Activating the Vision: The Four Keys of Mathematics Leadership - Softcover

Barnes, Bill; Toncheff, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194249694X ISBN 13: 9781942496946

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2017

Synopsis

To build and sustain a successful mathematics program, mathematics leaders need to work collaboratively to establish a cohesive vision for teaching and learning and put that vision into action. This book details the necessary steps that mathematics leaders must take to change traditional practices; meet new curricular, instructional, and assessment challenges; and engage students, families, and community members in mathematics education.

Readers receive the benefit of detailed guidance as they set about this important work:

• Discover the big ideas and essential understandings of the four keys of effective mathematics leadership and how the four keys connect to each other.
• Answer questions to assess mathematics leadership.
• Consider scenarios that illustrate how mathematics leaders can take the visionary leadership actions described in this book
• Explore the relationships among district-, site-, and team-level engagement
• Appraise the necessary steps to move mathematics leadership from vision to action
• Use appendices that present planning templates and menus of professional development opportunities

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About this title

About the Author

Bill Barnes loves librarians, show tunes, and meat. He can count his toes without taking off his shoes. Over the past thirteen years, he has tried to convince Unshelved co-creator Gene Ambaum that the meaning of partnership is doing what he says 99% of the time. He can often be seen wandering the floor at trade shows playing The Final Countdown on his ukulele Death Adder. In his spare time he draws Unshelved and writes a comic about the software industry, Not Invented Here. Follow @billba.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194249694X
• ISBN 13: 9781942496946
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 248