Presentations & Trainings
Upcoming: High Tech High School Professional Development August 2016
Presenting a seminar on “Making Groupwork Work: Teaching Strategies to Promote Effective, Engaging, and Equal Group Work"
UC San Diego CREATE Conference Teaching for Impact: Innovative Practice for Today's Standards April 2016
Presented a session on “Making Groupwork Work: Teaching Strategies to Promote Effective, Engaging, and Equal Group Work"
San Dieguito Unified School District Professional Developments September 2015 & January 2016
Presented to all the high school and middle school math teachers from the district on collaborative group work and facilitating mathematical discourse among students
California Mathematics Council (CMC) South Conference November 2015
Presented a session on “Transforming the Classroom Through Geometric Transformations”
California State University San Marcos Professional Developments
Western Regional Noyce West Conference May 2011
Presented with Math for America on the benefits of creating and implementing holistic problems in the mathematics classroom.
Presenting a seminar on “Making Groupwork Work: Teaching Strategies to Promote Effective, Engaging, and Equal Group Work"
UC San Diego CREATE Conference Teaching for Impact: Innovative Practice for Today's Standards April 2016
Presented a session on “Making Groupwork Work: Teaching Strategies to Promote Effective, Engaging, and Equal Group Work"
San Dieguito Unified School District Professional Developments September 2015 & January 2016
Presented to all the high school and middle school math teachers from the district on collaborative group work and facilitating mathematical discourse among students
California Mathematics Council (CMC) South Conference November 2015
Presented a session on “Transforming the Classroom Through Geometric Transformations”
California State University San Marcos Professional Developments
- March 2015: Presented to pre-service teachers on adapting lessons for mathematical inquiry.
- April 2015: Conducted mock interviews with constructive feedback for pre-service teachers.
- September 2014: Presented a unit on transformational geometry to current high school teachers and pre-service teachers
- January 2015: Presented our approach to teaching transformational geometry at the district professional buy back sessions.
- August 2012: Led an “Inquiry Extravaganza” for the math and English departments at Vista Magnet Middle School.
Western Regional Noyce West Conference May 2011
Presented with Math for America on the benefits of creating and implementing holistic problems in the mathematics classroom.
Classroom Observations
Over the last few years we routinely receive requests to observe our classrooms. This has been a wonderful experience for us as it helped us grow as professionals, build a network, and reflect on our own practice.
2016
League of Innovative Schools
San Diego County Office of Education's Juvenile Court Schools Teachers and Administrators
High Tech High Chula Vista Math Department & Director
Bryan Meyer, TOSA for Escondido Unified
Albert Einstein Charter Middle School Math Department
Vista High School Math Teachers
Larry White, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Technology
Vista Unified Special Education Director and Team
2015
Escondido Unified Math Department
Vista High School Math Teachers
Brian Lawler, CSUSM Mathematics Education Professor
Pre Service Teachers from California State University San Marcos Barbara Edwards, Math For America San Diego Director
Michael Driskill, Math For America New York Director of Advocacy Pre Service Teachers from Stanford University
2014
Jo Boaler, Stanford Mathematics Education Professor
Cathy Williams, Cofounder and Executive Director of YouCubed
Vicki Abeles, Director of “Race to Nowhere”
Brian Lawler, CSUSM Mathematics Education Professor
Vista High School Math Teachers
Devin Vodicka, Superintendent of Vista Unified School District
League of Innovative Schools
San Diego County Office of Education's Juvenile Court Schools Teachers and Administrators
High Tech High Chula Vista Math Department & Director
Bryan Meyer, TOSA for Escondido Unified
Albert Einstein Charter Middle School Math Department
Vista High School Math Teachers
Larry White, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Technology
Vista Unified Special Education Director and Team
2015
Escondido Unified Math Department
Vista High School Math Teachers
Brian Lawler, CSUSM Mathematics Education Professor
Pre Service Teachers from California State University San Marcos Barbara Edwards, Math For America San Diego Director
Michael Driskill, Math For America New York Director of Advocacy Pre Service Teachers from Stanford University
2014
Jo Boaler, Stanford Mathematics Education Professor
Cathy Williams, Cofounder and Executive Director of YouCubed
Vicki Abeles, Director of “Race to Nowhere”
Brian Lawler, CSUSM Mathematics Education Professor
Vista High School Math Teachers
Devin Vodicka, Superintendent of Vista Unified School District
Feedback
We are big believers in giving our students feedback to help them grow as mathematicians. Similarly we appreciate feedback from those that attend our trainings or observe our classrooms.
San Dieguito Unified School Teacher (from our training)
"I just wanted tell you how impressed I was with your presentation today for the middle school math teachers in the SDUHSD district. While I love the great mathematical thinking that happens when students work together, I've never been trained on implementing group work properly, and your presentation today gave me lots of great ideas to feel more confident in this area of my teaching. I especially love that you "train" the students to take the group roles seriously, and introducing them one at a time in the beginning of the year is genius. (I wish I could rewind back to August and do it this way!) I am definitely going to incorporate your Participation Quiz and Accountability Quiz in my classroom as I think they are those key pieces to getting all students to work together, just like you said. I am going to take "baby steps" so that I feel comfortable with the questioning and facilitating, and hopefully be ready to roll out this model in the fall with a new class of students.
So many times over the years, I've attended inservices where I didn't feel that I gained all that much I could use in my classroom. I just wanted to take a minute to let you both know that I really enjoyed all you had to share this morning and I'm super excited to bring this to my students."
San Diego County Office of Education's Juvenile Court School Admin (classroom observation)
"Our observations of your practice have absolutely sparked questions and curiosities. More, you and your students have inspired us to completely rethink how we teach math in our district. Thank you for demonstrating what's possible!"
CMC Presentations Feedback
"Great resources: great presentation! I'm so excited to use these in my classes"
"I just wanted tell you how impressed I was with your presentation today for the middle school math teachers in the SDUHSD district. While I love the great mathematical thinking that happens when students work together, I've never been trained on implementing group work properly, and your presentation today gave me lots of great ideas to feel more confident in this area of my teaching. I especially love that you "train" the students to take the group roles seriously, and introducing them one at a time in the beginning of the year is genius. (I wish I could rewind back to August and do it this way!) I am definitely going to incorporate your Participation Quiz and Accountability Quiz in my classroom as I think they are those key pieces to getting all students to work together, just like you said. I am going to take "baby steps" so that I feel comfortable with the questioning and facilitating, and hopefully be ready to roll out this model in the fall with a new class of students.
So many times over the years, I've attended inservices where I didn't feel that I gained all that much I could use in my classroom. I just wanted to take a minute to let you both know that I really enjoyed all you had to share this morning and I'm super excited to bring this to my students."
San Diego County Office of Education's Juvenile Court School Admin (classroom observation)
"Our observations of your practice have absolutely sparked questions and curiosities. More, you and your students have inspired us to completely rethink how we teach math in our district. Thank you for demonstrating what's possible!"
CMC Presentations Feedback
"Great resources: great presentation! I'm so excited to use these in my classes"
