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In A. Florio (Editor) Mathematics for every student: Responding to diversity, Grades 9-12 (pp. 103-115). Reston, Va: NCTM.

Author/Presenter

Herbel-Eisenmann, B.

Cirillo, M.

Skowronski, K.

Year
2009
Short Description

In A. Florio (Editor) Mathematics for every student: Responding to diversity, Grades 9-12 (pp. 103-115). Reston, Va: NCTM.

TED TALK -- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover

Author/Presenter

Dan Meyer

Year
2010
Short Description

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Teaching Mathematics, Teaching Students, Teaching Mathematics to Students (Thompson, Miller)

Author/Presenter

Patrick Thompson

Christina Miller

Year
2009
Short Description

This session considers teachers’ transitions from teacher-centered mathematics to student-centered mathematics, including issues of meaning, coherence, and learnability, as well as the importance of working with colleagues.

Target Inquiry: Transforming In‐Service Teacher Professional Development and Instruction in High School Chemistry (Yezierski, Herrington)

Author/Presenter

Ellen Yezierski

Deborah Herrington

Year
2009
Short Description

This session presents results of a four-year longitudinal, mixed-methods study showing how Target Inquiry affects teacher beliefs, transforms teacher practice, and increases student achievement.

Standards in K-12 Tech Literacy & Engineering: Implications for Design & Research (Schunn)

Author/Presenter

Christian Schunn

Year
2009
Short Description

Join the panelists from the plenary presentation to continue conversations about common
standards in each of the STEM disciplines.

Resource(s)

ScratchEd: Working with Teachers to Develop Design-Based Learning Approaches to the Cultivation of Computational Thinking

Author/Presenter

Karen Brennan

Mitch Resnick

Year
2010
Short Description

In this poster, we describe the goals of our research, our proposed model for professional development, our framing of design-based approaches to learning, and our framing of computational thinking.