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Thursday, November 15 9:15 – 10:15 SESSION
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16. Motivate the Unmotivated
Student with Differentiation
on Your Side
3 –8 | Lexington B
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Laquantis Chevis
Stepping Stones Services

Motivating students can be a
difficult task. Let’s come together
with songs, dance and a flipped
classroom model to learn ways to
motivate the unmotivated
student.

9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Address

17. Catalyzing Change: Identity, Agency,

Positionality, and Equitable Instructional Practices

General | Ballroom A/B

Robert Q. Berry III, NCTM President

This session makes connections between equitable instructional practices and identity, agency and
positionality. Specifically, the session uses a vignette to examine how high cognitively demanding task
provide opportunities to engage learners in meaning discourse positioning learners as mathematically
competent. The session uses mathematical discourse community as a framework for connecting
mathematics norms of discourse to identity and agency. While this session highlights Catalyzing Change for
High School Mathematics, the discussions of teaching practices that cultivate identity, agency, and
positionality is appropriate for all educators.

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