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Hello Math Community,
We hope the start to the 2018–2019 school year has been a powerful and rewarding one for your community.
We've been inspired by collaborating with many of you at your school sites as well as at various collaboration and planning days this month. Especially powerful has been exploring at our Collaboration Days the concept of "discretionary spaces," those micro-moments that can have profound and lasting impacts in our math classrooms and on our students' math identities.
Read on for information about:
- Core Curriculum News
- Upcoming Professional Development
- Featured Resources
- Opportunities for Educators
- Recent Activities
This information (and more!) is also provided on the SFUSD Math website at www.sfusdmath.org, and you can follow us on Twitter: @SFUSDMath. Feel free to share this newsletter.
Thank you for all that you do!
The Math Team
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6th grade math teachers made equity commitments around discretionary spaces at the Middle School Math Collaboration Days.
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Core Curriculum Materials
All schools received the student and teacher materials for the fall units during the week of August 13th. Please inventory your materials and let us know if anything is missing.
Spanish versions of the fall student books are available online. Grade 6 [Grade 6 Student Books in Spanish], Grade 7 [Grade 7 Student Books in Spanish], Grade 8 [Grade 8 Student Books in Spanish]. Students can use these links if they are logged into their s.sfusd.edu accounts. Please note that Connected Math Project (CMP) resources in 7th grade Units 5 and 6 could not be translated at this time.
The latest versions of the curriculum are always available online.
Your ideas make the curriculum stronger; please post resources, corrections, and suggestions to Google Classroom or to our feedback form: http://tinyurl.com/SFUSDMathFeedback.
Contact person: kempsterv@sfusd.edu
District Assessment Materials
The fall middle school assessment materials will be sent out to sites on Monday, October 1st, by school mail, and should arrive at school sites by next Tuesday or Wednesday.
If you have questions, please check with your site Test Coordinator.
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Upcoming Math Professional Development
Fall Middle School Math Collaboration Days are underway. For dates and locations of all upcoming middle school math professional development activities, see the Professional Development Calendar on the Math Department website: http://www.sfusdmath.org/pd-calendar.html#6_8_PD.
Problem Solving Cycle (PSC)
The next Problem Solving Cycle Teacher Leader Planning day, TLP 1-2, will be on October 24, 2018, at the Cabrillo Multipurpose Room.
Contact Person: browna@sfusd.edu
Complex Instruction Program
The T-facs met this week on Tuesday, September 25. The next T-facs meeting is on Tuesday, October 30 at Mission High School. These meetings occur monthly throughout the school year.
The first follow-up day for teachers who participated in the CI course this summer (Cohort 10) is on Wednesday, October 10. Substitute requests have already been submitted for this day.
Contact person: Angela Torres
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Featured Resources
Checking our Systems for Equity. One of the guiding principles of our Math work is that "students’ academic success in mathematics must not be predictable on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, sexual orientation, cultural affiliation, or special needs." This challenges each of us to pay attention, and to check our assumptions. Enid Lee offers us a useful tool toward this end, "Checking My Systems for Equity," a set of self-reflective questions that can help us in this deep and challenging work. http://my-ecoach.com/online/resources/3916/Checking_Equity_Systems.pdf
Multilingual Math Glossaries are a valuable support for English Language Learners accessing rigorous grade-level math. In addition to the multilingual glossaries on our website, you might find useful this Middle School Math glossary, available in at least 10 languages. Please see the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools website at: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/resources/glossaries.
"What's Going On In This Graph?" is a weekly feature of The New York Times. Using graphs, tables, maps, and charts from newspaper articles, students can build their data interpretation skills as they "Notice & Wonder" about data around current events. For ideas and inspiration, check out: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-is-now-weekly-stem-teachers-explain-why-its-a-powerful-activity.html
Do you have resources and inspiration that might be of interest to your middle school math colleagues? Please send them our way: gleasons@sfusd.edu
CPM eBooks
CPM eBooks are available for teacher and student use. You can use the eBook to project a problem for your class, and the eBooks contain links to technology resources and homework help for students. The eBooks also have Spanish translations of the student pages. Instructions for enrolling in and selecting your eBooks were posted on Google Classroom this week. The code expires Oct 2 so please let all of your teachers know!
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Opportunities for Educators
LWEA (Living Wage for Educators Act)
LWEA (formerly known as Prop A or QTEA) hours are available to all paras and teachers in the district! How will you use yours? Use the links below to get important details about how to use your 18 paid hours of professional development this year.
Free SFMOMA Pass for Educators
SFMOMA is piloting a new program to grant free admission to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) TK–12 educators. To qualify for the pass, you need to attach verification of employment with SFUSD. This verification can take the form of either a recent pay stub or a current school/union ID card. To receive your Educator Pass, please complete the application.
Teachers for Social Justice (T4SJ)
Online registration is open for the 18th Annual Teaching for Social Justice Conference: Focusing Rage & Forging Dissent at John O’Connell High School on October 6th. Each year hundreds of educators both locally and nationally gather to network, explore empowering learning environments and develop a professional learning community. Click here to learn more and to register: 2018 T4SJ Conference
California Math Council North Conference at Asilomar
The CMC North Conference, from Nov 30 to Dec 2, is an opportunity to learn with teachers from around the region about math content and pedagogy. The conference is at a beautiful location in Pacific Grove; it is a wonderful setting for reflecting and learning with your site colleagues. Visit the conference website at www.cmc-math.org/cmc-north-conference for more information.
If you know of other upcoming opportunities for math teachers, please let us know!
Contact person: gleasons@sfusd.edu
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Recent Activities
Problem Solving Cycle (PSC)
Teacher Leaders in the Problem Solving Cycle met for their first Teacher Leader Planning day, TLP 1-1 this month. They reviewed district data in order to celebrate the incredible shifts math teachers are making in our district. Teacher Leaders also planned facilitation of their first site-based PSC workshop and previewed a reflective tool to see student feedback on small group interactions called the Practical Measures. We are looking forward to having even more reflective conversations about equity using this tool.
Teachers collaborate on "Dividing Licorice" task from Unit 6.2
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Fall Middle School Math Collaboration Days
Fall Middle School Math Collaboration Days are underway! 6th and 7th Grade Math Teachers have already met to do, debrief, and collaboratively plan math lessons from the SFUSD Core Curriculum, with a focus on amplifying students' mathematical thinking throughout our lessons. Teachers also made some powerful equity commitments after exploring the concept of "discretionary spaces" in our math classrooms. We look forward to seeing our 8th grade colleagues and K–8 math teams in the coming weeks!
 Teachers collaboratively engage in cross-site planning at the 6th Grade Collaboration Day.
Site teams lesson planning at 7th Grade Collaboration Day. |
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Thank you for all that you do!
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