Description: 

Think of three words to describe your math students’ attitude towards math.  Did excited, engaged and enthusiastic come to mind?  Or something more like anxious, avoidant and confused?  We know that math anxiety shuts down students’ brains, that most students hate the amount of practice needed to memorize math facts and master procedures, and that if a student is missing number sense they are dead in the water.

Join BCET Diana Black Kennedy to learn how and why games are key to teaching math, and most importantly, to learn a whole bunch of them!

SPEAKER:  Diana Black Kennedy, MA, BCET

Diana Black Kennedy is a board certified educational therapist with a thriving private practice in San Anselmo, California.
Her extensive classroom experience spans second grade through high school; rural, urban and suburban settings; and public and private schools. She has taught high school in rural Mississippi with Teacher for America; third grade in a small charter school in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in Oakland where almost all of her students were new immigrants or first-generation Americans; second grade in the second-largest school in inner-city Oakland, a school that was 50 percent Hispanic and 50 percent black; fifth, third, and eighth grade at a small private Jewish day school in a relatively wealthy suburb of San Francisco; and algebra in an independent school in Marin for kids with learning disabilities, autism, and ADHD. In her private practice as an educational therapist, she has worked one-on-one with students with learning disabilities, those who are gifted and talented, and those who are twice exceptional. This unusually wide and varied experience gives her a perspective—and lots of stories—few educational writers have.  She also writes a blog about education at www.MindSparkLearning.com

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