WestEd mathematics experts will present at the 2024 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting & Exposition held September 25–28, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.
The annual meeting brings together teachers, leaders, administrators, exhibitors, and sponsors for four days of professional learning and networking. This year’s conference theme is “The Math of Their Dreams: Illuminating Students’ Brilliance.”
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WestEd Presentations
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Round Table Discussion: Building a Community of Practice to Advance Equity in Mathematics Education Research and Development
Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Location: McCormick Place / Room: 504a
Lead Speaker: Corinne Singleton (Menlo Education Research)
Co-Speakers: Britte Cheng (Menlo Education Research), Ann Edwards (WestEd), and (Brent Jackson) WestEd
Increasingly, funders are supporting communities of practice (CoPs) to foster collaboration and drive innovation around complex social challenges. One such CoP is the Advancing Innovative Mathematics Solutions (AIMS) Collaboratory, consisting of 15 partnerships each working to build mathematics education tools that will accelerate research insights and improve mathematics learning opportunities for marginalized students.
In this roundtable, we will highlight experiences and evidence-based findings from the CoPs’ efforts to advance equity-centered approaches throughout AIMS work. We will raise questions for discussion around how to move communities of practice and their constituents toward collective discovery and impact.
Workshop Session: Patterns of Growth: English Learners’ Simultaneous Development of Concepts, Practices, and Language
Time: 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Location: McCormick Place / Room: 504bc
Lead Speaker: Haiwen Chu (WestEd)
In this session, we report findings from three field trials of an innovative summer mathematics program designed to challenge and support a rising ninth-grade English learner. The program focuses on cross-cutting concepts in mathematics—such as equivalence and transformation—that connect the subdomains of algebra, geometry, and statistics in high school mathematics.
We report the growth of students’ language alongside concepts and practices as they study patterns, first as largely visual patterns of growth, and then as they arise in more contextualized problems that require abstraction and generalization. We unpack the practice of description that grows in students’ reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Round Table Discussion: Working Towards Equity on the Pathway to Calculus: Synthesizing Literature on Systemic Solutions
Time: 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: McCormick Place / Room: 504a
Lead Speaker: Drew Nucci (WestEd)
Co-Speakers: Ann Edwards (WestEd) and Brent Jackson (WestEd)
This literature scan addresses the challenge of inequitable access to high school Calculus, a critical course for college success and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Enrollment in high school Calculus is low, particularly among Black, Latine, and low-income students. This research synthesizes literature on this problem and solutions meant to address it.
We identify contributing factors to enrollment inequity, more and less promising solutions, and the key levers those solutions attempt to shift. We thematize solutions into two domains: administrative and pedagogical approaches, and we present recommendations for future research for those hoping to design interventions to address these inequities.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Burst Session: Using AI to Build High-Quality and Inclusive Lesson Plans
Time: 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt / Room: Clark
Lead Speaker: Drew Nucci (WestEd)
Co-Speakers: Rodney Perez (University of Washington) and Min Sun (University of Washington)
We present a research-supported K–12 mathematics lesson planning an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine constructed through expert coding of a thousand lesson plans. The AI platform facilitates standard-specific lesson plans that include high cognitive demand problems, engaging learning experiences, conceptual questions, and structures for promoting student discourse. The platform also provides planning for emergent multilingual students and students with disabilities.
Friday, September 27, 2024
Workshop Session: The Role of Equity and Math Commentators in Lesson Study: Empowering Math Learners for a Just Future
Time: 2:45 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location: McCormick Place / Room: N230b
Lead Speaker: Harold Asturias (The Lawrence Hall of Science)
Co-Speakers: Kyndall Brown (California Mathematics Project), Joan Easterday, Susie Hakansson, and Brent Jackson (WestEd)
Come experience vital elements of an equity-focused lesson study process. A model that advocates for a dual focus on understanding grade-level mathematics and equitable learning opportunities. Our innovative lesson study design includes identifying 3–5 underserved focal students in each class, creating an equity-based research theme, and including an equity commentator who works alongside a mathematics commentator, providing feedback and insights throughout and at the public research lesson.
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