November 15 - 16, 2019

I had the pleasure to present with these awesome ladies at CMC math conference in Palm Springs! 
Thank you for allowing me to grow with you Stephanie Erickson & Song Ye! Talk about iron 
sharpening iron! These ladies sharpen each other by collaborating and finding solutions to help their 
students learn math. 
 
The ladies teach at Center Middle School where 1:3 students are EL students & newcomers. They 
had to find ways to measure their students' understanding in math because regular formative 
assessments did not work for their special population ( EL, newcomers, SPED, GATE & VI). Both of 
the ladies are involved with ​Math for America​ (MFA). They meet with other people who are involved 
with MFA once a month. MFA pays for the ladies to go to the math conference. Since they were 
already going to MFA, I asked them if they would like to present with me at CMC. We put in our 
proposal and got accepted to present. * 
 
The two teachers were dabbling with Google classroom and built formative assessments using CPM 
- Desmos activities, Red dot recording, & quizzez. Using these formative assessments allowed the 
teachers to find the following three things: 1) the students understanding of math, 2) their 
misconceptions, and 3) vocabulary. What they found was the most important tool was the Red dot 
because this allowed the teachers to hear the students in all of the three areas above. 
 
 

*Note: I paid for my own way to present at the math conference.