1. SAMS Project Student Attributes for Math Success Monthly Meeting February18, 2010

2. SAMS Updates Welcome College Spark! Survey Monkey Survey Linked Efforts: Upcoming RPM Institutes Multi-Media Pages Taking Shape

3. 3-5 minutes per team  Short update on the work to date What is working well? Major problems Are there unanticipated outcomes?  Share helpful resources Agenda

4. Team Highline Podcast featuring Helen Hurn  Created a handbook of rich attribute tasks for our statistics course (posted on the wiki)  New Todd Beamer HS connection  Created a survey to elicit how faculty are now using and teaching the attributes  Upcoming conference presentations on the attributes and SAMS: AMAYTC and the WA Math Conference  Strong connections between RPM and SAMS

5. Renton Update Podcast featuring Jane Goetz High schools have just completed their 2 nd meeting with AYD students from the 2009 summer cohort Surveys have been given to this year’s geometry students (last year’s algebra students) in order to get a baseline for the survey data The data will be analyzed after mid-winter break Teachers in the project attended a training on how to use Agile Mind software for Algebra 1. This curriculum supports the Attributes We are looking at how to connect this work to our Career and Technical Math courses (one example of this is the TMP project that is developing a CTE course that is a viable alternative for Algebra II)

6. Team Seattle Update  Upcoming mid-year review with advisory team: Dave Prince and Thomas Calhoun from UW COE; Bernardo Ruiz (postponed to March)  Trainings on attributes completed with all high school teachers (August - October)  1 hour training on connection of beliefs to attributes completed with high school and middle school administrators (August)  Follow-up high school and middle school workshops and coaching sessions focused on connection of teacher beliefs, high leverage practices, and attributes next week (Feb. 25 and 27) Emerging Needs/Issues/Successes  At least two schools on board for AYD and/or AYD/MESA pilot for Summer of 2010; possibility of two more by next week  Two schools considering Intensified Algebra pilot for 2010-2011

7. Team Olympic Our Work: Feb 1 st GotoMeeting PLC Meeting discussion points: Praise-how we as teachers should praise students How to respond when Ss give us incorrect answers Ways to build trust with students Practice of having Ss solve problems on the whiteboard in front of the class The importance of believing in ourselves as teachers Does a Ss non-participation/non- engagement really mean they have a fixed mindset? Olympic SAMS Wiki is shaping up Emerging Needs: Developing a task analysis tool. (Which we’ll tackle at our Feb 26 meeting) Something to Share: Marva Collins story on 60 Minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3QI VDEgO5Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LP psp_Qh0

8. Team Yakima – 1 of 2 slides Middle School students taking responsibility for their own learning  Student Attribute Pre-test/Post-test based on 15 questions on student beliefs 6 th – 8 th grade state standards  Learning Log for Note-taking  Test Analysis  Presentation at Spring 2010 WERA Conference  6 th grade teacher: When students see their own growth, they are motivated to try harder and do better.

9. Team Yakima Connections to future work  Mindset Book Study with ESD 105 Coaching Cadre  2010 Summer training for GEAR-UP Coordinators on “Mindset Toolkit” Emerging Needs  Different ways to do test and item analysis  More information on Case Study Expectations Resources to Share  Student Attributes pre-test for each grade level  Learning Logs  Test Analysis

10. Next Meeting Tues, March 16, 2010, 3:30-4:00PM Topics for next month Feedback John House 206-870-5906 JHOUSE@highline.edu