September 2025 Upcoming Events, Celebrations, Happenings and Opportunities (ECHO)

Save the Dates for Upcoming CCTM Events: 

  • Have you heard… NCTM is coming to Denver in October 2026!  Are you interested in presenting a session at NCTM 2026 - Denver?  Now is the time to prepare and forward-plan.  Proposals to speak at next year's conference are due November 1, 2025, which is only 6 weeks away. Join us for a web-based presentation, How to Submit a Proposal to Speak at NCTM 2026 - Denver, on Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30 - 6:30 pm.  We will discuss how to put together a proposal to speak at the NCTM Conference.  We will walk through what the proposal process looks like, how to design your proposal so it will hopefully get approved (and get attendees in the seats), and brainstorm ideas together.  Interested in speaking but don't want to be alone?  We will also brainstorm sessions that can be co-presented, and hopefully you can find a co-presenter here at our session.
  • CDE is offering a webinar series to help school and district leaders, along with adoption and implementation committees, understand and apply CDE’s Curriculum Adoption and Implementation Guidance.  September 23, 2025, 1:30 to 2:00 PM, Implement with a Systems Lens and Create a Sustainable System.  Interested attendees in the learning series can submit questions in advance. Join the session on Zoom. 
  • Teaching and Learning CoLab is in Lamar, October 3, 2025.  This is free to attend.  Space is limited so register early.  CoLabs are locally hosted, multidisciplinary events that bring together stakeholders in K-12, higher education, Colorado’s professional teaching organizations, and the Colorado Department of Education.
  • NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition: October 15-18 in Atlanta, GA.  Also save the date for NCTM’s Annual Meeting & Exposition will be in Denver, CO in 2026! October 28-31 
  • Did you know that Colorado is currently going through a high school math standards review and revision process?  Committee work began in April and will continue through the fall.  A draft of the revised standards will be presented to the Colorado State Board of Education and be available for public comment later in the fall.  More information about the math standards revision is available on the Math Standards Review Committee webpage.
  • Online NCTM professional development webinar opportunities, to include MTLT (Mathematics Teacher, Learning & Teaching PK-12) Teacher talks, which are open to all.  
  • Are you familiar with the instructional routine, Notice & Wonder?  NCTM has a wealth of resources related to facilitating Notice & Wonder routines in your own classroom.  NCTM has also introduced two mathematics-loving characters: Notice, the snail, and Wonder, the owl.  Explore the world with these two friends who discover that math is all around them!
  • Upcoming Math Competitions: AMC, MathCounts, Colorado Mathematics League, and other state and national competitions
  • Looking for a new math education podcast?  Check out Adding It All Up from NCTM, Room to Grow, Make Math Moments, Math is Figureoutable, and Estimation 180.  Do you have a podcast regarding math and education you love and want to share?  Let us know.
  • CDE partnered with TNTP to provide a no-cost professional development course covering high quality, evidence-informed math instructional practices. Colorado educators, school administrators, out-of-school time professionals and other supporting professionals can register here to participate in the asynchronous course, Powerful Practice: Evidence-Informed Math Teaching.
  • K-12 Mathematics Interventions offered by CDE to support key areas in mathematics education.

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