Semester 2 Attack Strategies

Agenda

• CCR Caregiver Updates - 5 mins.
• What questions do we have? 
• How can we support this process?
• Links: Matrix
• Hour of Code - 5 mins.
• What is it? What's taking place?
• Links: Presentation, Website
• Math Team - Semester 2 Attack Strategies - 15 mins.
• Links: Brainstorming, CSIP Alignment
• Pacing Plans Review - 10 mins.
• What have we learned? 
• What can we celebrate?
• Where can we continue to improve?
• Links: Pacing Plan, Review Protocol
• Student Growth Goals - 5 mins.
• What's our current reality? 
• What are our next steps?
• Links: Matrix

Hedgehogging and GRiNDing

Agenda

• Dan the Man - Care Giver Updates (click here to view the matrix)
• Math Pacing Plan Review Protocol - 10 minutes
• Steps to FlyNDefy with SGG - 35 minutes
1. Access Google Drive - GRiND folder here
2. Finishing touches on our rubric - 10 mins.
3. Develop lesson plan to unroll GRiND methodology to student body (20 mins.)
4. Select assessment for baseline data (5 mins.)
5. Upload scores to SGG matrix - What's your Astro-nickname?

Infinite Possibilities + SciFly =

Agenda

1. Care Givers - Welcome Dan Handloser to the Math Support Team
• CCR Data
• Intervention Identification
2. Focus Area #1: SSG Folder
• What should our rubric look like?
• How will we assess this enduring skill?
3. Focus Area #2: Math Pacing Plans
• Explore the Magic from other classrooms. 
• Questions to consider:
• What have we learned from this process?
• What benefits have we found from using this system?
• What frustrations did we experience?
• How could we improve this process?
• What can we learn from the Science Team?

Quarter 2 Heading

Agenda

1. PLC Quarter 2 Focus Areas
• Student Growth Goals
• Pacing Plans
2. KPREP Data Review and Data Driven Goal Setting
3. Student Growth Goal Action Plan (Brainstorming)
• Identify enduring skill: "Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them."
• Breakdown problem solving process and develop common language - what does it entail?
• Create a rubric to assess mastery.
• Develop an acronym and theme to inspire Generals.
• Collaborate with Science department to ensure common language across content areas.
• Assess and monitor student progress (Insert Astroname here).
4. Pacing Plans Process
• Identify our goal and purpose of effective pacing plans
• Set expectation for use of pacing plans.
• Re-evaluate ideas at next meeting. 
• Reference Science department to determine what they have learned from this process.

Getting to Magnum

Agenda:

1. Context
• Common Student Growth Goal: Mathematical Practice #1
• Common Language around Problem Solving
2. Brainstorming
3. Data Collection - What data do we value? How can we use this data to monitor classroom effectiveness? 

Infinite Possibilities

9.4.15 Brainstorming


Agenda

1. Welcome. Infinite Possibilities.
2. Establish Team Commitments
• Powerful, inspiring commitments that will lead to productive PLCs.
• Example - "We will commit to continue sharing and collaborating beyond the scope of our PLC meetings."
3. 2015-2016 Team Goal Setting - What yearly goals should we strive for?
• Current Data Reality - how can we organize this data so that it is useful to the math team?
• AP Data
• EOC Data - Charlie - what spreadsheet do you currently use?
• ACT Data 

Mr. Martin's Pre-AP Algebra II Class - Unit 1 Review KEY

Mr. Martin's Pre-AP Algebra II Class,


Our Unit 1 Test will occur Monday, August 24. To prepare for the test, study through your notes, practice problems, and review paper. Click on this link to view a key for Unit 1 Review.


Study Well,


Mr. Martin

Math Team Goal Ideas

From: Using the PLC Structure to Better Understand how to Investigate the Iowa Core in Math: Part II, Brian Townsend, University of Northern Iowa

The presentation linked above does a good job linking Math Practice standards to common classroom/learning issues students and teachers might have. Taking a challenging problem and making it procedural is certainly a mistake that I continue to make as I struggle to get my students to think more.

I thought this document might be good to read over as we consider what Math Practice Standards we should focus on as a PLC.

Learning Collaborative Preparation

Agenda:

1. Graphing calculator preparation for Algebra II EOC.
• Bring your graphing calculator set to Mr. Martin's room.
• Clear calculator of all installed programs
• Reset other features
2. District Learning Collaborative
• When: June 1st and 2nd
• Where: TBD
• Focus Areas: Standard alignment and pacing plans
• TNHS Focus Area: Aligning ACT standards to HS courses - What standard is taught and where is it assessed?
3. DLC Preparation
• Current ACT Math Pacing Plan
• TNHS Examples of new ACT pacing plans
• History: Pacing Plan and Standard Deconstruction
• Science: Pacing Plan

Algebra II: EOC Practice

IDGT Students,


Use this blog post to help you study and prepare for your EOC - final exam. Throughout this study process, be sure to reference your study sheets, notes, and neighbors. Don't hesitate to ask questions when they arise.

Steps for Success:

1. Read and study the study sheets.
2. Practice the sample EOC questions (click here for a link to the folder). 
3. Check your answers and ask questions for understanding.

Good Luck.


TNHS Math Team

What Matters Most

Agenda

1. What's our heading? Living LEADER Calendar
2. NC District Math Cadre Updates
3. District Learning Collaborative - June 1st and June 2nd
• Focus areas: Standards and Assessments
• Questions to consider:
• What do we want to work on? What would be most valuable to our work at TNHS? 
• How can we be proactive in preparing for the meeting so that we can be most productive at the meeting?
4. EOC Planning and Final Exam preparations

Data, Brainstorming, Visioning!

Agenda

1. Review Math ACT Data
• What does the data say?
• What implications does this have on our instruction?
2. Review structures brainstorming - how can we effectively support students with end of the year exams?
• History EOC example
3. Jeannie - Blended Learning
• How is the process going?
• What have you learned?
• How can you improve upon this process next year?
4. Math Vision updates
• Where are we? 
• How can we put our fingerprint on this vision?
• Next steps?

Infinite Possibilities

Agenda

1. Media Center - CERT company - program demonstration
• How can this enhance student learning?
• How would we use this?
• What concerns do we have?
• What questions do we have?
2. Math Essential Questions Contest 
3. Math Team Vision Updates
4. Jeannie - Blended Learning
• What is this? How do you currently use this model?
• What is your vision for the program next year?
• How can we support Jeannie?
• What questions/concerns do you have?
5. Math Team Budget
• Thoughts on equity based budget vs. zero based budget?
• What purchases would we need for 2015-2016?
6. What's most important to our work over the next 4 weeks - Next meeting will be April 21.

IA.3 Analysis

Agenda

1. Where are we? What's our heading?
2. IA.3 Analysis
• How did we do?
• What implications does it have on our work moving forward? 
• How can we improve math achievement?
3. Reteach Week and IA.4 Goal Setting Process
• What are teacher's doing to make this happen?
• How has it been going? What we are learning?
4. Student Growth Goal Discussion
• Reminder to update Student Growth Goals.
• How are you progressing towards your goals?
• What are we learning about this process?
5. Math Vision updates - Charlie

G22 Action

Agenda

1. Past, present, and future.
• Past: Flycloser Achievement Museum Walk, student course assignment for the 2105-2016 school year, and touched base with Math Team Vision
• Future: Update SMART Goal Action Steps
2. Achievement Museum Walk
• Q: What does the achievement museum walkthrough tell us about how we can come closer to magnum? 
• Sometimes a physical paper prevents us from accurately representing the art that is taking place in the classroom.
• Q: If we could only focus our learning on one practice to improve student outcomes - what might that be?
• Students being able to think and problem solve. We need to ask higher order questions to our students. Work that requires our students to explain their work and/or thoughts. Evidence that they have a clear understanding of the topic.
3. ACT and IA3 next Tuesday - "Bringing the Heat"
• Q: How are we inspiring IA and ACT growth this week in our content areas?
• IA rollout and growth goal discussion
• Continuing ACT Prep and review - embedding it as part of the SS process each day.
• Reviewing IA data after SS. Discussing year to year trends on IA data. 
• Celebrating students in our physical space for their growth.
• Reminder: Update SGG's by 3.3.15
4. Collect student course recommendation papers from last meeting.
5. Charlie - Math Team Vision
• Brainstorm essential questions about the subject of Mathematics that we could pose to our students that would provoke thought and curiosity. 

2.10.15

Agenda

1. Achievement Museum Flycloser Walkthrough
• Questions to consider:
• Questioning: What types of questions are we asking students to engage with?
• Rigor and Expectations: How do our expectations align to college and career expectations?
• Feedback: In what ways does LEADER and Peer feedback move learning forward by supporting student thinking?
• Consistency is Caring: What opportunities do you see for us to connect instructional practices from one class to the next?
2. 2015-2016 Course Breakdown
• What courses are we offering?
• How many sections of each course will be required?
• What students are enrolled in a particular course?
3. Math Team Vision
• Updates from Charlie
• Brainstorming Core Beliefs and Essential Questions

1.30.15 - One Step at a Time



Agenda

1. TNHS Graphing Calculator Expectations PPT Feedback - 5 mins.
• Have we presented this? 
• How did it go? What did we learn?
• How can improve upon these procedures and expectations for future Generals?
2. Update IA Analysis Documents - 5 mins.
• Grade 9
• Grade 10
• Grade 11
3. Update SSG Document - 10 mins.
• How are we progressing towards our goals?
• What does the data tell us about student progress and instructional practices?
• What assessments are given between now and 3.3.15?
• What are we learning from the goal setting process?
4. Clarify our heading - Update PLC Action Plan - 10 mins.

1.13.15 



Agenda

1. Reference Math Team Goals - see blog link (2 mins.)
2. IA.2 Analysis - (20 mins.)
• How did we do?
• What implications does it have on our work moving forward? 
• How can we improve math achievement?
• IA.3 Goal Setting Process
3. Student Growth Goal Discussion - (15 mins.)
• How are we progressing towards our goals?
• What does the data tell us about student progress and instructional practices?
• What assessments are given between now and 3.3.15?
• What are we learning from the goal setting process?
4. TNHS Graphing Calculator Expectations (10 mins.)
• Teacher Expectations
• Shared Calculator Presentation
• Calculator Inventory Sheet