Upcoming workshops from OPI

Check out upcoming conferences run by the Office of Public Instruction

·         Assessment and Data Conference: February 8-9 – Billings, February 12-13 - Helena

·         Indian Education for All Best Practices Conference: March 4-5- Helena

·         Title 1 Conference: March 27-28 - Helena

·         MBI June 18-21 – Bozeman

For a list of all upcoming professional development across the state check out the OPI Learning Opportunities Portal.

Upcoming Montana Math Matters events: Growth mindset and productive struggle.

Participants will learn how a growth mindset affects achievement in mathematics; learn instructional strategies to promote student perseverance and productive struggle and increase student math skills and knowledge; engage in math activities; and discuss strategies that can increase all students enjoyment and learning of mathematics. All K-12 math teachers and administration are invited to attend. Event is free, lunch is provided and earn 6 OPI renewal units. Sign up at: goo.gl/NEVX2E

Hardin January 20^th, 9- 3:30pm

Reed Point February 17^th, 9-3:30pm

More locations to coming this Spring! 

Math Interim Assessments

Looking for FREE and standards aligned Interim assessments? Check out the SBAC Interim Assessments! All 2nd-11th grade students have been uploaded by the OPI. These free assessments can assist teachers in identifying student strengths and weaknesses and can be useful in modifying curriculum to meet those needs. Assessments are broken into domain categories as well as integrated domain versions. Students practice in an authentic testing experience with accessibility supports and aggregated data provided. For more information on the interim assessments, please see the Interim Assessment tab on the OPI website. Questions on implementation of Interim assessments? Contact Yvonne Field (yfield@mt.gov) or Marisa Franklin (marisa.franklin@mt.gov).

NCTM Innov8 Conference - Teacher Scholarship Awardee

If you are looking for a math conference that has working with your school team as a focus, then the NCTM Innov8 Conference is one I would recommend.  On November 15-17, through the help of the MCTM Teacher Scholarship, I was able to attend the 2017 Innov8 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The Innov8 Conference 2017 was designed to support mathematics teachers and teams in identifying, analyzing, and planning for instruction and intervention around a self-identified problem of practice related to access, equity, and empowerment.  This conference was not just about sitting and listening to speakers.  Instead, we had special sessions where we worked as a team to develop a plan to make changes at our home school.  This years conference sessions addressed three main themes:

• Reflecting on mathematics instruction in terms of access, equity, and empowerment.
• Developing equitable teaching practices that empower students.
• Learning new strategies to identify and remove barriers to access to high-quality mathematics.

I was fortunate to attend the conference with teammates Lisa Scott and Angel Zickefoose.  As we attended sessions, experts from the above mentioned themes were available to help us with our action plan and other ideas and strategies to bring back to our home school.  We are excited to share these new ideas when we meet with our PLC group on Wednesdays each week, and encourage you to attend next year with a team from your school!

Trivia night update

Google maps sends you to the incorrect country club.  You want to go behind the Applebee's located on Brooks.  A map is included below