are teaching math to elementary (and middle school) students is different from how many (most) of us learned math.  Teaching in a way that you did not learn is hard.  Learn how to leverage student strategies and thinking to position students to each other's' ideas


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

HMVAM 2024

Christine King
SCCTM 2022

Slide Deck: Using Math Manipulatives as Tools of Proof

Summary: Math manipulatives are often used as 'answer getting' tools. For example, when students are asked to show equivalent amounts to 3/4 using fraction bars, many students just match and see what fits. Are they thinking and developing a deep conceptual understanding of equivalence or are they just matching? This, handson session focuses on how to use readily available math manipulatives and materials in a way that fosters reasoning, justification, and flexible thinking. You will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how students at the upper elementary and middle school levels can model their thinking and understanding using math manipulatives.

Number Bead String Resources (from Amazon):

  • The list below will make 20 number bead strings.

  • I recommend each student making two number bead strings.

  • One for school use and 1 for home use.

  • Buy extra just in case beads get lost.

Nylon Shoelaces

White Pony Beads

Red Pony Beads

Give us some feedback please.

Christine King
Richland One School District - Dual Modalities Instruction

The focus of this workshop was allow participants to engage research-based strategies that support teaching in dual modality instructional settings. This session focused on the use of math tools (virtual and authentic), pedagogical structures that allow for partner/group work to include virtual and face-to-face learners, and examine 3 ways to gather formative assessment data in dual modality settings.

Slide Deck

Resources Mentioned

Classroom Videos

Christine King