Ho Nguyen Angela Torres

NCTM April 18, 2015

Taking a Stand: De-tracking Math Classrooms

1.  De-tracking Policy and First year Implementation §  Q & A

2.   Professional Development to Support

Heterogeneous Classes §  Q & A

De-tracking Policy and First Year Implementation

SFUSD DE-TRACKED 6 - 10 COURSE SEQUENCE

Developed in partnership with OUSD and SERP

All secondary schools provide all students the same course sequence aligned to the CCSS-M.

WHY DE-TRACK

•  SFUSD and CA Data •  Research •  Our Beliefs

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

All students can and should develop a belief that mathematics is sensible, worthwhile, and doable.

All students are capable of making sense of mathematics in

ways that are creative, interactive, and relevant. All students can and should engage in rigorous mathematics

through rich, challenging tasks. Students’ academic success in mathematics must not be

predictable on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, sexual orientation, cultural affiliation, or special needs.

ALGEBRA IN 8TH AND 9TH GRADE

SUPPORTING FIRST YEAR IMPLEMENTATION

Community • Newspaper articles • Math researchers speaking to our community • Family and community presentations

Schools • HS and MS Administrator presentations • HS and MS Counselor presentations for master

scheduling • Roundtable with HS administrators around concerns

SUPPORTING FIRST YEAR IMPLEMENTATION

Advocacy to the Board of Education • Organizing teachers to speak to the Board • Reaching out to partners to write to the Board in

support • Leadership in communication with the Board

De-tracking Committee • Overseeing actions to implement and monitor policy

SFUSD DE-TRACKED 6 - 10 COURSE SEQUENCE

Developed in partnership with OUSD and SERP

All secondary schools provide all students the same course sequence aligned to the CCSS-M.

Professional Development to Support Heterogeneous Classes

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL

Learning Community focused on

student achievement

Leadership

Collaboration

Pedagogy

Coaching

COMPLEX INSTRUCTION1

Complex instruction (CI) is a combination of pedagogical strategies used to create a classroom “social system” that directly attends to problems of social inequality which undermine academic access and achievement if left unexamined. The complex instruction model aims to “disrupt typical hierarchies of who is ‘smart’ and who is not” (Sapon-Shevin, 2004) and promotes equal-status interactions amongst students as they engage with tasks that have high cognitive demand within a cooperative learning environment. (Jilk)

Cohen and Lotan, 1992

COMPLEX INSTRUCTION GROUPWORK IN HETEROGENEOUS CLASSES

Cohen and Lotan, 1992

Multiple Ability Curriculum

Instructional Strategies

Status and Accountability

THROUGH THE COMPLEX INSTRUCTION PROGRAM

1.  Teachers will learn to engage all students in rigorous mathematics learning by…

a)  rethinking their beliefs about what it means to do and learn mathematics and who can be successful learning mathematics

b)  having practical tools to create authentic and rigorous opportunities for every student.

2.  Equity-centered professional learning communities will support teachers to engage every student in rigorous mathematics learning.

SFUSD COMPLEX INSTRUCTION PD STRUCTURE

CI Course

Video Club

Collaboration Days

Coaching

Coaches Meetings

Learning Communities

Individual Teachers

Students

Jilk, O’Connell, Baldinger, Nguyen

Teacher Facilitators

CONNECTING OUR CI LEARNING TO CURRENT PD

•  Group work norms and structures

•  Instructional strategies (Participation Quiz, checkpoints)

•  Coaching teams and individuals •  Common vision for teaching and

learning that has equitable participation at the center

•  Common vision for learning communities

•  The unit of change is the department or school

Learning Community focused on

student achievement

Leadership

Collaboration

Pedagogy

Coaching

THANK YOU!

Ho Nguyen, nguyenh3@sfusd.edu Math Content Specialist Angela Torres, torresa4@sfusd.edu Math Content Specialist

http://www.sfusdmath.org/

@SFUSDMath