In this 5-day workshop, we focus on building thinking classrooms (BTC). Delve into the four research-based toolkits shown to foster active learning, engagement, and mathematical thinking in any classroom setting. Explore how to integrate the 3 Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Signature Practices into your routines, and how they can help you fine tune your thinking classroom by enhancing student belonging and motivation. Twice in this series, you will participate in a team-driven Task Study utilizing summer school classrooms. Deepen your understanding of the macro & micro moves found in the (BTC) practices so that you can apply them in your own classroom.

School and district teams are invited to this day-long professional development opportunity with Dr. Steven Constantino, national expert on equity focused family engagement. Align your team around Dr. Constantino’s logic model for family engagement and put your district on a path to higher and more consistent student achievement. Reflections about implicit bias, equitable learning outcomes, and the role family engagement plays, A deeper dive into the idea of family efficacy, or empowering families to work alongside teachers for improved learning, A nuanced switch from building to developing relationships, and how trust is at the core of that subtle difference