Beyond the Common Core: A Handbook for Mathematics in a PLC at Work™, High School - Softcover

Kanold, Timothy; Toncheff, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936763508 ISBN 13: 9781936763504

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2010

Synopsis

Part of the Beyond the Common Core series

Focus your curriculum to heighten student achievement. Learn 10 high-leverage team actions for grades 9-12 mathematics instruction and assessment. Discover the actions your team should take before a unit of instruction begins, as well as the actions and formative assessments that should occur during instruction. Examine how to most effectively reflect on assessment results, and prepare for the next unit of instruction.

Benefits:

• Identify and cultivate the elements of mathematics instruction and assessment that yield the greatest impact on student learning.
• Increase student learning through 10 steps known as high-leverage team actions for mathematics instruction and assessment.
• Understand teacher actions that develop student understanding and skill for lower- and higher-cognitive-demand mathematical tasks every day, every lesson, every unit, every year.
• Access reproducibles and appendices to gain instructional strategies aligned with your states standards.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Before the Unit
Chapter 2: During the Unit
Chapter 3: After the Unit
Epilogue: Taking Your Next Steps
Appendix A: Standards for Mathematical Practice
Appendix B: Standards for Mathematical Practice Evidence Tool
Appendix C: Cognitive-Demand-Level Task-Analysis Guide
Appendix D: Sources for Higher-Level-Cognitive-Demand Tasks
Appendix E: How the Mathematics at Work High-Leverage Team Actions Support the NCTM Principles to Actions

About this title

About the Author

Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator, author, and consultant. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community district in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He serves as an adjunct faculty member for the graduate school at Loyola University Chicago.

Dr. Kanold is committed to equity and excellence for students, faculty, and school administrators. He conducts highly motivational professional development leadership seminars worldwide with a focus on turning school vision into realized action that creates greater equity for students through the effective delivery of professional learning communities for faculty and administrators.

He is a past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and coauthor of several best-selling mathematics textbooks over several decades. He has served on writing commissions for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on school mathematics, leadership, and development for education publications.

In 2010, Dr. Kanold received the prestigious international Damen Award for outstanding contributions to the leadership field of education from Loyola University Chicago. He also received the Outstanding Administrator Award from the Illinois State Board of Education in 1994 and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 1986.

Dr. Kanold earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in mathematics from Illinois State University. He completed a master's in educational administration at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in educational leadership and counseling psychology from Loyola University Chicago.

Mona Toncheff is the mathematics content specialist for Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona. She oversees the development and implementation of mathematics curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Mona also coordinates and instructs district professional development activities for teachers designed to improve mathematics instruction and student achievement. She has served in public education for over 20 years.

Mona has supervised the culture change from teacher isolation to professional learning communities creating articulated standards and relevant district common assessments and providing ongoing professional development for over 200 high school mathematics teachers regarding best practices, equity and access, technology, response to intervention, and assessment for learning.

A former secretary of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, she is director of the Western Region I NCSM Board. Mona was named 2009 Phoenix Union High School District Special Achievement Teacher of the Year.

She received a BS in psychology from Arizona State University and an MEd in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.

Review

This book will serve as an invaluable resource. It provides a roadmap for team improvement with specific actions to support the development of highly functioning mathematics-teaching teams and empowers the experts in the classroom with the processes, skills, and knowledge needed to support differentiated growth.

--William Barnes, Coordinator of Secondary Mathematics, Howard County Public Schools, Ellicott City, Maryland

No one in America is more qualified than Tim Kanold to address how the PLC at Work process can help educators provide the mathematics curriculum and powerful instruction that are essential to helping more students learn mathematics at dramatically higher levels. Kanold and Toncheff draw on their expertise in the PLC process and their leadership in mathematics education to provide educators with an invaluable resource. If you can only read one book to improve student achievement in mathematics, this is the book!

--Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1936763508
• ISBN 13: 9781936763504
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188