Description:

How can we ‘change the story’ for students who have unfinished learning and math anxiety? Math workshop allows teachers to differentiate and creates an environment where students feel less anxious, take risks, and engage in discourse. Let’s explore how moving to a workshop model is best for everyone by changing what math classrooms look like.

Subject Area: Mathematics

Delivery Format: In-Person, Virtual, Hybrid, Keynote, Implementation Support, Coaching Support

Target Audience: Pre-Service Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Instructional Coaches, School Administrators, District Administrators

Duration: Workshop (60-90 minutes), Half-Day (3 hours), Full-Day (6 hours), Multi-Day, Yearlong Coaching Series

Facilitators:

Grade Level: Elementary, Middle, High, Higher Education

Learning Intentions:

• Explore the core components of a math workshop model 
• Understand how workshop structures reduce math anxiety and support unfinished learning
• Identify strategies for differentiation within a student-centered environment
• Examine how discourse and risk-taking foster deeper mathematical understanding
• Reflect on shifts needed to create inclusive, agency-building math classrooms

Success Criteria:

• Describe the key features of math workshop and how they support diverse learners
• Articulate how workshop routines promote engagement, discourse, and risk-taking
• Apply differentiation strategies that meet students where they are
• Commit to one actionable shift that supports a more student-centered math environment

Key Topics Covered:

• Math workshop model
• Student-centered learning
• Differentiation strategies
• Math discourse
• Student ownership of learning
• Student choice
• Math anxiety
• Equity and access in mathematics
• Instructional routines and structures
• Everyone Is A Math Person

Expected Impact:

Implementing a student-centered math workshop model empowers learners to take ownership of their thinking, engage in meaningful discourse, and build confidence through differentiated support. At the school level, this shift fosters a culture of inclusion, risk-taking, and shared instructional coherence across classrooms. District-wide, it strengthens educator capacity, improves achievement outcomes, and advances equity by addressing unfinished learning with sustainable, responsive practices.

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