Hello Math Community!

We know you are in the end-of-year dash! We hope you find some time to reflect on your successes this year and think about the big and small things you have done, both individually and with your colleagues, to support your students' success and growth. In the math department, we're planning for Summer Professional Development and August launches, and reflecting on how lucky we are to get to work and learn with a caring and thoughtful community of math teachers!

Please read on to find out about: 

• Upcoming Math Professional Development
• Core Curriculum News
• Featured Resource
• Opportunities for Educators and Students
• Recent Activities

Thank you for all that you do!

The Math Team

Upcoming Math Professional Development

Problem Solving Cycle

The Math Problem Solving Cycle Summer Institute will be held on June 5th and June 6th.

June 5th:  Explore culturally responsive strategies within powerful math classrooms. What does it take to create a culture of learning and how do teachers manage collaborative groups for productive struggle and inquiry? How do we as educators listen to students and pay attention to whose voices are heard?

June 6th:  Explore various uses of video for visioning and reflection on cycles of inquiry for culturally responsive pedagogies. Learn the structure of the Math Problem Solving Cycle for strengthening responsive math department professional learning communities in service of students.

The Math Problem Solving Cycle Summer Institute is open to all middle school math teachers and administrators. Space is limited, and priority will be given to math teachers and administrators of Problem Solving Schools. Participants will be paid 12 extended hours for the 2-day institute.

Please register via the Google Form in the flyer. Contact person: Alisa Brown.

Complex Instruction

The Complex Instruction Leadership Retreat will be held on June 5th in the Cabrillo Multipurpose Room. This will be an opportunity for leadership teams to think about goals teams want to work towards next year. Teams will also have some planning time to think about how they will go about learning together throughout the year. All participants should have RSVP'd with Angela Torres.

New Teacher Orientation

If you have new teachers joining your math team, please encourage them to attend the sessions about the Math Core Curriculum at the New Teacher Orientation (NTO). On Monday, August 5th, the first day of the NTO, there will be two sessions designed for Secondary Math Teachers.

• Secondary Math Core Curriculum Part 1: Overview
• Secondary Math Core Curriculum Part 2: Planning Unit 0

Digital District Day 2019

The 4th Annual SFUSD Digital District Day will take place Monday, August 12th at John O’Connell High School. We're excited to announce that Dan Meyer from Desmos will be presenting! This event is free for ALL SFUSD employees. Have a sneak peek at sessions! Please RSVP today and share. 

Middle Grades Math Start-of-the-Year Collaboration Day

The Middle Grades Math Start-of-the-Year Collaboration Day for the 2019–2020 school year will be on August 15th, at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. All middle grades math teachers -- general education and special education -- are invited. Science teachers, however, should plan to attend the central science safety day instead. 

To see a summary of our dates and planned activities for 2019–2020, check out our Middle School Professional Development Structures. For a listing of all middle school math professional development activities for the 2019–2020 school year, please see the PD calendar on the math department website.

Core Curriculum News

Materials

Featured Resources

Opportunities for Educators and Students

Opportunities for Students

Cyber Camp 2019 at City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Registration is open now for Cyber Camp 2019, a free weeklong introduction to Cyber Security designed for middle and high school students. The camp runs from July 29 to August 2 from 9 AM to 3 PM on the main CCSF Ocean Campus. Space is limited and the deadline for registering is June 28. Click for more information about Cyber Camp and the link to register.

Opportunities for Teachers 

LWEA (Prop G) Hours 
LWEA hours do not roll over; they must be used by the last payroll deadline of the school year. Your 18 hours of professional learning activities must be logged in your PD passport. For more information, please refer to the 2018–2019 LWEA PD Hours Flyer.
 
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing TPA Assessment 
Join the CTC in the work of scoring the Commission’s Model Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA). There is an urgent need for single subject assessors in Art, Music, PE, Math, and World Languages. The Commission is seeking current California teachers who help prepare beginning teachers to participate in operational scoring of the CalTPA. Training and calibration will involve a combination of at-home preparation and in-person training sessions offered in Northern and Southern California. Scoring will be completed online through a secure portal. Assessors will be paid for their time in training, calibration and scoring. For more information about assessor qualifications and to apply, visit www.ctcexams.nesinc.com.

Mindfulness Education 
Research suggests that mindfulness can support the development of self-awareness, concentration, patience, and resilience -- on the part of teachers and students! Through the Calm Schools Initiative, any teacher with a K-12 classroom can get free access to the "Calm" meditation app, which includes a library of guided meditations and mindfulness exercises. For more information and to get started, visit https://www.calm.com/schools

Opportunities for Paraeducators

Paraeducator Institute
The 3rd Annual SFUSD Paraeducator Institute will be held on August 14th and 15th at Lowell HS, 1101 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco, CA. The institute will feature speeches from SFUSD leadership, as well as Paraeducator leaders in our district. All attendees will select morning and afternoon workshops to attend that best meet their job needs and/or professional learning desires. Attendees can use one institute day (either day) to qualify for the newly contracted Para PD Day (paid at your daily rate). The other day can be compensated using your 18 Paid PD Hours Please register on the attached google form link ASAP.

Recent Activities

At the End-of-year T-Facs Celebration, Teacher Facilitators presented the questions they chose to investigate with their teams, the learnings they have had, and what they are continuing to think about together. 

Thank you for all that you do!