Fall is upon us! We know you have been working to establish class norms and routines that support your students as mathematics learners, as well as to build your professional learning communities with your colleagues. We are looking forward to seeing many of you at various professional development days in October! Read on for information about: 

• Core Curriculum News
• Featured Resource
• Upcoming Professional Development
• 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

Core Curriculum News

Fall 2019 District Math Assessments

The Fall 2019 District Math Assessments for K-8 Memo provides important information regarding the shipment of materials for District Math Assessments and guidance for principals and Test Coordinators.

The materials will arrive at sites during the week of October 7 via school mail. Please share this important memo with your school’s Test Coordinator.

If you have any questions, contact the Achievement Assessments Office at (415) 241-6400 or aao@sfusd.edu. Visit the AAO website at tinyurl.com/sfusdaao. 

Core Curriculum News
Your feedback makes the curriculum stronger; please post resources, corrections, and suggestions to Google Classroom or to our feedback form: http://tinyurl.com/SFUSDMathFeedback.

The latest versions of the curriculum are always available online.

Featured Resource

Illuminate 
Many teachers have experienced the benefits of looking at their students' District Assessments Milestone Results with the graphic data representation power of the Illuminate system. Now you can bring that power to all of your Milestone Task results by utilizing the Optional Score Entry for every unit. You will also be able to see the cumulative results over the course of an entire year and determine linear trends in Content Standards, Question Groups, and Performance Bands. 

Illuminate can provide the "Map Level" data, that can help teachers see overall levels of performance and areas or students of focus. The graphic displays make understanding this level of data quick and easy. Then student work provides the "Street Level" data that can help determine what next steps to take with those focal areas or students. An additional advantage to using Illuminate for this is the ability to track progress within standards. 

Visit the Math Milestone Task Optional Score Entry or Illuminate to enter your data and use the information to inform instruction. 

Upcoming Math Professional Development

Join grade level colleagues and members of the Math Department for collaboration and planning days. These planning days are open to all new teachers, teachers new to SFUSD, and Special Education Teachers who did not attend in 2018-19. Subs are provided by the Math Dept. Teachers will experience a lesson from the math curriculum, learn what the signature strategies look like in action, build their toolkit of strategies to develop access and rigor for all students, and make sense of grade level content and plan an upcoming unit with colleagues. Please see the flyer for more information and register using this registration form. 

For more information, contact the math liaison assigned to your school.

Deepening Elementary Math Content and Pedagogy PLC

Join other Math Teacher Leaders (Site teacher leaders, IRFs, and MISTs) to learn together and deepen your math content and pedagogical knowledge. Together we will explore:

• Big ideas in math and how they fit in the K-5 progression
• Beliefs about our students and about mathematics and how they influence classroom practice.
• How we can help shift those beliefs to build classrooms where each and every student can make sense of math and contribute their math brilliance.

All sessions: 4:00 - 6:00 pm at Curriculum and Instruction - 750 25th Avenue (Cabrillo) Multi-purpose room 

• Session #2: January 14
• Session #3: May 13

The Achievement Assessments Office (AAO) will be hosting district-wide scoring and calibration events for K-5 teachers for the math milestone task district assessments. Please see the flyer for more information and register using the registration form. You will receive 2 hours of extended pay. Bring your student work on the District Assessment Math Milestone Task and calibrate scoring of the Math Milestone Tasks using rubrics and sample work.

Calibration and Scoring

• Thursday Oct. 29, 4:00-6:00PM, Dolores Huerta ES (65 Chenery St). Support provided for Spanish scoring.
• Wednesday Oct. 30, 4:00-6:00PM, West Portal ES (5 Lennox Way). Support provided for Chinese scoring.

Analysis and Next Steps

Your Math Milestones have been scored; now what? Should you move on? Re-engage with the whole class? Pull small groups? Join teachers from around the district to analyze your students’ work and determine your next instructional moves.

• Wednesday Nov. 5, 4:00-6:00PM, Location TBD.

Math District Assessments Results are due by November 6th.

Contact person: Kathy Bradley

Opportunities for Students and Educators
 

Recent Activities

Deepening Elementary Math Content and Pedagogy PLC
On September 17, Math Teacher Leaders (Site teacher leaders, IRFs, and MISTs) came together to learn about Implementing Routines for Effective Tier 1 Instruction. Together we thought about:

• Math Talks as an Instructional Routine that supports effective Tier 1 Instruction  

• Our understanding of the Number Sense Trajectory

• How to connect our learning to Culturally Responsive Teaching

The next two sessions are on January 14 and May 13. Sessions will be at Curriculum and Instruction - 750 25th Avenue (Cabrillo) Multi-purpose room from 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

For more information, contact the math liaison assigned to your school.

Thank you for all that you do!