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Highlights Summer Math Institute (6/28 - 7/1, 2005) This
has been the most informative and productive workshop I have ever
attended - the enthusiasm and knowledge abounds here and I am greatly
thankful for the opportunity to take this back to my area to get
moving on the transition process!
Dr. Uri Treisman and Dr. Susan Hudson Hull of the Charles A. Dana Center, Dr. Kurt Kreith, co-director of the California Mathematics Project and a host of Washington State content experts were on hand to add to and guide the rich discussions, workshops and plenary sessions.
Next Steps: Because the Institute was comprised of cross-sector Core and Inquiry Teams, partnerships and communities of practice were enhanced as the teams devised plans for continuing their efforts beyond the Institute. Our TMP Web Board will feature and chronicle one such effort beginning this August. A sample of the Institute's work can be found in our Work Teams section. Updates will be frequent so check back often. The TMP Calendar section will continue to list all upcoming TMP events and initiatives scheduled throughout the summer and fall. For additional Institute documents and resources, click here. ———————————————————————————————— GLE Development Meeting: Phase II (5/10-11/05) Work on the Grade Level Standards for Grades 11 and 12 is continuing. The full working group met May 10-11, and the subgroups will be taking feedback gathered there and developing final drafts by July / August for whole-group review. The finished working drafts will be presented at the series of summer institutes sponsored by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. For a current draft, click here. ———————————————————————————————— Standards Finalization Meeting (3/10-11/05) The College Readiness Standards have improved by leaps and bounds over the last few months thanks to the dedication and commitment of our many project partners. Transition Mathematics Project staff have received excellent reviews and some very clear feedback on the working draft standards. We're now at a critical (and exciting) point in the development process. On March 10 and 11, a final cross-sector feedback session was held at Highline Community College to shift the standards from draft status to a final form for this phase of the project. To achieve this end, TMP organized this two-day "roll up your sleeves" working session devoted to finalizing the College Readiness Standards and generating additional examples of the standards. Members of TMP’s stalwart Review and Development Teams were charged with specifying the level of the standards while ensuring clarity and specificity of all standard language. Leading the effort was Skill Standards process expert Terryll Bailey of The Allison Group. This final session presented a very real opportunity
to bring the standards to fruition. With language and levels now
clarified, TMP is in the best possible position to begin to elicit
formal system-wide approval of the standards. To access the current
version of the standards, ———————————————————————— GLE Development
Meeting: Phase I (2/8-9/05) ————————————————————————————————
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From
June 28 through July 1, 2005 teams of cross-sector math educators/
instructors rolled up their collective sleeves to demonstrate promising,
innovative applications of the College Readiness Standards. Throughout
the Institute, 
The
Transition Math Project has come a long way since the first Math
Institute in Leavenworth, WA (August '04). Since then, TMP staff
have met with hundreds of Washington's math and non-math educators
from all sectors who have refined, reviewed and revamped the project's
College Readiness Standards. This second intensive multi-day math
institute allowed a cross-sector group of math educ 
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