Early Career Teaching Institute: Full Schedule

Welcome to ECTI 2026! You will be able to register for individual workshop sessions on Monday during our intention setting session.

8:45am CDT

Mindful Math Pedagogy

Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:45am - 10:15am CDT

Discovery Building: Room 2329

Learning math can carry heavy risks for students. Math creates anxiety in students and there are often assumptions about who is “good” at math and who is “bad”. A committed math teacher takes into account these fears when offering learning opportunities to help students grow in their math understanding. Creating a rich classroom for learning math is not about lowering the rigor but about increasing the ability to take the risks of learning. Tuyet Nguyen has been a middle school math teacher for over 20 years. This session is about how to work with the fear of math to create the stamina for working with confusion.

In this session, you will:

Learn a short history of how math has vacillated between “traditional” methods and “new” methods and how the happy middle is always the place for success.

Understand how confusion can lead to shutdown, anger or giving up in students.

Explore how to help students work with confusion in order to build their stamina for taking risks in learning.

Presenters

Tuyet Nguyen

Mindfulness Program Coordinator & 8th Math/Science Teacher, Madison Metropolitan School District

Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:45am - 10:15am CDT
Discovery Building: Room 2329 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715, USA

Workshop

Curriculum & Content Areas Math, Mindfulness & Wellbeing

10:30am CDT

Building Data Science in Wisconsin

Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT

Discovery Building: Room 1170

Data Science is a developing field and incorporating this content area is being taken up by educators across the country, primarily though not exclusively with math educators. This is an interdisciplinary field that is emerging in the state of Wisconsin. Come experience a data science lesson, learn about how teachers are learning to teach data science, and think about how you might 1) incorporate data science into your middle or high school coursework and/or 2) consider adding data science as a 4th year math course option.

In this session, you will:

Understand how to access resources to expand your knowledge of K-12 data science.

Understand the premise and ideas from K-12 data science.

Apply using data to support your teaching and learning in your context and content area.

Presenters

Lisa Hennessey

Teaching Faculty and Secondary Math Program Coordinator, UW-Madison

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Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Discovery Building: Room 1170 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715, USA

Workshop

Learner Populations Middle School, Secondary Education
Curriculum & Content Areas Math

Early Career Teaching Institute

8:45am CDT

Tuyet Nguyen

10:30am CDT

Lisa Hennessey

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