NJ PRIME Leadership Meeting

Brian Blackmore, Mercedes McKay, Patrick Miller

Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education

December 4, 2015CIESE Conference RoomPollara House

Online PD July 2015

• For the online component of the summer professional development, teachers reviewed the sample Ready Common Core resources for their grade level and an online teacher toolbox with interactive whiteboard lessons and additional resources. They examined these resources and discussed topics such as: how example problems emphasize concrete-pictorial-abstract-writing to deepen mathematical understanding; alternative teaching strategies to differentiate instruction; ability of whiteboard problems to engage students while improving fact fluency. They also discussed steps their PLCs might take to advocate for supplementing or replacing curriculum in their district with these types of Common Core resources. Additionally, teachers reviewed and completed worksheets to be used for the summer face-to-face leadership training and watched and reflected on a Peer Coaching webinar.

NJPRIME Year 3

• Summer online PD https://sites.google.com/site/stevensnjprime/home/njprime-year-3-online-pd/njprime-mathematics-pd

• https://sites.google.com/site/stevensnjprime/home/njprime-year-3-online-pd/njprime-leadership-pd

• For access use Username: NJPRIMEADMSUPV@gmail.com; Password: stevensmath

Summer Workshop August 2015

• During the summer workshop, the school-based K-5 teacher teams established in Years 1 and 2 continued to work together, strengthening their expertise in high-leverage teaching practices while also developing expertise with collaborative professional growth strategies and their ability to build and manage PLCs – with the ultimate goal of developing a self-sustaining PLC within each of the participating schools. Working in grade-level groups across districts, teachers explored resources for topic in geometry, measurement and data, among others, during the morning sessions. Working in their school-based K-5 vertical teams, they explored leadership topics in the afternoon sessions. Topics for the week-long workshop included the following:

Summer Workshop Agenda• Review of Common Core hex map• Grade level break-out sessions for Illustrative Math Tasks & Lakeshore Manipulative Centers for

topics of:• Geometry (Shapes & Angles; Equipartitioning); • Measurement (Length, Area and Volume); • Data (Elementary Data and Modeling: Variation, Distribution)• Others selected by teachers

• Illustrative math task presentations and vertical K-5 team review • Manipulatives for math and science connections• PLC Leadership: Becoming a Successful Collaborator• PLC Leadership: Giving Feedback and Navigating Difficult Conversations• PLC planning time and Presentations• Discussion on TKAS Assessments• NCTM Atlantic City Regional Conference Opportunity

https://turnonccmath.net/

PLC Activities

• Book Study• Developing cross-grade common formative assessments• Lesson Study : pairs or whole team• Examining student PARCC work• Colleague Staff development : coaching and mentoring, grade-level

and building meetings, district PD• Curriculum Enhancement

Monthly PLC Topics1) Let’s Communicate LEGO Engineering Activity for Family Math Night and PLC Leadership Role Plays2) Evaluating curriculum CCSS Alignment with Textbook Navigator/Journal tool

http://csc.educ.msu.edu/Nav/3) 11-week Book Study “Making Number Talks Matter” with US and international groups on social media4) Developing and analyzing tiered SGOs for math students.5) Classroom pedagogy topics - differentiating instruction, grouping, rubrics, number talks and routines,

math intervention strategies, journals/portfolios.6) PARCC: K-2 Formative Tasks, problem solving strategies and simulations, evaluating student data.7) Math Fact Fluencies8) Formative Assessment/Examining Student Work - Design Math Mats (Elizabeth-PLC 6), i_Ready

Diagnostics (Bayonne), observe AVID (Elizabeth-PLC 7)9) Peer Outreach- Vertical Articulation, Turnkey Training, Coaching/Mentoring, Lesson Study Observations,

Collaborative Teaching, online discussion boards10) Online Common Core Mathematics Resources

PLC Highlights• Book study link https://sites.google.com/site/stevensnjprime/home/making-

number-talks-matter-book-study• Bayonne PLC1 Lincoln-Robinson ran a K-1 professional development in-service

workshop for the district on best practices regarding math fact fluency.• Bayonne PLC3 Woodrow Wilson running after-school class for community

education called "Math Movement Mania" working with 2nd and 3rd graders on fact fluency through movement activities. Plc2 plc8 plc9 cross lesson study or pairs

• Elizabeth PLC6 Lafayette enhancing Everyday Math curriculum with MathMatworksheets across grades

• Union City PLC8 George Washington continues entire team lesson study SWAT teams

• Union City PLC9 Robert Waters turnkey training staff with Vice-Principal on PARCC• Weehawken PLC11 Roosevelt-Webster using NJPRIME Common Core resources to

compensate for sparse district curriculum.

PLC Teacher Advancement• Elizabeth PLC5 School #28 teacher Claudia Aviles is currently completing 30 hours of

observing new teachers and mentoring them in how to better prepare lessons and meet district expectations. She is also setting up a system of math data binders for students.

• Union City PLC8 GW teacher Dana Roman started a master's degree this semester in educational leadership specializing in urban education with supervision and administration. She is currently writing a paper on a curriculum reform using the NJPRIME model of PLC's.

• Bayonne PLC3 WW teacher Maria Iapicca was chosen to be the new 3rd grade math and science specialist teacher at Woodrow Wilson School in Bayonne’s new experiment to have subject specialists rather than generalists in early elementary grades.

• Elizabeth teacher Jacey Sanchez has a new district position in charge of math RTI (Response to Intervention) for K-2 for three different elementary schools.

NCTM

• 8 teachers were granted funds to attend the NCTM Regional Conference in Atlantic City – a Math-specific “NJEA convention”

• Vendor & PD resource examples – teachers got a Crazy 8’s afterschool math club turnkey kit, FACES math workbooks to do for parent math night, ResponseToIntervention(RTI) advice, K-2 kinesthetic lessons, ipad “app smash” activities, etc.

• Teachers proposed sessions as part of the application and will report to whole NJPRIME group at January PD at Stevens

• Example of Eleni Verardi’s itinerary

PARCC

• PARCC scores being released to districts, parents sample score report• NJ results - 50% of students scoring in Levels 2-3 below grade• New, single testing window 4/4/16 – 5/13/16• Separate PBA/EOY tests consolidated into 3-4 math test units• Released K-2 Formative Tasks and unprecedented 3-12 Released Test

Items at https://prc.parcconline.org (also ELA items; have to use New Jersey code NJ1787 for access)

• NJPRIME has put these in user-friendly pdfs at Dropbox links• K-2 3-8

PARCC

• PLCs have been unpacking test items and sample student work using assessment procedures of Rubrics, Anchor Sets, and Practice Sets

• Example

Sustainability Discussion

• Union City PLCs that meet once a month during school day seem to have the most likelihood of continuing after grant ends

• How can administrators grant coverage or common planning time so PLC can meet monthly as multi-grade math teachers?,

• ….or those that have been practicing lesson study can continue visiting each other’s classes?

• Impact of personnel changes of grade-level or building: opportunities to spread NJPRIME PLCs

• Developing the NJPRIME online community further