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2025 Professional Learning Series

Building Thinking Classrooms with Chase Orton


August 6 and/or August 7
9:00am - 3:30pm
Huxley Learning Center
1551 IA-210, Huxley, IA

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Join Chase Orton, a member of Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms team, for an interactive overview of some of the research-based teaching practices that will transform your mathematics classroom and get your students engaged, talking, thinking, and taking responsibility for their own learning. 

Introduction to Building Thinking Classrooms
August 6

We will dive deep into BTC practices 1-6 and also experience a lesson framework you can use to teach your curriculum standards.

How We Extend the Collective Experience to Individual Understanding in a Thinking Classroom
August 7 

You've built a culture of thinking in your classroom by using vertical surfaces, random groupings, and non-curricular tasks. Now it's time to learn about practice 7-11 and how to move students from collective knowing and doing to individual knowing and doing. 



Registration is required for this free event.


Fluency is more than basic facts and algorithms. It is complex and teaching it well is challenging. To find success, we must know what it is so that we can teach it well. This session unpacks the big ideas of fluency arming participants with practical know-how for advancing their students’ fluency. Participants will take a deep dive into teaching, practicing, and assessing the strategies of fluent students. Learning will be complemented with ready-to-use classroom resources.

Zoom links will be sent to registrants.

Sessions will not be recorded. 

Registrants are encouraged to have the book Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8: Moving Beyond Basic Facts and Memorization.




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