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Math Counts. Period.


Keynote speaker Christina Tondevold is a Recovering Traditionalist. She previously taught mathematics traditionally and expected the students to parrot back what she taught them. Now she gets to work with teachers in developing students’ mathematical understandings in a balanced way by developing conceptual understanding while working on procedural fluency through her site BuildMathMinds.com where you can get PD at Your Fingertips.

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Keynote Session (1:00pm-2:10pm)

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Breakout Session (9:00-9:50am)

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Breakout Session (2:20pm-3:10pm)

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Featured Speaker Graham Fletcher 

Pull Up a Chair: Moving Student Thinking Through Asset-Based Assessment and Math Progressions

Breakout Session (8:00am - 8:50am)

What if assessment meant sitting beside students rather than grading papers? In this session, we’ll explore how listening for understanding reveals students strengths, guides their next steps, and helps teachers see where thinking lies within a progression. Discover how asset-based assessment shifts focus from deficits to strengths, building on what students already know. Let’s pull up a chair, listen intentionally, and move student thinking forward.

Demystifying the Fraction Rules We Teach

Breakout Session (10:00am - 10:50am)

Many educators have been asked to teach fractions through conceptual understanding. The problem with a conceptual approach is that many of us were taught fractions through rules, tricks, and gimmicks. In this session, we’ll identify the tricks we use, unpack why they work, and explore how we can help build a sustainable, scalable understanding of fractions in our students.

Featured Speaker Pam Harris 

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Breakout Session  (10:00am - 10:50am)

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Breakout Session  (11:00am - 11:50am)

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Featured Speaker Fawn Nguyen is the Director of STEM Initiatives at Amplify. She spent 30 years teaching middle school math and three years as a math coach for a K–8 school district. he was named Ventura County Teacher of the Year and received the Math Teacher Hero Award from Raytheon in 2009. In 2005, she was honored with the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Fawn has led workshops and spoken at math conferences across the U.S. and internationally, including in New Zealand. Since 2011, she has served on the Mathematics Project Leadership Team at UC Santa Barbara.

She writes a teaching blog on Substack and created visualpatterns.org. In 2012, she co-founded the Math Teachers’ Circle in Thousand Oaks, California. From 2015 to 2018, she served on the Professional Development Services Committee for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Let’s sketch diagrams to solve word problems!


Breakout Session (8:00am-8:50am)


In this session, you'll be asked to resist the urge to write equations to solve problems and instead create meaningful diagrams that show your understanding. You'll experience firsthand how a good diagram can reveal an elegant solution. This approach matters because many students struggle with word problems not because of weak math skills, but because the language itself creates a barrier—they never get to the mathematics. Diagrams lower that language hurdle and give students a way in.

Visual Patterns, Math Talks, and Problem Solving 


Breakout Session (9:00am-9:50am)

We will work with the routines of visual patterns and math talks to develop algebraic reasoning and flexible thinking. We will experience productive struggle through rich and challenging tasks. We will implement a curriculum to make math social, value collaboration, and encourage play and risk-taking. We’ll intentionally implement our mathematics curriculum to cover a range of “critical thinking demands” to invite all students into a relevant and challenging program that values procedural skills and conceptual understanding.

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