Our Summer Book Study – Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

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Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists: Our Summer Book Study – Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

As the school year starts to come to a close, so does this podcast…but only for the summer. We have three more episodes and then I’ll be pausing the episodes until August.

Over the summer I have two ways for you to continue learning with me:

#1 – Enroll in one of The Flexibility Formula courses.  The courses are completely online and I know many educators don’t have the capacity to do professional development courses during the school year, so if you are looking for a course that will change how you think about building fluency with your students, enroll in The Flexibility Formula.  There’s a course for K-2 and one for 3-5 teachers.  You can learn more at buildmathminds.com/courses

#2 – Join the summer book study.  It’s free to enroll but after the summer, the videos that we have to accompany the book study will only be available inside the Build Math Minds PD site.  This summer we are investigating the follow-up book to Building Thinking Classrooms.  Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom Grades K-5 by Peter Liljedahl and Maegan Giroux is an essential book for any educator who has been doing BTC. You can register to be a part of the book study at BuildMathMinds.com/bookstudy25

In this episode I’d like to talk more about option #2.  The book study will officially start on July 14, but I want to invite you to join now so you have time to get the book shipped to you and when you sign up you’ll get the discount code we have from the publisher that gives you 20% off and free shipping in the United States. 

Each week of the book study I’ll be sending out a video either by Rosalba Serrano, myself, or a special guest.  Those videos will have our thoughts about a specific area of the book and will give you things to think about as you decide how this information will impact your math time next year.  You can watch the video on your own time and then respond to the journal prompts in the workbook for that week of the book study.   

So what are we covering in this book study?  The book is 419 pages, about 290 of those are the actual tasks to use in your classroom and we aren’t going to be going through those.  Instead we are spending our time this summer looking at the other approximately 130 pages.  There are 4 parts of the book and we are going to delve into Part 1 and Part 4.  To help you decide if you’d like to join us, and our special guests, this summer here’s how they describe each of those parts in the introduction of the book:

If any of that interests you, we’d love to have you join us for the 2025 Build Math Minds Summer Book Study.  Go to BuildMathMinds.com/bookstudy25 to join us.

Until next week, my fellow Recovering Traditionalists, keep letting your students explore math, keep questioning, and most importantly, keep Building Math Minds.