Elizabeth Fennema Memorial CGI Seminars


Summer 2025

Seminar Details

We’re offering an open-enrollment CGI seminar for grades K-2 and 3-5 teachers in a remote format.

Dates: June 23 - 26, 2025

The sessions will run 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Central Time. 3 four-hour remote Saturday sessions will be provided in the 2025-2026 school year for follow-up support.

This course is open to individual teachers or groups of teachers from the same school or school district.

The tuition will be $950 per participant.

Tuition is non-refundable. If you pay for the course and are unable to attend, you can send a substitute in your place.

Pay by Credit Card or By Purchase Order

To register and pay via credit card, start here:

Register and Pay Via Purchase Order

To check out via credit card, use the two red buttons in the section above.

To pay by Purchase Order, fill out the form below to register and then pay later by purchase order. Email your purchase order to Danielle Sims at danielle.sims.cgimath@gmail.com. We will need to receive your $950 per enrollment purchase order within two weeks of when you register to hold your place.

Tuition is non-refundable. If you pay for the course and are unable to attend, you can send a substitute in your place.

Registration

Email your purchase order to Danielle Sims at danielle.sims.cgimath@gmail.com.

We will need to receive your purchase order within two weeks of when you register for the course to hold your place.

If you are registering more than one person, you will need to register them one at a time. You can send us 1 purchase order for multiple participants.

Seminar Requirements

Participants will need the following supplies and materials:

  • A computer with video camera and microphone.

  • Internet access.

  • The ability to participate in a Zoom meeting.

  • A copy of the book, Children’s Mathematics available from Heinemann and other book sellers.

  • Handouts - a pdf file will be emailed to participants. Participants will need to print the file.

  • Blank paper and pens or markers.

  • If you don’t have a quiet place to participate in our Zoom meetings, headphones with a microphone would be really useful.

Our typical daily schedule will be:
(Times listed in the Central Time Zone)

9:30 – 11:00 | Whole group Zoom session

11:00 – 11:45 | Individual work time

10:45 - 1:00 | Whole group Zoom session

1:00 - 1:45 | Lunch Break

1:45 – 4:00 | A mix of small group and whole group Zoom session

30 – 45 minutes of independent work to be completed before the next daily session starts

About Registration

Registration will be limited to 30 participants and will be filled on a first come first served basis. Payment in-full or a purchase order is required to hold a spot.

Refund Policy: Tuition will not be refundable, unless we have a wait list. If you register for the course and are unable to attend, you may send a substitute in your place. If we are able to refund tuition, we will refund 90% of your payment to cover credit card fees and processing.

Additional Information about our CGI seminars

Every student has the right and the ability to understand mathematics. And now, thanks to a generous donation from the late Professor Elizabeth Fennema, even more teachers can grow their understanding, too.