Legacy Professional Learning

About the Workshops

The ORCIDS workshops will include weekly synchronous sessions and semi-synchronous work, consisting of 3-4 day-long “chunks” of collaboration and discussion around specific topics, math tasks, and analysis of student work. There will also be explicit opportunities to connect workshop activities with both participants’ own and their colleagues’ classrooms. Throughout the course of the project, conversations and activities in the online workshops will explore how our EnCoMPASS Software can support teachers:

• Exploring mathematical topics, including proportional reasoning, algebraic thinking, geometric and spatial reasoning, etc.

• Implementing the mathematical practices in online and hybrid learning settings

• Being responsive to student thinking in in-person, hybrid and online classrooms

• Shifting to more student-centered instruction

• Focusing effectively on equity in mathematics teaching

Workshop participants will also contribute to the refinement of the EnCoMPASS Software and have opportunities for engagement and collaboration outside the formal workshops, including online discussions and partnerships with other participants (and their students) on collaborative efforts such as math pen-pals and cross-school online mentoring.

Participant Expectations and Compensation

Participants are asked to participate in a series of three six-week workshops. As the ORCIDS project is a research project, participants will also be asked to complete project research activities, including surveys, interviews and teaching sets/class observations.

Participants who successfully complete the three workshops will have an opportunity to continue participation in the project and to apply to serve in leadership roles as mentors or facilitators for future cohorts.