Events

Registration Deadline: FRI. 10/9/26

Join us for a day of purposeful PD grounded in effective math instructional practices. This year’s theme: Instructional Routines & Strategies that Deepen Conceptual Understanding

Interactive Keynote and General Session:

Experiencing Math in Community

In this interactive virtual keynote and workshop, educators will explore what conceptual understanding looks and feels like in an adult education mathematics classroom. The session will open with an engaging warm-up that invites participants to share their thinking and begin building a supportive learning community.

Participants will then experience rich, non-routine math tasks together, using concrete materials, visual representations, and abstract reasoning to make sense of important mathematical ideas. As both learners and teachers, they will examine how purposeful questions, student language, and multiple representations can create bridges to formulas, support multilingual learners, and maintain high expectations for everyone.

The session will conclude by connecting these experiences to practical principles educators can use across lessons and to the purpose and possibilities of contextualized curricula.

Keynote Presenter: Heidi Schuler

Heidi Schuler has worked in adult education since 2006, spending much of that time expanding her understanding of tools and instructional strategies that make math meaningful, accessible, and fun for adult learners. Her participation in numerous professional development offerings and pilot studies and her active involvement on the Board of Directors of the Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) allowed her to learn from some of the best and brightest minds in adult ed math and numeracy. Through those experiences, she became a LINCS national trainer for math and numeracy and joined the SABES numeracy team as a curriculum developer and facilitator. At SABES, she worked alongside her mentor Donna Curry to develop the Curriculum for Accelerated Math (CAM) and was the lead developer of Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (CALM). In 2021, Heidi succeeded Donna as the Director of the Adult Numeracy Center at TERC, where she manages the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Team, oversees updates, research, and teacher support for the EMPower math series, and continues to facilitate professional development such as the Adults Reaching Algebra Readiness (AR)2 institutes.

Two blocks of afternoon concurrent sessions include the following workshops:

• Math Made Visual: Teach Conceptually Using Simple Strategies with Danielle Legault
• Breaking Up Is NOT Hard to Do: Partial Products and Quotients with Andy Albee
• Distance Learning in Math: Paper Edition with Elizabeth Bennett
• One Task, Different Levels of Thinking: Making Graphs Make Sense with Rebecca Strom
• Anoka-Ramsey Community College’s Partnership with ABE with Mark Omodt and Christie Sonnett
• Conceptual Connections with Marcie Vaiphei

Graduate credit available. More information forthcoming.

NOTE! Also, join us for the Math Institute Follow-up Webinar on THU. 1/14/27 – REGISTER!

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