Transition Math Project

Summer Math Institute - 2007
Pre-Institute Team Work Plans, Institute Work Logs and Post-Institute Action Plans

Team #1:

Applied Math Project - Seattle (AMP-S)
Leader: Andrea Levy
Working with Institute Strands #1, 2, 3 & 4

Participants will bring a lesson they plan to teach the following year and the team will work together to bring the curriculum up to College Readiness Standards.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #2:

Lower Columbia College (LCC)
Leader: Dawn Draus
Working with Institute Strands #2 & 4

The team will work on building a strong local PLC, create a plan to communicate to students and local community the need to be ready for college-level math and begin developing a plan to propose common placement standards and urge schools to adopt the College Readiness Standards.
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Institute Work and Post-Institute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Content Matrix>>

TMP Memo>>

Team #3:

Mathematics Content Collaboration Communities (MC3)
Leader: Mike Gilbert
Working with Institute Strands #2, 3 & 5

Setting up a school-based learning community’s next school year- leadership training for school coaches- increase teachers’ content knowledge for teaching math.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Teams #4 & 5:

Full Text of both Proposals>>

Olympic Peninsula TMP (OP-TMP)
L eader: David Thielk
Working with Institute Strand #2

Extending the current work of the project in this area and building upon knowledge acquired.

Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

0708 Goals>>

SEDL>>

Insitute Tasks>>
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Olympic MSP (OP-MSP)
Leader: Katy Absten
Working with Institute Strand #2

The team plans to work on designing the first year of grant activities for district leadership teams consisting of central office and building administrators and math and science teacher leaders.

Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

GLT AGenda Plan>>

Goals-Strategies-Timeline>>

MSPGS>>

OPMSP info>>

OP-MSP Powerpoint>>

Team #6:

Yakima Valley Project/ ESD105 (YVP)
Leader: Terrie Geaudreau
Working with Institute Strands #1, 2, & 3

Developing bridge courses, planning additional support for high school math teachers and expanding the local PLC
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #7:

Whatcom County Project (WCP)
Leader: Angela Murray
Working with Institute Strand #1

Description:
Lesson writing/sharing compilation – writing and developing teach-the-teacher workshops to write lesson plans that will be written to a content strand and include at least one process strand.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #8:

Cascadia Community College (CCC)
Leader: David Whittaker
Working with Institute Strands #2 & 4

Developing ways to create more connections between schools as a means of feedback; a math seminar for HS students; students serving as tutors; a plan to bring in a COMPASS-like assessment to "place" students; brainstorm ways to encourage HS students to take more mathematics; presentations of the technology we are using; compare our course guides and map content to HS math courses; plan a math seminar where math teachers from the area share pedagogy.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #9:

Edmonds Articulation Council (EAC)
Leader: Patrick Averbeck
Working with Institute Strands #1 & 2

Using the Understanding By Design as the framework, this team will create a subject area guide aligned to the CRMS and the 11/12th grade GLEs and connected to the Intermediate Algebra course currently being developed at the college. Additionally, the use of the college readiness test in the course will be explored.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Institute Report>>

Course Objectives for Math in HS>>

Course Proposal Math95>>

Goals Outline>>

Poster>>

Preconference Ideas>>

Project Description>>

Sequence>>

Session Notes for Consultation>>

Session 1 Notes>>

Session 2 Notes>>

Standards Survey Summer Application Draft>>

Summer Application Draft>>

Survey for Math80 Students>>

Survey for Math90 Students>>

Team #10:

Highline Community College (HCC)
Leader: Helen Burn
Working with Institute Strands #1 & 5

Developing alternative curricula and instructional materials that foster and develop the student attributes articulated in the CRS to be shared with the Achieving the Dream learning community and employed throughout the ’07-’08 school year.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Team #11:

North King County TMP (NKC)
Leaders: Marilyn Leverson, Nirmala Savage
Working with Institute Strands # 1 & 2

Develop pre- and post- evaluation tools and determine best methods for comparing performance. Continue math study skills work and compile a list of Agile Mind lessons.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #12:

Pierce County Careers Connection (PC3)
Leader: Linda Drake
Working with Institute Strands #1, 2, 3 & 4

Working on collaboration between industry/business and education, lend support to teachers for incorporating career math examples into their classrooms. Provide professional development opportunities for CTE teachers to identify and enhance math within their curricula that address GLE's and CRS.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #13:

Project TIME/Green River Community College (TIME)
Leader: Laura Moore-Mueller
Working with Institute Strands #1, 2 & 3

Develop curriculum for the senior bridge course to be taught in September.
Develop, organize and structure the professional development activities for the teachers of the senior bridge course.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

Team #14:

Washington State University, Vancouver (TIME-SW)
Leader: Barbara Freeouf
Transitions in Mathematics Education-Southwest WA
Working with Institute Strands # 4 & 5

We have 2 main objectives during this institute: (1) To gain in-depth knowledge about what other TMP projects have accomplished and (2) To begin to structure our own planning around the successful strategies which may be replicated or adapted for our region's needs.
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Institute Work and Post-Insitute Plans:

Action Planner>>

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