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2007 Continuing
Connection and Collaboration Event October 22 - Planning Meeting and Dinner with Dr. Terry Bergeson The TMP October planning meeting was an opportunity for local project leads to come together to share ideas, hear project updates and meet with state leaders, such as State Superintendent Terry Bergeson. Mark Usdane from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also attended as well as representatives from Agile Mind and leaders from many of the TMP local partnerships.
The meeting commenced over dinner at The Palisades in Federal Way, WA. Dr. Bergeson’s presence further solidified her support of TMP as she shared the status of the revision of Washington state’s mathematics learning standards for students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The work is on track for a January 31, 2008 unveiling. TMP partner and frequent Institute resource expert, Dr. Uri Treisman and the Dana Center, have been contracted with to help OSPI in this endeavor.
As you will recall, during the 2007 legislative session, lawmakers called for a review and revision of the state’s mathematics learning standards. At the end of August, the State Board of Education concluded its work reviewing the standards. (The report and recommendations can be found on the SBE Web site.) The recommendations will guide the revision of the K-12 mathematics standards. The Dana Center has already begun the revision process. The kick off event was a recent meeting of the K-12 Standards Revision Team on October 3-5, 2007. TMP’s Kristen Maxwell is a member of this team and helps represent TMP and the College Readiness Standards in the revision process. A first draft of the revised standards will be available for review during the month of December. Public and stakeholder review and input will be elicited throughout the process through focus groups and by way of a project website that will be up in December. TMP will work to keep you informed and involved.
October 23 – Full Day Working Session The first day of the October working session was designed to foster enhanced two-way communication across TMP local partnerships while hearing from exemplary projects and resources, such as Navigation 101, Microsoft’s K-12 Math partnership, Partnership for Learning, Agile Mind and others. Attendees were asked to take a broad frame and explore strategies for partnering and up-scaling their local efforts.
In addition to having locally developed products as scaleable models, it became clear from the meeting’s conversations that TMP will also have some useful process learnings to share broadly. Some examples include our work around local leadership development and more effectively blending top-down, bottom-up approaches to reform. Participants spent quite a bit of time discussing strategies for better connecting with school and district leadership and making this more of a priority for the remainder of the ’07-’08 year. TMP will use the January OSPI conference as a venue for some additional work and connecting around this topic.
Participants planned ways of connecting to and integrating TMP with other math reform efforts (Microsoft, Nav 101, new state math coaches, all ESDs, and regional math coordinators). Representatives from each of these areas were present and spoke with attendees (related resources included below). Requested Pre-Reading:
Presenter Resources: Corrine McGuigan, OSPI, Washington State Educational Coordinating Council (formally the Professional Development Council) Summary of major Washington State initiatives in mathematics
Craig Bowman, Puget Sound ESD, Microsoft K-12 Math Partnership Student
Perception Survey
Dan Barrett, OSPI Navigation State Coordinator, Navigation 101 Navigation
video segments
Katy Absten, Olympic ESD and Sandy Christie, Puget Sound ESD, New Regional Math Coordinators Effort
October 24 – Full Day Working Session (Agile Mind) TMP is sponsoring and supporting the implementation of Agile Mind in four local areas in Washington: Walla Walla, Yakima, North King County, and Olympic-Kitsap County. Each site is in its first year of a multi-year implementation process that will require sustained leadership, coordination and collaboration, and additional resources to ensure success. The planning session on the 24th allowed Agile Mind site leads an opportunity to share their implementation plans, learn more about data collection tools, the professional development model, and to hear a mix of implementation strategies and experiences from across the implementation sites. Sustaining and increasing Agile Mind use in Washington was also a theme. Representatives from Agile Mind met with Washington’s Agile Mind pilot sites to share promising work and plan for broader state implementation. TMP local project leads Kristen Maxwell and Katy Absten will work with Agile Mind on transitioning the administration of Washington’s use to the Educational Service Districts with ESD 105 and 114 taking an initial lead role in this process. Agile Mind’s “Leadership Guide to Success” was reviewed as a helpful resource to new implementation efforts. The guide will be used to help shape the evaluation of Agile Mind in Washington. SESRC’s Dave Pavelchek will lead the evaluation of program effectiveness. More on this coming soon. Because interest in Agile Mind in Washington is growing,
the TMP has designed a set of processes to help coordinate and manage
growth. Two new online resources have been developed for new and
current users and can be found here>>.
Please give us feedback on these resources and begin to use them
as part of your Agile Mind efforts. Agile Mind Resources:
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