NEW OPTION FOR THURSDAY - OGAP® Preview Day

What can students’ mathematical responses tell us about their understanding and how can educators use that evidence to strengthen instruction across classrooms, schools, and districts?

Join BW Walch for an interactive introduction to the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP®), a research-based professional learning approach that helps educators deepen their mathematics content knowledge and conceptual understanding while strengthening their ability to recognize, interpret, and respond to evidence of student thinking.

Participants will experience elements of OGAP firsthand, explore the research and learning progressions that ground the work, and examine how teachers learn to identify student strategies, misconceptions, and developing understandings. Through this process, educators strengthen their use of formative assessment to make informed instructional decisions in the moment and over time.

Designed for mathematics leaders and decision-makers, this Preview Day will also explore how OGAP can strengthen mathematics instruction at the school and district level. OGAP works alongside existing curriculum by deepening the knowledge and understanding teachers bring to their everyday instructional decisions. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how sustained, research-based professional learning can strengthen teaching, build instructional coherence, and support deeper student learning across classrooms and grade levels.

The Wyndham Executive Center is offering a $110 standard room rate for conference attendees.  This rate does not include breakfast, and the rate is net/non-commissionable.  Hotel room and suite rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 7.975% state tax, lodging tax of 5%, and a $1.95 Hotel Service Fee in effect at time of check-in).  Guest room rates are applicable for up to 4 guests per room.

Individual attendees should make hotel reservations directly with Wyndham Executive Center Reservations at 573-445-8531 or online at this link provided by the hotel by Tuesday, November 3, 2026.  Room reservations made within the Fall Conference block are not eligible for Reward points.

Guest check-in cannot be guaranteed prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of arrival.  Check-out time is 11:00 a.m.  Guests checking out between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. will be charged an additional half-day rate.  Full rate will be charged for check-out after 4:00 p.m.

Conference Grid will be available in October!