As the first half of the school year comes to a close, take time to reflect, recharge, and reconnect with the math teacher you want to be! Grounded in Chase Orton’s The Imperfect and Unfinished Math Teacher and NCTM’s Mathematics Teaching Practices, this virtual session will focus on professional growth, purposeful reflection, and practical ways to strengthen mathematics instruction.
Come as you are—imperfect, unfinished, and still growing—and leave encouraged and ready to begin the new year with fresh purpose and ideas.

Fractions are a journey, not a single standard! Join us for a hands-on deep dive into the Kentucky Academic Standards for fractions in Grades 3–5, with a focus on how fraction understanding develops and connects across grade levels.
Participants will explore vertical alignment, key representations, and engaging tasks that build conceptual understanding. Come ready to model, make connections, and leave with classroom-ready activities you can use right away!

Number lines are a powerful representation for building mathematical understanding across K–12! In this hands-on session, participants will explore the progression from number paths to number lines to open number lines and how these tools support number sense, operations, magnitude, and student reasoning.
Using the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide as an anchor, participants will build, model, and make sense of number lines in ways they can take directly back to the classroom.

The struggle can be where the learning happens! Join us for an engaging virtual session focused on how to create a math classroom where students are encouraged to think, persevere, problem-solve, and grow through productive struggle. Grounded in the Mathematics Teaching Practices, we’ll explore what productive struggle really looks like, how to support students without taking away the thinking, and practical ways to build a classroom culture where challenge is viewed as an important part of learning mathematics.

Come ready to rethink struggle and leave with strategies you can use right away!

Effective co-teaching doesn’t just happen—it takes intentional planning, shared ownership, and the right structures! Join us for a practical, interactive day focused on the different co-teaching models, purposeful co-planning, and strategies for making co-teaching work for ALL students.
Participants will explore how to move beyond simply having two adults in the room and toward true collaboration that increases student access, engagement, and success. You’ll leave with practical tools, planning strategies, and ideas you can put into action right away.

For the most meaningful experience, co-teaching partners are STRONGLY encouraged to attend together!

Fluency is so much more than speed! Join us for a hands-on day exploring meaningful ways to build, assess, and support mathematical fluency without relying on timed tests in grades K-5. Using the work of Jennifer Bay-Williams, including her Fluency book series and fluency games, participants will explore practical assessment tools, engaging activities, and classroom-ready games that reveal how students think and help move them toward flexible, efficient, and accurate strategy use.
Come ready to play, think, assess, and leave with ideas you can use right away!

The RAD Related Services Cadre brings together related service professionals to connect, collaborate, and share practical strategies that support student success across school settings. Participants will explore effective push-in, pull-out, and collaborative service approaches, along with strategies for addressing sensory, behavioral, communication, and access needs in the classroom. Through discussion, shared resources, and research-based practices, the cadre will highlight what is working and how related service personnel can partner with educators to increase student participation, independence, and success throughout the school day.

The Vibrant Learning Academy brings together district and school leaders and classroom teachers to build vibrant learning in our region — from the classroom to the system level. Participants join one of two pathways, Leaders or Teachers, and work across three sessions throughout the year, culminating in a joint showcase in April where both pathways present what they built, modeled after a student exhibition of learning. Districts are encouraged to bring both a leader and teachers so the work stays connected across pathways.

The Teacher Pathway

The Teachers Pathway is for classroom teachers ready to make vibrant learning a daily reality. Teachers will define what vibrant learning actually looks like day to day, work through small, medium, and large shifts to get there, and think through how to integrate it with their current HQIR. Teachers will also look at types of performance assessment systems and begin planning for how students might begin collecting evidence of their learning, building toward a system such as defenses of learning or student-led conferences. Teachers will leave with concrete moves they can use right away, and design and implement a shift throughout the academy.

Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Special Education Teachers

The Vibrant Learning Academy brings together district and school leaders and classroom teachers to build vibrant learning in our region — from the classroom to the system level. Participants join one of two pathways, Leaders or Teachers, and work across three sessions throughout the year, culminating in a joint showcase in April where both pathways present what they built, modeled after a student exhibition of learning. Districts are encouraged to bring both a leader and teachers so the work stays connected across pathways.

The Leader Pathway

The Leaders Pathway is for district and school leaders ready to build the system-level structures that let vibrant learning take hold and last. Leaders will examine their current structures and systems — including where they stand with Portrait of a Learner, performance outcomes and indicators, and performance assessment — and determine their own next best step, whether that’s naming outcomes for the first time, refining indicators already in place, or designing structures like defenses of learning or student-led conferences. Leaders will identify a clear next step for their district and develop a plan for taking it.

Target Audience: Instructional Coaches, District Leaders, Administration

Do your students struggle to communicate their thinking in math class? HB 257 (2026) mandates writing across disciplines in all grades. This session will explore strategies that can be used to increase written communication in the classroom. Both formal and informal writing will be addressed, including writing to learn, writing to demonstrate learning, and writing for publication. It will also provide instructional strategies and ways to incorporate technology in the process. Throughout the day, participants will work in grade bands to tailor the work to their student needs.

It will be beneficial if participants bring a computer and any rubrics they use for extended response or short answer, as well as HQIR materials.

Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, District Leaders