Thanks to the support of the fabulous Ela Ben-Ur, our math team has continued our forward lean into the Project-Based Math world and the tensions that we often feel in our environment!
We have been using Ela's innovators' compass to organize our thoughts. The first day we brainstormed as many possible sticky notes as we could about the sections of the Innovators' Compass.
Yesterday, we clustered our post-its and came up with the following thoughts on each of the sections of the compass:
Discover OBSERVATIONS:
Challenges of untracked classrooms
Parent mentality toward the math program
Challenging the math status quo
Making life-long learnings
Students being overly driven by grades
Students lack agency/perseverance
Bridging project and math learning
Expectations of what students know/should know/figure out
Define PRINCIPLES:
Emotional - how do the kids feel in our classes
Skills - what kills should the students have without a doubt
Mindset - how do the students approach learning
Teachers actions - what should the teacher be promoting
Dream IDEAS:
Better using time for improving math overall
Shift parent mindsets
Have more time for reflective processes
Classroom structures
School Structures
Design EXPERIMENTS:
Teacher grouping (tag team teaching/swatch subjects)
Things that build community among everyone
In class methodologies
Student Grouping
These represent our math team as a whole and we are looking forward to the continued quest to become a well functioning team AND to WIN or LEARN.
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