Build a Thinking Classroom
Learn the structures and practices that create an environment where students genuinely think.
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Mathematics Instruction
Building Thinking Classrooms
with Dr. Peter Liljedahl
Helping educators transform classrooms from places of doing into places of thinking — through 15 years of research-backed practice.
A 5-session virtual cohort with Dr. Peter Liljedahl: learn how to create an ideal setting for mathematical thinking and launch Thinking Classrooms in your school.
About this cohort
Master a process for enhancing student learning through a process of enhancing student thinking.
In a time when more students are falling further behind, the old way of teaching mathematics isn’t going to close the learning gap.
In this five-session virtual cohort, Dr. Peter Liljedahl shows you and your instructional team how to create an ideal setting for processing mathematics and other academic disciplines by meeting learners where they’re at and promoting the practice of thinking as opposed to activity or memorization in classrooms.
Learn what pieces make up a Thinking Classroom, master ways to engage students in the practice of thinking, and get actionable strategies to launch and sustain Thinking Classrooms in your schools — with help from Liljedahl’s proven, research-backed method.
Classroom Teachers
Launch a Thinking Classroom with a proven, research-backed framework.
Instructional Coaches
Support teachers in adopting and sustaining the BTC model.
Curriculum Coordinators
Align the BTC approach with school or district instructional goals.
What you'll leave with
Concrete outcomes by the final session.
Teach content through a Thinking Classroom
Apply the BTC framework to real classroom content across disciplines.
Use assessment to shape learning
Implement formative and summative assessment strategies grounded in Liljedahl's research.
Improve student outcomes
Give students the conditions they need to engage, think, and succeed.
Cohort Schedule
Live-virtual program.
Weekly - Thursdays - 120 minutes - Live via Zoom-
1
Introduction to a Thinking Classroom
The importance of thinking tasks, visibly random groups, and vertical non-permanent surfaces (VNPS).
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2
Engagement in the Thinking Classroom
The important relationship between thinking and engagement, how to increase engagement through flow, and the relationship between flow and productive struggle.
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3
A Thinking Classroom Lesson: From Launch to Closing
The importance of the launch, how to consolidate, how to do meaningful notes, and how to use check-your-understanding questions.
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4
Thin-Slicing 101
What is thin-slicing, the value of thin-slicing, and how to do thin-slicing.
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5
Formative and Summative Assessment
The importance of formative assessment, helping students know where they are and where they are going, and grading based on data rather than points.
Can't attend live? Sessions are recorded and shared with registered participants.
Your Instructor
Dr. Peter Liljedahl
Dr. Peter Liljedahl is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Simon Fraser University and the creator of Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) — a research-based framework for transforming K-12 classrooms into environments where students think, rather than just do. His bestselling book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics (Grades K-12): 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning, has sparked a global movement in how educators approach instruction.
Mathematics Instruction
Student Engagement
Math Instruction
Instructional Leadership
What's included
Everything included with your cohort seat
Live sessions with Dr. Peter Liljedahl
Session recordings (available for 30 days)
Breakout discussions with educators worldwide
Access via the RocketPD Learning Portal
Certificate of Completion
Pricing & Registration
Reserve your seat in Building Thinking Classrooms.
One seat in the live cohort
$495per person - 5 sessions
- Live sessions with Dr. Peter Liljedahl
- Session recordings (available for 30 days)
- Breakout discussions with educators worldwide
- Access via the RocketPD Learning Portal
- Certificate of Completion
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$485
per person
Team of 10
$465
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What educators say about learning with Dr. Peter Liljedahl.
Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics exudes enthusiasm for students, how they think, and how those thoughts coalesce into powerful thinking classrooms. It's also deeply practical.
Dan MeyerPeter Liljedahl's Thinking Classroom framework transformed my mathematics classroom overnight. This framework gave me a starting point I started implementing the very next day.
Laura Wheeler TeacherAn in-depth action plan backed with significant research and data — Liljedahl's plan is one that can improve every classroom for the better.
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Common questions, clear answers.
In this 5-session virtual cohort, Dr. Peter Liljedahl shows you and your instructional team how to create an ideal setting for processing mathematics and other academic disciplines by meeting learners where they’re at and promoting the practice of thinking as opposed to activity or memorization. Learn what pieces make up a Thinking Classroom, master ways to engage students in the practice of thinking, and get actionable strategies to launch and sustain Thinking Classrooms in your schools.
The live-virtual sessions give educators and school district leaders an easy and reliable way to collaborate with a best-selling author and other colleagues from around the world on a topic of strategic importance to schools and teachers. Individual teachers can register or school district teams can register select members of their building or central-office teams for open cohorts.
Delivered over five weeks, the program includes 5 scheduled structured learning conversations delivered virtually over Zoom, plus password-protected access to the RocketPD Learning Portal where participants can access recordings for a limited time, and a customized Certificate of Completion.
Building your Thinking Classroom is a 5-session (120 minutes each) collaborative professional-learning experience for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and other instructional leaders.
Yes. While Peter’s book has Mathematics in the title, the research-backed Thinking Classrooms model can be applied to other disciplines. Teachers and instructional coaches in other disciplines can still use and apply the framework in their classrooms.
Yes. Sessions are recorded and accessible via the RocketPD Learning Portal for a limited time during the cohort experience.
Save your spot by registering on this page. Once you sign up, you’ll receive more information about the program including payment and invoicing details, and a detailed follow-up email with scheduled session dates and times.
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