November 4, 2014

November 4, 2014

Attendees: Molly Russell, Molly White, Clare Harrington

Ed Tech concerns:

• an ed tech that has no understanding of EDM and/or math program.
• Should we have some PD meetings dedicated to ed tech training?

Geometry templates.  

• breaking easily
• use protractors, rulers

Prof Development

• Want to work with grade levels on this to create richer questions.
• Pull together writing samples to look a expectations.
• Too much information, grade level only
• Divide and Conquer (Molly W) - each person look at one thing to share at team meeting the next week. Similar to tech slam.
• Practice Poster

SBAC - December meetings

Curriculum Review

NCSM/NCTM

Flipbooks

September 16, 2014

September 16, 2014

Attendees: Molly Russell, Molly White, Clare Harrington

Conference room 1

Agenda:

• October K-5 meeting
• data spreadsheets
• Blue - advance (above 75% on pre-test)
• Red - struggling (below 70% on the post-test)
• math practices - best way to get there?
• RTI - what does it look like
• after school - targeted for specific standard.
• before school - 20 x 4 days a week.  If it is facts, then we need to do more background work, how to use resources well.
• Smartblock - facts group? targeted based on a few specific standards.
• Molly W - topic of the week. Invitation to kids early in the week who need that topic and they came afterschool one afternoon (Thursdays)
• Choose kids based on STAR and in class data. 
• Quarterly groups.  ends Jan 23, ends April 3, ends May 30ish)
• what skills are super important?
• 6 number skills standards.
• using resources really well.
• Molly's will have standard to me at the end of the week. 
• Goal to start is October 6, 2014.  
• How do we share K-5 goals - share at grade level 
• How are you sharing info from meetings
• share blog?
• via email notes?
• data for this year?
• Concerns/Questions
• Ed tech support

May 1, 2014

Agenda - May 1, 2014

Molly White, Sheila Mayberry, Carol MacArthur, Clare Harrington

Agenda:

• Follow up - lab communication?
• letter of graduation?
• afterschool lab sharing?
• keeping track of and sharing attendance info
• Next year - how are we going to bridge? Math practices
• May 23rd planning to look at first few units
• Create a binder of masters. here are changes, adaptations, 
• 5th grade began this work last year.  
• Need to cross reference with CCSSM
• focus on what is really needed on assessment and to focus on, big picture.
• Accelerated vs advanced.  
• Summer plans for students?
• summer emails to parents to remind them to . . .
• put things up on website
• recommended apps
• recommended online program
• anything else . . . 
• how do we share info re labs kids to Inform? or let teachers know
• it is on placement sheet
• we need systematic plan
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• #of students who are recommended for advanced/accelerated/nested is too many to support in MS.
• need to clarify the criteria.
• How are 4th graders who have had smartblock enrichment, going to be in 5th grade?
• do we do Beast Academy planning for 5th grade?
• Sheila will email reminders to 4th grade team regarding accelerated math.  

K-5 Math Mentors - February 10, 2014

February 10, 2014

Attendees: Beth Cory, Phyllis White, Susie Robbins, Rebecca Galli, Valerie Dominski, Molly White, Sheila Mayberry, Sara Holt, Clare Harrington

Agenda:

• What has been happening around math since our last meeting?
• how are you sharing data?
• would like labsite in math
• share with grade level reps
• how does PD get decided - 
• Clare meets with principals to put time on calendar
• how do we prioritize, when can make a case for math to be prioritized
• be specific, targeted, clear goals
• midyear assessments?
• happy we did them - Reader Digest version, quick temp check
• scoring? yes or no was too strict, also good because it narrowed down where to focus when you looked back.
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• questions, comments, concerns
• Update on K-13 math task force
• math practices
• illustrativemathematics
• Mathematical Practices discussion
• Math practice Look Fors
• Next steps - ran out of time

Dan Meyer at TEDxNYED

January 9, 2014

K-12 Math Task Force - info for mentors.  They did not know about it and are OK not joining but want to be kept informed of progress. Maggi and I will represent NYMS.

Added meeting dates for:
Feb. 10 (K-5 meeting)
March 27
April 17
May 15

Mid year computation assessment:

• 5 or 6 questions
• 25 min
• data collection

Math Fact/Computation lab;

• algorithms
• gr 4 - partial products/ partial quotients
• gr.5 - partial products and traditional mult/ partial quotients
• addition - partial sums or traditional
• 2 days in a row per grade 
• Wed. - make up day? reserve day?

Fact benchmarks:

Grade 5

0-2 exceeds

3-5 meets

6-9 does not meet

10 or more, does not meet

Grade 4

100-96% exceeds

95-90- meets

89-81- partially

below 80- does not meet

Report Cards - not many exceeds, if they do they are for kids who are consistently stellar.

gr. 5 - Writing and reasoning can get 4s more frequently.

Goals:

• improve our IXL connections (release time?)
• Want to look at the following units more in-depth to better meet the needs of CCSSM:
• positive/negative number unit - remove but beef up order of operations (unit 7)- gr 5
• Fractions unit - unit 7 and 9 or measurements, grade 4

"Itunes u" course- Sheila has a geometry one called Basic Geometry.

Next meeting- Feb. 10, K-5