May 2017 Tangent Times
DPS Secondary Mathematics
We Celebrated Teacher Appreciation a Week Early!
Thank you for joining us on May 3rd for the EOG Review Par-Tay! We enjoyed planning the day for you and we hope that you found value in the session offerings and the format of the day. We encourage you to use the toolbox of strategies that were shared with you. Below you will find a direct link to all of the materials that were shared by our teacher leader presenters.
Please take a few moments to complete the Google Survey to give us feedback for future planning.
Here are the resources that were shared at our session.
View our session pictures HERE.
As always, we appreciate you tremendously and hope you know how much we love & value you!
Your MS TLL Specialists,
Chanel, Linda, & Sharon (The 3 Amigas)
LearnED Printables
Click on the following link to access the free printables that were shared at the LearnEd table on May 3rd – www.learnednotebooks.com/resources. You will also find several other links below. These will take you to our blog and open up a lot of other materials/ideas that we hope will help you during your review or even next year.
Other Resources
Creative writing with science prompts
6 review strategies you can do in 10 minutes or less
Valuable vocab graphic organizer
Cause, effect, and explanation graphic organizer
Tic-tac-toe choice review board
8 interactive vocab strategies
Thank you again for everything your do and please let us know if you have any questions or we can ever help in any other way.
Good luck with EOG’s and have a great weekend!
3rd Place:
Deen Shehzad, Sandy Ridge Elementary School
2nd Place:
Carlton Ellis and Jazmin Santillan-Castillo, J. D. Clement Early College High School
Hon. Mention:
Davonya Cheek, J. D. Clement Early College High School
2017 State Math Fair Winners
Lets Congratulate our DPS Students that placed at the State Math Fair! Whoo-Hooo!
Elementary Division, Grades 3-4
3rd Place:
Deen Shehzad, Sandy Ridge Elementary School
Middle School Division, Grades 7-8
Hon. Mention:
Grace Miller, Lakewood Montessori Middle School
High School Division, Grades 9-12
2nd Place:
Carlton Ellis and Jazmin Santillan-Castillo, J. D. Clement Early College High School
Hon. Mention:
Davonya Cheek, J. D. Clement Early College High School
The pictures are posted at https://mathsci2.appstate.edu/Events/MathFair/MathFair2017/StateFinals2017/
All students above have been invited to present at the NCCTM state convention in November. Thank you! And, congratulations to you and your students!
NCTM Annual: All the Handouts
PowerPoint slides and other materials from the NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition have come online.
Freely preview or download content from the nearly 300 sessions that took place a few weeks ago in San Antonio.
North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics
It’s time to submit Speaker Proposals for NCCTM’s 47th Annual State Math Conference! The conference will be held November 2nd and 3rd at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC. This year’s theme is Developing a Positive Mathematical Identity. Proposals may be submitted using the link https://tinyurl.com/NCCTM2017. The deadline for proposals is May 15th. We hope to hear from you soon!
If you have questions, please contact 2017 NCCTM Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Jenna Regan
Kim Solomon
End the Year STRONG!
EOY can be extremely nerve-racking for all stake holders. Principals need the needle to move. Teachers want to show that they have grown their kids. Parents want their kids to graduate and move on. Students want to start their summer without more school work.
A lot is on the line BUT you got this! Above all else, stick to addressing your standards in review. Model the thinking-aloud associated with eliminating incorrect answer choices. Set the tone that you believe your students can achieve at high levels! I believe we will have a successful testing session! Do YOU?
Here are a few links to assist with some common EOY woes.
10 AWESOME END-OF-YEAR MATH PROJECT IDEAS
The final weeks of the school year have arrived and finding ways to keep your kids actively engaged in the math classroom is more challenging than ever.
Having students work on math-related projects is a great way to keep their attention and break up the monotony of the normal classroom routine.
The following list of project ideas can be modified to appropriately challenge and engage math students at the elementary and middle school levels.
http://mashupmath.com/blog/2017/5/2/10-awesome-end-of-year-math-project-ideas
Professional Development
Meredith Mathematics & Science Institutes for K-12 Educators
Registration is now open for Meredith Mathematics and Science Institutes, July 24-27, and for the Meredith Leadership Institute, July 26-28, at Meredith College in Raleigh. Addressing both current mathematics standards and anticipated revisions, two-day mathematics workshops are grade-specific for K through 8 and course –centered for 9-12. Science workshops for upper elementary and middle grades address science standards in hands-on workshops also led by experienced consultants. View information about each workshop and the consultants and register for an experience that will enrich your teaching and provide tools to equip you to master the challenges that every effective teacher faces.
To learn more about summer professional development opportunities at Meredith College in Raleigh Google - MMSI Meredith College or CLICK HERE
Workshops/Events at Duke University this Summer.
Duke University will be running several workshops and events for K-12 teachers at Duke University this summer related to Alice Programming or App Inventor Programming. One special event will be the Fourth Alice Symposium.
For more information or to apply to any of these four workshops/events:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/web/alice/aliceInSchools
The four workshops included are:
1. Alice Symposium – June 20, 2017
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 we will hold our fourth annual Alice Symposium. We will have several invited speakers and have presentations and posters from teachers who have attended our previous Alice Symposium. The Symposium is tentatively set to run 8:30am to 5pm.
We invite all K-12 teachers to attend, especially those who have attended one of our previous Alice workshops in NC or SC.
2. Alice2 to Alice 3 Workshop – June 21, 2017
Following the Alice Symposium on Wednesday, June 21, the Alice CMU team will run a workshop on transitioning from Alice2 to Alice3.
We invite all K-12 teachers to attend, especially those who have attended one of our previous Alice workshops in NC or SC.
3. BEGINNER ALICE WORKSHOP – June 19-28, 2017 Two-week residential workshop held at Duke University.
Middle school and high school teachers, apply now for a two-week summer workshop to learn how to create Alice Virtual Worlds and to integrate them into many disciplines. This is a free workshop with funds for lodging and a small stipend. Continuing education credits are also provided. Preference is given to NC teachers, though we always include a few teachers from other states. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2017, but applications will be considered after that date if space is available.
4. Beginner App Inventor Workshop - July 19-21, 2017
Thanks to funding from IBM, this workshop is free, includes lodging for teachers not in driving distance, free breakfast and lunch, free parking and contact hours for CEU credits.
This hands-on workshop for teachers enables participants to utilize Computer Science principles by creating mobile apps for the Android platform using App Inventor, a free visual blocks-based programming environment. We will be exploring curricular modules that use mobile app programming to teach Computer Science principles and mobile computing design concepts. We will utilize and create online materials that can be used to provide your students more in-class time to engage in active learning by creating powerful mobile apps in a problem based learning environment.
CLICK HERE to visit the website for more information and to apply.
Friday Institute PD Opportunities-
AP Computer Science and EdCamp:Code
The Friday Institute is partnering with NC DPI, the Beauty and Joy of Computing, Code.org, RTI and other national and state organizations to create greater exposure and opportunities for students in North Carolina to explore computer science, including 2 free professional development programs this summer:
- Professional development workshops for teachers to prepare to teach the new AP Computer Science Principles Course
- Edcamp Code: Beyond the Hour of Code - workshops for teachers interested in integrating computer science/computational thinking activities in their current courses.
In North Carolina, there are currently over 17,000 open computing jobs, but only 18% of schools in NC teach AP Computer Science and only 1,425 students in NC took the AP exam last year. Of those 1,425 students, only 25% were female, and only 203 were underrepresented minorities. Meanwhile there is growing interest and demand. Nine out of ten parents in North Carolina would like for schools to teach computer science, and in the first week of December 2016, there were 1200 Hour of Code events in our state and over 380,000 visits to Code.org’s Hour of Code website.
To find out more information on how to bring these opportunities to your schools, visit the Friday Institute’s CS4ALL in NC website, http://go.ncsu.edu/cs4all
Need Ideas for Vocabulary Acquisition?
We have been given a trial access to Vocabulary.com for the remainder of the school year. While there are many resources out there and they vary by school, I am encouraging you to give this site a try.
When a teacher clicks on the link, they will be asked to either create a new account or to log in with an existing account.
Students will have access when a class is created, but the teacher will always have access to informational text articles and vocabulary across all content areas.
Here are links to videos detailing how Vocabulary.com works and how to best use it with your students.
Futures’ HS Biotechnology Summer Camp
One-week session: July 10 – July 13, 2017
BRITE Futures’ FREE Biotechnology Summer Camps are designed to inspire students and give them a head start on identifying careers in science and biotechnology.
Teacher Professional Development Scholarships
Mathematics Education Leadership Training
A resource of funds has become available to the MELT Program (https://melt.appstate.edu/summer-institutes) to provide scholarships to NC school districts for K-8 teachers for this summer (2017) alone.
According to the funder, the following qualifications must be met:
1. The scholarship is for Summer 2017 MELT Institutes alone.
2. The scholarship is for tuition alone (not hotel costs).
3. Only one K-8 teacher per school district can receive the scholarship. This person cannot be a person already registered for the MELT program.
4. The K-8 teacher must be registering for one of the following Institutes:
Week 1: June 26-June 30, 2017
Numbers, Operations, & Meaning (Grades 6-8).
Week 2: July 10-14, 2017
Algebraic Thinking, Algebra, & Functions (Grades K-5).
Algebraic Thinking, Algebra & Functions (Grades 6-8).
Week 3: July 17-21, 2017
Fractions, Ratios, Proportions & Geometry (Grades K-5).
Fractions, Ratios, Proportions & Geometry (Grades 6-8).
5. Along with completing the MELT Registration Form (https://melt.appstate.edu/summer-institutes/registration), communication regarding this person being the selection of the school district must come from a district administrator to Dr. Bossé the Director of the MELT Program (bossemj@appstate.edu).
6. All registrations for these scholarship slots must be submitted by May 31, 2017.
The following information is available online:
Fuller descriptions of the MELT program;
Descriptions of the Summer Institutes curriculum and costs; A convenient Printable Curriculum with information regarding Graduate Credits and CEUs;
The Summer Institutes Daily Schedule; A brief Promotional Brochure;
The Summer Institutes Registration Form; and Housing Information for the Summer Institutes