Five Oaks Middle SchoolBeaverton, OR

• Population 1160• 70+ teachers• 56% Free/Reduced

• 52% Minority• 13% Special Ed.• 16% ELL• 28% Mobility• Met AYP 2007-08

Five Oaks Math Department

• 16 math teachers• Trained in Best Practices

• Total years of teaching experience

• Total years of experience at Five Oaks

• Connected Math • Includes Rachel Carson magnet school

• Gorgeous group

Five Oaks OMLI Leadership Team

• Mike Chamberlain

• Kathy Cleavenger

• Kevin Corwin

• Debbie Silva

Same team for all years!

What we have accomplished . . .

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Math dept. meetings are Professional Development• Discourse about and doing math are the norm

• Teacher Quotes:• “I love the current format of our meetings. Sharing problems kids have solved. Talking about best practices and bringing ideas back to meetings.”

• “Our meetings are about math, not the nuts and bolts of the department.”

• “We are sharing the leadership in the meetings. It is not just the OMLI leaders doing the PD.

Student Discourse

• Student Quotes:• My teacher is always asking “why” and making me explain my work.

• I really like working in groups to get my work done.

• I understand it better.• Math is more fun now.

Student Discourse

• During this lesson we heard:

justificationgeneralizationstudent questioningmultiple representations

Teacher Practice

• How are you teaching differently now than three years ago?• Students were talking three years ago, but now they are talking about math.

• I am doing less direct teaching and more facilitating.

• My questioning has moved from procedural to asking for justification.

• I am doing much more group work.

Administration Support

• Mike supports the math goals and leads by example

• Mike comes to math department meetings• OMLI team did math with the Site Council and invited parents into classrooms

• Mike came to every OMLI summer institute• Money was “found” for staff observations & full math department meetings

• Mike attended and funded Best Practices for our entire math staff

• OMLI model is affecting school-wide decisions

Deprivatization

• Student work shared at department meetings

• Video of student discussions shared

• Teacher peer observations• Teachers volunteered for OMLI observation and debrief

• Parents invited to visit math classes

Leadership

• OMLI school team improved leadership skills by co-leading professional dev.

• Teachers helped to lead PD• Teachers helped to plan parent information sessions.

• OMLI quotes:

Where we are going . . .

• Build leadership capacity and shared responsibility across the department

• Continue to increase the quality and quantity of student discourse

• Increase teacher understanding of proficiency based assessment

• Educate and involve community in district and school mathematics goals

Build leadership capacity and shared responsibility across the department

• Involve more teachers as leaders of grade level PLC’s

• Open time at department meetings for teachers to lead discussion

• Invite teachers to share in the planning of department meetings

• Invite teachers to plan parent informational sessions

Continue to increase the quality and quantity of

student discourse

• Continue to share student work and strategies that improved discourse in the classroom

• Share worthwhile problems that have potential for high quality discourse

• Continue to “Do Math” together and discuss questioning techniques to bring about enhanced discourse

Increase teacher understanding of proficiency based

assessment• Establish an understanding of the Proficiency-based system.

• Doing math together to discover what proficiency means

• Hold site moderations to “look at” proficiency and sufficiency

• Begin creating a common assessment bank

Educate and involve community in district and school mathematics goals

• Design parent informational meetings to share strategies for improving student understanding.

• Continue to do math with Site Council and PTO

• Invite parents to observe math classrooms in action

Message from Mr. OMLI

•Give me an O

•Give me an M

•Give me an L

•Give me an I•What’s that spell?

•OML…III