
Professional Development
Leadership coaching lab
GROWING MATH MARIGOLDS IN DELAWARE SCHOOLS
A content-focused mentoring induction project designed to promote the growth and success of new and veteran teachers of mathematics.
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About This Program
The promise of secondary Leadership Coaching Lab (LCL) is to build a robust mathematics leadership community in which the role of curriculum, lesson study, video analysis, and teacher growth are public and itself the focus of study among colleagues. Across the year, sessions provide Leadership Coaching Lab participants with recursive opportunities to reflect on their instructional practices, engage in mathematically intense conversations, and develop a keen eye for the essence of the mathematics in their conceptually-grounded lessons.
Goals for Leadership Coaching Lab include:
- Increase the instructional leadership capacity of Math Marigolds in Delaware secondary schools;
- Nurture and support the evolving growth of teachers in their first five years of teaching mathematics;
- Engage in mathematically intense conversations about lessons and learning from HQIM;
- Utilize structures and routines that promote mathematical reasoning, representations-based argumentation, and which advancing the role of student claim making in teachers’ high quality lessons;
- Analyze teaching through video) from a learning stance sharpen our focus on ways to further enhance students’ opportunities; and
- Apply research related to the principles of ambitious teaching; and
- Promote equitable teaching practices and advocate for systems level reform in Delaware.
Delaware Mathematics Coalition Building Local & State Level Math Leadership Capacity
As a community, the Delaware Mathematics Coalition (DMC) is committed to creating more powerful and robust mathematics teaching and learning environments in Delaware classrooms. As an alliance of partners, DMC members continually plan for ways to share resources, provide sustained learning opportunities for their teachers, coaches and administrators, and collectively build local and state mathematics leadership capacity. Across the years, the DMC has developed a successful model of professional learning and extended support grounded in research and focused on increasing participants’ content and pedagogical knowledge and skills (Horizon, RBS). Our investment in building mathematics leadership capacity spans a decade of in-depth study that has culminated in a proven cycle of inquiry and reflection involving content-focused coaching. The use of protocols developed in collaboration with our higher education and evaluation partners further enhances and sharpens our efforts to promote more conceptually-grounded teaching, mathematical sense making, representations-based argumentation, and student agency in Delaware classrooms.
The DMC professional development team is comprised of a strong cadre of highly respect professional development experts, thought partners, and coaches with a history of success as mathematics leaders in the state. They have invested years building relationships with district partners and served as mathematics supervisors, coaches, assessment writers, district specialists, project leads, and recognized teacher leaders. To learn more about DMC partnership efforts, please contact DMC Executive Director Dr. Jamila Riser (jqriser@gmail.com).
Resources to Support Teacher Leaders & Coaches
https://www.mathedleadership.org/coaching/
NCSM Coaching Corner: NSCM’s Coaching Corner provides coaches, specialists, teacher leaders, and administrators with a range of resources to support their coaching efforts.
https://cstp-wa.org/teacher-leadership/teacher-leadership-skills-framework/
This website is supported by the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession. The site includes links to content and tools related to teacher leadership development. One such tool that may be of particular interest to the community is the Teacher Leadership Skills Framework.
https://metamorphosistlc.com/
Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Teaching and Learning Communities was founded by Lucy West, a leader in the world of coaching mathematics and managing systems to support mathematics reform. Lucy is the lead author of Content-Focused Coaching: Transforming Mathematics Lessons and Agents of Change.
www.mec-math.org
The Mathematics Education Collaborative was founded by Ruth Parker. Ruth is a leader in mathematics reform, co-author of Making Number Talks Matters as well as a host of resources and tools for supporting parents and the community.
https://www.teachersdg.org/
Teacher Development Group provides resources for leaders of mathematics. The site includes a link to their annual Leadership Seminar. The impressive list of speakers for this seminar includes Amanda Jansen, Virginia Bastable, Michael Flynn, Elham Kazemi, Linda Cooper Foreman, Hilda Borko, Susan Jo Russell, Debra Schifter, Linda Levi, and many other leaders in mathematics research and educational reform.
https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coaching_teachers/
Elena Aguilar’s Coaching Blog: Education Week includes a monthly blog post by educational leader Elena Aguilar, the author of the The Art of Coaching and The Art of Coaching Teams.
https://mqicoaching.cepr.harvard.edu/
Harvard’s MQI Coaching Institute provides resources and professional learning for coaches of mathematics. MQI’s research has inspired the design of the Delaware Mathematics Coalition’s video analysis lesson study cycle protocol.