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Conferring in the Math Classroom not only gives practical advice and tools for growing students in their math understanding, but it also highlights the importance of conferring to build those positive math identities in an environment where students feel safe to take risks. Gina encourages us to draw from student strengths when nudging them forward, and she just might help you reshape your own math identity as well! --Casey Koester, third-grade teacher, M.Ed Engaging in conversations with students about their mathematical thinking gives teachers a lens into how their students are currently thinking about the key ideas being addressed in a lesson. In Conferring in the Math Classroom, Gina Picha masterfully outlines how teachers can plan for and facilitate meaningful math conferences with their students. The book is full of examples and resources to make this routine easy to implement. If you are a teacher, math coach, or other educational leader looking to elevate students' mathematical discourse, then this book is for you. --Mike Flynn, author of Beyond Answers Finally, we have a guidebook for the most crucial teaching moment of our math block! By conferring we teach so the learning endures for life. The strategies Gina Picha presents will transform our mathematics classrooms and communities, teach us to know students' strengths and learning goals through our strategic listening and questioning, and simplify our instruction through authentic conversation, all while empowering our students with confidence in their identity as mathematicians. Conferring in the Math Classroomis a must-have resource for every math teacher. --Corinna Green, Elementary Instructional Coach & Teaching Consultant I am always in search of professional books that put the mathematics, pedagogy, and implementation support alongside the development of a collaborative classroom community. Gina has gifted us such a book. Each chapter includes thoughtful, practical structures that can be used to elicit and center students' ideas. The focus on listening and observing as students share ideas, elevates the importance of teachers building on students' thinking and strengths to take them further and deeper into the mathematics. The in-practice classroom stories and student examples bring to life a vision of what it looks like to utilize conferring as a daily classroom practice. --Kristin Gray, math educator. Packed full of examples, illustrations, and charts, this book truly provides strong support for learning to talk with small groups of students to support and extend their mathematical thinking. At the heart of Gina's book is developing positive math identities with students (and teachers). Beautifully written and immensely useful. --Jennifer Bay-Williams, professor, University of Louisville Teachers who are trying to really listen to and learn from their students in math class will find a lot of helpful guidance here. Gina Picha stays true to her belief in children as powerful mathematical sense-makers while explicitly addressing ways to help them develop mathematical identity and autonomy in empowering ways. -Ruth Parker, mathematics educator, author and co-developer of Number Talks The ability to confer well is the teacher magic that meets children right where they are to give them perfectly dosed instruction. So many of us can do this well in reading and writing and now we finally have a guide to help us create these powerful math conversations and invitations as well. Let the math magic begin! -Jen McDonough, coauthor of Conferring with Young Writers: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

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Gina Picha, Ed.D. received her master’s degree in education from Aurora University and her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from Concordia University-Austin. Gina has worked in education for the past fourteen years teaching kindergarten, first grade, fifth grade, and as an elementary instructional coach, K–12 curriculum specialist and K–5 district math coordinator. She is currently an elementary mathematics curriculum writer living in Austin, TX with her husband, Deric, and two sons, Nolan and Cort.

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