Vision Every child in every district receives the

Vision: Every child in every district receives the instruction that they need and deserve…every day. Build a Strong Math Core: Moving from “pockets of excellence” to “systemic excellence”

Framework

Building Your Standards of Practice for Math • Time: – Standardized minutes with whole & small group – Pacing • Curriculum/Materials: – Ensure appropriate focus & coherence – Select rigorous math tasks – Attend to the Math Practice Standards • How will you communicate these standards to staff and other stakeholders?

Handbook

Start with the Why How What Simon Sinek

What supports this work? • Importance of math for college and career readiness • CCSS Shifts – Including Mathematical Practices • Mathematical Teaching Practices • K-2 is the place to begin to fix trajectories “Mathematics knowledge is one of the significant gatekeepers in modern society… People who understand mathematics have a higher quality of life. ” Visible Learning for Mathematics: What Works Best to Optimize Student Learning. Hattie, Fisher and Frey

Solid Core Instruction is Critical! • Primary method of prevention • Reduces the prevalence of math difficulties

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PACING

TIME • District Standardizes • School Customizes

Building Your Standards of Practice for Math • Time: – Standardized minutes with whole & small group – Pacing • Curriculum/Materials: – Ensure appropriate focus & coherence – Select rigorous math tasks – Attend to the Math Practice Standards • How will you communicate these standards to staff and other stakeholders?

Critical Components: Focus & Coherence • • • Remember…… Move away from "mile wide, inch deep" curricula identified in TIMSS. Teach less, learn more. “Less topic coverage can be associated with higher scores on those topics covered because students have more time to master the content that is taught. ” – Ginsburg et al. , 2005

Important Areas of Focus • Counting & • Number Sense Cardinality • Procedural Fluency • Operations & Algebraic Thinking • Number & Operation in Base 10 • Measurement & Data • Geometry

Bring Clarity to Focus & Coherence

From Achievethe. Core. org

Focus on critical content Anita Archer’s Components of Explicit Instruction Every day, in every class, in every lesson, we will: Mottos for Teaching and Managing Archerisms • 1. Focus learning on critical content • Teach the stuff and cut the fluff.

Number Sense • As critical of a skill as phonics • The base of most of math • Need to spend sufficient time developing number sense Teachers must have strong content knowledge!

Mastery & Differentiation Number Sense Trajectory

Building Your Standards of Practice for Math • Time: – Standardized minutes with whole & small group – Pacing • Curriculum/Materials: – Ensure appropriate focus & coherence – Select rigorous math tasks – Attend to the Math Practice Standards • How will you communicate these standards to staff and other stakeholders?

Instructional Rigor & Math Tasks “A rigorous lesson embraces the messiness of a good mathematics task and the deep learning that it has the potential to achieve” Linda Gojak (2013) How rigorous are the tasks in your math core?

Rigor What is Rigor? • Conceptual understanding • Procedural skill and fluency • Application What it is not? • Doing more • Doing it faster • More problems • Just harder

Rigor & Tasks • Ensure that the tasks allow students to utilize the mathematical practices • Tasks should have high-level cognitive demand –Thoroughness and tenacity • Mindset

Rigor: Conceptual Understanding Activity: Analyzing Sample Problems http: //achievethecore. org/page/400/introduction-to-the-shifts-pd-module#threeactivities-focus-coherence-and-rigor

Rigor: Procedural skill & fluency Rigor Activity: Analyzing Sample Problems http: //achievethecore. org/page/400/introduction-to-the-shifts-pd-module#threeactivities-focus-coherence-and-rigor

Rigor: Application Rigor Activity: Analyzing Sample Problems http: //achievethecore. org/page/400/introduction-to-the-shifts-pd-module#threeactivities-focus-coherence-and-rigor

First Grade

Sample task from Illustrative Mathematics

Rigor & Your Core Curriculum • How would you assess if your curriculum provides access to rigorous tasks for all students and how staff is using them? • What adjustments does your district need to make to increase the rigor of tasks in your core curriculum? • What guidelines does your district need to make to increase rigor of math tasks? • How can you support staff in the use of these tasks?

Building Your Standards of Practice for Math • Time: – Standardized minutes with whole & small group – Pacing • Curriculum/Materials: – Ensure appropriate focus & coherence – Select rigorous math tasks – Attend to the Math Practice Standards • How will you communicate these standards to staff and other stakeholders?

Math Practice Standards • Not to be confused with your district Standards of Practice • Not to be confused with 8 Math Teaching Practices • Referred to as MP 1, MP 2…

Math Practice Standards

North Carolina’s Unpacking the Core Document First Grade Example

Also offers more info on all the standards…

Rigor & Your Core Curriculum • How would you assess if your curriculum provides support for the Math Practice Standards? • How are your teachers making them “come to life”? • How can you support staff in the use of these MPs?

What decisions do you need to make about supplementing?

Evaluating your program: It’s a big job! • Achieve the core web site https: //achievethecore. org/category/74 6/textbook-alignment-and-adaptations

Another resource https: //www. edreports. org/compare/results/math-k 8

Building Your Standards of Practice for Math • Time: – Standardized minutes with whole & small group – Pacing • Curriculum/Materials: – Ensure appropriate focus & coherence – Select rigorous math tasks – Attend to the Math Practice Standards • How will you communicate these standards to staff and other stakeholders?

Communicating Your Math Standards of Practice • Staff • Parents

How can we move towards systemic excellence in the core curriculum? • Identify expectations for your core curriculum • Communicate expectations to staff • Develop the expectations into every practice (habits)

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