In this final series of BTC posts, I offer guidance I gleaned during the course of our BTC implementation. Arming yourself with BTC knowledge supports a more competent level of implementation. In July 2022, I was on a Building Thinking Classrooms math conference tour! I spoke about our implementation at four different conferences, I wrote about it, and I was on a webinar. My presentation was one of the nation's earlier Thinking Classrooms sessions on the conference circuit at

Intentional questions and productive struggle create opportunities for math discourse.

⭐️ Honored, humbled, awestruck, protected, inspired, grateful…I still can’t find the words that adequately encapsulate my experience at the Black Male Educators Convening. I’ve attended easily over a hundred educational events and nothing comes close to the feelings this event evoked.