Join us at MBI

MCTM is pleased to partner with OPI to offer professional development on the Montana Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.  MCTM will be hosting a workshop​ ​ "CCSS Alignment - What Happens Before, During and After Your Grade Level in Math?"  as part of the Montana Behavioral Initiative (MBI) summer institute June 15th to June 19th at MSU in Bozeman.  The purpose of this workshop is for participants to understand how the Common Core State Standards are vertically aligned from K-8. Participants will understand which skills and concepts have been removed the current mile wide, inch deep curriculum, and which skills and concepts need to be taught with greater depth. Participants will have  the opportunity to practice creating a learning progression from a given set of activities and then will be expected to create their own learning progression (with a partner or group) for a given concept or skill. 

Angel Zickefoose and Jennifer Brackney are the presenters for the workshop.  ​Angel is Past-President of Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics and currently a 6th grade teacher in Billings, Montana. She has been a K-8 math coach for Billings Public Schools for 8 years prior to returning to the classroom, during which time much of the work was centered around aligning math curriculum for the Billings Public School district K-8, according to the Common Core State Standards. Angel has presented at a local, state and western regional level.  Jennifer is a current MCTM Board Member representing Region 5. She has taught math for 10 years in the middle school including 6th, 7th, 8th and Algebra, in Billings. Montana. She has worked with Billings Public Schools in the development of their middle school curriculum and its alignment to the Common Core State Standards.

Registration for MBI and the MCTM workshop opens on March 16th.  If you would like to register, go to http://www.montana.edu/cs/conferences/mbi//.  For more information on the registration fees you can go to the OPI website.  We hope to see you there!
   Thanks, 
      Hilary Risser, PDA Chair