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A post-it that describes three ways to implement BTC successfully:Arming yourself with BTC knowledge supports a more competent level of implementation.

Detracking with BTC series: Three Suggestions for Self-Support to Guide You Toward Success, Part 1

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

Adrienne Baytops Paul

Feb 124 min read

Pictured is part of the Communication, Collaboration, and Learner Traits rubric we assigned our students to self-assess during and after we completed a unit of study.

Detracking with Building Thinking Classrooms series: Grades that Measured What We Valued

Operating from an asset-based lens caused us to identify and value ways to measure student learning and understanding, rather than focus on their temporary misconceptions.

Adrienne Baytops Paul

Jan 293 min read

Students collaborate to interpret percents using bar diagrams.

Active Learning: Revisiting the Shift, Part 1

Increase students' mathematical discourse with this teacher move.

Adrienne Baytops Paul

Jan 52 min read