Summer Math Institute - 2007
Resources

Whatcom County Project team members are asking for your feedback on a poster project that is intended to support CRS-based math initiatives across the state. View the proposed posters and send your comments and thoughtful critique to:

amurray@bham.wednet.edu

For more information about each of these presenters, please see our Institute Biographies Page

Jo Boaler:

• Impact of Reform on Student Learning
• "Where's the 10?" Math Problem
• Urban Success: A Multidimensional Mathematics Approach with Equitable Outcomes - companion reading to Dr. Boaler's Institute presentation
  Jo Boaler and a group of graduate students at Stanford completed a study of mathematics-teaching in different schools and found that students at ‘Railside’ school, an urban Californian high school nestled within a few feet of the train tracks, performed better in mathematics than students at other schools and that inequities between students of different cultural groups were reduced in all cases and eradicated in some.

Sandy Devlin:

• Math Coaching

Linda Fisher:

• Using Performance Assessment- Part I
• Using Performance Assessment to Improve Instruction- Part II
• Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment, by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam - companion reading to Linda Fisher's Institute presentation
  "In terms of systems engineering, present policies in the U.S. and in many other countries seem to treat the classroom as a black box..."

Imani Gaffney and Yaa Cole:

• Using Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Implications for Equity and Mathematical Language- Part I
• Using Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching:- Part II
• The role of mathematics instruction in building a socially just and diverse democracy - The Mathematics Educator, 15 (1), 2-6 - companion reading to Yaa Cole's and Imani Goffney's Institute presentation
  "As elementary school teachers, Deborah and Imani
  did not just teach academic subjects. They taught their
  pupils skills and knowledge to help develop them as
  individuals and as members of a collective...."
• Effects of teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching on student achievement - American Educational Research Journal, 42 (2), 371-406 - companion reading to Yaa Cole's and Imani Goffney's Institute presentation
  "This study explored whether and how teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching contributes to gains in students' mathematics achievement. The authors used a linear mixed-model methodology in which first and third graders' mathematical achievement gains over a year were nested within teachers, who in turn were nested within schools..."
• Knowing mathematics for teaching: Who know mathematics well enough to teach third grade, and how can we decide?- American Educator - companion reading to Yaa Cole's and Imani Goffney's Institute presentation
  "...That the quality of mathematics teaching depends on
  teachers’ knowledge of the content should not be a surprise.
  Equally unsurprising is that many U.S. teachers lack sound
  mathematical understanding and skill. This is to be expected
  because most teachers—like most other adults in
  this country—are graduates of the very system that we seek
  to improve..."

Kurt Kreith:

• Reconciling Traditional Arithmetic and Today's Technology
• Addition Algrorithm
• Arithmetic Facts
• Base b Long Division
• Beginnings
• Long Division
• MOD Function
• Peasant Mult.
• Pos Notation
• Tutorial
• NCTM's Curriculum Focal Points- companion reading to Dr. Kreith's Institute presentation
  In the spirit of "all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten", D.r Kreith with emphasize "Number and Operations." Dr. Kreith says, "Although this publication deals with K-8, I will be discussing how some of thses focal points impact higher grade levels.

David Lippman:

• An Introduction to Washington Math Assessment and Placement (WAMAP.org)
• View David Lippman's TMP In-Service Event on the subject of WAMAP via the Elluminate Live! platform
  • Companion PowerPoint to David's session
  • Access WAMAP.org

  To join an Elluminate LIVE! event,please view the Elluminate Participant Information Page for setup and implementation instructions.

Kay Merseth:

• Professional Learning Communities - Part I
• Professional Learning Communities - Part II
• A Picture is Wortth a Thousand Words
• How Old is the Shepherd?: A Essay About Mathematics Education - authored by Kay Merseth/Harvard University
  U.S. students go through school with serious
  misconceptions about mathematics. According to Ms.
  Merseth, parents, the popular media, and the schools
  themselves reinforce these mistaken notions.
• MSP Clssroom Observation Protocol
• Time and Time Again
• What is Pi Anyway?

Dave Pavelchek and Nina Potter:

• Assessing Post-Secondary Math Outcomes in the North King Collaboration

Eric Schulz:

• View Eric Schulz's TMP In-Service Event on the subject of Mathematica via the Elluminate Live! platform

  To join an Elluminate LIVE! event,please view the Elluminate Participant Information Page for setup and implementation instructions.

Uri Treisman:

• Practices Worthy of Attention in Strengthening Mathematics Teaching and Learning
• Study finds early difficulty for community college students - A new report by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) finds that six in 10 students who enter the California community college system as freshmen with high school diplomas and aspirations to transfer to four-year institutions drop out or lower their academic sights after just one semester. The report recommends increasing support for these students.

Robin Washam:

• SREB Initiatives and Their Potential for TMP
  • Post-Secondary Readiness Indicators
  • Senior catch-up Math brochure
  • Instruction Planning template

Additional Institute Resource Materials:

• Supermath: An Alternative Approach to Improving Math Performance in Grades 4 through 9
  Stanley Pogrow shares a decade's worth of experience in developing an approach to teaching math to upper-elementary and middle school students that simultaneously increases basic skills, improves problem-solving, raises test scores, and sparks student interest in math
• From Formative Assessment to Assessment FOR Learning: A Path to Success in Standards_Based Schools
  As the mission of schools changes from ranking students to ensuring that all learn to specified standards, Mr. Stiggins argues that the purpose and form of assessments must change as well.
• It's the Curriculum, Stupid: There's Something Wrong With It
  Educators, parents, and employers all seem to agree on the types of skills they believe students should be developing. But Dave f. Brown finds that the traditional curriculum, divided up into separate subjects, neither engages students nor prepares them for productive lives. He believes that the answer to both problems is to have students design their own curricula.
• Catherine Snow's project on adolescent literacy (9/1/2005)
• Johnny still can't read (JulyAugust 1999)
• Advancement Via Individual Determination program (AVID)
• How Not to Talk to Your Kids, The Inverse Power of Praise
• State Fiscal Crises and Cuts in Higher Education: The Implications for Access,Institutional Performance, and Strategic Reengineering (September 2006)
• Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)
• Silicon Valley Math Initiative (SVMI)
• El Paso Math and Science Partnerhsip
• The New Teacher Project
• Agile Mind
• Results NOW! by Mike Schmoker. This book presents the brutal facts about the quality of instruction across the curriculum, and outlines what we need to do to improve. Two key chapters for us were: Professional Learning Communities: The Surest, Fastest Path to Instructional Improvement and Leadership in the Professional Learning Community.
• How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom, 2004, National Research Council and the National Academies. Though much of the book is about whole and rational number system learning, the introduction is for all and there is a fat chapter on Teaching and Learning Functions. Also—a key author, John Bransford, is the chair of the college of education at UW.
• Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development, by Mary Kay Stein, Edward Silver, Pet Smith, Marjorie Henningson. Big focus on maintaining a high cognitive demand throughout mathematics lessons.
• Building School-Based Teacher Learning Communitites: Professional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement, by Milbrey McLaughlin and Joan Talbert
• Beyond Formulas in Mathematics and Teaching: Dynamics of the High School Algebra Classroom, by Daniel Chazan
• The Series on School Reform by McLaughlin, Milbrey W., Ed.; Oberman, Ida, Ed. This collection of articles focuses on the practice and policy of staff development in terms of recent developments in teacher learning.
  

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