...then get down to the John Stanford Center and review the proposed ideas for math.
From the
district:
GIVE US YOUR INPUT! First Phase of Adoption Reviews:
Seven new Mathematics programs for Kindergarten through Grade 5 use are on display in the Professional Library on the second floor of the John Stanford Center. These are the textual materials that are being reviewed by our Adoption Committee for potential use by the district in the coming years.
You may visit the display of materials any time that the Stanford Center is open between now and January 8, 2014. There are Public Review Forms if you wish to add comments or suggestions for the committee’s consideration.
Please use your voice to help us choose new Math materials for our elementary students.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE K-5 MATH ADOPTION COMMITTEE IS:
Thursday, December 19, 2013, 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in the Professional Library of the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence.
Two things to consider:
- one, at the webpage there is a link to Common Core math. That is a huge consideration if you wonder how materials got picked for this list.
- two, yes, not great timing to say to come down during the busiest holiday season of the year.
Comments
You would think it's 1960.
Is this a chance of getting away from Discovering methods or are all the options versions of discovering?
Shannon
They should wait a year and see what changes all the publishers make as a result of feedback from the field. None of these have been field tested!!!
- Concerned Teacher
http://www.singaporemath.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/ccs-pmstded.pdf
Ann D
Singapore and Saxon materials should be what they are looking at. It is disconcerting that they are still ignoring curricula that work.
S parent
The school district blatantly ignored them. How can this response be changed. The problem is not a lack of good, tested and available curriculum…the problem is the Seattle Public Schools' responsiveness on this issue.
For those asking about Singapore math, the first item on that list (Math in Focus) indeed appears to be Singapore math. I don't know if it's different from the Singapore math currently used at some schools.
Lincoln APP is using My Math, also on the list. Maybe someone can weigh on how it's working there?
--not sure
Programs under review:
Math in Focus
My Math
JUMP Math
Connecting Math Concepts
Ready Common Core
enVision
Origo Stepping Stones
Go Math
reader
And yet, neither makes the list?
Odd.
William Hook at the University of Victoria did studies of school districts in Calif. in the last 10 years who switched to Saxon. Results improved and it worked as well for economically disadvantaged students as it did for high performing ones.
The slavish devotion to discovery math without any evidence that it works better is pretty disheartening. Laurie Rogers, an advocate for better math in Spokane, wrote that the school district there finally admitted the current curriculum wasn’t working — then turned around and adopted a new online math program that was completely untested.
S parent
North Beach - Saxon
Schmitz Park - Singapore Math
Boren STEM - Singapore Math
Alki - Singapore Math
LaFayette - Jump Math??
Montlake - Envision
Lincoln - My Math
Beacon Hill - some classrooms are using a translated Chinese math program
Thurgood Marshall- Envision??
Salmon Bay - some classrooms are using TERC Investigations
Thorton Creek - TERC Investigations
Ann
How To Make Singapore Math Happen In Your School
I've been using Singapore Math independently with my first grader for two years now. I think that the Common Core drafters were looking to it as a program that was teaching better skills and understanding but instead we get plastic math programs that say they are Common Core. :/
Ann D.
It is far better than Everyday Math and TERC Investigations. I think there are some workable programs on the list. JUMP Math from Canada also looks decent. This looks better than the last round.
Alki - Singapore Math
Thurgood - Envision
Boren - Singapore Math
Schmitz Park - Singapore Math
Beacon Hill - Various teacher created materials
Thorton Creek - TERC
North Beach - Saxon
John Muir - ST Math
Montlake - Envision
Lincoln - My Math
Salmon Bay - TERC, JUMP Math
McGilvra - Envision
Jane Addams- Envision math for K-5
Coe - My Math
Lowell - My Math
South Shore - Envision
Lafayette - JUMP Math
Would it be fair to say that Math in Focus and My Math could be good picks?
and
Any idea why Saxon did not make the cut?
Ann D
http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine#
Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.
Not so.
I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!"
Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business.
Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
In fact, most of these books fall far short of their important role in the educational scheme of things. They are processed into existence using the pulp of what already exists, rising like swamp things from the compost of the past. The mulch is turned and tended by many layers of editors who scrub it of anything possibly objectionable before it is fed into a government-run "adoption" system that provides mediocre material to students of all ages.
http://www.hmhco.com/country/us/california/ca-math
CA has adopted Common Core as well, so I'm assuming they are similar to samples Seattle has on view.
-parent
http://betrayed-whyeducationisfailing.blogspot.com/
They plan on using EngageNY, a completely online resource, in what seems to be a bridge to a more comprehensive adoption of Common Core materials at a later time.
I suppose Seattle Schools is in a similar position - they are due for new materials, yet looking at Common Core aligned materials that may not have been used in classrooms long enough to evaluate their effectiveness.
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