Colleen Williams

Early numeracy enthusiast. Exploring kids’ thinking is fascinating and FUN. Instructional coach by trade, learner at heart. she/her

[Escuela Primaria | Emerson | Elementary School @EmersonFalcons]

Our Core Value Champion award for learning went to Connor in Mrs. Blackstock and Mrs. Thornton's class! Keep up the amazing learning Connor!

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

“Teaching is a listening profession.
Children listen the way they are heard.”

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Educative listening positions struggle as powerfully transformative. Thinking about implications for classroom teaching, instructional coaching, educational leadership, democracy. @allisonhintz124 @KerstiTyson #nwmc22

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Moving beyond evaluative listening points us toward JOY.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

@KathyTrosvig

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

“We believe students with special services matter. This is why we are investing so much; if we believe these students matter, they deserve our investment.” Kathy Trosvig & Kay Gomez on building agency & identity for students and resource room teachers. #nwmc22

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Mathematizing the World routine in service of the Common Good at #nwmc22 with @JuliaAguirre23. How are we advancing equity and humanizing spaces of math learning? How might we using mathematics as a lever for empathy?

[Janice Novakowski @jnovakowski_]

Thinking about ways to create math teaching labs which are called OEL Labs (Observation of Evidence of Learning) with @jsanchezmath & @SubitizeThis from Everett Public Schools. Another way to make professional learning visible #nwmc22

[Escuela Primaria | Emerson | Elementary School @EmersonFalcons]

Mrs. Werner’s third graders engage in discourse during a learning lab. Teachers are working together to practice facilitating the 3 Reads routine. This routine supports student access to multi-step word problems, builds community, and amplifies language and vocabulary.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Had the opportunity to fill my cup today alongside some brilliant fresh 4th graders. Our prompt was, “What helps you do math? What helps you learn math?” Ss reflected on their past experiences and shared in teams, then I scribed their ideas.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Happy first day of school, Halcones! We are starting 2nd grade and year 6 of instructional coaching at @EmersonFalcons. Looking forward to an amazing year of growth and fun! #EPS_OurStudentsRock

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Brilliance from @EmersonFalcons first grade team doing some shared review of Launch-Work-Synthesize to prepare for co-planning and co-teaching an @IllustrateMath lesson in an OEL lab.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

@ShannOnSpencs @Technology_EPS Fun! Your students made so many great connections!!! Love how you used color-coding!

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Me: Fielding student responses and explanations about which one doesn’t belong.

Student, blurting, suddenly thunderstruck: “They all belong because they all represent the same thing!”

The rest of the class: *collective gasp of realization, excited chatter*

I love to see it.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

We enjoyed zoom-hosting 44 of our kindergarten families for cozy math fun!

[Escuela Primaria | Emerson | Elementary School @EmersonFalcons]

It's math in your jammies day at Emerson Elementary! Student's turned drawings into math, counted collections and mathematized picture books during zoom! #EPS_OurStudentsRock #EPS_OurStaffRocks

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Even in a pandemic, excitedly learning about math is my joy.

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

Fourth graders using a smart panel to synthesize their learning about ways to represent large numbers. Kids are discussing how the location of a 0 in a large number changes the value, how we represent it with words and in expanded form. @EPSMath @IllustrateMath

[Colleen Williams @ColleenW_]

When students are asked to turn and talk about if place value can be used to subtract 167 from 301 and why they do or don’t think so, and they animatedly burst into discussion. Music to my ears!! @EmersonFalcons @IllustrateMath @jsanchezmath

[Illustrative Mathematics @IllustrateMath]

Did you miss our IM K–5 Math™ webinar, Racial Justice in Math Education? Check out the recording to watch a brilliant panel of math education scholars and experts discuss ways to disrupt patterns of racial inequity in mathematics. #LearnWithIM https://t.co/7wYfVLSUol