Transcript Cherry Hill Public Schools 2004

Cherry Hill Public Schools
Elementary Mathematics Planning and
Selection of Curricular Material
-Raise achievement for all with specific focus on closing the
achievement gaps
-Improve instruction and student achievement in Mathematics
Conversation Agenda
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recommendation
rationale
process for coming to a recommendation
implementation requirements including
budget requests
• guidelines for long term success
Recommendation
• expand and update the K – 5 math textbooks and
math tools.
• purchase and adopt the joint-usage of the
Investigations program and 2004 Scott Foresman
Mathematics
• begin pre-implementation February through June
2005: preparation, professional development, and
practice
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Why Bolster Our Emphasis on Math
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Cherry Hill Tradition of Excellence
Cherry Hill Vision and Mission
Changing Community Needs
Prepared Students Sustain and Bolster the Economy-
80% of the jobs that will be in the labor market for today’s first graders, have
not been invented yet.
• A Civil Right and Equity Values
Author and Civil Rights Leader, Bob Moses, says Algebra for all has the same
impact as voting rights in the 60’s.
• Career Access
Research has shown that when low income, minority students master algebra
and geometry by the end of tenth grade and have expectations to attend
college- they tend to attend college at about the same rate as their nonminority or more economically advantaged peers.
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Achieving preeminent & standards-based education
We believe each Cherry Hill student must:
• (1) receive the guaranteed opportunity to perform
and become more mathematically prepared;
• (2) benefit from the use of a coherent set of high
quality tasks;
• (3) be motivated by high expectations; and
• (4) experience a socially safe and pedagogically
sound learning context that is directed and
facilitated by a well prepared and knowledgeable
teacher.
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Goal and Rationale
Make the following statement become a reality
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The district has adopted curriculum for all grade levels that
is consistent with the district’s mathematics standards and
assessments. This curriculum is engaging to students, contains
sufficient complexity, and supports the development of
mathematically powerful students. All teachers have been
immersed in the professional development activities that support
the teaching of the curriculum. All teachers are using the
curriculum in a manner consistent with best teaching practices
and district standards. The curriculum is a set of coherent
activities that is worth doing.
Noyce Foundation- SVMI
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Fitting into a Larger Curricular System
• Enhanced professional development starting this
spring that focuses on math content, how children learn
mathematics and teacher collaboration;
• Challenging and aligned curriculum supported by
exemplary materials; and
• Useful daily as well as benchmark assessment that drives
instruction.
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Aiming to Support Teachers
A book being
read around our
K-5 schools. It
Ball and Cohen, 1996
• There are good reasons to believe that
changing/enhancing curricular
materials can alter classroom
instruction and learning.
• Curriculum materials provide the
activities that shape the daily
interaction between teacher and
students.
points out key
features of
math
classrooms
Yet, there are other critical features of
the mathematics classroom:
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• They can help translate research on how
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children best learn mathematics into
classroom reality across a district.
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Role of the Teacher
Social Culture of the Classroom
Worthwhile Tasks
Using Tools for Mathematics
Equity and Access
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Narrowing the Choices
• two highest quality set
of materials available
in the country as
determined by
consensus in:
– research and
– professional standards
organizations. They
are and (Investigations
will be used jointly with
Scott Foresman Math).
• Everyday Math
• Investigations (Investigations also
considered jointly with Scott Foresman
Math)
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Committees
• Convened Committees in 0304 and 04-05 year
• Teachers, Parents, Principals
• Various Forums
• Web Site Information
• Information Day
• Collaboration with Other
Districts
• Research-based
Selection Criteria
• Consultant Visits and
Q&A
• Case Studies
• Visits
• Interviews
• Surveys - Parents,
Principals, Teachers
• Decision-Making
Organizer
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Getting a Sense of the Selection Process:
Consider The Decision-making tool
• Force-field Analysis
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Note-taking,
Archiving,
Suspending Judgment
Gathering Evidence
Personal Tool and a
key to committee’s
final process
– record the pros, cons,
and controllable
factors that would
mitigate the recorded
cons.
Decision Making Organizer
•Used by each member
•Used as part of visits
•Used for collective input
Positives
(pros)
Constraints
(cons)
Focus on:
• Selection
• Implementation
requirements for
success
Fixes
Committee’s Ratings:
Rated each program 1 to 4 according to each criterion and each program overall:
1 = limited and can not be effective with reasonable support
2 = developing but can not be effective even with reasonable support;
3 = can be successful with reasonable support;
4 = can be exemplary with reasonable support
Investigations
(with SF)
Overall
Rating
3.574
Everyday Math
2.785
After Rating, Committee generated an implementation list:
What conditions materials, and support would be needed to,
ensure success with Investigations? With Everyday Math?
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Implementation Plan
• Committee to maximize teacher• Specific
parent involvement- advise
Considerations:
implementation, promote
– Special Education
communication, and grow leaders.
– New Teachers
– Parent Education
• Professional development for this and
next school year- focus on deepening
pedagogical math knowledge AND
materials.
• Curriculum Map to coordinate joint • Time Line
usage.
– February through
August 05
• Parent-education.
– Ongoing learning
• Revised assessments.
and support over
several years
• Principals’ development math ed.
• Extend leadership development and
collegial support.
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Great Foundations to
Support Our Work.
• Contacts with
Arlington, WestWindsor, DE User’s
Group, Successful
N.Y. Districts, etc.
• Strong Teacher
Support
• Interested Parents
• Strong Selection Process
with convincing
documentation
• Math Coaches are a
Promising Success
• School-based Teacher
Learning in Math
• Balanced-Literacy Approach
to Mathematics
• Literature to mathematics
connections
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