Mascoma Curriculum Newsletter
🥧 🍁 November, 2023 🍂 🦃
Grit and Growth Mindset
Our Grit Playbook
Angela Duckworth—co-founder of Character Lab, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance—talked to us about how to cultivate grit.
Grit means having passion and perseverance for long-term goals. Created by Angela Duckworth, our Grit Playbook outlines the importance of this character strength and how to cultivate it in ourselves and in others.
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Resources for a gritty classroom
The Connection Between Grit and Math Performance
The Power of Belief - Great TED TALK
The Power of Grit during Productive Struggle in a Math Classroom
Math Mindset and Academic Grit
Grit is the Key to Learning Math with Mrs. Williams
Math Students that Demonstrate Grit
5 Tips for Helping Students Stay Motivated Through G.R.I.T in the Math Classroom
How to Help Kids Develop Grit in Mathematic Classes
Productive Struggle and Math Rigor
Mathematics with Rigor, Relevance, and Responsiveness
Building Grit in the Classroom
Encouraging Achievement in Math While Supporting SEL_Support
10 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics
How to Improve Math Skills of Your Students
Increase Participation In Your Math Block
Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset : How to Shift to a Path of Learning and Growth
EdWeb - Great Resources and Workshops for Educators
School of the Future How Teaching Grit Improves Student Outcomes
8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math Students
True Grit in Learning : The Math Anxiety - Achievement Link is Mediated by Math - Specific Grit
Activities to Build Grit in Your Classroom!
Week of Inspirational Math (s) Youcube is an amazing website!
Grit Curriculum Lesson : The Perseverance Walk
15 Books and Activities to Foster Grit in the Classroom
The Best Resources for Teaching About GRIT
G-Word - 20 Strategies for Foster Grit and Growth Mindset
20 Growth Mindset Activities to Inspire Confidence in Children
Mandatory Training
Thank you for completing the state mandated training for the 23-24 school year. If you were unable to review your answers to the Suicide Awareness training, please review them here.
App Vetting
Curriculum Google.Classrom
In an effort to curate curriculum resources, I am in the process of developing a MVRSD Curriculum google.classroom. Check out the class for professional development materials, K-8 math pacing guides, scope and sequence documents, and more. 📚 📏 📖
Course Code: cshmptt
K-8 Illustrative Math (IM)
💻 Accessing Opening Source Curriculum 🗝️🔑🔐
IM has created many videos that give you a K-5 Overview and delve into different aspects of the curriculum. There are a number of features of IM K - 5 that were highlighted as especially helpful:
Math Routines are embedded: act it out, choral count, estimation exploration, how many do you see (subitizing), notice and wonder, number talk, true/false, which one doesn't belong, etc.
Center suggestions - actual new ideas that are clearly connected and engaging
Worksheets can be customized to better align to your instruction
Multiple strategies and ways to solve problems are utilized throughout the program
I recommend that you start the Registration Process to access the open source curriculum so that you can see the curriculum yourself when you're ready and have time. This won't happen all at once and everyone will need to start learning about the resources at their own pace. Here is a video from Jess Jacques on how to navigate IM Teacher Materials and one as an example of how to customize IM presentations & materials.
🧭 Mascoma IM Pacing Guides 🗺️
- 🖍️ Kindergarten
- 📏 First Grade
- 🎲 Second Grade
- ⏲️ Third Grade
- 🧮 Fourth Grade
- ✏️ Fifth Grade
- 📐Sixth Grade
- 📊 Seventh Grade
- 📉 Eighth Grade
Link to summer professional development slides
Working with Jess Jacques, the Merrimack Valley School District Math Coach, we have developed pacing guides based on Mascoma I Can Statements laying out the quarter by quarter plan for teaching the IM curriculum. Each document includes helpful suggestions and links.
Ann Elise Record - Math Professional Development Videos
Math Running Record videos - There is an introduction video and then one for each operation where I interview students and explain how I coded the running record. Teachers can download the recording sheets from the site www.mathrunningrecords.com for free and practice while watching the videos.
Daily Routine Videos - There are separate videos for Kinder through 4th grade. All links to the daily routines shared are on my padlet: https://tinyurl.com/RecordElementaryMath
Teachable Courses - Teachers will go to the link and click in the upper right hand side of the site where it says "All products". They will then see all the courses I currently offer on the Teachable site- Cuisenaire Rods, Problem Solving K2, Fraction Essentials, and Place Value.
Please see the Mascoma Curriculum Google.Classroom for the code.
Science of Reading Resources
New Hampshire Department of Education
Social Studies Technical Advisories
Alma - Student Information System
✏️ Frontline Professional Growth 📚
Check with your building P.D. Representatives for individual questions.
On a personal note, yes I changed my name! I was married last year, on New Years Eve in a small elopement ceremony at our home, but waited until this summer to change my name.
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