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NCTM has two new learning opportunities to collaborate with your colleagues from all over the country, no matter where you are. This month Webinar Wednesdays will discuss the different pendulum swings throughout the history of mathematics and implementing effective mathematics teaching practices with the newly published Taking Action series—now availiable after selling out completely at the Annual Meeting last month.   Join us for these free webinars and share your insights before, during, and after the events on social media with the hashtag #NCTMLive. Join your peers in the mathematics education community and let's learn together! The Elusive Search for Balance May 17 | 7:00 p.m. ET   Taking place next week! This President's Message webinar will take a closer look at the ideas discussed in the February President's message.  NCTM President Matt Larson explores the different pendulum swings throughout the history of mathematics. He proposes that we seek balance and break the historic cycle of pendulum swings. We need to return to, promote, and implement in our classrooms the NRC definition of mathematical literacy. We want students to know how to solve problems (procedures), know why procedures work (conceptual understanding), and know whento use mathematics (problem solving and application) while building a positive mathematics identity and sense of agency.     Register for FREE Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices May 24 | 7:00 p.m. ET   This Author Talk webinar will engage teachers in activities drawn from the newly published Taking Action series. This new series will help teachers develop their understanding of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices found in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. It will also give information about how to enact the teaching practices in classrooms and, in so doing, promote equity. The activities will include analyzing a narrative case, student work samples, and a video to help teachers understand how engaging in particular practices can support student learning. Download the handout packet and join author Peg Smith in just two weeks to take your teaching to the next level!   Register for FREE

Residential Summer Workshops at the 

University of Connecticut’s

School of Engineering

The daVinci Project

July 10-14, 2017

Introducing our students to engineering is a national need.  Most students love to be creative and to connect academics to the real world….this is what engineers do while making technologies that solve serious world problems.  The UConn School of Engineering is holding its 18^th annual daVinci Project.   It is a weeklong (Mon-Fri) residential series of hands-on workshops for middle and high school science and math teachers. This year it’s being held July 10-14.  Teachers live on campus and participate in one of 10 very engaging workshops, as well as many other seminars, a variety tours through research labs, our state of the art water reclaim and wastewater facilities, and our CoGen plant.  Come and be part of an exciting week of exploration!  We have 27 fellowships available.  Please share this professional development opportunity with the other STEM teachers in your school or district.

1.    Understanding Pain: Sensory and emotional stimulus to your brain  – 2 fellowships available

2.    Bioinformatics: Using Computer Science to Understand Life – 3 fellowships available

3.    Topology Optimization: A computational technique for design of 3D-printed parts – 2 fellowships available

4.    Low Cost Solar Cells – 5 fellowships available

5.    Air Quality and Health: Building an Air Pollution Measurement Device with an Arduino®

6.    Basic Arduino® Programming for STEM Projects – 3 fellowships available

7.    Mathematical Optimization with Applications to Smart Grid and Intelligent Buildings – 10 fellowships available

8.    Fuel Cell: Construction and Operation

9.    Robots: Use in Industry and Elderly Assistance

10. Monitoring and Maintaining Stream Health in a Developed Watershed – 2 fellowships available