Elementary Mathematics Specialists & Teacher Leaders Project
Regional Professional Development
June 3, 4, 10, 11 - 2010
McDaniel College, Academic Hall; 3rd Floor
June 3, 2010 – AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introductions (Welcome, Kathy Stumpf, Brookhill Foundation)
9:15 Brief Project Overview
Francis (Skip) Fennell, McDaniel College
Beth Kobett, Stevenson University
Jon Wray, Howard County Public Schools
9:30 HOT off the Press - Common Core State Standards - YOUR Next Step
Francis (Skip) Fennell, McDaniel College - Click here for session slides
10:15 Break
10:30 Common Core - Q and A
11:30 Implementation Session – Small group sessions with focus questions from the Common Core Standards session. These county-based smaller groups will also discuss local issues and challenges.
Shaping your next steps
- What surprises you?
- What concerns you?
- What do you see as YOUR own personal challenge with the common core...?
- What do you see as YOUR major challenge(s) in presenting the Common Core to your staff? First steps?
- What do you see as the major changes regarding the content focus? (And we don't mean the number of outcomes.)
- Standards of Mathematical Practice and the NCTM Processes?
- What do you wonder about?
12:00 Lunch
June 3, 2010 - PM
1:00 Whole Group Sharing - Common Core Issues and Possible Next Steps
1:30 Room 300 Emerging Collaborative Technology Tools for Math Leaders (Jon Wray) | Copyright resource
Room 201 Math Specialists – what do we know? (Francis [Skip] Fennell)
What’s Important for Math Leaders (Judith Jacobs, University of Michigan)
Room 301 Adult Learning - Communication (Beth Kobett)
2:15 Break
2:30 Room 300 Next Steps – Francis (Skip) Fennell
- An Opportunity to identify and meet your needs – impacting your school or schools – EMS&TL Grant Project announced (Download hard copy of proposal form. When ready to submit final grant proposal, click here to submit online.)
3:00 County-wide groups. Identifying YOUR challenges, reflecting on the day (same room assignments as earlier)
3:30 All: Ending and…
McDaniel College, Academic Hall; 3rd Floor
June 4, 2010 – AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introductions, Updates, etc. – Project Team
Francis (Skip) Fennell
Beth Kobett
Jon Wray
9:15 Practice-Based Professional Development – Fractions
Dev-TE@M Presentation and Discussion (Hyman Bass, Tim Boerst, and Yaa Cole, University of Michigan)
10:15 Break
10:30 Practice-Based Professional Development – Fractions (cont.)
11:15 Implementation Session – County-based smaller groups meet to consider questions for the UM team and think about their own content-based professional development needs and possible initiatives.
- Room 300 – Baltimore and Howard Counties
- Room 301 – Carroll County
- Room 201 – Frederick County
12:00 Lunch
June 4, 2010 - PM
1:00 Room 300 Q and A for UM team. Interested in participating in the Fall Pilot? Click here.
1:30 Room 301 Mathematics Specialists – Leadership Challenges (Francis [Skip] Fennell & Judith Jacobs, University of Michigan)
Room 300 Emerging Communicative Technology Tools for Math Leaders (Jon Wray) - Click here for link to Livescribe Smart Pen work sample
2:15 Break
2:30 County-wide groups. Implementation Planning and reflecting on the day (same room assignments as earlier).
- Discussing local needs and challenges
- Planning to meet local needs and challenges
3:00 Room 300 Reporting back to the whole group
- Issues, needs, challenges
- Questions
3:30 All: Ending and…
McDaniel College, Academic Hall; 3rd Floor
June 10, 2010 – AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome Back and Introductions
9:15 Implementation Focus – Another State’s Perspective – Cindy Bryant, State Director of Mathematics, Missouri
10:15 Break
10:30 Implementation Focus – Another State’s Perspective (cont.); click here for presentation slides | "Dr. and Dictator" vignette
11:15 Implementation Session – County-based smaller groups meet to consider questions for Cindy and think about their own situation and how the “Missouri Plan” may impact their work.
12:00 Lunch
June 10, 2010 – PM
1:00 Q and A for Cindy Bryant
1:30 Mathematics Instructional Leaders DRAFT (MIL, PreK-6 and 4-9 [Updated w/tracked changes] - June 2010) - Dr. Margaret Trader (Chair, MD Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board), Francis (Skip) Fennell, and Jon Wray
1:45 Room 300 Emerging Technology Tools for Math Leaders – Representation and Modeling (Jon Wray)
Room 201 Adult Learning – Developing Effective Professional Development (Beth Kobett)
Room 301 Standards for Mathematical Practice and NCTM’s Processes – What’s the difference? (Francis [Skip] Fennell)
2:30 Implementation Planning and reflecting on the day – small groups (same room assignments as earlier in the day)
- Planning to address local needs and challenges
- [Online] grant proposal consideration and development – meeting with your supervisor
3:00 Room 300 Whole Group Session
3:30 End of the day…
McDaniel College, Academic Hall; 3rd Floor
June 11, 2010 – AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 What’s Next?
- Look for EMS&TL on line and at the NCTM, AMTE, and NCSM meetings
- Leadership efforts with UM Project
9:15 Room 300 Issues and Challenges
- Maryland, the Common Core, the USM Policy on Undergraduate Admission (a.k.a., the 4-year high school math requirement) and YOU - what more do we know now?
- Intervention – roles, models
- Formative assessment – needs and links to practice and to intervention (Click here for slides)
10:15 Break
10:30 Leadership Challenges – Discussion Sessions
- Room 300 How to get started – resources, materials
- Room 301 Transitioning from great classroom teacher to mathematics specialist
- Room 201 Ways to build teacher capacity
12:00 Lunch
June 11, 2010 – PM
1:00 Betsy Peisach, Maryland Public Television (MPT) - The National Science Digital Library and Math Specialists ("Math Path" - click here for slides)
1:30 Representation as a process – something to think about – Discussion
2:00 Implementation – Small groups. Mini-grant work, discussions with supervisors and project staff as needed; Online grant proposal
- Room 300 – Baltimore and Howard Counties
- Room 301 – Carroll County
- Room 201 – Frederick County
2:50 Room 300 Whole Group Session
3:30 End of the day…
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