Project Meeting – Core Group

September 14, 2012
Academic Hall Room 300 - McDaniel College Campus

8:30 a.m.      Welcome and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.      Let’s get this started… - Greetings, Introductions, and Project Updates

• ems&tl 2
• Conference Involvement -  NCTM Regional Conferences – Dallas; Hartford, CT; Chicago; AMTE – 2013 Orlando; NCTM and NCSM Annual Conferences – Denver
• DWW – round 2 –later in the meeting
• MCTM update – Sue Vohrer
• AMTE – 2013
• TCM Focus Issue manuscripts
• Other?

9:15 a.m.      CCSS – Progress and Updates by County – time to share and respond to questions: Baltimore; Carroll, Frederick; Howard

10:00 a.m.      CCSS and Materials – CCSSO Mathematics Publishers Criteria K-8

10:30 a.m.      Break

10:45 a.m.      Discussion of the CCSSO materials publishers criteria document – small groups

11:30 a.m.      DWW 2 update – Beth and Skip and others  - update; next meeting of work group

12:00 noon     Lunch

1:00 p.m.        Establishment of ems&tl Wiki for sharing – Jon Wray (online)

1:15 p.m.        PARCC sample items – Review and discuss – Skip and Beth – Use the following link: http://www.parcconline.org/samples/item-task-prototypes 

2:00 p.m.      Coaching – defining it and how you are involved in coaching on a regular basis – (digging into our annual evaluative report) - Skip and Beth

2:15 p.m.      Break

2:30 p.m.      Mathematics Specialists and Leadership – considerations and activity

3:00 p.m.      Content discussion – Skip and Beth

3:15 p.m.      Adjourn

Upcoming Events:

• November 9, 2012 - ems&tl Project Meeting 
• January 11, 2013 Meeting - ems&tl Project Meeting
• March 22, 2013 Meeting - ems&tl Project Meeting (Let's firm up this date due to MSA testing)
• May 31 & June 7, 2013 - Summer Institute