Growth Opportunities

• KY Numeracy Project Intensive Course: view the flyer

  This course is built around Add+Vantage Math Recovery and is designed for elementary grades teachers to learn and practice assessments and teaching strategies for advancing students’ foundational number knowledge, including addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

  Reflections from a KNPI Participant: 

• Add+VantangeMR Champion Update Course: view the flyer

  Add+VantageMR Course 2 has been expanded to 4 days to spend more time on instruction in the areas of multiplication, division and place value. The US Math Recovery Council is offering update sessions to prepare AVMR Champions in facilitating the new 4-day version of AVMR2.

• Mathematics Response to Intervention Network: view the flyer

  This year-long network experience will allow for educators to gain: greater understanding of how students learn mathematics; evidence-based intervention strategies for use with students who are struggling; and resources and professional knowledge for data analysis and in-depth implementation of the new Common Core Standards for Mathematics.

• Math Recovery Intervention Specialist Course: view the flyer

  This is the KCM’s most rigorous learning experience for elementary grades teachers who deliver intensive mathematics intervention and who help students at different ages and ability levels. Completing this course is also the route to becoming a Math Recovery Leader, SNAP (Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions) Facilitator, and/or Add+Vantage MR Champion.

• Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions: view the flyer

  This two-day course, for K-2 teachers, teaching assistants, and parent volunteers is an introduction to the assessment and advancement of early learning of number and arithmetic.

• EERTI Math Circles

  Have you been searching for new strategies and techniques to improve your RTI math program? Do you want to increase student understanding while enhancing your own professional practices? If so, join us this January as part of an EERTI (Enacting Effective Response to Intervention) Math Circle! For more information, please see the advance notice flyer.

• Professional Development for Preschool Teachers: Big Ideas in Early Mathematics Education:

  As a Kentucky preschool teacher, are you prepared to give children the rich experience in early mathematics that research says they need for later school success? If not, see the flyer for more details.

• Mathematics Content-Focused Coaching Communities for Middle School Mathematics Coaches and their Principals

  The KCM is proud to partner with the Kentucky Department of Education and a nationally recognized leader in content-focused coaching to bring an exciting professional development opportunity to middle schools in our state.
  
  Content-focused coaching is an effective school improvement support strategy that changes cultures, affects student learning and improves teaching practices. Building mathematics content-focused coaching communities is a long-range educational practice in which mathematics coaches work collaboratively with principals and teachers to design, implement, and reflect on rigorous, standards-based lessons that promote individual student learning. Content-focused coaching is grounded in current research and clinical knowledge on leadership and schools as professional communities of practice.

• Improving Mathematics Learning for Students with Disabilities: Algebraic Thinking, Expressions and Equations (Grades 6-8):

  This powerful, free, 3-day course will help middle grades (6-8) mathematics teachers and special educators make their instruction more accessible to struggling learners while maintaining the integrity of the mathematics content.

• KCM Writers Workshop:

  KCM organizers will work with Mathematics Intervention Teachers to identify common interests/experiences and organize writing teams with the aim that no single individual is left to produce a publication by themselves—we think it is far more fun and rewarding to write with a team. KCM organizers will then support these teams in the refinement of their ideas as well as assist with the more technical aspects of constructing a publication.

• MIT Project Workshop:

  Since MITs have asked for more opportunities to work together, the KCM is offering a summer venue and support for your choice of workgroups. Join your experienced MIT buddies to work on community products that will be useful to you and to others.

Past events and brochures are always listed on the KCM Archives page by date of event.