Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work, High School - Softcover

Zimmerman, Gwendolyn; Carter, John A; Kanold, Timothy D; Toncheff, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936765500 ISBN 13: 9781936765508

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2012

Synopsis

This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics for high school. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it. Comprehensive research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

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Review

"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 Mathematics"

About the Author

Gwendolyn Zimmermann, PhD, is the director of math ematics of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

She has served as journal editor for the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. She served on the commit tee that revised the adolescence and young adulthood math ematics standards for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards and has served as chairperson for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Educational Materials Committee. In 2001, Dr. Zimmermann received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northeastern Illinois University and a master's of science in teaching mathematics from University of Illinois at Chicago. She received educational administrative certification at North Central College and a doctorate in mathematics education from Illinois State University. Dr. Zimmermann is currently working on her dissertation toward the completion of a doctorate in educa tional leadership from Loyola University Chicago.

John A. Carter, PhD, is the principal of Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He previously served as the director of mathematics and the assistant principal for teaching and learning at Adlai E. Stevenson. He taught mathematics for nineteen years at Community High School in West Chicago and at Stevenson High School.

As a teacher and professional developer, Dr. Carter's work has focused on teaching mathematics for understanding, stu dent engaged learning, and developing student reasoning. As a presenter and lesson-study facilitator, he regularly works with teachers to examine their instructional practices, further their content knowledge, and improve student achievement.

Dr. Carter has served on the Board of Directors for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as well as been a member of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics committees, task forces, and writing groups. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching in 1993 and was awarded the T. E. Rine Secondary Mathematics Teaching Award from the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 2000.

Dr. Carter earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in education, and a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his doctorate in mathematics education from Illinois State University and completed postdoctoral work in educational administration at Loyola University Chicago.

Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator, in-demand speaker, and past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM). He served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, the model professional learning community created by Dr. Richard DuFour. He has conducted talks and seminars worldwide with a focus on systematic change initiatives that create greater equity and access for all students.

Dr. Kanold received the 1982 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1991 Outstanding Young Alumni Award from Illinois State University, 2001 Outstanding Alumni Award from Addison Trail High School, 1994 Outstanding Administrator Award from the Illinois State Board of Education, and 2002 Lee E. Yunker Leadership Award

Mona Toncheff, MEd, is the math content specialist in Phoenix Union High School District, an urban school dis trict in Phoenix, Arizona. She has served in public education for twenty years, twelve of them as a high school mathematics teacher. She received her masters of education in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University and has been the district's mathematics leader for eight years.

As the math content specialist, she oversees mathematics curriculum, instruction, and assessment at the twelve com prehensive and four special high schools in the district. Her experience includes supervising the culture change from teacher isolation to professional learning communities, creating articulated standards and relevant district common assessments, and providing the ongoing professional development for over two hundred high school mathematics teachers regarding best practices, equity and access, technology, and assessment for learning.

Mona served as the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics secretary (2007 2008) and currently serves the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics board as the Western Region 1 director. In 2009, Mona was selected as the Phoenix Union High School District Teacher of the Year.

Richard DuFour, en tant qu'ancien directeur et surintendant d'Adlai E. Stevenson, une ecole secondaire de banlieue comptant 4000 eleves, a su faire de cet etablissement l'une des ecoles les plus reputees et admirees des Etats-Unis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936765500
• ISBN 13: 9781936765508
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 206