Goals:

• Learn: How can we use improvement science tools to deepen our understanding of the problem and build upon bright spots to guide our collective work?

• Connect: How can we learn from each other and share our learning as a network?

• Get Moving: What will we try in our own contexts to support students’ mathematical agency and success, and how will we organize the work moving forward?

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Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Group work norms

• Group roles

• Participation quizzes

• Accountability quizzes

• Hand flexibility activity

• Agency openers

Goals:

• Experience & Understand: Explore how social status impacts student mathematical agency.

• Face Into Our Data: Celebrate successes so far, and fearlessly look for areas to improve.

• Keep Moving: Develop plans for testing and sharing our learning.

• Connect: Learn from each other and build our network community.

Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Status interventions

• Multiple abilities treatments

• Actionable norms

• Broadening what it means to be mathematical

Goals:

• Practice & Prepare: Disrupt harmful status patterns leading to inequitable student learning.

• Face Into Our Data: Celebrate successes so far, and fearlessly look for areas to improve.

• Explore & Share: Experience and share practices across the network.

• Plan & Do: Build on shared learning to plan and carry out next steps.

Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Video observation protocol to practice status interventions

• Lesson study to collect data on practices in action in classrooms

Goals:

• Face Into Our Data & Set Goals: What are we learning from this year’s baseline data? What do we want to achieve this year? How can we effectively collect data on our goals?

• Launch, Explore, Discuss: In what ways does a launch, explore, discuss framework provide opportunity for students to develop a deep conceptual understanding?

• Become Students of Our Students’ Thinking: What lesson structures provide opportunities to deeply understand student thinking?

Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Launch Explore Discuss Lesson Structure

• Anticipatory planning

• Focus on student thinking

• Whole class discussions

• Non permanent vertical surfaces

• Visibly Random Grouping

• Lesson study to collect data on practices in action in classrooms

​Goals:

• To get better together at slowing down and surfacing student thinking so that students can grapple with ideas together and arrive at a shared understanding of concepts.  

• Assumptions:

  • The more students think hard and participate, the more they learn.

  • The more we help students engage in discussion about each other’s ideas, the more we learn together. (i.e. it’s not just a share out, but a dialogue that unpacks how people are thinking and how mathematical ideas are related)

  • The more we can make it safe to participate, the more we can disrupt harmful status issues.

Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Video observation protocol to facilitate whole class discussion

• Questioning techniques

• Safe cold-calling

• Matome - consolidation techniques

• Student-led sharing strategies

• Lesson study to collect data on practices in action in classrooms

Goals:

• Celebrate progress, successes and student impact.

• Consolidate our learning and make plans for ourselves and our schools moving forward.

• To get better together at slowing down and surfacing student thinking so that students can grapple with ideas together and arrive at a shared understanding of concepts.

Practices & Concepts Introduced:

• Video observation protocol to facilitate whole class discussion

• Double huddle technique

• Lesson study to collect data on practices in action in classrooms