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Evidence of Impact- as a method of improvement. Create a vision without words...

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I made separate pages for each session and for the exhibits. Check the navigation to the right. Creating didital data base for math/ELA resources and lessons

Be careful about overriding content. Hit save often. This session sucks, it sure soundegood in the description. Tom

Handouts for download at www.ascd.org/mydown-loads. Available for 4 weeks after the conference.

San Juan Unified District (Washington) has Saturday sessions for teachers to have PD in using technology in more engaging ways. They don't offer pay, just continuing ed hours. They get about 150 teachers to sign up for Saturdays. They sneak in the instructional strategies, "because who would want to come if we advertised that we are teaching instructional strategies?"

Crystal has started her own page to take notes from her session. Doing that will keep us from overwriting each other. I followed suit.

The handouts are good. Discussion on formative assessments and IRounds. Tom

Glad I was given a pedometer as I left the exhibit hall. I walked to the far end of the Conference Center, near Market Street, to get into 204A, only to find the room was full. My next choice was in room 125, which turned out to be the farthest anyone could go to the other end of the conference center. The pedometer recorded 1,358 steps. Took 25 minutes of walking. This could be retated to reflect a CC mathproblem.

This session passed out crayons. Should be fun. Rote memoryoils not good. We are doing an awesome activity to demonstrate concept vs rote. Will use thimy during PD Tom. France uses a rubrics and a 20 pt scale. Looking at a grading rubwith and grading conversion. Tom

This is session is on implementing CC in elementary school. Looks pretty good based the handouts. L-ville Ky emphasizes diversity and buses 20 million miles per year. Principals areremoved for low performance. ThRabelais work is not turning around a school but the teaching a learning. Ky isgrowing test on CCthis year. All teachers recieved papercopies instead of electronic copies. Kids need to write about more than losing their tooth. They need to read like a detective and write like a reporter. This session would have been good for for Susan and I t into our pres on tuesday. 35 % of students graduate college ready. "a business wouldn't exist if its results were flat.". Towill requires a lot of collaboration. This district has already implemented CC. District isgoing through their process. Long processto trial and error, and patience is needed. Teachers and principals must be flexible. //__**MUST UNDerstand STANDARD B4 trying to teach it**__//. Isolationi is enemy of improvement. Tight versus loose in instructional framework. This district's T vs L is different than ours. Formative assessments-common, is a must. DuFouR model is effective for implementation. Assessments are tight instruction is loose. Heavy useIOC Wiki's. "__**don't buy resources that claim to be aligned**__.". Some additional links that are useful. PLCs are the key to implementing CC. Must take baby steps. Take baby steps. Must know your staff. Administrators must beware of burnout. PLC leaders get extra $. //**AWESOME SESSION.**// Southern accentsrocked.

Tom- Presenter gave a history of the CC. The presenters are the guys from the original CC webinars we watched together in the in comp lab, the lead authors of the standards. 50% of college students need remediation. Minority students rarely recover if they need remediation. Education standards that are rigorous is priority that is bi-partisan. **Unless instruction changes, we cannot expect a change in performance.** Through these sessions, I am envisioning an implementation plan for CASD. The highest performing NAEP countries taught the fewest concepts. Showing comparisons between current tasks vs high performing countries. 89% high school teachers say students are college ready while only 26% of college profs say they are ready. CC is coherent, each grade's standard are built upon prior year and also serves as a foundation for the next year. Multiple step problems. We are going to need PD on math content for many of our elem/middleschool teachers because of the depth of understanding of math of the content that will be needed in the instruction. **Sometimes in math you just need to grind it out. Another awesome session.**


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