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OAME 2019 Session Description: With funding from a TLLP grant, a team of Mathematics and Special Education teachers have worked together throughout this year to better understand how to support our students with learning disabilities. Our team met monthly, developed learning profiles, collected data, analyzed psychological assessments, visited mathematics classrooms, and explored various supports for students. At this session, we will share our journey as these teachers worked to better understand the strengths and needs of these students in order to put in place student specific accommodations. By using the expertise of all the educators in the group, both the content knowledge of the Mathematics teachers and the Special Education teachers knowledge of exceptionalities and various accommodations, we all were able to grow in our knowledge of how to support these learners.

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Live Webinar: Mar 11th, 2020, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast Notes: Recorded February 2020. Liisa is a mathematics consultant. She Tweets at @mathliisa. Christine is a Special Education Resource Teacher. She Tweets at @MrsLeBeau. Both with the District School Board of Niagara.

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Summary: In this episode we hear from all of the OAME 2020 featured speakers once more. This time just briefly as they all answer the same question: Is there anything that you believed to be true when you started your career, that you no longer believe? Each gave their particular spin on that question and there was a nice mix of answers (many of which had nothing to do with mathematics. From Thursday's slate of sessions we’ll hear from Mary Bourassa, Dan Meyer, Ian VanderBurgh, Marian Small and keynote speaker Valerie Camille-Jones and from Friday's sessions, we'll hear from Kamau Bobb, Richard Van Camp, Fawn Nguyen and, keynote speaker George Couros.

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For more info about OAME 2020, check out their website oame2020.ca

Podcast notes: Recorded February 2020. Recorded February 2020. Mary teaches at West Carleton Secondary School in Ottawa and blogs at marybourassa.blogspot.com and Tweets at @MaryBourassa. Dan is a former teacher and now leads the teaching team at Desmos. He blogs at blog.mrmeyer.com/ and Tweets at @ddmeyer. Ian is a lecturer and director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing. Marian is an independent consultant who has created many resource to further math education. She can be found at www.onetwoinfinity.ca and Tweets at @Marian_Small. Valerie teaches at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia and can be found online at www.drvcjones.com and Tweets at @drvcjones. Kamau works at Google and Georgia Tech. Hecan be found online at http://kamaubobb.com/ and Tweets at @KamauBobb. Richard is an internationally renowned storyteller and best selling author. He can be found online at https://www.richardvancamp.com/ and Tweets at @RichardVanCamp. Fawn is a 30 year teaching veteran who is currently serving as a math coach. She can be found online at http://fawnnguyen.com/ and Tweets at @FawnPNguyen. George is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning. He can be found online at https://georgecouros.ca/ and Tweets at @GCouros.

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Summary: In this episode we hear from the featured speakers from Friday's slate of sessions at OAME 2020 in Oshawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Kamau Bobb speaking about what modern citizenship looks like, Richard Van Camp speaking about the the importance of teaching with story, Fawn Nguyen speaking about problem solving and, keynote speaker George Couros talking about our digital footprints.

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Podcast notes: Recorded February 2020. Kamau works at Google and Georgia Tech. He can be found online at http://kamaubobb.com/ and Tweets at @KamauBobb. Richard is an internationally renowned storyteller and best selling author. He can be found online at https://www.richardvancamp.com/ and Tweets at @RichardVanCamp. Fawn is a 30 year teaching veteran who is currently serving as a math coach. She can be found online at http://fawnnguyen.com/ and Tweets at @FawnPNguyen. George is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning. He can be found online at https://georgecouros.ca/ and Tweets at @GCouros.

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Summary: In this episode we hear from the featured speakers from Thursday's slate of sessions at OAME 2020 in Oshawa. We’ll hear a brief preview from Mary Bourassa speaking about other aspects of teaching to help students learn, Ian VanderBurgh speaking about the merits of problem solving, Dan Meyer speaking about 3 messages all students should hear, Marian Small speaking about bringing deeper understanding to our students and keynote speaker Valerie Camille-Jones talking about #mathesteem.

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For more info about OAME 2020, check out their website oame2020.ca

Podcast notes: Recorded February 2020. Mary teaches at West Carleton Secondary School in Ottawa and blogs at marybourassa.blogspot.com and Tweets at @MaryBourassa. Ian is a lecturer and director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing. Dan is a former teacher and now leads the teaching team at Desmos. He blogs at blog.mrmeyer.com/ and Tweets at @ddmeyer. Marian is an independent consultant who has created many resource to further math education. She can be found at www.onetwoinfinity.ca and Tweets at @Marian_Small. Valerie teaches at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia and can be found online at www.drvcjones.com and Tweets at @drvcjones.

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OAME 2019 Session Description: Participants will engage in math tasks in an environment that is conducive to thinking. Based on research by Dr. Liljedahl, these tasks will enable us to dig deep into the components of a thinking classroom. Collectively, let us learn to manage flow and let go to create a student-centered experience.

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Live Webinar: Feb. 12th, 2020, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast notes: Recorded January 2020. Alex teaches at Glebe Collegiate Institute and Jimmy teaches at Colonel By Secondary School (both with the Ottawa Carlton DSB). Alex Tweets at @AlexOverwijk and Jimmy at @PaiMath. Mentioned in the podcast was the work on thinking classrooms from Peter Liljedahl (@pgliljedahl http://www.peterliljedahl.com/ ) and the 14 elements are summarized visually in this sketchnote from @Wheeler_Laura.

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OAME 2019 Session Description: Do you remember the first day? It was filled with excitement and optimism as you considered the newness of it all. This was followed by anxiety and caution as you considered uncertainty of it all. This description aligns to both students and teachers, yet both are asked to be "all in" from the very first day. Curriculum structures that offer routine and rigour support both teachers and students in their efforts to be "all in" . This session will explore characteristics of the lesson launch and warm up featured in Illustrative Mathematic's curriculum and how these structures promote agency and equity in the math classroom.

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Live Webinar: Jan. 15th, 2020 ##New Date##, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast Notes: Recorded December 2019. Kaneka works at Illustrative Mathematics and she Tweets at @KanekaTurner

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OAME 2019 Session Description: How might we nurture a community of learners, where making thinking visible is safe, even when students make a mistake? In this session, we will consider norm setting, questioning, and listening, as well as strategies, routines, and tasks to jump start conversations that encourage students to take risks and contribute to effective discussions.

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Live Webinar: Dec. 11th, 2019, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast Notes: Recorded November 2019. Both Jennifer and Liz work at Illustrative Mathematics. Jennifer Tweets at @JWilson828 and blogs at https://easingthehurrysyndrome.wordpress.com/. Liz Tweets at @LizRamirez. Also mentioned in the podcast was the story of Roger Penrose's struggles as a young student.

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OAME 2019 Session Description: Whether you're struggling to plan exciting activities for class or just feeling frustrated by the difficulty of the profession, it is really easy to feel isolated as a teacher. Let's just say it: teaching math is hard and exhausting. Coming to a conference like OAME gives us a few days to rejuvenate ourselves and connect with each other. But there's actually a huge community of people online that will listen, offer advice, and generally help you feel less alone all year round. The Math Twitter Blogosphere (or MTBoS) is a global group of math educators that support each other in tackling the challenges of teaching, whether they be practical challenges like activity planning or emotional challenges like supporting struggling students. We love this online community because it has changed our lives as educators, and we want the same for you!

This workshop will introduce the MTBoS and help participants to get online and get connected to the multitude of resources and supports available online from awesome, innovative educators. Time will be given to explore the community, guided by teachers active in the community. No previous experience in social networking is required!

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Live Webinar: Nov. 13th, 2019, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast Notes: Recorded October 2019. Matt teaches Algebra 2 and IB Math at The Brooklyn Latin School. He Tweets at @Stoodle and blogs at https://pythagoraswasanerd.wordpress.com/. The original version of this webinar was copresented with Sam Shah who Tweets at @SamJShah2 and blogs at https://samjshah.com/. Also mentioned in the podcast was Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa - http://marybourassa.blogspot.com/), the MTBoS Directory and the video by Grant Sanderson on the patterns of primes in polar graphs.

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OAME 2019 Session Description: To collaborate is to share our understandings and to make sense of our collective reasoning. In this webinar, we will explore how listening to student’s mathematical story can help create a whole class narrative. By Visualizing, Verbalizing and Verifying, we create this collaborative sense making classroom.

Collaborer, c'est partager notre compréhension et donner un sens à notre raisonnement collectif. Dans ce webinaire, nous explorerons comment écouter l’histoire mathématique d’un élève peut aider à créer un récit pour toute la classe. En visualisant, verbalisant et vérifiant, nous créons cette classe collaborative de création de sens.

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Live Webinar: October 16th (English) & 17th (French), 2019, 8PM EST (Register now on MCIS)

Podcast Notes: Recorded Sept 2019. Jules is a K-12 Math Facilitator for the CSCDGR (Conseil scolaire catholique du district des Grandes-Rivières). He blogs at https://jboninducharme.wordpress.com/ and is on Twitter at @jboninducharme. Other people mentioned include: Marian Small (@Marian_Small - http://www.onetwoinfinity.ca/ , Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa - http://marybourassa.blogspot.com/, and Peter Liljedahl (@pgliljedahl - http://www.peterliljedahl.com/)