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Mathematics Coaching and Collaboration in a PLC at Work™
Build and support math teacher teams in your PLC. This leadership guide will help you establish collaborative teaching strategies to improve math curriculum.
Benefits
- Build a collaborative math learning culture that engages and promotes learning for students and staff members.
- Optimize coaching and foster equity and belonging to encourage collaboration.
- Engage in mathematics lesson study to help teams learn from one another and reflect on effective strategies in teaching mathematics.
- Develop norms, SMART goals for teachers, agendas, and a plan for working effectively as a collaborative team in a PLC at Work™.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Coaching Action 1: Develop PLC Structures for Effective Teacher Team Engagement, Transparency, and Action
Chapter 1: Five Personal PLC Leadership Development Practices
Chapter 2: Five Leadership Strategies for Effective Collaboration in Mathematics
Part 1 Summary
Part 2: Coaching Action 2: Use Common Assessments and Lesson-Design Elements for Teacher Team Reflection, Data Analysis, and Subsequent Action
Chapter 3: How to Lead a Culture of Reflection, Refinement, and Action with Your Mathematics Teams
Chapter 4: How to Lead a Culture of Transparency and Learning With Mathematics Assessments
Chapter 5: How to Lead a Culture of Transparency and Learning With Mathematics Instruction
Part 2 Summary
Appendix A: Cognitive-Demand-Level Task Analysis Guide
Appendix B: Mathematics in a PLC at Work Rating and Reflection Framework
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Introduction
Part 1- Table P1.1: Mathematics Team Leadership Roles
- Table P1.2: Connections Between the Leadership Practices and Leadership Strategies
- Figure 1.1: Reflection Tool—Coherence in Your Mathematics Leadership Practices
- Figure 1.2: Discussion Tool—Leadership Practices Rubric
- Figure 1.5: Leader and Team Discussion Tool—Sample Team Questions and Prompts
- Figure 1.6: Team Discussion Tool—Exploring Core Values Teacher Team Tool
- Figure 1.7: Team Discussion Tool—Productive and Unproductive Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Mathematics
- Figure 2.1: Reflection Tool—Leadership Strategies
- Figure 2.2: Team Discussion and Reflection Tool—Leadership Strategies Scoring Rubric
- Figure 2.3: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals Team-Planning Document
- Figure 2.8: Team Discussion Tool—Guiding Questions to Develop Norms
- Figure 2.9: Team Discussion Tool—Survey of Team Norms
- Figure 2.10: Team Discussion Tool—SMART Goal and Data-Analysis Planning Protocol
- Figure 2.11: Team Discussion Tool—Leading Team Reflections on Goal-Setting Actions
- Figure 2.12: SMART Goal Template
- Figure 2.14: Team Discussion Tool—Tight-Loose Aspects of Team Actions
- Figure 2.16: Team-Building Protocol Worksheet
- Figure 2.17: Possible Team Artifacts and Products to Produce
- Figure 2.19: Sample Geometry Team Meeting Agenda
- Figure 2.22: Team Discussion Tool—Mathematics Collaborative Team Reflection on the Three Big Ideas of a PLC Culture
- Figure 3.2: Team Discussion Tool—Leadership Reflection on PLC Structures and Protocols
- Figure 3.3: Team Discussion Tool—Leadership Rubric for Utilizing Protocols for Effective and Focused Collaboration
- Figure 3.4: The Three Phases and Seven Stages of Collaboration
- Figure 3.5: Questions to Consider When Selecting Team Protocols and Entry Points
- Figure 3.6: Team Discussion Tool—Evidence of Effectiveness Protocol
- Figure 3.7: Evidence of Effectiveness Protocol Instructions
- Figure 4.2: Common Mathematics Unit Assessment Analysis Protocol
- Figure 4.3: Common Mathematics Unit Assessment Analysis Protocol Instructions
- Figure 4.4: Essential Standards and Target Proficiency Protocol—Algebra 1 Example
- Figure 4.5: Essential Standards and Target Proficiency Protocol Instructions
- Figure 4.6: Looking at Student Work Protocol
- Figure 4.7: Looking at Student Work Protocol Instructions
- Figure 4.8: Essential Learning Standard Analysis Protocol—Grade 4 Sample
- Figure 4.9: Essential Learning Standard Analysis Protocol Instructions
- Figure 4.10: Student Thinking and Reasoning Protocol—Grade 2 Example
- Figure 4.11: Student Thinking and Reasoning Protocol Instructions
- Team Discussion Tool: High-Quality Assessment Evaluation
- Figure 5.1: Instructional Rounds Protocol
- Figure 5.2: Instructional Rounds Protocol Instructions
- Figure 5.4: Team Discussion Tool—Lesson-Study Protocol
- Figure 5.6: Lesson-Study Protocol Instructions
- Figure 5.7: Lesson-Study Student Evidence Form
- Figure 5.9: Lesson-Study Team Reflection
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BOOKS
- Kanold, T. D., Schuhl, S., Larson, M. R., Barnes, B., Kanold-McIntyre, J., & Toncheff, M. (in press). Mathematics Assessment and Intervention in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D., Barnes, B., Larson M. R., Kanold-McIntyre, J., Schuhl, S., & Toncheff, M. (in press). Mathematics Homework and Grading in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D., Kanold-McIntyre, J., Larson M. R., Barnes, B., Schuhl, S., & Toncheff, M. (in press). Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press
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