This workshop is intended for teachers in grades TK-2. The goal is to provide participants with strategies for engaging students in age-appropriate mathematical sense-making activities.

Participants in this workshop will

• Engage in mathematical sense-making activities.
• Learn how to transform their classrooms into thinking classrooms.
• Practice routines, such as Counting Collections, Choral Counting, Cognitively-Guided Instruction and Describe-Draw-Describe, for engaging students in mathematics reasoning activities.
• Be a part of a community of developing and dynamic early childhood mathematics teachers.
• Visit classrooms to observe routines and problem solving activities in practice with students.

Leadership Team

• Abbey Shaw Linder, Mathematics Specialist, Rio School District
• Kristy Guerrero, Teacher, Canalino School
• Rickey Koga, Teacher, Rio del Sol STEAM School

This workshop is funded by the California Subject Matter Projects.