Presentations

mRLC, virtual (Oct 7-8, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Virginia Commonwealth University (Sept 18, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

ERLC, Edmonton (March 6, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

SD#74 + SD#58, Merritt (Feb 21, 2020)

  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Outcomes-based Assessment [pptx]
  • 4 Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]

TIE-BC Conference, Richmond (Feb 20, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Alberta Conference Teacher Convention, Lacombe (Feb 19, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Jan 23, 2020)

ISOMA Conference, Toronto (Jan 16, 2020)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Winnipeg School Board (Jan 8-10, 2020)


Archived Presentations

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Dec 11, 2019)

SAPDC, Medicine Hat (Dec 10, 2019)

SAPDC, Lethbridge (Dec 9, 2019)

Novemberkonferansen, Trondheim, Norway (Nov 26-27, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Sudbury Catholic School Board (Nov 15-16, 2019)

South Surrey Math Teachers Association (Nov 6, 2019)

SD#74 + SD#58, Ashcroft (Nov 5, 2019)

Prairie Spirit School Division, Warman, Sask. (Oct 31-Nov 1, 2019)

Living Sky School Division, North Battleford, Sask. (Oct 30, 2019)

Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, Sask. (Oct 29, 2019)

BCAMT Conference, Surrey (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Pembina Trails School Division, Winnipeg (Oct 23-24, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems

Halton Catholic District School Board, Oakville (Oct 18, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • 4 Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]

Sudbury Catholic School Board (Oct 16-17, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems

Numeracy Performance Tasks, Victoria (Oct 10, 2019)

  • How to Build a Numeracy Task [link]
  • Numeracy Definitions [docx]
  • Numeracy Cycle [pptx]
  • Vancouver, you’re using escalators wrong, but that’s (mostly) OK [CBC]
  • Trudeau’s claim that Canada is ‘on track’ to meet 2030 climate target is misleading [CBC]

SD#74 + SD#58, Ashcroft (Oct 8, 2019)

Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (Oct 4, 2019)

Prairie Spirit School Division, Warman, Saskatchewan (Oct 3, 2019)

  • 4 Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]
  • What Teachers Want out of Professional Development [pptx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems

Living Sky School Division, North Battleford, Saskatchewan (Oct 2, 2019)

Warman, Saskatchewan (Oct 1, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • What Teachers Want out of Professional Development [pptx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems

Warman, Saskatchewan (Sept 30, 2019)

Kootenay Lake School District, Nelson (Sept 20, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Kootenay-Columbia School District, Trail (Sept 19, 2019)

Winnipeg School Board (Sept 11-13, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Manitoba Rural Learning Consortium, (mRLC), Portage la Prairie (Sept 10, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Matematikvejlederkonference, Odense, Denmark (Sept 5, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Kootenay-Columbia School District, Trail (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]

Boundary School District, Grand Forks (Aug 28, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Comox Valley School District, Comox (Aug 27, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]

The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), Pretoria, South Africa (July 6-12, 2019)

  • Institutional Norms: The Assumed, the Actual, and the Possible [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Szkoła Edukacji, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Poland (June 26-27, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

University of Iceland, Reykjavik (June 19-20, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Thames Valley District School Board, London (June 10-13, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]

Halton Catholic District School Board, Oakville (June 7-11, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]

Szkoła Edukacji, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Poland (April 13-15, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (April 17, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

Levinski College, Tel Aviv, Israel (April 15, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

Szkoła Edukacji, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Poland (March 25-27, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy (March 19, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

University of Naples Federico II, Italy (March 15, 22, 29, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Greater Edmonton  Teachers’ Convention, Edmonton (March 1, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Margaret Sinclair Talk, Fields Institute, Toronto (Feb 23, 2019)

  • Thinking about Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Vernon School District, Vernon (Feb 22, 2019)

Lynden School Districts (Feb 19-20, 2019)

  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

Prairie Spirit School Division + Friends, Martensville, Saskatchewan (Feb 15, 2019)

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Feb 12-14, 2019)

Congress of the European Researchers of Mathematics Education, Utrecht, Netherlands (Feb 6-10, 2019)

  • Work done by TWG 8 in the previous CERME: The past, the present
    and the future [pptx]
  • Beliefs about Becoming Researchers [pptx]

Surrey Association of Mathematics Teachers (Jan 30, 2019)

Prairie Spirit School Division + Friends, Warman, Saskatchewan (Jan 18, 2019)

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Jan 15-17, 2019)

St. Albert Public School District (Jan 14, 2019)

ASCD Mannitoba, Winnipeg (Jan 10, 2019)

Winnipeg School District (Jan 9-11, 2019)

  • Myth of Objectivity [pdf]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]

Bellingham-Lynden-Sedro Woolley School Districts, Bellingham (Jan 8, 2019)

  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Good Problems
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]

Langley School District (Jan 7, 2019)

  • Myth of Objectivity [pdf]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]

UBC Faculty of Education (Jan 7, 2019)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Instytut Matematyki, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie, Kraków, Poland (Dec 13-14, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Mathematicians on Creativity [book | pptx]

Szkoła Edukacji, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Poland (Dec 10-11, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]

Sudbury Catholic School Board (Dec 6-7, 2018)

  • Myth of Objectivity [pdf]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario, Ottawa (Dec 3-5, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces Options [from Karine Rozon]
  • Monitoring in a Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Myth of Objectivity [pdf]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Pruner’s Math tasks [pdf]

NCTM Regional Conference, Seattle (Nov 28-30, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • SmudgedMath [pptx]

Langley School District (Nov 26, 2018)

St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, Waterloo (Nov 23, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Noticing Thinking Classroom Practices [pptx]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (Nov 19-22, 2018)

  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]
  • Myth of Objectivity [pdf]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]

Waterloo Catholic District School Board (Nov 16, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, Belleville (Nov 13-15, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Laura’s Course Packs – meaningful notes [Math 9 | MFM2P | MPM2D]
  • Problems Worth Solving – grade 8 (with links to Ontario curriculum) [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

QSLMA Mini Connect 2018, Kingston (Nov 12, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – system theory [pptx]

Limestone District School Board, Kingston (Nov 12, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Vernon School District, Vernon (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Nov 5-7, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]
  • What Teachers Want from Professional Development [pptx]

NCTM Regional Conference, Kansas City (Nov 3, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Thames Valley District School Board, London (Oct 31, 2018)

Sudbury Catholic School Board (Oct 29-30, 2018)

  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (Oct 23-27, 2018)

Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario, Ottawa (Oct 22, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Winnipeg (Oct 15-17, 2018)

Bellingham-Lynden-Sedro Woolley school Districts, Bellingham (Oct 4-5, 2018)

Kamloops School District (Oct 2, 2018) 

  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

Langley School District (Oct 1, 2018)

Renfrew County District School Board, Pembroke (Sept 24+28, 2018)

Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario, Ottawa (Sept 25-27, 2018)

Peel District School Board, Mississauga (Sept 20, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Halton Catholic District School Board, Oakville (Sept 20-21, 2018)

Sudbury Catholic School Board (Sept 18-19, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Thames Valley District School Board, London (Sept 17, 2018)

Prairie Spirit School Division, Warman (Sept 12-13, 2018)

Winnipeg School District (Sept 10-11, 2018)

Kootenay School District, Nelson (Sept 7, 2018)

Halton District School Board, Burlington (Aug 30, 2018)

King’s Christian Collegiate, Oakville (Aug 28-29, 2018)

BC School Superintendents Association (BCSSA), Kelowna (Aug 15-16, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – ignite [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms – plenary [pptx]

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (Aug 13-14, 2018)

PCMI, Park City, USA (July 17, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Halton Catholic District School Board, Oakville (June 19, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]

Sudbury Catholic School Board (June 18, 2018)

Southeast Kootenay and Rocky Mountain School Districts, St. Eugene Mission (June 14, 2018)

Collingwood School, West Vancouver (June 11, 2018)

  • Jenny’s Assessment [pptx]

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (May 23-24, 2018)

  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Thames Valley District School Board, London (May 22, 2018)

  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Vernon Teachers’ Association Professional Day (May 18, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Mission School District (May 14, 2018)

Learning Together Conference, SFU (May 12, 2018)

  • Writing for Publication [pptx]

Innovation in Education: Cmolik Engagement Series, Kelowna (May 10, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators (OAME), Toronto (May 3-4, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – keynote [pptx]
  • Video of Thinking Class [Twitter]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms – fireside chat [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces Options [from Karine Rozon]
  • Teaching Through Problems Worth Solving – grade 8

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (May 1-2, 2018)

Thames Valley District School Board, London (April 30, 2018)

Hanover School District, Steinbach (April 25, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Mission School District (April 23, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

NRLC, Grande Prairie (April 17-20, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario, Ottawa (March 20-22, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

West Point Gray Academy, Vancouver (March 12, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Jenny’s Assessment [docx]

Lynden and Bellingham School Districts (March 7, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Winnipeg School District (March 1-2, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Central Okanagan Teachers Association Conference, Kelowna (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Vernon School District, Vernon (Feb 22, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Norma Rose Point School, Vancouver (Feb 19, 2018)

Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association, Hockley Valley (Feb 15-16, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms I [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms II [pptx]

Maple Ridge School District (Feb 13, 2018)

Quesnel School District Curriculum Day (Feb 9, 2018)

West Point Grey Academy (Feb 5, 2018)

Southeast Kootenay and Rocky Mountain School Districts, Kimberley (Feb 1, 2018)

Vernon School District, Vernon (Jan 29, 2018)

Matematikbiennalen 2018, Karlstad, Sweden (Jan 25-26, 2018)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

MADIF-11, Karlstad, Sweden (Jan 24, 2018)

  • What Teachers Want from Professional Development [pptx]

Lynden and Bellingham School Districts (Jan 10, 2018)

West Point Grey Academy (Jan 8, 2018)

Brentwood College (Jan 3, 2018)

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Dec 5-7, 2017)

Problem Solving in Patagonia, Chile (Nov 28-Dec 1, 2017)

  • Student Problem Solving Behaviour in a Thinking Classroom [pptx]

Punta Arenas, Chile (Nov 27, 2017)

  • Construyendo Ambientes que Faciliten la Resolución de Problemas [pptx]
  • Las Torres de Peter [docx | template | url]

OAME Leadership Conference, Ottawa (Nov 10, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – keynote [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms - breakout [pptx]

University of Ottawa (Nov 8, 2017)

  • Flow in the Classroom: Looking at Teacher Moves and Students’ Autonomous Actions [pptx]

Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, Belleville, Ontario (Nov 6-7, 2017)

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (Oct 24-26, 2017)

  • Assessment for the Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • 4 Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]

Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario, Ottawa (Oct 23 & 27, 2017)

Montana Council for Mathematics Teachers, Missoula (Oct 19, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

University of Montana, Missoula (Oct 18, 2017)

  • What is the Nature of Illumination? [pptx]

Milano Teachers, Italy (Oct 11, 2017)

MAVI 23 - Essen, Germany (Oct 4-6, 2017)

  • Affect as a System: The Case of Sara [pptx]

Thames Valley District School Board, London (Sept 28, 2017)

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (Sept 26, 27, 29, 2017)

St. John Paul II School, Grande Prairie (Sept 22, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms (day 2) [pptx]

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Sept 20-21, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Winnipeg School District (Sept 13-15, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms (Sept 13-14) [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms (Sept 15) [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url]

St. John Paul II School, Grande Prairie (Aug 31, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

CirConference, Calgary Board of Education (Aug 29, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

NIMS & KSME, Daejeon, Korea (July 26-28, 2017)

  • Flow and the Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • 10 Things You Need to Know to Get Published [pptx]

PME 41, Singapore (July 17-22, 2017)

  • Creative Process vs. Creative Product: Challenges with Measuring Creativity [pptx]
  • Exploring Generative Moments of Interaction between Mathematics Teachers on Social Media [pptx]
  • Mathematics Teacher Learning and Doing Within Professional Development [pptx]

Mathematical Transgressions Conference, Krakow, Poland (June 18-23, 2017)

  • Top 10 Things to Consider if you Want to Get Published [pptx]
  • On the Edges of Flow: Students’ Autonomous Problem Solving Behaviour [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Eagle Mountain Middle School, Port Moody (May 19, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Edmonton Public School Board, Edmonton (May 15, 2017)

myPITA Conference, Whistler (May 12, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Assessment for a Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Delta School District, Delta (May 9, 2017)

West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver (May 8, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

York Regional District School Board, Toronto (May 5, 2017)

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (April 19-20, 2017)

Regional Specialist Associations, Kimberley (April 10, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Lynden School District, Washington (March 17, 2017)

Global Math Department (March 14, 2017)

Southeast Kootenay and Rocky Mountain School Districts, Cranbrook (March 10, 2017)

NRLC, Grande Prairie (March 8, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf]

St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Winnipeg (March 1, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Ottawa (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

York House, Vancouver (Feb 10, 2017)

NRLC, Grande Prairie (Feb 9, 2017)

CERME 10 – Dublin, Ireland (Feb 2, 2017)

  • On the Edges of Flow [pptx]

Delta School District (Jan 30, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

PDP Fine Arts Module, SFU (Jan 26, 2017)

  • Assessment [pptx]
  • Primary Rubrics [pdf]

Okanagan Similkameen and Okanagan Skaha School District, Oliver (Jan 25, 2017)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Burnaby School District (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

York House, Vancouver (Dec 15, 2016)

North Vancouver School District (Dec 5, 2016)

Beijing Normal University, China (Nov 18, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms: A Story of Teacher Professional Development [pptx]

Vernon School District, Vernon (Nov 14-15, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classroom [pptx]

International Forum for the Professional Development of Teachers – Seoul, Korea (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms: A Story of Teacher Professional Development [pptx]

Korean Society for Mathematics Education (KSME) Forum – Seoul, Korea (Nov 2, 2016)

  • Flow: A Framework for Discussion Teaching [pptx]

Seoul National University Graduate Seminar – Seoul, Korea (Oct 31, 2016)

  • In the Words of the Creators [pptx]

Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association Conference (MCATA), Canmore, Alberta (Oct 21-22, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Visibly Random Groups [pdf]
  • Flow: A Framework for Discussing Teaching [pdf]
  • Flow: Student Autonomous Action [pdf]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile (Oct 13, 2016)

  • Flow in the Classroom [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf]
  • Visibly Random Groups [pdf]
  • Flow: A Framework for Discussing Teaching [pdf]

Detroit Area Council of Mathematics Teachers – DACMT (Oct 8, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Visibly Random Groups [pdf]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

North Vancouver School District (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pdf | pptx]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Ottawa Catholic School District, Ottawa (Sept 27-30, 2016)

  • Creating flow [pptx]
  • Teaching for Flow [pdf]
  • Student Autonomous Actions and Flow [pdf]
  • Vertical Surfaces [docx from Rob Cop]

Burnaby South Secondary, Burnaby (Sept 23, 2016)

Okanagan Similkameen and Okanagan Skaha School District, Oliver (Sept 20, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

BCAMT Leadership Summit, North Vancouver (Sept 19, 2016)

  • Assessment in the New Curriculum [pptx]

MAVI 22 – Växjö, Sweden (Sept 13-15, 2016)

  • Relationship between Proxies for Learning and Mathematically Related Beliefs [pptx]

PME 40, Szeged, Hungary (July 3-7)

  • Flow: A Framework for Discussing Teaching [pptx]

ICME 13, Hamburg, Germany (July 24-31)

  • Top 10 Things to Consider When Submitting to IJSME [pptx]
  • Kilpatrick on Writing for JRME [pdf]
  • Classroom Practices for Supporting Problem Solving [pptx]

Park City Math Institute (July 18, 2016)

  • Building thinking Classrooms [pptx | pdf]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

York House, Vancouver (June 14, 2016)

Vernon School District, Vernon (May 19, 2016)

  • Assessment for a Thinking Classroom [pptx]

York House, Vancouver (May 16, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Health and Physical Education Council (HPEC), Alberta Conference, Grande Prairie (May 14, 2016)

  • Mental Training for Athletes [pptx]
  • Mental Training Skills for Sports: A Brief Review [pdf]
  • The Accidental Athlete [pptx]

St. Joseph Catholic High School, Grande Prairie (May 13, 2016)

Peace River School District, Dawson Creek (May 9, 2016)

  • Assessment for a Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Rubric Template [docx]

Okanagan Similkameen School District, Oliver (May 4, 2016)

  • Assessment for a Thinking Classroom [pptx]

Hanover School Division – Steinbach, Manitoba (April 27-29, 2016)

St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Winnipeg (April 26, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Review Test Feedback [pptx]

Moscrop Secondary School, Burnaby (April 25, 2016)

Vernon School District, Vernon (April 21, 2016)

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (April 18, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]
  • Flow [pptx]

Peace River School District, Dawson Creek (April 11, 2016)

  • Fractals [pdf]

University of Helsinki, Finland (March 17, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

St. James-Assiniboia School Division, Winnipeg (March 10-11, 2016)

Ottawa Catholic School Board, Ottawa (March 2-4, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – teachers [pptx]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms – administrators [pptx]
  • Assessment for a Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url | 3 x 3]
  • Frank Ryan Catholic Intermediate School Success [video link]

Peace River School District, Dawson Creek (Feb 29, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms (workshop) [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

University of Wollongong, Australia (Feb 23-24, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms (workshop) [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url | 3 x 3]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms (seminar) [pptx]

SD41 Home Ec. Teachers, Burnaby (Feb 19, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Oralie’s Term Assessment [doc]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

Hanover School Division – Steinbach, Manitoba (Feb 10-12, 2016)

Fields Institute MathEd Forum – Skype (Jan 30, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Collingwood School – West Vancouver (Jan 25, 2016)

  • Assessment for the 21st Century [pptx]

Gulf Island School District – Ganges (Jan 15, 2016)

MISA/PNC Celebration of Thinking Through Collaboration – Kingston (Jan 7-8, 2016)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Engaging Students: Understanding Flow [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (Jan 6, 2016)

  • Assessment for a Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Okanagan Similkameen School District (Dec 9, 2015)

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (Dec 7, 2015)

Cariboo High School (Nov 27, 2015)

  • Conceptualizing and Actualizing the New Curriculum [pptx]

MAVI 21 – Milan, Italy (Nov 17-19, 2015)

  • Numeracy Task Design: A Case of Teacher Change [pptx]

Burnaby Learning Team (Nov 13, 2015)

Okanagan Similkameen School District (Nov 9, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

Queen’s University – Kingston (Nov 5, 2015)

  • Illumination [pptx]

Mother Theresa High School – Ottawa (Nov 4, 2015)

Professional Development Seminar – Richmond (Nov 3, 2015)

  • Assessment for the 21st Century Classroom [pptx]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • Static Cling White Boards [Amazon.ca]

Aiming for Excellence – Dawson Creek (Oct 26-27, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf | template | url]
  • Assessment in the Thinking Classroom [pptx]

Northwest Mathematics Conference – Whistler (Oct 22-24, 2015)

  • New Curriculum [pptx]
  • Big Ideas [pdf]
  • Questions from Sandra [pdf]
  • Teaching for Flow [pptx]

North Vancouver School District (October 22, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – part II [pptx]

Hanover School Division – Steinbach, Manitoba (Oct 15-17, 2015)

North Vancouver School District (October 7, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms – part I [pptx]

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Sept 30, 2015)

  • Action Research in Action [pptx]

Moscrop Secondary School, Burnaby (Sept 25, 2015)

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (Sept 23, 2015)

  • Fractals [docx]
  • Producibles [docx]
  • Group Tests [url]
  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • New Curriculum [pptx]

Okanagan Similkameen School District (Sept 2, 2015)

  • Learning or Studenting [pptx]

PME 39 – Hobart, Australia (July 13-18, 2015)

  • Teacher Tensions [pptx]

Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile (July 9, 2015)

Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile (July 7, 2015) 

  • Pólya, Cards, and Csíkszentmihályi: The Phenomenon of Flow [pptx]

CMESG 2015 - Université de Moncton (June 5-9, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Kamloops/Thompson School District – Kamloops (May 11, 2015)

Changing the Culture – Vancouver (May 8, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

OECTA – Toronto (May 2, 2015)

  • Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]

Hanover School Division – Steinbach, Manitoba (April 29-30, 2015)

Professional Development Seminar – Richmond (April 10, 2015)

  • Problem Based Learning: Building Thinking Classrooms [pptx]
  • Skyscrapers [pdf]

Berkshire Park Elementary – Surrey (April 1, 2015)

  • Skyscrapers [pdf]

Adult Basic Mathematics Education – Vancouver (March 6, 2015)

  • Thinking, Learning, or Studenting – The View from the Back of the Classroom [pptx]

Interior Mathematics Conference – Kamloops (Feb 20, 2015)

  • Building a Thinking Classroom [pptx]
  • Flow [pdf]
  • Studenting: The Case of Homework [pdf]
  • Studenting: The case of “now you try one” [pdf]
  • The affordances of using visually random groups in a mathematics classroom [pdf]
  • Building thinking classrooms: Conditions for Problem Solving [pdf]

CERME 9 – Prague, Czech Republic (Feb 2-4, 2015)

  • Emotions as an Orienting Experience [pptx]

Symposium – Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (Feb 2, 2015) 

  • Mathematicians on Creativity [pptx]
  • Studenting: Behind the Façade [pptx]
  • Building a Thinking Classroom [pptx]

MAVI 20 – Falun, Sweden (Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2014)

  • Emotions as Orienting Experiences [pptx]
  • Seeing Student’s Interactions Through Teachers’ Eyes [pptx]

Changing the Culture – Vancouver (May 16, 2014)

  • Panel – Motivating Students [pptx]

Symposium on Teaching and Learning – SFU (May 14, 2014)

  • Your Turn to Deal [pptx]

Canadian Mathematics Education Forum – Ottawa (May 1-4, 2014)

  • Environments to Occasion Problem Solving [pptx]
  • Bootstrapping Thinking: The Role of Mathematical Tasks [pptx]

Workshop in Mathematics Problem Solving – Santiago, Chile (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Environments to Occasion Problem Solving [pptx]

Université du Québec à Montréal Colloquim – Montreal (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Studenting: What Really Happens in a Mathematics Classroom [pptx]

National Taiwan Normal University Colloquium - Taipei, Taiwan (Oct 24, 2013)

  • New Frameworks for Looking at Student Interactions [pptx]

MAVI 19 – Freiburg, Germany (Sept 27-29, 2013)

  • Students’ Gazes: New Insights into Student Interactions [pptx]

PME 37 – Kiel, Germany (July 28-Aug 2, 2013)

  • Studenting: The case of “Now you Try one” [pptx]

Instituto de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso – Valparaiso, Chile (June 21, 2013)

  • The Affordances of Using Visibly Random Groups in the Mathematics Classroom [pptx]
  • The Affordances of Using Visibly Random Groups in the Mathematics Classroom – article [pdf]

Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile (June 20, 2013)

  • What Teachers Want [pptx]
  • What Teachers Want – article [pdf]

Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile (June 18, 2013) 

  • Rapid and Profound Mathematics Teacher Change [pptx]
  • Rapid and Profound Mathematics Teacher Change – article [pdf]

Lectures in Mathematics Education – Vaxjö, Sweden (May 15, 2013)

  • The Hidden Classroom: A Look Behind the Façade of Learning [pptx]

BCAMT New Teacher Conference – Surrey (Feb 16, 2013)

  • Teaching and Studenting: Observations from the Back of the Classroom [pptx]

Delta District Day (Feb 15, 2013)

  • Studenting in the Mathematics Classroom: Gaming vs. Learning [pptx]

CERME 8 – Antalya, Turkey (Feb 6, 2013)

  • Approaching Professional Learning: Teachers’ Goals [pptx]

Burnaby North Pro-D – Burnaby (Nov 19, 2012) 

  • Rethinking Student Thinking [pptx]

MAVI 18 – Helsinki, Finland (Sept 10-16, 2012)

  • Illumination: Cognitive or affective?  [pptx]

PME 36 – Taipei, Taiwan (July 18-22, 2012)

  • Rapid and Profound Teacher Change [pptx]
  • Not Normal Norms [pptx]

Lillian Osborne High School – Edmonton (June 26, 2012)

  • Problems Used [docx]

Alberta Webinar #3 (April 23, 2012)

  • Use Thinking [pptx]

Alberta Webinar #2 (March 19, 2012)

  • Keep Thinking [pptx]
  • Four Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]

Sherwood Park (March 2, 2012)

  • What are the skills? [pdf]
  • Blank Rubric [docx]
  • World’s Hardest Easy Geometry Problem [link]

Alberta Webinar #1 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Initiating Thinking [pptx]

SD 36 District Day – Surrey (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Numeracy Tasks [pptx]
  • What are the skills? [pdf]

Math Institute – Edmonton, Alberta (Jan 26, 2012)

  • What is the Question? [pptx]
  • Math 10-12 – front matter [pdf]
  • Math 11-12 – specific outcomes [pdf]
  • Problem Set [docx]
  • Resources [docx]

Edmonton Pro-D (Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2011)

  • for numeracy tasks click here
  • Blank Rubrick [doc]
  • Producibles [doc]
  • Re-Writes [doc]
  • Evaluate What We Value [pdf]
  • Four Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]

BCAMT Conference – Burnaby (Oct 21, 2011)

  • Lessons Learned While NOT Teaching [ppt]

Linnaeus University Colloquium – Växjö, Sweden (Sept 21-23, 2011)

  • Mathematics Education: A BC Perspective [ppt]
  • The theory of conceptual change as a theory for changing conceptions [ppt]

MAVI 17 – Bochum, Germany (Sept 17-20, 2011)

  • The theory of conceptual change as a theory for changing conceptions [ppt]

Calgary Pro-D (March 14-15, 2011)

  • for numeracy tasks click here
  • Program of Study (K-9) [pdf]
  • Program of Study (10-12) [pdf]
  • Evaluate What We Value [pdf]
  • Four Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]
  • Psychic Flash Mind Reader
  • SFU MEd Numeracy – information document [word]

Grande Prairie Pro-D (March 9-11, 2011)

  • for numeracy tasks click here
  • Program of Study (K-9) [pdf]
  • Program of Study (10-12) [pdf]
  • Producibles [word]
  • Evaluate What We Value [pdf]
  • Shifter and Fosnot [word]
  • SFU MEd Numeracy – information document [word]

Grande Prairie Pro-D – grades 6-9 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • Celebrity Travel Planning [word]
  • Giving Out Bonuses [word]
  • Mathematical Activity – poster [pdf]
  • Lockhart’s Lament [word]
  • Programs of Study (K-9) [pdf]
  • Producibles [word]
  • Four Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]
  • MEd Numeracy – information document [word]

Grande Prairie Pro-D – grades K-5 (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Goody Bags [word]
  • Sharing Cookies [word]
  • Mathematical Activity – poster [pdf]
  • Lockhart’s Lament [word]
  • Programs of Study (K-9) [pdf]
  • Producibles [word]
  • Four Purposes of Assessment – article [pdf]
  • MEd Numeracy – information document [word]

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