Virtual Book Study

Virtual Book Study 1: Choosing to See: A Framework for Equity in the Math Classroom by Pamela Seda & Kyndall Brown

“In Choosing to See, Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown offer a substantive, rigorous, and necessary set of interventions to move mathematics education toward greater equity, particularly in serving the needs of Black and Brown students, who are underrepresented and underserved as math scholars. The authors’ thoughtful ICUCARE equity framework serves as a lens to help teachers see where they are achieving this alignment and where they are not. Through this lens, choosing to see means caring enough about what you see to act. It means accepting that every one of your students can be an expert given the opportunity. It means recognizing negative stereotypes about marginalized students and understanding their effects. It means knowing that your students have rich lives outside the classroom that can inform what you do inside the classroom. And it means recognizing and celebrating their human dimensions, so that all students’ strengths, capabilities, and talents can grow.”

ISBE Professional Development hours will be available for those that attend all sessions.

Participants will meet on Mondays from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on September 12, 19, 26 and October 3.

Cost: FREE

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Virtual Book Study 2: the Math Pact: Achieving Instructional Coherence Within and Across Grades by Karen S. Karp, Barbara J. Dougherty, Sarah B. Bush

From the Publisher:

“A school-wide solution for students’ mathematics success!

Do you sometimes start to teach a mathematics concept and feel like you’re staring at a sea of bewildered faces? What happens when you discover students previously learned a calculation trick or a mnemonic that has muddied their long-term understanding? When “rules” seem to change from year to year, teacher to teacher, or school to school, mathematics can seem like a disconnected mystery for students. Clear up the confusion with a Mathematics Whole-School Agreement!

Expanded from the highly popular “Rules that Expire” series of NCTM articles, this essential guide leads educators through the collaborative step-by-step process of establishing a coherent and consistent learner-centered and equitable approach to mathematics instruction. Through this work, you will identify, streamline, and become passionate about using clear and consistent mathematical language, notations, representations, rules, and generalizations within and across classrooms and grades. Importantly, you’ll learn to avoid “rules that expire”—tricks that may seem to help students in one grade but hurt in the long run. Features of this book include

· Abundant grade-specific examples

· Effective working plans for sustainability

· Barrier-busting tips, to-dos, and try-it-outs

· Practical templates and checklists

· PLC prompts and discussion points

When teachers unite across grades, students hit the ground running every year. Take the next step together as a team and help all your students build on existing understanding to find new success and most importantly, love learning and doing mathematics!”

ISBE Professional Development hours will be available for those that attend all sessions.

Participants will meet on Mondays from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on November 7, 14, 28, and December 5, 12.

Cost: FREE

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Virtual Book Study 3: Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain: Promoting Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond

“Cultural responsiveness is not a practice: it’s what informs our practice so we can make better teaching choices for eliciting, engaging, motivating, supporting, and expanding the intellectual capacity of ALL students.” Foreword Dr. Yvette Jackson

Come join us as we investigate how Zaretta Hammond uses neuroscience to build a framework that supports teachers to create relationships and apply strategies that promote culturally responsive teaching and learning.

This book is available through Corwin, Amazon, and Barnes & Nobles.

ISBE Professional Development hours will be available for those that attend all sessions.

Participants will meet on Mondays from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on January 23 and 30, and February 6 and 13.

Cost: FREE

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Virtual Book Study 4: Math Fact Fluency by Jennifer Bay-Williams

Developing student’s fluency and flexibility with math facts is essential and challenging. Participants will explore the research based approaches offered by the author of this book. This book is available at ASCD or NCTM. ISBE Professional Development hours will be available for those that attend all four sessions.

Partcipants will meet on Mondays from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on April 24; May 1, 8 and 15, 2023.

Cost: FREE