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February 24th Meeting Minutes

Call to Order – Dr. Mason

  • Intros

  • The Griffen- check out the sweet app!!!!

  • Reminder about the change of date

  • March 24th to the 17th

Update on grant and summer courses

  • Math for struggling students

  • Dr. mason and Louise Williams

  • Permission given for those to take courses though not in the grant

  • Funding went through k-5 for the next year, next is unknown (MSP- there will be new leadership but we will provide updates

Math Day2017! – Sam

  • Date Change!

  • Thursday it is! October 5th – date change is confirmed

  • Speaker Proposal form on the site. Please ask teachers to check it out

Mark Smith – Hand2Mind, Sarah – currently consulting

  • Solutions for the kids

  • Hands on #1 in US

  • Manipulatives along with curriculum

  • Refreshed differentiated “stations”

  • 3 levels; below, on level, above

  • Game and Skills practice

  • Reusable with dry-erase

  • Hands on Standards - Teacher resource

  • Designed for the manipulative novice

  • Use as inspiration for the well heeled teacher

  • How can I teach this standard with manipulatives

  • Twenty minute activity with practice pages

  • BrainingCamp—Virtual manipulatives

  • Is the site app friendly? iPad format

  • Versa Tiles

  • Hands on skill review (samples)

  • Other

  • Time rods

  • All products are color coordinated

  • Possible booth/presentation at Mathday – follow-up

  • Coordinate a “part 2” presentation in connecting to

Update on summer courses – Possibilities – Create Survey, send to school leaders

  • Number and number sense ++

  • Geometry +

  • Probability and Statistics (Summer ’18)

  • Patterns and Functions

  • Leadership 1 +

  • Algebra

Upcoming PDs

  • Pre-teaching (as opposed to remedial)

  • PD and Template available

  • Improves self-efficacy in the long run

  • Data Analysis

  • Identify and design strands for remediation and grouping that goes along with that

Coming attractions

  • Nothing in addition to agenda

Book Study

  • Mathematical Mindsets – Jo Boaler

  • Equity

  • Great example of gifted cluster expanding to the whole class

  • Homework

  • NCTM- count Dracula April 2016 “Out of the Classroom into the Home”

  • Zipgrade, Gradeable

Sidenotes

  • Any feedback on CatchUp Math?

  • Or, Imagine Learning

Upcoming meeting: May – activity based

  • Look to Jo Boaler’s Mathematical Mindsets

  • Share out!

  • Adaptations of Boalers ideas to your own classroom?

The New SOLs – independent conversations


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