Powerful Practices in Mathematics Instructional Leadership

5 Powerful Techniques for Secondary Math Formative Assessment

Join two math curriculum experts, Jon Wray and Patrick Vennebush, who will help elevate your instruction with five powerful, classroom-based, formative assessment (CBFA) techniques. Math teachers can use these strategies every day to gauge individual student learning and adjust instruction accordingly.

Get a summary of these 5 formative assessment techniques here.

Gaming in the Secondary Math Classroom: Purposeful Play Using Technology

When they’re not in school, students spend a lot of time playing games on their devices. And when they are in school, many students would rather be playing Crossy Road than analyzing quadratics. During this webinar, we’ll play some games, look at games that have real educational value (and maybe some that don’t), and figure out how to transform these distractions into powerful mathematical experiences.

Get a summary of these instructional techniques using gaming here.

Strategies for Preventing Learned Helplessness in the Secondary Math Classroom

Discovery Education hosted a Powerful Practices webinar focused on “Learned Helplessness” in math students and strategies for turning the tide and helping students build the academic confidence to succeed in math, highlighting how Techbook can support these strategies. Patrick Vennebush was joined by LaShone Singleton, Math facilitator and professional development instructor in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Teaching Math Starts with a Connection

Teachers who engage students with real world math set the stage for deeper and lasting understanding. Math Techbook, a new breakthrough digital textbook, provides teachers with digital instructional strategies and problems that motivate and excite students with diverse learning styles.