MATH ROCKS!

8am - 3pm Jordan School District ASB Auditorium

See details below!

8:30 am - 3:30 pm, 3150 Hotel Loop, Lehi, Utah 84043

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First Place: Mountain Creek Middle School

Ryan Davis

Isabelle Nelson

Yiming Lu

Will Kirkham

Adriana Arias

Second Place: Sunset Ridge Middle School

Andrew Bowers

Claire Lundbert

Savannah Merrill

Evan Woffinden

Wyatt Miller

Third Place: Elk Ridge Middle School

Camdyn Macias

Mohnish Yalvarty

Bailey Graybill

Danyashri Malumu

Eli Ball

First Place: Eli Ball

Second Place: James Geary

Third Place: Yiming Lu

7th Grade: Andrew Bowers

Congratulations to the many schools who received partial grant awards for Derivita licenses. We are excited for the experiences you and your student will have with Derivitat next year!

TRAINING Opportunity!

STEM Action Center and Derivita - Professional Learning Regional Summer Sessions for teachers who have received STEM Action Center grant funding for Derivita for the upcoming school year.

Participating teachers will receive a $50 stipend for attending an in-person training. Re-licensure credit may also be available with district/ LEA approval.

If your teachers are interested in registering for the STEM Action Center + Derivita Professional Learning Regional Summer Sessions, please send them the Google Form below to register:

https://forms.gle/c7kH9Xh4fbWGqjcN6

Final confirmation, dates, locations, and other additional information will be sent to the email address teachers use to register with the above form.

Thank you,

The Derivita Team

If you are interested in being a part of the JSD Middle School Assessment Writing Committee please click the link below to communicate your interest!

https://forms.gle/TYvxxcW7VjBb8o8q9

Kids Think Math Is Useless and Irrelevant and That Isn’t the Main Problem Here

I mentioned in my last newsletter a Gates Foundation survey of teachers and parents. It’s since received a bunch of coverage, especially of two findings:

• Parents think math is the subject in school most in need of an upgrade.

• US adults think math class needs to become more useful and relevant to students.

  Read the entire article here

Introducing our latest free digital resources, designed to enhance your math classes with engaging warm-ups, captivating visualizations, interactive investigations, practice exercises, and thought-provoking exit tickets. Get a sneak peek at these tools in our GeoGebra Math Resources Preview 2023/24 and feel free to share them with your colleagues.

The full set of resources will be available in late summer/early fall o on www.geogebra.org, offering you high-quality materials that align with current engagement theories. Many of these resources feature gamification elements, providing student-centered and discovery-based learning experiences that allow students to make choices, receive help, and engage in innovative ways.

2023 Meaningful Inclusion of Students with Disabilities Conference

This free, one-and-a-half-day conference will feature engaging keynote speakers, thought-provoking panel discussions, and expert lead sessions on best inclusive practices, along with tools and resources for implementation.

Meaningful inclusion requires intentional collaboration across the education system, and we invite you to learn more about tools and skills needed to provide such an environment. This conference will provide you with the tools and skills needed to provide that environment. We encourage school administrators, general and special education teachers, instructional coaches, paraeducators, related services providers, educator preparation program staff, and student teachers to attend. USBE Re-Licensure points will be available.

Click here to register. Flyer with details here.

To make this conference accessible to as many educators as possible, we will be hosting this conference at a variety of locations throughout the state. All locations will feature the same content, but they will feature different keynote speakers. Please join us on:

June 7-8 Mountain America Exposition Center, Sandy
June 15-16 Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo
June 20-21 Richfield High School, Richfield
June 26-27 Davis Conference Center, Layton
June 29-30 Southern Utah University, Cedar City

The High Leverage Practices Asynchronous Course – Now Open

The High Leverage Practices Asynchronous course is now open for registration. This is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that can provide opportunity for any educator in Utah to build an understanding of these evidence-based classroom practices. Those who complete the course will earn 2 USBE credits.

We also have aligned Microcredentials for each of the 5 High-Leverage Practices explored in the course. These are additional opportunities to show application of the learning done. Educators should enroll in MIDAS to register and then they will be added to the Canvas Course within 3 business days. Once in the Canvas course, educators may move at their own pace to complete their learning.
Course Number 58153.

We also have a Microcredential stack that is live as well: https://usbe.midaseducation.com/microcredentials?embed&st=39

Book Studies with USBE

The Productive Math Struggle book study is being sponsored by UCTM in the Fall. See information here!

The K-12 Mathematics Book Studies continue to be a popular opportunity, there is a wait list for Building Thinking Classrooms and Productive Math Struggle, but all other books are available at no cost! Reflect as you read in a Canvas course associated with your book title and earn 1.0 USBE Credit Hours upon completion of a final project. More information and registration can be found here: https://forms.gle/e78Y8L973aTNBGsK9

***If your school is interested in doing a Building Thinking Classrooms book study we can run an in person book study and get the 1.0 USBE credit. Just let me know and I can get it set up for you! dawn.barson@jordandistrict.org

Other USBE Professional Learning Opportunities

Options include: Virtual Synchronous, Standford University, Grassroots Mini and Full Length.

Click link here for details.

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