Spokane Area Curriculum Collaboration (SACC)

The Spokane Area Curriculum Collaboration’s (SACC) Transition Math Project
SACC developed as an extension of the Curriculum Collaboration Committee, established in 2002 as a regional group of university and school district officials who shared concerns about the number of students who needed math remediation once they entered college.  Members of this initial committee were contributors to the development of the TMP College Readiness Standards.   SACC collaborates with the Riverpoint Partnership Math Grant to enrich cross-sector faculty relationships in a professional learning community model.  As a result of their leveraged efforts, SACC has developed an annual symposium to maintain communication across Spokane’s math education community, and launched an outreach campaign promoting student success in mathematics in seven high schools.

SACC Partners
The Spokane Area Curriculum Collaboration (SACC) includes Eastern Washington University, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane Community College and the Spokane, Mead, Central Valley, Nine-Mile Falls, West Valley, East Valley and Cheney school districts.   

TMP Accomplishments
The SACC Transition Math Project has developed a common core set of objectives based on the College Readiness Standards (CRS), the result of a positive, focused conversation between secondary and post-secondary faculty on content and standards.

SACC has hosted the annual Spokane Math Symposium, which brings together math educators from high schools, community colleges and universities to share information on local and state-level math initiatives, and to develop an understanding of math curriculum issues at all levels.  In the 2007 symposium, participants compiled examples aligned with the CRS content standards, and in the 2008 symposium, participants completed an analysis of the CRS student attributes.

SACC and the Riverpoint Partnership Math Grant foster professional learning communities to improve and examine elements of mathematics instruction across grades 11-16. These cross-sector teams meet four times per year to develop and implement tasks and lessons aligned with the CRS, and examine student work in order to increase proficiency and achievement.

SACC launched the OutReach program, connecting college and university math faculty with high school classrooms to share the importance of math success post-graduation.  Professors use the OutReach Video and Power Points to ensure presentations engage students’ interest and explain how math achievement will expand their options in work and life.

Contact:  Jim Brady at jimb@spokanefalls.edu  

SACC website: http://faculty.spokanefalls.edu/AutoWebs/Default.asp?ID=2468&page=2020&VLD=0

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