Mathematics

• One page summary of Building Thinking Classrooms to share with administrators, colleagues, or parents
• Building Thinking Classrooms podcasts
• Non-curricular Tasks
• Curricular Tasks
• Lesson Planning Resources
• Assessment Resources (Toolkit 4, chapters 12, 13, and 14)
• Building Thinking Classrooms Implementation Guides

• Collection of articles to inform understanding of the California Math Framework
• California Math Framework by chapter (Google Doc)
• California Math navigation tool
• SCOE's 5-year plan for implementation of the California Math Framework
• Curricular resources aligned with the California Math Framework
• Slides from SCOE California Math Framework sessions
• Bank of talking points generated during SCOE California Math Framework sessions

• Building Thinking Classrooms: Chapter 5 - How We Answer Questions
  • This 90-second video spotlights “keep thinking questions” from Building Thinking Classrooms and how strategic teacher responses help maintain flow and build student intellectual authority.
• Building Thinking Classrooms: Chapter 5 - Are They Really Asking?
  • Not all questions need to be answered. This 90-second video unpacks how to recognize and respond to “proximity questions”—those asked simply because you're nearby—while keeping the thinking where it belongs: with the students.
• Building Thinking Classrooms: Chapter 8 - How We Answer Questions (when a group is wrong)
  • When students are off track, your response can stall thinking—or spark it. This video shows how to use knowledge mobility to keep ideas flowing and thinking alive when a group gives an incorrect answer.

Achieve the Core

This site provides free, high-quality resources for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards.

Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics illustrates the range and types of mathematical work that students experience via the Common Core State Standards and provides access to tools that support standards implementation.

Inside Mathematics

This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.

Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)

The Mathematics Assessment Project is working to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards.

Sense-Making in Mathematics

This website from Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) is a synthesis of conversations with teachers, videos of teaching mathematics, and curriculum recommendations for a more thinking-oriented rigorous approach to middle school mathematics.

Once scheduled, all professional development events related to this topic will be shown below. If nothing is shown, there are no upcoming classes.

Title	Date	Time
2024-25 Building Thinking Classrooms Teacher Collaborative	07/30/2024	Times vary - -see schedule above
Building Thinking Classrooms: Part 4: Creating Assessment Capable Visible Learners 1/16/25 Option ---- CANCELLED	01/16/2025	8:30am-3:00pm
Wine Country Math Teachers' Circle 1/23/25 Option (Windsor)	01/23/2025	4:30pm-6:30pm
Building Thinking Classrooms: Part 3: Empowering Student Mastery: Lesson Closure Strategies 01/31/25 Option	01/31/2025	8:30am-3:00pm
Building Thinking Classrooms: Part 4: Creating Assessment Capable Visible Learners 2/27/25 Option	02/27/2025	8:30am-3:00pm
Building Thinking Classrooms: Part 3: Empowering Student Mastery: Lesson Closure Strategies 03/06/25 Option	03/06/2025	8:30am-3:00pm
Wine Country Math Teachers' Circle 3/6/25 Option (Petaluma)	03/06/2025	4:30pm-6:30pm
Bridging the Gap: Demystifying College Math Expectations	03/10/2025	4:00pm-6:00pm
Wine Country Math Teachers' Circle 5/1/25 Option (Windsor)	05/01/2025	4:30pm-6:30pm