Resources
Building Thinking Classroom Look For
Designing Impactful and Meaningful Tier 1 Instruction in Math that Meets the Needs of All Middle School Students
SAT Preparation Resources
IDOE Elevate Education Conference Presentations
How Secondary Students Learn Math and What Instructional Shifts are Necessary for Math Intervention
How Elementary Students Learn Math and What Instructional Shifts are Necessary for Math Intervention
Designing Impactful and Meaningful Tier 1 Instruction in Math that Meets the Needs of All Students
Scaffolding Math Tasks to Maintain Cognitive Demand for All Students
Group Engagement ContinuumÂ
Use this to set norms in your classroom and as a self-reflection tool for students
Student-Centered Mathematics Instructional Look Fors
This free resource provides teachers with a tool for lesson planning and self-reflection to enhance their mathematics teaching and student learning.
Download the Student-Centered Mathematics Instructional Look Fors document today to help incorporate the appropriate best practices,
Learning Lab Model
The Learning Lab Model is a modified version of the Japanese Lesson Study where teachers collaborate to plan, deliver, debrief and reflect on a lesson taught by either the facilitator or one of the teachers in the cadre. My published article for the Indiana Association of School Principals Indianagram Journal outlines the model and protocol.
Download the article, Facilitator’s Guide and slide deck to engage in this incredibly effective and meaningful professional learning.
Reveal Scope and Sequence for Future-Focused Indiana Math Standards aligned to the ILEARN Checkpoints
One of the most adopted 6-12 math programs is Reveal Mathematics by McGraw Hill. In an effort to support the work of high school and middle school teachers, I have developed comprehensive scope and sequence documents that align the new 2023 Indiana Mathematics Standards to the Reveal program for Algebra 1 & 2 and Geometry.
Additionally, you can download the Reveal scope and sequence aligned to the 2020 Indiana Mathematics Standards for middle school math courses. In each of these two sets of documents, you will find detailed guidelines for how to teach using Reveal to best meet the intentions of the standards.
Additionally, I have created a suggested Pacing Guide for grades 6-12. I encourage you to share this resource with other educators who may benefit from this information. These curriculum maps provide additional notes, Mathematics Framework guidance, and additional resources/tasks where Reveal Math has gaps and doesn’t meet all of the new Indiana Math Standards. These curriculum maps are aligned to the ILEARN Checkpoints.
Hitting the Target: Navigating the 2023 ELA Standards for Grades K-2 2023
The 2023 Indiana ELA Standards for grades K-2 have created a better alignment to the Science of Reading research and best practices the Indiana legislators were aiming for in their recent focus on literacy. There has been a considerable shift in reading foundational skills such as phonics and phonemic awareness to support decoding words in Kindergarten while building to reading sentences in 1st grade and building reading fluency in 2nd grade. Download my free ELA K-2 Summary to ensure you are hitting the new 2023 target for literacy.