mathcadreminutes

=Mathematics Cadre Minutes= September 24, 2008 The math cadre met for our first time in this school year. Members present were Leigh Anne Poage, Debbie Foster, MaryJane Spangler, Deidra Killgore, and Lora Mason. We reviewed the SIP plans and the most immediate goals for this year. Many of the goals will be addressed during JEPD time for the grade levels. Coming up next month is a collaborative time with Pickett. We will all be doing the same problems (each grade level) and then sharing strategies that our children used.

October 15, 2008 Members present were Leigh Anne Poage, Debbie Foster, MaryJane Spangler, Deidra Killgore, and Lora Mason. Tomorrow's early, our staff and Pickett will join together to share the strategies that our students used on the math problems. Many frustrations were shared during our cadre time with the problems that were given to us for the students to solve. For many grade levels, the problems were much easier than what we have been doing in class. Although we could see strategies at work, it did not give us new information and challenge the children as we would have liked. For 4th grade, their problem was extremely difficult and had some students in tears trying to master it. Therefore, as a cadre, we will bring before the steering committee that we would very much like to write the problems for the grade levels before we have our next collaborative time with Pickett in February. We would like to keep in mind the units of study and gear the problems to blend with those units as well as be appropriately challenging for the students.

November 19th, 2008 Members present were Leigh Anne Poage, Debbie Foster, MaryJane Spangler, and Lora Mason. Steering committee has agreed to let the math cadre write problems for the February meeting. We will focus on achieving this during our January meeting. We shared with each other how the CGI problems are going and how to better introduce new strategies to students.

January 21, 2009 Did not meet as planned. Mourning and shocked over the death of our beloved Mary Jane. Leigh Anne will write the problems for the upcoming collaborative time with Pickett.

February, 18, 2009 Members present are Leigh Anne Poage and Deidre Killgore. With just the two of us, we reflected back on what has been accomplished and what has yet to be done. Much of the work has been accomplished during JEPD time. It's our feeling that this cadre will need restructuring for next year. MJ played a vital role. She is sorely missed. The February collaborative time with Pickett went well and several strategies were observed from students.