How can the Launch–Explore–Summarize lesson cycle move more of the thinking to students? In this K–5 session, educators will take a deeper look at each phase of the lesson and what it looks like in practice.
Participants will explore how to:
Design and launch tasks that promote thinking without over-scaffolding Facilitate the Explore phase by monitoring student strategies and asking purposeful questions
Lead Summarize discussions that connect student strategies to key mathematical ideas Through classroom examples and hands-on tasks, teachers will practice anticipating student responses, selecting and sequencing student work, and guiding discussions that make thinking visible.
Educators will leave with clear moves and planning strategies to implement the Launch–Explore–Summarize cycle in ways that increase student ownership and deepen mathematical understanding.
