Learn to cultivate care and compassion in yourself and your students through the exploration of current research, ideas and practices that create proactive, prosocial communities that nurture children’s abilities to thrive Learn about an experiential course on human flourishing, related research and adaptation strategies from UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds as well as connected resources from PBS Wisconsin Education that can support the wellbeing of the students and staff members you serve.
Learn and practice strategies, grounded in wellbeing research from UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, that recognize and work with strong emotions in ourselves and our students.
Develop foundational practices that support students’ attentional and flexible thinking skills.
Explore free, bilingual resources from PBS Wisconsin Education that cultivate compassionate children and communities.
Early Learning Engagement Specialist, PBS Wisconsin
Jami Hoekstra Collins is an Early Learning Engagement Specialist with PBS Wisconsin Education. In her role, Jami facilitates professional learning opportunities for educators around the state of Wisconsin that are integrated with PBS learning media and resources. Prior to her work with PBS Wisconsin Ed... Read More →
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.
