FREE WEBINAR SERIES
Math That Moves Students
Reasoning. Routines. Results.
Math that Moves Students Webinar Series
As an educator, you know how challenging it can be to meet a wide range of student needs—while still keeping every learner engaged, thinking deeply, and making steady progress in math.
Effective math instruction is student-centered and responsive, helping students build understanding through reasoning, multiple representations, and meaningful discourse across grade levels.
That’s why we’re inviting you to join our free webinar series:
- Every Day Counts: Designing Core Instruction that Closes Gaps in Math | Wednesday, April 29 > Explore the Session
- From Exit Tickets to Action: Making Formative Data Teach Tomorrow | Tuesday, May 12 > Explore the Session
- From Patterns to Expressions: K–5 Algebraic Reasoning that Prepares Students for Algebra 1 > Watch the Webinar
- CGI in Action: Elicit, Interpret, and Advance Student Thinking |
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These sessions are ideal for K–8 Curriculum Leaders, Principals, Coaches, and Teachers.
Hosted by Great Minds®
Dr. Steven Shadel
Senior National Content Specialist,
Great Minds
Upcoming Sessions
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From Patterns to Expressions:
K–5 Algebraic Reasoning that Prepares Students for Algebra 1
Algebra is a story of expressions and structure that begins in Kindergarten. This session charts a practical progression from early relational thinking to the foundations of expressions and functions. You will explore tasks that reveal patterns, models, and strategies that endure through Algebra; while also learning how to use discourse and representations to make thinking visible.
Session outcomes:
- Understand the progression of algebraic techniques from K–Algebra.
- Identify K–5 progressions that cultivate early algebraic thinking.
- Use visuals (number line, arrays, tape diagrams) that connect to algebra.
- Leave with planning templates, talk moves, and ready-to-use tasks that build fluency and understanding.
CGI in Action:
Elicit, Interpret, and Advance Student Thinking
Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) positions students’ existing strengths and thinking as the engine for learning. This session makes CGI concrete for K–8 teachers: launch with contexts that invite multiple entry points, listen for student thinking, and connect representations across grade levels (number lines, arrays, tape diagrams). We’ll discuss teacher talk moves that press for meaning without over‑scaffolding, then capture thinking to impact future teaching.
Session outcomes:
- Design tasks that elicit diverse, developmentally appropriate strategies.
- Bridge student strategies to generalizable structures (not one‑off tricks).
- Document evidence to drive future instruction
- Leave with task frames, sample prompts, and “look-for” rubrics to use tomorrow to build on what students already know.
Every Day Counts:
Designing Core Instruction that Closes Gaps in Math
This session reframes “Tier 1 intervention” as responsive core instruction. We’ll model a daily flow of an exemplar math lesson using the Launch (hook students), Learn (guided inquiry with targeted scaffolds), Land (synthesize + exit ticket) structure and show how to use fast data to accelerate the next day’s lesson. You’ll build a menu of supports that preserve rigor while widening access: language routines, multiple representations and short re‑teach/preview loops tied to tomorrow’s objective. We’ll also align Tier 1 with Tier 2 & Tier 3 so supports are coherent across the system rather than siloed.
Session outcomes:
- Implement a Tier‑1‑first model that decreases downstream pull‑outs.
- Use exit tickets & observational assessments to plan next‑day fluency and task adjustments.
- Understand how to maximize tier 1 instruction to maintain consistent models and language.
- Walk away with lesson-planning protocols, re-teach guidance, and a ready-to-use checklist for immediate classroom use.
From Exit Tickets to Action:
Making Formative Data Teach Tomorrow
Formative assessment only matters when it drives tomorrow’s instruction. In this session, you’ll engage in a three-step cycle: See (gather evidence aligned to the lesson goal), Name (identify student needs), and Act (plan targeted next-day fluency, task variations, and discourse moves). Using Observational Assessment Recording Sheets (OARs), exit tickets, and other tools, you’ll learn to capture what counts - strategy use, representation shifts, and language evidence - and turn it into rigorous lesson plans
Session outcomes:
- Align formative assessments to big ideas and success criteria.
- Efficiently understand students’ needs and plan precise next‑day(s) responses.
- Use OARs and curriculum embedded tasks to track growth and communicate clearly with teams.
- Leave with exit-ticket sort protocols, re-teach/extend guides, and practical examples for using evidence in Tier 1 routines to build momentum.
