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Saturday, August 9
 

9:00am PDT

GET YOUR WORKSHOP ON KICKOFF & KEYNOTE
Saturday August 9, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
GET YOUR WORKSHOP ON KICKOFF & KEYNOTE
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8) Facilitated

10:30am PDT

Class Warm-Ups & Openers (3-5)
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Learn new class openers, games, and puzzles to spark student engagement. Participants will play a variety of quick activities to see how these help promote numeracy skills, algebraic thinking, and geometric understanding.
Speakers
avatar for David Poras

David Poras

Product Director, Polypad by Desmos Classroom, Amplify/Polypad
David Poras is the Senior Director of Product for Polypad, part of Desmos Classroom and Amplify. Prior to this role, David taught middle school math for 22 years. In 2017, David was selected as a runner-up for the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  3-5

10:30am PDT

In Our Math Tools Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Make & Take some powerful math tools for your classroom. Whether you want to create a Rekenrek, Beaded Number Line, or Integer Beaded Number Line, this station has everything you need! When students get stuck, instead of saying You're On Your Own Kid, you can say grab your toolkit!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

10:30am PDT

In Our Self-Checking Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Does your BEST DAY include making simple, self-checking workstations that you can take home with you? If so, this session is for you!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

11:00am PDT

In Our Math Tools Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Make & Take some powerful math tools for your classroom. Whether you want to create a Rekenrek, Beaded Number Line, or Integer Beaded Number Line, this station has everything you need! When students get stuck, instead of saying You're On Your Own Kid, you can say grab your toolkit!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

11:00am PDT

In Our Self-Checking Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Does your BEST DAY include making simple, self-checking workstations that you can take home with you? If so, this session is for you!  
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

11:00am PDT

Class Warm-Ups & Openers (K-2)
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Learn new class openers, games, and puzzles to spark student engagement. Participants will play a variety of quick activities to see how these help promote numeracy skills, algebraic thinking, and geometric understanding.
Speakers
avatar for David Poras

David Poras

Product Director, Polypad by Desmos Classroom, Amplify/Polypad
David Poras is the Senior Director of Product for Polypad, part of Desmos Classroom and Amplify. Prior to this role, David taught middle school math for 22 years. In 2017, David was selected as a runner-up for the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  K-2

11:00am PDT

In Our Beaded Number Line Era! (K-5)
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Meet the tool that does it all! From rounding to decimals, and everything in between, the Beaded Number Line is the best tool around! Say We Are Never Getting Back Together to riddles & tricks. So many concepts, all in one easy tool!
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  K-5

11:30am PDT

Math and Music
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
For too long, math has been a silent film. Come to this session to learn about how adding audio, sonification, and music to widely used math manipulatives can help students experience, understand, and engage with mathematical concepts in novel and meaningful ways.
Speakers
avatar for David Poras

David Poras

Product Director, Polypad by Desmos Classroom, Amplify/Polypad
David Poras is the Senior Director of Product for Polypad, part of Desmos Classroom and Amplify. Prior to this role, David taught middle school math for 22 years. In 2017, David was selected as a runner-up for the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  3-5

11:30am PDT

In Our Math Tools Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Make & Take some powerful math tools for your classroom. Whether you want to create a Rekenrek, Beaded Number Line, or Integer Beaded Number Line, this station has everything you need! When students get stuck, instead of saying You're On Your Own Kid, you can say grab your toolkit!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

11:30am PDT

In Our Self-Checking Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Does your BEST DAY include making simple, self-checking workstations that you can take home with you? If so, this session is for you!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

11:30am PDT

In Our Beaded Number Line Era! (K-2)
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Meet the tool that does it all! From counting to operations and everything in between, the Beaded Number Line is the best tool around!   We Are Never Getting Back Together to riddles & tricks. So many concepts, all in one easy tool!
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  K-2

12:50pm PDT

RAFFLES!
Saturday August 9, 2025 12:50pm - 1:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Don't be late coming back from lunch because That's When we will be announcing raffle winners!! 
Saturday August 9, 2025 12:50pm - 1:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA

1:00pm PDT

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: You're Working Too Hard...Getting Students to Do the Heavy Lifting!
Saturday August 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Ready to elevate your workshop? Learn simple strategies to increase student thinking, build SEL competencies, and maximize attention spans. This September, Begin Again to get students to do more of the work!
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8) Facilitated

2:15pm PDT

Using Virtual Manipulatives to Elevate Math Instruction (6-8)
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Learn about using virtual manipulatives with middle school students to enhance their algebraic understanding and geometric thinking. Participants will leave the session with the skills and knowledge to use these activities with their students, as well as the ability to immediately author their own activities using virtual manipulatives.
Speakers
avatar for David Poras

David Poras

Product Director, Polypad by Desmos Classroom, Amplify/Polypad
David Poras is the Senior Director of Product for Polypad, part of Desmos Classroom and Amplify. Prior to this role, David taught middle school math for 22 years. In 2017, David was selected as a runner-up for the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  3-5

2:15pm PDT

In Our Math Tools Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Make & Take some powerful math tools for your classroom. Whether you want to create a Rekenrek, Beaded Number Line, or Integer Beaded Number Line, this station has everything you need! When students get stuck, instead of saying You're On Your Own Kid, you can say grab your toolkit!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

2:15pm PDT

In Our Self-Checking Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Does your BEST DAY include making simple, self-checking workstations that you can take home with you? If so, this session is for you!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

2:15pm PDT

In Our Beaded Number Line Era! (3-5)
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Meet the tool that does it all! From operations to rounding, to decimals, and everything in between, the Beaded Number Line is the best tool around! Say We Are Never Getting Back Together to riddles & tricks. So many concepts, all in one easy tool!
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:15pm - 2:40pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8) Facilitated

2:45pm PDT

Using Virtual Fraction Bars to Enhance Understanding (3-5)
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Explore lesson ideas, class openers, and warm-up routines that will engage students in thinking deeply about fractions. Participants will leave the session with the skills and knowledge to use these activities with their students, as well as the ability to immediately author their own activities using virtual manipulatives.

Speakers
avatar for David Poras

David Poras

Product Director, Polypad by Desmos Classroom, Amplify/Polypad
David Poras is the Senior Director of Product for Polypad, part of Desmos Classroom and Amplify. Prior to this role, David taught middle school math for 22 years. In 2017, David was selected as a runner-up for the Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  3-5

2:45pm PDT

In Our Math Tools Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Make & Take some powerful math tools for your classroom. Whether you want to create a Rekenrek, Beaded Number Line, or Integer Beaded Number Line, this station has everything you need! When students get stuck, instead of saying You're On Your Own Kid, you can say grab your toolkit!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

2:45pm PDT

In Our Self-Checking Era!
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
Does your BEST DAY include making simple, self-checking workstations that you can take home with you? If so, this session is for you!
Speakers
avatar for Independent Station
Saturday August 9, 2025 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8)

3:15pm PDT

Closing Celebration!
Saturday August 9, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom
No Need To Calm Down...let's close this thing out with a bang! Prepare for surprises as we celebrate you, your progress, and all you do to make a difference for students! We will shower you with raffle prizes and close out our day of learning with some fun! Squeeze in those last-minute photos, trade some friendship bracelets, and get ready to feel like you're 22!
Speakers
avatar for Alison Mello

Alison Mello

Founder, Alison Mello Math Consulting
Dr. Alison J. Mello has been in education for nearly 30 years, working in New York and Massachusetts as a classroom teacher, math specialist, director of math curriculum, Assistant Superintendent, and math consultant. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, and her research... Read More →
Saturday August 9, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT
Patriot Ballroom Renaissance Hotel, Foxboro MA
  General (K-8) Facilitated
 
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