Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work: High School
Your assignment: implement the Common Core standards. This book helps you accept the enormity of the challenge, and turn it into opportunities for faculty collaboration that will impact your students. This source provides in-depth background, focused preparation, and professional development tools to support the shift to collaboration. Resources prepare your team for instructional shifts needed to develop students' mathematical practices, implementation of core mathematics, and formative assessments to inform teacher and student decisions daily. The authors give us a team-equity strategy where interventions cannot be optional, which is a useful view of RTI. This will be a well-worn source. I know I will return to it over and over again. --Henry S. Kepner Jr., Professor, Mathematics Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Past President, National Council of Teachers of MathematicsThe Common Core State Standards are a wakeup call for the mathematics education community. Successful implementation of the new content standards, especially the Mathematical Practices, will require teachers to examine their current instructional practices.Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work, High Schoolis a powerful and practical tool that will help guide us as we negotiate the necessary changes and begin the process of building mathematically proficient students. --John W. Staley, Coordinator, Secondary Mathematics, Baltimore County Public SchoolsThe only way to realize the potential of the Common Core Standards is through deep and sustained professional collaboration. This team of superstar authors has deftly combined elements of the most effective math classrooms with powerful collaborative strategies. Their grounded advice can help real communities of educators transform their classrooms into places where every student learns the kind of mathematics we've been advocating for more than two decades. This is not a quick fix, but a road map for lasting change. --Cathy Seeley, Senior Fellow, Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin; Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics