Submitted by: Pat Higgiston

We started with a discussion about motivation based around a blog post, and folks shared their classroom practices relating to problem solving and sharing and learning from errors. Debra caught us up on information about the lower school program.

We discussed our audit of data literacy across the curriculum, and planned how to do that, building on the work we’ve done already. Then we discussed short and long term goals for a  school visit. From prior conversations, we had planned to look at data literacy and differentiation, but our interest seems to expand more broadly to general progressive practice in math, and how schools navigate the tension between values, practices, and institutional priorities. There seem to be some opportunities for trips to institutions like Francis Parker and the Laboratory School, but since we’re so far into the year, we’ve considered closer visits to placed like Calhoun, Avenues, or a project-based school. Inspired by the English department’s writing professional day, we wondered about the possibilities of working on math for a professional development day, perhaps at New York Math Circles.