ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 6 Argumentation. Justification. Conjecture. All of these are practices we hope to cultivate, but they may not be practices we associate with kindergartners, first-, or second graders. What would it look like to encourage these practices with our youngest learners? Today we’ll talk about this question with Jody Guarino and Chepina Rumsey, authors of the book...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 5 Professional learning communities have been around for a long time, in many different iterations. But what does it look like to schedule and structure professional learning communities that help educators understand and respond to their students' thinking in meaningful ways? Today we’re talking with Summer Pettigrew and Megan Williams from the Charleston County...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 4 During their elementary years, students grapple with many topics that involve relationships between different units. In fact, unitizing serves as a foundation for much of the mathematics students encounter during their elementary years. Today, we’re talking with Beth Hulbert from the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) about the ways educators can encourage...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 3 As educators, we know offering students choice has a big impact on their engagement, identity, and sense of autonomy. That said, it's not always clear how to design choice into activities, especially when using curriculum materials. Today, we’re talking with Drs. Zandra De Araujo and Amber Candela about some of the ways educators can design choice into their...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 2 When it comes to curriculum, educators are often told to implement with fidelity. But what does fidelity mean, and where does that leave educators who want to be responsive to the students in their classrooms? Today we’re talking with Dr. Corey Drake about principles for responsive curriculum use that invite educators to respond to the students in their classrooms...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 1 We know from research that student collaboration can have a powerful impact on learning. That said, how we group students for collaboration matters — a lot. Today we’re talking with Dr. Peter Liljedahl, author of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics , about how educators can form productive, collaborative groups in their classrooms. More Episodes BIOGRAPHY...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 18 Earlier this season, we released an episode focused on the complex and interconnected set of concepts that students engage with when they learn to count. In this follow-up episode, we’re going to examine a powerful routine called counting collections. We’ll be talking with Danielle Robinson and Dr. Melissa Hedges from Milwaukee Public Schools about counting...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 17 Spatial reasoning can be a nebulous concept that is hard for many educators to define. In this episode, we’re talking about spatial reasoning with Dr. Robyn Pinilla from the University of Texas El Paso. We’ll examine the connections between spatial reasoning and other mathematical concepts and explore different ways that educators can cultivate this type of...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 16 In this episode, we are talking with Drs. Amber Candela and Melissa Boston about powerful but practical strategies for supporting student talk in the elementary math classroom. More Episodes RESOURCES Discourse Actions to Promote Student Access Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 15 Contextualized story problems are an important tool that educators use to bring mathematics to life for their students. That said, navigating the meaning and language found in story problems is a challenge for many students. Today we’re talking with Aina Appova and Julia Hagge from The Ohio State University about strategies to help students engage with and make...
