Meeting December 12, 2013

December 12, 2013

Agenda:

• IXL
• what are teachers expected to use?
• used as homework. Target extra skills.  Be careful of skills getting too hard, too quick.  You can grades to letters. If you want specific targets, assign appropriate skills.
• how do students use and how often? - once or twice a month for homework.  Using in class occasionally.
• Everyday Math Online- Molly, Sheila, Kathie B
• Math Budget
• journals - Clare is doing K-5
• materials - independently per class or via grade level
• Resource sharing - make sure you make a copy
• Data collection - 3 min fact collection (Sept, Jan, June), end of unit scores?
• Assessment
• Inform? - want to do end of unit test scores
• Mid-year? End of year? - qtrly computation? end of year test that is relevant to end of year and what next grade level needs as firm foundation.
• Fact lab - change to computation lab after Feb break?
• Number modeling strategies - PD for Sheila?
• NYMS Math Night? Tuesday, Feb 11 - asking your colleagues
• Future meeting dates - 

Clare - draft computation mid-year test

K-5 Math Mentor Meeting, December 2, 2013

December 2, 2013

K-5 Math Mentor meeting

Agenda:

• Meet and great
• Everyday Math Interactive Teacher's Guide online opportunity.  Free pilot of 2012 edition.
• Mathematical Practices
• CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4 Model with mathematics.
• CCSS.Math.Practice.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
• CCSS.Math.Practice.MP6 Attend to precision.
• Wednesday:
• I will model one standard, using visuals from different classrooms to help frame the discussion in your smaller groups.
• each math mentor will facilitate a group looking at one of the above 4 mathematical practices.
• we will start in mixed grade level groups, K-5, to read and discuss 1 practice.  You will be looking for ways in which we already do this in classrooms and ways we might easily incorporate it into our classrooms. Create a "presentation" (video, poster, Explain Everything app, pictures, etc) that portrays what that practice is all about in a K-5 environment. This is very open ended and groups can portray the info in any way that makes sense to them.  There will be 2 groups (I hope) for each standard. We will share out from here.
• we will then go to grade level groups to discuss how this impacts your current unit that you are teaching.
• We will all meet together at the end for a quick wrap up and easy online survey to complete.
• Everyone will have nametags and be assigned to a group (I hope to have this to you by the end of the day Tuesday) to start the afternoon in that group.  Tables will have assignments, mathematical practice and the name of the facilitator.
• Decide on next meeting date
• look for email with a doodle.

If time:

• Goals for the year
• Parking lot items

November 24, 2013

November 24, 2013

Before school meeting:

• Discussed math labs.  In the next two weeks, Molly and Sheila are going to check in with the 4th and 5th grade teachers regarding these intervention groups.  They will be finding out if there are students currently being served that may not need continued support and if there are students who are concerns that are not currently being supported.
• Clare will meet with Sheila and Molly before the December break to go over these concerns.
• However, for now, the groups will stay as they are, with the exception that Jacob S (and possibly Charlotte T) will not go to lab after school and will work with Margie before school 2x a week.
• During the 4th grade Smartblock, Margie will be working with Jasper Goodwin (Mayberry), Olivia Kennedy (Gervais), Emily Ferilli (Gervais)
• Just to reiterate, we are not going to be getting a new program in the next year or two, so we need to focus on how to support teachers with what they are currently using and modify if and when it is needed.

Next meeting, Monday, December 2, K-5 math mentors, MIW 3:15 pm

October 3, 2013

NYMS Math Mentor meeting
October 7, 2013
In attendance: Clare Harrington, Sheila Mayberry, Molly White
Next meeting date: November 14, 2013
Agenda items:

• role of math mentors
• coordinating copying of units for grade level
• disseminating/gathering math resources
• be the liaison between the teachers and Clare when organizing intervention groups (new aspect of role this year). It would be helpful when looking at the students to have more direct teacher input that gives us information beyond test scores. 
• math labs/ fact labs
• beginning next Thursday. Parents have been notified and we finalizing the lists based on responses.  
• is math fact lab effective? is Otter Creek the way to go? is there a better way to use that time?
• Star data - didn't get to this
• Smart Blocks
• Gr:4 :
• Begley, Barksadale, Russell - support math
• Mayberry, Gervais - math enrichment

• Gr. 5:
• White - mixed enrichment and support math
• Lane - support math
• Alexander - math enrichment

• math facts/algorithms - 
• Facts - much bigger issue across the K-5 span.  What are our expectations and goals K-5?
• Algorithms
• Grade 5, partial products for all and traditional when student is ready
• Grade 4, partial sums, move to traditional when ready. Partial Products and Partial Quotients introduced but mastery is not expected.
• - any additions from you that you would like to discuss
• It would be good to take a look at how we are assessing our students
• what are doing with open responses?
• how are we keeping track of the higher end students?
• how are we using the data in the spreadsheets?
• more information on Bar Modeling and materials to support it to help with problem solving
• should we do baseline tests later in the fall?
• Could Margie do small lab groups before school 2 days a week?  Apparently, she would like to and this might solve the problem with some of our students who can't do the afterschool lab on both days. It wouldn't be as much but would be better than nothing.