2025 MidSchoolMath National Conference

Join us for an engaging session specifically designed for instructional leaders aiming to enhance the effectiveness of classroom visits. We will explore best practices for instruction, identify high-quality teaching methods, and analyze classroom videos to spot trends.

Educational Administrators and Building Leaders will learn to reflect on instructional practices and determine actionable next steps for continuous improvement. This session promises to equip you with practical tools and insights to make your classroom visits truly impactful!

During this session, we'll explore how important vocabulary is for any mathematics lesson, but especially for laying the foundation for algebraic exploration. The formula for success in algebra is often said to be solid number sense. However, this foundation is well structured around a rich and deep understanding of mathematics vocabulary.

Using four Mathematical Language Routine strategies, we'll discuss how we can engage our students in mathematical discourse and discourse and empower all students with the strength of literacy in the language of mathematics, to make algebra accessible for all.

Take a peek inside a classroom to see what makes Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath so effective and why it integrates so well with Building Thinking Classrooms. Find out how students are able to easily recall lesson and standards from months prior, and see how they can be engaged in problem solving through The Math Simulator.

Led by Jacqueline Johnson, Director of Professional Development for MidSchoolMath, this session will provide you with an in-depth, in-person curriculum tour. You'll leave this session with trial access to Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath, an understanding of the curriculum's components that drive learning and the research behind them - plus a special MSM hat!

Note: this session is specifically designed for educators who want to learn more about adopting and implementing Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath with their students.  

While math is a universal language, the demands of English add another challenging layer for  teaching and learning math for all of our students, especially our multilingual learners. 
Come participate in this hands-on session and explore how multiple-meaning words in English impact students' understanding of math concepts and their academic language development. This session will help you be more transparent with your instruction and feel more confident in your planning.

Integrating writing in the math classroom can deepen the learning for all students. In this session, we'll look at ways to creatively integrate writing, first starting with low-risk topics and  then (over time) moving into math tasks that push students to reflect and connect their math knowledge to the new learning

You'll have the opportunity to participate in introductory writing tasks, then move into the creation of larger tasks that require deeper mathematical connections including reflective writing. Leave with handouts and the knowledge needed to implement academic writing to support math knowledge with your students. 

In this session, we'll look at two key strategies to support students in understanding and doing long division. We'll move away from the basic DMSB acronym, and look different ways attack division through the lens of multiplication/creating equal groups and counting up.

Using the question "How many groups of X fit inside Y?" and partial quotient strategies will prepare you to be able to teach division without the use of DMSB. These strategies can be used to teach division to students, whether it is the first time it's being taught or data suggests there is an intervention needed. You'll leave with experience in the strategies and handouts so that you can use these approaches with your students.