Project Meeting

September 23, 2011
Academic Hall, 1^st Floor – Room 107

8:30 a.m.                 Welcome and Continental Breakfast – 2^nd floor Academic Hall

9:00 a.m.                 Introductions and Project Update – Skip and Beth

•  NCSM/NCTM Conferences
•  NCSM Summer Leadership Academy
•  NCTM Regionals
•  NCSM Leadership Journal and Newsletters
•  DWW Conference
•  Common Core State Standards Update – County Sharing
•  Mathematical Practices Book Feedback

9:20 a.m.                 Using a Progressions Manuscript (bring your copy of the Fractions DRAT Progressions)

•  How would you use this? 
•  When?
•  Useful?

10:00 a.m.               Fraction Kit – ETA/Cuisenaire – Sara Delano Moore

•  Trying out the materials
•  Discussion, Questions
•  Next Steps
•   DWW Fraction Materials
  

10:30 a.m.               Break

11:15 a.m.               Review and discussion – Curriculum Analysis Tool (bring your copy of the tool)

•  How and what to use?
• Thoughts on use of the tool

12:00 p.m.                Lunch

12:45 p.m.                Review and discussion – PARCC Draft of Content Frameworks (bring your copy)

•  How and what to use?
• Your county and transitioning to PARCC?

2:00 p.m.      MSDE’s CCSS – PreK and Grade 6

•  Thoughts on the PreK?  Connections to K?
• CCSS Grade 6 and GT programs?
  

2:30 p.m.                  Mini-Grant Updates

3:00 pm.                   Adjourn

Upcoming Dates:

• Next ems&tl Meeting November, 18, 2011 – featuring Margaret (Peg) Smith.  Note all participants will receive Peg’s book: 5 Practices for Orchestrating Classroom Discussions. 
• Other ems&tl meeting dates: January 13, 2012 and March 16, 2012
• National Math Forum – Reston, VA – October 2-4, 2011
• MCTM Conference, Reservoir High School (Howard County)  – October 21, 2011
• NCTM Regional Conference, Atlantic City, NJ – October 18-21, 2011
• AMTE Conference – Ft Worth, Texas – February 8-12, 2012 
• NCSM and NCTM Annual Conference and Exposition – Philadelphia