HIVE 2025

Mathematics is not a collection of isolated skills—it’s a web of interconnected ideas that, when woven together, create a deeper and more meaningful understanding for students. In this session, we will explore how to map connections across domains to support students in making sense of math, strengthening fluency, and building confidence. Through engagement with grade-specific examples, interactive discussions, and hands-on mapping exercises, teachers will leave with strategies to seamlessly integrate these connections into their instruction.

This session explores expanding our understanding of student learning, moving beyond the traditional classroom to embrace the rich learning environments within our schools and communities. We begin by recognizing that children thrive when connected to their communities, fostering connectivity, positive development, and essential life skills. Every adult in a school, from nutrition staff to bus drivers, plays a vital role in a student's life, often serving as mentors and coaches. Deep partnerships with students, families, community leaders, and other stakeholders are crucial for achieving our shared educational goals. This requires a broader vision of the school community, one that embraces the various adults within and surrounding our schools.

Participants will explore strategies for expanding the concept of student educators in helping to create optimal learning environments. These strategies are critical for creating strong instructional communities that fully wraparound students and build upon their assets and connections. We will also explore how to provide non-instructional staff with relevant professional development and support. Learning opportunities on topics like student development and strategies for connecting to students can equip these individuals to support students effectively, bridging the gap between classroom learning and the broader school experience. This approach reinforces that everyone contributes to student growth.

We will engage in a lesson focused on Trigonometric Functions and highlight the Teaching Cycle Framework throughout the ride! Open Up High School mathematics is much more than a set of questions; it's an opportunity to embrace student thinking, engage in high leverage and equitable teaching practices in order to produce high level learning outcomes.

Open Up Resources K–5 Math Centers are designed to engage students, support them in connecting conceptual and procedural understandings, and help build fluency. They can also be used to differentiate across grades and for intervention in middle school math classrooms. Join us to learn more about the structure and design of Centers, how to integrate them into units, tips for material prep and organization, and to play some games as students!

Families and caretakers are a critical component in the educational experience, yet often underutilized or feel ill-equipped to support students with problem-based mathematics. In this session, we’ll discuss strategies for authentically involving caretakers in the learning process, beyond the traditional teacher-parent conference or a single math night. Join us and learn how to strengthen and transform your math ed. commUNITY through real family partnership.

True problem-based mathematics learning requires student conversation and engages students. How do we promote this engagement and discourse in secondary classrooms, particularly when learners may be used to more traditional, direct-taught math instruction? In this session, we’ll discuss and experience structures, strategies, and routines that help get middle and high school students talking and engaged.

We will discuss the important work school and district leaders need to do before, during and just after materials adoption for high school mathematics. We will have district leaders from districts that have recently adopted share insight and provide important counsel from their experience and the lessons they have learned.

In this interactive session, participants will explore effective strategies for supporting and enhancing reading skills in the math classroom. Understanding that math often requires strong reading comprehension, we'll examine ways to help students navigate word problems, interpret mathematical language, and develop the critical thinking skills necessary for success. Attendees will make connections between mathematics fluency and reading fluency, and discover practical techniques for integrating reading comprehension strategies into math instruction.

Discover how to harness the power of AI to transform the math teaching experience. From lesson planning to grading, technology can save time on daily tasks while keeping classroom standards high, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive. In this session, participants will learn best practices for teaching with tech and listen to the experience of a district already integrating digital technology to elevate their instruction, build community, and meet students where they are.

The Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs) are routines that can be used with any math curriculum, and across grade levels, to support not just multilingual learners but all students with mathematical discourse and conceptual understanding. Experience some of the MLRs in action and learn how these routines can be implemented in your own classroom to promote meaningful math conversations and sense-making.

Anchor charts are more than just colorful posters—they are dynamic tools that capture student thinking, reinforce key concepts, and serve as ongoing reference points for learning. In this session, we’ll explore how to create and use anchor charts effectively to deepen mathematical understanding and promote student independence. Leave with practical strategies to make math more accessible and visible, and pre-made anchor charts to take back to the classroom!

We will engage in a sequence of lessons about circles and their equations that illustrate the learning cycle and the power of supporting student learning as it evolves over time. Principles of coherence, access and equitable engagement will be shared and discussed.

You’ve made it through the first year or two, what next? What does it take to change classroom culture and teacher practice? How do we use the curriculum to ensure equitable outcomes for all students? We will focus on the action steps that school and district leaders can take to support real and meaningful change in high school mathematics.

This session will empower educators to rethink and elevate assessment practices by incorporating strengths-based principles, valuing diverse funds of knowledge, and reimagining how progress is communicated. Together, we can greatly influence the shaping of positive math identities and fully embrace the contributions of math learners in our classrooms.

In this session, participants will learn about how the ASSISTments platform both aligns with Open Up Resources and provides teachers with the daily formative data they need to support learning growth among all students.

In this session, participants will hear stories of teachers that had initial reservations about switching to a problem-based curriculum and how they overcame these reservations. You’re not alone in the journey - join us to make connections, gain new perspectives, and problem-solve!

We will engage in the mathematics of the lesson, Something To Talk About (What does it mean to be quadratic?). We will consider the features that make the lesson accessible for students and fundamental for understanding quadratic functions. After doing mathematics together we will share our insights from implementation in my own classroom and our observations of others.

In this session, we will explore the importance of effective planning before, during, and after instruction. We’ll learn how to unpack a unit, backwards plan lessons, and utilize assessment opportunities in the Open Up Resources K–8 Math curriculum to respond to student thinking in real-time and guide our teaching. Leave with practical strategies and tools for planning, analyzing data, and enhancing learning for all students!

Join us for an engaging teacher reflection session designed to foster community and collaboration among educators as we review our teaching practices, celebrate successes, and set actionable goals for building classroom community throughout the school year. Participants will utilize a self-assessment rubric aimed at the key essentials of effective teaching. This tool will guide reflection on individual teaching practices and provide a framework for ongoing improvement.

If you work with multilingual learners or in dual-language schools, esta sesión es para tí! Together, we will define translanguaging and learn how it differs from traditional language practices and beliefs. We’ll share and experience specific strategies for translanguaging that can be used across K–8 ELA and mathematics content, and with any curriculum, to support multilinguals and honor their native languages.