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SD Math Partnership Project An Overview. Marcia Torgrude and Karen Taylor. South Dakota Counts Grant A Federal MSP Grant awarded to SD DOE SD DOE distributed funds to 7 ESAs and the Sioux Falls School District. Partners SD Department of Education
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SD Math Partnership Project An Overview Marcia Torgrude and Karen Taylor
South Dakota Counts Grant • A Federal MSP Grant awarded to SD DOE • SD DOE distributed funds to 7 ESAs and the Sioux Falls School District.
Partners SD Department of Education CAMSE (Center for the Advancement of Mathematics and Science Education) - BHSU TIE Grant Awardees – ESA 1 – 7, Sioux Falls Sub-Grantees – participating school districts External Evaluator – Inverness Research Associates
Goals: To build broad-based expertise and leadership for improving student achievement and conceptual understanding in elementary mathematics. To develop a statewide educational community to improve elementary mathematics instruction.
Project Objectives: • Increase student academic achievement as measured by the state mathematics standards. • Increase conceptual understanding of elementary mathematics. • Train and place one Mathematics Specialist in up to 8 different sites in SD. • Provide training for one Mathematics Teacher Leader for potentially each elementary building in South Dakota. • Support work in each participating district to train additional K-5 teachers. • Provide training for building principals to support the work of the Teacher Leaders.
Professional Development and Support: • Math Specialists • Teacher Leaders • Participating Principals
Professional Development For Math Specialists • Summer Institute (1 week each summer) • Year-One Content: CGI Number Sense and Operations • Year-Two Content: CGI Algebra • Year-Three Content: CGI Geometry • Just in Time Training • Three day workshops focused on CGI (Cognitively Guided Instruction) • Other topics • Best Practices • Assessment
Professional Development for Teacher Leaders Summer Institute (1 week each summer) Three workshops during the school year On-going coaching provided by the math specialists
Professional Development for Principals Lenses on Learning • Three – Two Day Workshops over the course of 18 months.
Professional Development for All Teachers In Year-Two, Teacher Leaders, with the help of their math specialists, train all the teachers in their building in Cognitively Guided Instruction.
Math Specialist role: • Collaborate with SDDOE, CAMSE, and TIE to coordinate and deliver professional development components • Collect data, data analysis, and reporting of data to SDDOE and Inverness • Attend professional development centered on mathematics content, mathematics pedagogy, student mathematical thinking, and educational leadership. • Support the work of the teacher leaders.
Math Teacher Leader role: • Attend professional development centered on mathematics content, mathematics pedagogy, student mathematical thinking, and educational leadership • Utilize professional development content in mathematics instruction to impact student achievement • Upon completion of one year of training, provide training for other K-5 teachers in building • Create a model classroom as one component of the training for other teachers in building
Elementary Principals role: • Participate in professional development designed to help administrator, as instructional leaders in their schools, to understand and support effective mathematics instruction. • Support participating staff in the implementation of grant activities. • Collaborate with math specialist and teacher leader to develop implementation plans for their school.
What’s going on in the classroom? • Wonderment • Confidence • Ability to solve, communicate and defend solutions • Student answers being valued • Understanding concepts and applying them in other areas • Excitement • Collaboration • Representation of solution strategies
ESA 7 SD Counts Focus – Cognitively Guided Instruction 23 Math Teacher Leaders 20 Principals 13 School Districts
ESA 7 SD Counts Year 2 Math Teacher Leaders: Provide Professional Development for teachers in their buildings – train the trainer model Small districts – Mini-Foundations during summer Large districts – Inservice in district in August Shadowed by other teachers Model for other teachers
ESA 7 SD Counts Principals: Year Two: Completed Lenses on Learning Observe teacher leaders Collaborate with teacher leader and math specialist Support the professional development provided in the elementary buildings