Common CoreMathematics Standards

Transforming Practice Through Team Leadership

Needed ChangeThe practices, more than the content, are what make the Common Core essential for student success:1. Make sense and persevere in solving

problems.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and

critique the reasoning of others.

Needed ChangeThe practices, continued:4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in

repeated reasoning.

Needed ChangeThis is what has to change:• Equity: focus on all students• Curriculum: ensure consistent, focused content

focus• Teaching and Learning: monitor changes in

instructional practices• Assessment: Common formative/interim

assessment (DDI process)• Technology: appropriate implementation and

utilization

Leadership TeamForm a long-term leadership team• Administrators (principals, curriculum

leaders, etc.)• Math coaches, instructional specialists,

etc.• Teachers of math

Leadership TeamFour strategies for leadership team:1. Promoting adoption and avoiding

rejection2. Focusing on students brings success3. Building support for collegial relationships4. Maintaining support to increase

implementation

Levels of Adoption

Initiators (3-10%) Earlier Adopters (15%)

Later Adopters (60-82%) Resisters (15%)

Being strategic

Leadership TeamMoves forward with pressure• Builds common knowledge• Communicates vision and plan• Is encouraging and supportive• Monitors progress

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:1. Opportunity to Learn: guaranteed and

viable curriculum– Timelines, scope & sequences, etc.– Materials– All classrooms– Assessed– Note: make sure old materials and ideas are

removed

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:2. Visible Thinking: conceptual fluency

over procedural fluency– Metacognition– Math talk– Constructivism– Note: make sure “fluency” is understood

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:3. Engaging Lessons: cognitive

engagement– Active– High expectations– Writing and explanations– Students doing the work– Note: traditional lesson structure has to be

discarded (HW-lesson-start HW)

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:4. Group-Worthy Problems: students need

to work together on challenging problems– Collaboration– Open-ended– Multiple pathways– Important content– Note: Math Solutions is great with this

Focus on StudentsBig ideas:5. RtI: Data-Driven Process

– common formative/interim assessment– Tier 1– Tier 2– PLC– Note: need to ensure that intervention is

occuring

Common Core InstructionTeachers will need to• Understand the practices• Understand how kids learn mathematics• Be able to collaboratively unit plan• Know and apply effective strategies• Monitor learning (and adjust)

Sustain the ChangeLeadership team will maintain pressure via• Coaching• Ongoing professional development• Appropriate decisions about materials

(carefully piloted by later adopters)• Classroom visits and monitoring• Communication of progress• Expectations for all teachers to work

collaboratively