1. Math Teacher Leader Network January 2013

2. Annual ‘Quality Counts’ survey shows gains in transitions, alignment K-12 Achievement Standards, Assessments and Accountability Teaching Profession School Finance Transitions and Alignment Chance for Success (an index that combines information from 13 indicators that cover state residents’ lives from cradle to career) Kentucky Breaks into Top 10 in National Education Ranking

3. Findings No states received a grade of A in the 2013 edition of Quality Counts. The highest-ranking state was Maryland, with a B- plus. Three states received B grades; eight states (including Kentucky) received B-minus grades; and 19 states received C-plus grades.

4. Kentucky’s Scores & Rank 2011-2013 KENTUCKYNATION KENTUCKY’S RANK NATIONWIDE 201120122013201120122013201120122013 Overall Score CC+B-CCC+341410 K-12 Achievement C- D+C- 1913 Standards, Assessments & Accountability *n/aA- *n/aBB 20 Teaching Profession *n/aB- *n/aCC 55 School Finance C- CCC35 34 Transitions & Alignment B- AC+ B-14 4 Chance for Success CCCC+ 383638 *Quality Counts does not provide ratings on all of the six categories each year.

5. KDE Math Connections In order to be more responsive to the needs of Kentucky math educators, a mailbox KDEmath@education.ky.gov has been created and is monitored by Frankfort-based math consultants. KDEmath@education.ky.gov CIITS - “CIITS Item Issues Form.” This document can be found on the CIITS homepage. Users complete the form when an issue is found and send the form to kdeciitsmailbox@education.ky.gov kdeciitsmailbox@education.ky.gov

6. CIITS ISSUES FORM

7. CIITS Material Review Process StateSchool District School “CIITS Instructional Resource Submission Process” on CIITS homepage

8. Materials submitted for state approval Be mindful when naming a file to be uploaded for state approval. Every user will see and have access to the file.

9. State Student Data in CIITS K-PREP have been loaded into CIITS EPAS scores from last year have been loaded into CIITS EPAS scores from fall will be loaded into CIITS

10. HS Open Source Resource http://www.mathematicsvisionproject.org/ (c) 2012 Utah Secondary One by Mathematics Vision Project and in partnership with the Utah State Office of Education is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Mathematics Vision ProjectCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License MVP items by Mathematics Vision Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Mathematics Vision ProjectCreative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

11. Leadership http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/transforming_learni ng/2013/01/five_essential_schoolwide_conditions_for_ common_core_achievement.html?cmp=SOC-SHR- TW http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/transforming_learni ng/2013/01/five_essential_schoolwide_conditions_for_ common_core_achievement.html?cmp=SOC-SHR- TW http://www.achieve.org/publications Mathematics http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/tools- for-teachers/problems-of-the-month http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/tools- for-teachers/problems-of-the-month

12. Resources http://mrvaudrey.com/ problems similar to Dan Meyer – Matt Vaudrey is a middle school math teacher. http://mrvaudrey.com/ The Mathematics Teaching Community https://mathematicsteachingcommunity.math.uga.ed u/ https://mathematicsteachingcommunity.math.uga.ed u/

13. Illustrative Mathematics Illustrative Mathematics Illustrative Mathematics Illustrative Mathematics now plays nice with search engines “You can, for example, google "illustrations for A-SSE" and get direct links to the tasks that illustrate Seeing Structure in Expressions in the Algebra category. Googling "illustrations for 2.MD" takes to the page in the illustration index which includes all the illustrations for 2.MD.” – Bill McCallum

14. http://education.ky.gov/educational/CCadv/op/P ages/default.aspx

15. NGSS - released http://www.nextgenscience.org/next- generation-science-standards

16. 2013 KCM Conference “Reasoning for Readiness" February 25 and February 26, 2013. Lexington, KY http://www.kentuckymathematics.org/ http://www.kentuckymathematics.org/ To register for the Post-Conference Day, see the event page.event page