Math Coaching, Gateway to Success

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Math Coaching, Gateway to Success
Ellen Duffy Janet Bryson http//taselm.fullerton.e
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• The One Thing You Need to Know

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TASEL-M Teachers Assisting Students to Excel in
Learning Mathematics

• NSF funded grant to Cal State Fullerton and
  Orange County Dept. of Education to 4
  underperforming high schools and their feeder
  middle and continuation high schools.
• Paradigm Focus on Learning as informed by Data
• Model
• Cognitive Coaching on Best Practice
• Teacher Collaboration (PLC)
• Improved Pedagogical Content

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The One Thing You Need To Know

• T. R. U. S. T.
• Time
• Relationships
• Unity of Purpose
• Support
• Team Accountable PLC

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• Honor the TIME it takes to implement change.

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Time Trust the Process

• Teacher Buy-in Administration Clarity
• Start with the Singers
• Go Slow to Go Fast
• Focus on one element
• 10 change/year
• Start where they are survey, identify build
  choices

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Time Share Reflect

• "We must not, in trying to think about how we can
  make a big difference, ignore the small daily
  differences we can make which, over time, add up
  to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
  
• Marian Wright Edelman
• Where will you start?
• How will you strengthen your trust in the process
  so that you can persevere with patience?
• How will you measure the long-term change?

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Relationships begin and develop through Trust
Teachers need to know you care before they care
what you know.

• Build relationships for collaboration and growth.

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We Trust the Known

• The best teacher is the one who suggests, rather
  than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
  the wish to teach himself.
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Remember Who You Are
• Teachers Coach ? fix-it person ? evaluator
• Define your sandbox. Who decides what?
• Beware the precedent
• establish a role you can live with
• You wear two hats coach and PLC facilitator.
  Neither is sufficient.
• What do you need to do to make your role clearer
  to yourself and those you work with?

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Getting to Know You

• Name _________________ School
  ___________________
• Ph. ( )____________ email
  ____________________
• I teach
• My teaching strengths are
• I need the most help with
• Id be willing to share my expertise on
• The best time for you to talk to or work with me
  is
• My favorite snack is ____________ beverage
  is___________
• Besides teaching, my other passion(s) is (are)

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Getting to Know Your School

• I. In order to get a clearer picture of the
  Orange cluster, please answer the following
  questions as you reflect on your experience in
  your school
• List 4 things that are important to know about
  your students.
• What would be helpful for Marty and Janet to know
  about your school?
• What are you excited about at your school?
• What would be helpful for you to know about data
  and collaborative inquiry?
• What data do you want to look at to assess your
  students progress?
• What are you already doing or have you planned to
  do to improve the mathematics in your room?
  School? Cluster?
• What are the next steps we should take?
• II. Please rank the following training needs in
  order of personal priorities
• 1 represents most urgent 7 least urgent
• Increase student participation______ Group work
  training ________
• Technology training in _____________ ______
• Writing in mathematics ______
  Manipulatives ______
• Lesson planning in a Block schedule ______
  Other_____________

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Getting to Know Your School

• III. Please mark the following in terms of
  meeting time availability and preference
• P preferred A available N possible, but not
  preferable X No can do
• After school Monday ______
• After school Tuesday ______
• After school Wednesday ______
• After school Thursday ______
• After school Friday ______
• Saturday morning ______
• Saturday afternoon ______
• Saturday full day ______
• During school pull-out ______
• What things should every math classroom include?
  Every math student do? Every math teacher do?
• By the end of the first semester, what chapter
  have you completed? ________ By the end of the
  year, what chapter have you completed?
  ___________
• What projects or other unique assessments/
  experiences do your students do?
• I would like help designing a lesson on the
  following topics

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Build the team with Trust

• Few things help an individual more than to place
  responsibility on him, and let him know that you
  trust him.
• -Booker T. Washington
• Identify the leaders and your future replacement
  begin by building a deep foundation with a few.
• Develop relationships with district, school
  administration and support staff.

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Relationships Trust develops Respect

• "Leadership is getting someone to do what they
  don't want to do, to achieve what they want to
  achieve."
• Tom Landry
• Protocols must be taught Norms
• Safety in Structure

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The Seven Norms of Collaboration

• Pausing
• Paraphrasing
• Probing for specificity
• Putting ideas on the table
• Paying attention to self and others
• Presuming positive intentions
• Pursuing a balance between advocacy and inquiry
• How will the team choose a norm to focus on?

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Unity of Purpose

• In essentials, Unity
• in non-essentials, Diversity
• in all things, Charity.

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Trust Unity of Purpose to Deliver Results

• Where there is unity there is always victory.
• -Publilius Syrus
• Vision/Mission Who do we want to be and whats
  our purpose?
• Implementation-- Common Agreement built over
  time.
• On a scale of 1 to 5, how unified is your team
  about its purpose?
• How might you build unity?

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Orange High School Common Agreement 2005

• During our summer trainings, we met to find even
  better ways to teach your student mathematics and
  to improve our learning community. One of our
  goals is to be consistent within our department
  in our classroom tests and expectations. A
  second goal is to better communicate with the
  parents of our students. We are looking forward
  to meeting you at our Back to School Night,
  Wednesday, October 5th. We hope the following
  information will be useful for you and your
  student as weteachers, parents and
  studentspartner together for excellence in
  learning mathematics!
• Required Materials
• All math students are required to bring to class,
  every day, the following1 notebook with lined
  paper, Pencil(s) and eraser, Textbook
• Grading Scale
• Semester Grades are Cumulative
• Your childs letter grade will be given according
  to the following percentages
• Algebra (1, 1A, 1B), Honors classes
• Geometry, and
  Calculus
• Algebra II, and
• Pre-Calculus
• 98 100 A
• 92 97 A 92 100
• 90 91 A- 90 91
• 88 89 B 88 89
• 82 87 B 82 87
• 80 81 B- 80 81
• 78 79 C 78 79
• 70 77 C 72 77

• Grade Weights
• Your childs grades will be determined by the
  following grading categories
• Algebra (1, 1A, 1B) Geometry and higher
• Homework 20 20
• Quizzes 15 10
• Tests 40 45
• Class work 25 25

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Unity of Lesson Design Goal Diversity of Style

• Lesson Design Goal
• The lesson will implement strategies to
• engage students within the lesson
• check for understanding within the lesson
• ask effective questions to engage and monitor
  student learning.
• Does your team have a common vision of an
  effective lesson?

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Unity of Coaching Goal Diversity of Model

• Pre-conference, observation, post-conference
  coaching model
• Facilitating peer observations
• Co-teaching model

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Support Who Ya Gonna Call?
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Support Were better together.

• "We could all use a little coaching. When you're
  playing the game, it's hard to think of
  everything."
• -Jim Rohn

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Support Trust your Partners

• Build your support team
• Brainstorm Buddy
• Resource Guru
• Substitute Sage
• Empathetic Ear / Safe place to vent Friend
• Communication Coach
• Publishing Partner
• Laugh Lender
• Next to each role, put the name of someone
  you trust to support you.

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Team Trust the PLC

• No one of us alone is as smart as all of us
  together.
• Teachers and coaches team together to incorporate
  daily high quality teaching through lesson design
  and pedagogical content knowledge conversations.
  They hold each other accountable with goals that
  focus on and measure student learning.

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Team Trust Build

• Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of
  dependence on one another and of strength to be
  derived by unity. -Vince Lombardy
• How Cohesive Teams Behave
• They TRUST one another
• They ENGAGE IN UNFILTERED CONFLICT around ideas.
• They COMMIT to decisions and plans of action.
• They HOLD ONE ANOTHER ACCOUNTABLE for delivering
  against the plans.
• They FOCUS on the achievement of the collective
  goals.
• From The Five Dysfunctions of Team by Patrick
  Lencioni

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Teams Trust the Data

• Human beings, who are almost unique in having
  the ability to learn from the experience of
  others, are also remarkable for their apparent
  disinclination to do so.
• -Douglas Adams
• Let the data speak
• Team accountability motivates professional growth

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The One Thing You Need To Know

• T. R. U. S. T.
• Time
• Relationships
• Unity of Purpose
• Support
• Team Accountable PLC

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