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This year we will be focusing on three key ideas: leadership, a leadership framework, and an independent project. 

Doll Math LeaDs Stipend     Credit Icon Math LeaDs Syllabus      Booklet IconMath LeaDs Project Handbook       Recording Icon Description Recording

October 3

What is Leadership?

Overview NCSM Framework of Leadership

LeaDs Project: Needs Assessments

November 8

Leadership: Teams

Framework: Empower

LeaDs Project: Goals and research review

December 13

Leadership: Building Capacity 1

Framework: Advocate

LeaDs Project: Logic Model and Project Plan

January

Schedule 1-on-1 interview with math specialist

February 7

Leadership: Building Capacity 2

Framework: Monitor

LeaDs Project: Implementation

March 13 

Leadership: Design and Implementation

Framework: Design

LeaDs Project: Implementation

April 10 

Leadership: Organizational Change

Framework: Framework Reflections

LeaDs Project: Evaluation and Analysis

May 8 

LeaDs Project evaluation and Analysis

June 12 

Project Presentations

 

 

   

Math LeaDs Year 2 Checklist

Stipend

April

Zoom Session  

Next Steps                 

Update Logic Model

Inputs: What you're investing in the project. (Examples: money, staff, volunteers, time, equipment, materials, technology, partners, etc.) 

Activities: What the program does. (Examples: tutor, teach financial literacy, serve meals, mentor, etc.) 

Outputs: The direct results of the program activities. How much/many activities are provided (number of youth matched with a mentor, number of tutoring sessions, number of youth served, etc.) 

Outcomes: The benefits realized in the population served by the program. Answers the question – “So what difference does the program make?” (new skills, change in behavior, change in attitudes, new knowledge, etc.) 

Math LeaDs Year 2 Checklist

Stipend

Closing

March

Pre-Session           

  • None

Zoom Session  

Next Steps                 

Update Logic Model

Inputs: What you're investing in the project. (Examples: money, staff, volunteers, time, equipment, materials, technology, partners, etc.) 

Activities: What the program does. (Examples: tutor, teach financial literacy, serve meals, mentor, etc.) 

Outputs: The direct results of the program activities. How much/many activities are provided (number of youth matched with a mentor, number of tutoring sessions, number of youth served, etc.) 

Outcomes: The benefits realized in the population served by the program. Answers the question – “So what difference does the program make?” (new skills, change in behavior, change in attitudes, new knowledge, etc.) 

February

Pre-Session           

  • None

Zoom Session  

Next Steps                 

Update Logic Model

Inputs: What you're investing in the project. (Examples: money, staff, volunteers, time, equipment, materials, technology, partners, etc.) 

Activities: What the program does. (Examples: tutor, teach financial literacy, serve meals, mentor, etc.) 

Outputs: The direct results of the program activities. How much/many activities are provided (number of youth matched with a mentor, number of tutoring sessions, number of youth served, etc.) 

Outcomes: The benefits realized in the population served by the program. Answers the question – “So what difference does the program make?” (new skills, change in behavior, change in attitudes, new knowledge, etc.) 

January

NO MEETING THIS MONTH. 

Please schedule an appointment for your 1:1 interview. (see email)

December

Pre-Session           

Goals

  • What would you like to influence? Why?
  • How would you know if you're successful? What would that look like?
  • What ideas do you have for collecting evidence? What would you need?

Applied Research

For this section of this project, you will provide research-based support for your Math LeaDs Project plan. We've estimated approximately 10 hours of research time for this section. You'l summaraize your research findings and provide a bibliography. Here are some steps to consider:

  • Search for relevant articles
  • Evaluate sources
  • Identify themes, debates and gaps
  • Outline the structure
  • Write your review

Tools

Zoom Session  

Next Steps                 

  1. Formalize Goal
  2. Applied Research (<one page)
  3. Exit Ticket

Next Month 

One-on-One Interviews

November

Pre-Session           

Please complete the following three (3) items):
  1. In preparation for our Leadership Framework discussion, Empower Big Idea 1 Commitment to Self.pdf 
  2. Complete the needs assessment
  3. Bring a rough draft of a goal you’d like to set for this project. You can find examples here.
  4. Complete October Next Steps

Zoom Session  

Next Steps                 

  1. Formalize Goal
  2. Applied Research (<one page)
  3. Exit Ticket

Next Month 

 

October

Pre-Session           

Please complete the following three (3) items):
  1. Complete: Needs Assessment

Zoom Session  

October Navigation Guide
October Slides
Padlet: NCSM Vision Statement activity
Padlet: What do you think of when you think of the word leader

Next Steps                 

  1. Exit Ticket
  2. Logic Model
    • Claim one of the slides by typing your name in.
  3. Logic Model 
    • In the purple column (Situation), write a brief summary of what your area of focus is going to be this year. What do you want to influence? Why? What's your data/reasoning?
  4. Participant Folders
    • Create Folder
    • Name the Folder: First Name_Last Name (ie. Angie_Godfrey)
    • Upload Needs Assessment to your Folder

Next Month 

  1. Bring a rough draft of a goal you’d like to set for this project. 
    • Example 1: In order to increase student growth in mathematics, we will work as a staff to develop our professional knowledge of the curriculum. Our staff will dive into the multiple parts of the curriculum, assess student achievement and reflect on their own teaching practices to build confidence and knowledge of the curriculum.  
    • Example 2: Provide a place where secondary teachers can go to connect with other secondary teachers and collaborate together to improve their teaching and students’ learning through principles learned in the Teaching Mathematical Thinking course.
    • Example 3: Shift the mindset of fellow math educators to the mathematical mindset vision through understanding the benefits of productive struggle, how to plan for productive struggle, how to support productive struggle value failures and mistakes as learning opportunities, and freedom of thought – allowing students to think and value their own thinking and reasoning 
    • Example 4: In order to increase student engagement and achievement: Develop PLC vertically, Help students own learning, Implement instructional  practices that meet the needs of ALL learners.
  2. Begin thinking about what you might want to collect as evidence of change or growth.
  3. Continue practicing Effective Teaching and Learning Principles