Thank you for joining us for the Exemplars webinar: Fostering Empathy and Resilience in Math Classrooms Through Differentiation and Performance Tasks.

Empathy. Engagement. Rich Tasks. Students learn best when their classrooms are differentiated to meet their individual needs.

In our session, we discussed how to reach students who span the range of understanding, engagement, and abilities—a range that’s wider than ever after COVID’s many disruptions. 

When teachers bring empathy with them for their student's individual stories and provide research-based differentiation towards the content, process, product, and learning environment we can help every student succeed.  By strengthening relationships with our students, providing clarity in our expectations, ensuring the relevance of the activities we ask students to engage in, and creating various flexible grouping arrangements throughout the week we can help to engage all students.

During the session, we highlighted several resources designed to support and develop student resilience to help them achieve success. Give them a try in your classroom and get your students excited to learn math!

• Book: Student-Driven Differentiation: 8 Steps to Harmonize Learning in the Classroom, written by Lisa Westman 
• Book: Teaching with Empathy: How to Transform Your Practice By Understanding Your Learners, written by Lisa Westman 
• Math Performance Task Samples
• Video Series: Preparing to Launch Your First Performance Task
• Blog: 5 Days of Exemplars: Get Your Students Engaged and Energized in Problem Solving
• Standards-Based Assessment Math Rubric
• Student Rubric
• Grade Level Representations
• Using Representations
• Exemplars ESSA Research

For more information about Exemplars performance materials and professional development offerings please contact us.