Check out this chart that resulted from a Choral Count by 2s (imagine having done this with a class).

The Center for Strengthening the teaching profession (CSTP) has partnered with AESD and others to create supports for virtual learning.
Teacher Tech Project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Over the summer, 36 Washington state teacher leaders, made up of NBCTs, classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and Regional Teachers of the Year, created free resources and learning opportunities in preparation for remote learning in the fall.

Math For Love:  Remote Curriculum
If you're a parent or teacher who would like to try our new remote curriculum, you can use it for free. Click here to get it.
Featuring games and activities that are meant to work best at home or in a remote setting. Videos recorded by Math for Love Founder Dan Finkel, plus a superstar team of Seattle elementary teachers.

New Illustrative Mathematics Certified Distance & Unfinished Learning Resources
In response to COVID-19, IM wants to help you plan for distance learning, address unfinished learning, and support families. Based on IM K–12 Math certified by Illustrative Mathematics, the new resources will ensure your students are engaged with grade-level math content to set them up for success in math, next year and beyond.

Have you considered using Desmos to get to know your students and/or check in with them?
Here is a resource from Julia Anker that can help you use Desmos in a distance learning setting, both as a tool for learning math and as a way to check in with your students.

Fawn Nguyen – A collection of Ed Tech resources for Distance Learning Best Practices for Math Learn More

NCTM Figure This – Math Challenges for Families with Assign to Google Classroom

YouCubed - Resources for remote teaching:  If there was ever a time for having a growth mindset and thinking flexibly, it is now!  Jo Boaler worked with a group of educators in collaboration with Knowledgehook, a Canadian organization, to make a short and easily digestible booklet with advice on ways to teach during COVID. We’re in this together: Supporting High Quality Math Teaching in Uncertain Times

YouCubed:  Week of Inspirational Math(s) -Choose your own maths adventure with our interactive tools that allow you to build a custom playlist of inspirational maths activities and messages!  Read More

Teaching channel - how to do the feedback loop in distance learning by Jennifer Pieratt
During these times of distance learning, teaching is hard; and closing the feedback loop is especially difficult right now. Every teacher knows the power of an “over the shoulder glance” when it comes to checking for understanding. But how do we do this in a virtual classroom?  Read More

Edutopia – Formative Assessment:  A Way to Increase Students’ Independence in Learning By Kara Douma
When feedback originates with students, they can assess their current understanding and see what they need to do to improve.  Read More

NCTM/NCSM Joint statement - Moving Forward: Mathematics Learning in the Era of COVID-19 Read more

 Dear Parents and Students (2020-2021) by John Stevens @Jstevens009
Mathematics is beautiful. It is stubborn, it is easy, it is hard, it is used to justify, to sway policies, to influence politics, to influence beliefs, and to defend arguments. It is expansive and it is minute. Its history is complicated, intertwined with racism, colonialism, and concurrent discovery. Its influence is mighty; those who know it, use it to influence and manipulate those who do not. Mathematics, flaws and all, is beautiful. Read More

Online Instruction: Adapting the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Math Discussions by Claudine Margolis
My goal in writing this post is to connect Smith and Stein’s practices for teaching mathematics through whole-class discussion of high-level tasks to the new reality that so many of us are facing with online instruction. Read More

Achieve The Core: What Is “Content-Focused Professional Learning”?  As the 2020-2021 school year nears, many educators are facing new challenges and the increased urgency of ever-persistent challenges, such as how to support all learners in accessing grade-level content.  We need to be sure that educators are participating in content-focused professional learning, focused on what students learn and how they learn it, even as other topics are addressed in professional learning sessions.  Read More    Mathematics Key Learning Areas

Race and Equity Conversations in Math

Education Week - In 8th Grade, Separate Algebra is Unequal Algebra for Black Students By Sarah D. Sparks
Algebra is considered the gateway to advanced mathematics, and school districts across the country have hoped to diversify access to college-preparatory math by increasing the number of students who take algebra by the end of 8th grade. But calling a course "Algebra" doesn't guarantee black students are getting equal access to the math content they need to succeed in high school.  Read More

Save the dates:  2020-2021 District Mathematics Leaders meetings 
District and building mathematics leaders in the region in a collegial environment focus on student sense making. Our network will share instructional strategies and formative practices while we develop a collaborative professional learning community. We will learn from each other and keep up-to-date on what’s happening in mathematics in the state. Meetings usually occur five times throughout the year and will be held either virtually via Zoom or at PSESD, 9:00am-12:00pm, all math teacher leaders are welcome.  This year, we will be meeting more often. Please contact Leslie to be added to the email list for District Math Leader Meetings.

Supporting Multilingual Students in Math in Virtual Learning Spaces

• Audience: Elementary, middle and high school math teachers, teacher leaders and instructional coaches
• Format: September- January PLC meeting two times monthly
• Co-facilitated by Karina Vanderbilt and Leslie Nielsen, this PLC will support math teachers in adapting strategies to support multilingual students in a virtual setting
• Registration link

• Meet with you and your math leaders to identify needs as well as areas of interest such as Common Core Content, the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and high leverage mathematics teaching practices
• Conduct professional development sessions targeted at identified needs and areas of interest which are informed by research, on-going, and job-embedded
• Support math coaches in classroom coaching, debriefing and leading PLCs
• Support math leaders in conducting district wide instructional materials reviews to consider the match of district needs, research informed best-practices, and available instructional materials
• Support math coaches and teachers in crafting and leveraging an assessment system that utilizes assessment resources already in place, including summative, interim/benchmark and formative assessments
• Assist in collaborations within district between math teachers and other departments such as Special Education, English Language Learning, Blended Learning or content areas such as Science.