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NCTM 2025 Spring Conference
We’re excited to attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) 2025 Spring Conference, taking place February 5–7 in Kansas City! Formerly known as the NCTM Regional Conference & Exposition, this event has been renamed to highlight its nationwide appeal.
With the program theme, Championship Playbook: Empowering Our Students to Experience the World Through a Mathematical Lens, the conference offers inspiring sessions, keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and an exhibit hall showcasing the latest advancements in mathematics education.
We look forward to connecting with fellow educators and exploring innovative approaches to making mathematics engaging, relevant, and useful for all students. See you in Kansas City!
Presentations
Strengths-Based Approaches to Intervention Supporting All Students
Strengths-based approaches to intervention assume that all students are sensemakers. The goal of these approaches is to provide opportunities for each and every student to build on their strengths and develop positive mathematics identities. Strengths-based intervention is a process of inquiry to identify each student's strengths and then use those strengths to expand understanding. This session will explore pedagogies and resources that support educators in taking a strengths-based approach to intervention.
Corey Drake
Corey Drake is the senior director for professional learning at The Math Learning Center. She began her career in education as a middle school special education teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. Corey is committed to supporting teachers in using curriculum materials to teach diverse groups of students in equitable ways.
Telling Stories in Math Class
Storytelling is an important way for humans to make sense of new ideas and experiences. While stories often appear in elementary mathematics classrooms in the form of "story problems" or mathematizing children's storybooks, I suggest that providing more opportunities for storytelling in mathematics class can support all students in making sense of mathematics in deeper and more empowering ways. In this session, I will focus in particular on storytelling during widely used instructional routines.