Systematic & Explicit Instruction for Addition & Multiplication Facts

A look at math intervention that reframes it from "filling gaps" to "building a staircase." Juliana Tapper explains why just-in-time intervention (keeping grade-level content as the destination) outperforms the just-in-case approach most schools default to. And why teacher expectations, not the pro…

I got to sit down with Steve Wyborney, the brain behind Splat!, Esti-Mysteries, the Estimation Clipboard, and so many other tools I know you've used in your classroom. In this session from Day 3 of the FROM Memorization TO Thinking Summit, Steve takes me back to where it all started: an idea for bu…

The summit was originally envisioned to help educators move students from memorization to thinking, but the focus shifted to a more important goal: stopping the educational pendulum from swinging drastically between the two extremes. The initial movement toward exploratory thinking emerged as a bac…

I used to think assessment meant finding what my students didn't know - the wrong answers, the gaps, the "not yet." Dr. Nicki Newton flips that in this session from the FROM Memorization TO Thinking Summit. Her thoughts: assessment shouldn't be about catching what kids don't know. It's about liste…