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2021-2022 After School Math Common Planning Time

(3:40pm-4:40pm)

Table of Content
● March 6, 2022

● March 2, 2022

● February 23, 2022

● February 16, 2022

● February 9, 2022

● February 2, 202

March 6, 2022
Activities Notes

Objective:
We will discuss the following:
● Keystone Remediation
Process/Resources
● LevelSet Assessment
● STAR Math Testing
● After School CPT Meeting thoughts
● Assessment Calendar

Keystone Remediation: Resources:

● Start using MC as opening routine
○ Encourage productive
struggle in eliminating at
least 1 MC options
○ Incorporate open ended
questions strategies
Barriers:
● Students will hesitate to start
● Mr. Kondili shared PPT of possible do-nows
we can use:
○ Keystone Do-Nows
● Ms.Silverman:
https://www.bbsd.com/Page/16744
● Mr. Kondili has shared MORE Keystone Resources
● Keystone Resource Folder:
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○ Mediate by providing clues https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m0MlSrIDjFkxQl

ea-4eLzIvIJAlADgJj/view?usp=sharing

Keynotes:
● Proposed Spring Keystone date: May 19-20.
● Mr. Kondili will share more practice keystone
material
● There is an attendance component, so we need to
get as many 9th and 10th graders to participate.
○ Ratio is looked at in 11th grade
● Mr. Jones will get a list of students who need to
take the assessment
○ Push students who are SI/OW in STAR
● Inform parents of Keystone best practices to help
students prepare

Afterschool:
● Check with Mr. Jones/Admin:
● Keystone Incentive:
○ Raffles for
■ Attendance
■ Completing all the
Keystone tests
● Current 11th Grade Keystone Attendance
Ratio

Achieve3000 LevelSet Assessment ● Working on LevelSet this week

● How are we using this data? ○ Problems did not align to the
● What are our next steps? student's current learning content

STAR Math Testing: STAR Math Winter 2 Assessment Window Opened:

● Start Testing Next week. March 7th to March 31st.
● Announcement? ● Start assessing now for participation, and
encourage students to retake for a better
score.

Consider STAR Incentives:

● Monetary: Gift Cards
● Certificate of Completion/ Growth

Next Steps:
● Look into top STAR Math students/ most
improved for Winter 2 window.

After School Math CPT: Weekly

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Questions, Comments, Concerns: ● School District of Philadelphia Assessment

***Remind students about hints and video in Calendar
Achieve 3000 Math

March 2, 2022
Activities Notes

Objective: ● Remediation Plan for Keystone

Discuss the following: ● Bubble Students
● Achieve3000 Math LevelSet (Middle)
● STAR Math Testing dates

Keystone Packet ● Problems are not differentiated enough to use in classroom

● Teachers will devise problems or modify existing problems to
fit current learning needs of students

Keystone Remediation Ideas

● We can pick questions that we know students will be able to
understand for an opening routine to build confidence
● Have students practice identifying choices that are easy
through pair share activity
● Encourage students to talk through it if not we have
provided printed versions of the problems for students to
work on as graded assignment

Bubble Students ● Looked at Keystone Spring 2021 Results and identified

Push all 9th graders potential students we can push for success:
Mr. Lam will work with Dr. O to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IY2qNbPzw2UP37a_
XbbJIgvGKGF2lmhKbGEcAilVWSQ/edit?usp=sharing
improve/push 10th graders
Thoughts: ● After identifying bubble students we can: compare module 1
● Is it possible to put those and module 2 scores to determine areas to focus for each
bubble students in one testing student.
room during Keystone?
● Grouping students who are
not doing well based on math
language rather than math.

LevelSet (Mid year) Next Week: March 10 – March 11

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STAR Math
● Window Opens: March 7-
March 28th
Questions, Comments, Concerns:
***Remind students about hints and
video in Achieve 3000 Math
February 23, 2022
Activities
Objective:
Discuss the following:
Common Assessment: Notice and
Wonders
Keystone Remediation ideas:
Math Protocol:
● Implement some form of
strategy/procedure to get
students started
● Help make word associations
Start STAR Math Testing during the week of 3/14.
Notes
● Common Assessment
○ Math Protocol
● Remediation Plan for Keystone:
○ Achieve 3000 Math
■ Case Study: 5 students who scored
well in English
● Bubble Students
If you have given out the Common Assessment what was your
experience
● Constructed response: did not understand slope
● Struggle to get started
● Lack of focus and patience => stamina
● Lack of buy-in to help them stay focused
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1uuFvTMpDKV_b1IpZSOhFEb8DQrMfMO9OHYGLSWVWrnE/edit?
usp=sharing
After looking at the Common assessment we can implement the
following strategy/procedure:
● MC for opening routine:everyday
○ Use to authentically to implement Math Protocol
● Resources to use for Keystone remediation:
○ Mr. Kondili will share Keystone Powerpoint of all
release items
■ Teachers will modify to fit classes
○ Illustrative Math - Unit Based with similar
complexity as Keystone
● Constructed responses items:
○ Implement at least one to two times a week
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○ Possibly as a formative Task

■ Where we can do it together and provide
an overview
■ Try to make the problems as relevant to
our current pacing standards as possible
○ To check for retention we can reuse one of
constructed responses as a test grade

Case Study: Looked at English Keystone scores and assessed whether those
students who excelled are also good in math.
● Hard to determine since they did not take the math
keystones
● Do we know if they are taking it?

Mr. Sanders made comparisons of student’s English STAR data and

compared them to their Math STAR data.
● Data TBA

Keystone ● Graduation requirement is based on participation of the

Keystone Math assessment
○ But we encourage students to score well

Bubble Students ● Determine students we are capable of doing well on the

Keystone and focus on improving their scores on the
Keystone
○ 9th graders we can focus on all them of but we can
pick about 4 students we can push
○ 10 graders we can compare and decide based on
their previous keystone scores

Questions, Comments, Concerns: How could we obtain buy-in for students to focus on school if they
***Remind students about hints are focused on working?
and video in Achieve 3000 Math Could we implement some form of school wide initiative such as
getting the CTE teachers to implement/ review math concepts?

Noticed: Cell-phones are distracting students focus

● Answers problems and then go on their phone rather than
productively think about their results

Next year planning thoughts:

● Create or reuse math packet that mirror Keystone release
items that students can have in the beginning of the year
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February 16, 2022

Activities Notes

Objective: ● STAR Progress Monitoring

Discuss the following: ● Achieve 3000 Math
● Common Assessment

Math PD sign up in Cornerstone ● Inclusive Mathematics Curriculum Facilitating

before Friday 2/18 Formative Tasks: Work and Debrief
12:00pm-2:00pm
○ 4-12 TEACHERS OF MATH, ESOL, and SPECIAL
EDUCATION

STAR Progress Monitoring Goals Star Progress Monitoring is opened until March 6
● Participants Actions Taken to improve STAR results
● Growths

Discuss Goals for STAR Compare Math and English goals

Math English success:
● Have better participation in Achieve in English than in Math
● Results from Achieve transfer over to STAR
● Math team have just started with Achieve so students are
more reluctant/less buy-in
● English has more experience

Math factors that contributed to not meeting benchmark:

● Some student have aversion to Math
● Math is cumulative so students need to build intuition
● English is not cumulative
English:
● Lack the stamina to stick with harder questions
(long word problem don’t preserve)
● Also saw that in the Common Assessment

Wonder from data:

Compare participation: Between English and Math STAR
● Is the data based on total number test taken or the student
body
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Achieve 3000 Math:
● Implementation
○ 20 minutes a day or 3
every day
○ 3-5 problems each
time
● Use Achieve to build
confidence first
Common Assessment: Notice and
Wonders
Questions, Comments, Concerns:
***Remind students about hints
and video in Achieve 3000 Math
To improve upon participation in STAR and in STAR progress
monitoring test we suggest the following:
1. Better notification of the test
● Send out email to identify students who have not
taken STAR/Progress monitoring
● Announcement of STAR Testing Day/ Progress
Monitoring Day
● Make it into school culture
○ Recognize 5 highest scorer in English and
Math
■ Gift, movie tickets
○ Recognize 5 most growth based on Scaled
Score (SPED)
2. Incentivize by Math class
● Competition based on who has the highest
classroom participation => gets some reward e.g
Randolph coins
3. Be persistence/ push them everyday until they get their STAR
completed
1. Encourage them to take the test again
Wonder:
● Is there a way to check if we are meeting our goals?
○ Obtain the percentage of 9-11 who have reached
at/above in STAR?
● Being diligent with using it in the classroom
● New to teachers
○ We are still new to using it
○ Still push it
● Recognized that the English is very specific and high level in
Achieve even at the kindergarten level
○ Ideas shown are typically what students can
understand but not necessarily verbalized or can be
written
○ Based on that study we saw that:
■ Achieve starts off with hard problems to
adapt but causes students to lose
confidence
● Need to build math confidence
If you have given out the Common Assessment what was your
experience
● Students struggled with constructed response piece
● We need to determine a time to build test taking strategies
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February 9, 2022
Activities Notes

Objective: Include in implementation plan

Discuss the following:
● STAR Progress Monitoring Data
● Achieve 3000 problem
assignment
● Common Assessment
● Naviance

STAR Progress Monitoring Goals Network Review on Feb 16th.

● Participants Notice and wonders on growth
● Growths Star Progress Monitoring is opened until March 6

Achieve 3000 Math: ● About 20- 30 minutes

● Comprehensive Plan ● Supplemental to lesson
○ Verify Implementation Plan ● Incentive
○ Graded under teacher discretion
● Resources on STAR for parents
● Barriers:
● Discuss Barriers of implementation
○ Notations used are specific when
entering answers

Feedback: ● Imagine Math is preferred given its variety of

● Achieve 3000 Vs. Imagine Math use and representations; flexibility
○ Pros and con ● Achieve 3000 Math puts a lot of emphasis on
reading but does not scale word problems to
students’ reading level
○ Though it provides a lot of step by step
and hints that could help improve
student grasp of content.
Overall there is a lot of human guidance in both cases

Naviance: Note that G09 Task 7 and G10 Task 4 are identical
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● 9th grade: There is one math problem embedded.

○ G09 Task 4,5,6,7 ● There is a math error in one of the
● 10th grade: problems
○ G10 Task 3 and 4 ● Should be read as: 4.5√(1.2x+1.05)

Common Assessment Confirmation on Date No change in date

Expected to be assessed next week

Math Journal ● Mixture of use

● Do we use them in the classroom ● But it is helpful for simple practice work
● Are they effective?

Grade Improvement for 2nd marking period: ● Make assignments for grade improvement
available in Google Classroom

Questions, Comments, Concerns: ● Confirm if passing the Math Keystone is a

***Remind students about hints and video in graduation requirement
Achieve 3000 Math

February 2, 2022
Activities Notes

Include in implementation plan

Objective: Discuss Achieve 3000 problem
assignment

Share and discussed experience with Achieve 3000 Suggested change: no more than 20
● Barriers minutes (completing 1 or 2 problems for a
● Usage in the classroom given topic)

Consider the questions to use for Achieve 3000 Math
9th: assign 8th grade algebraic concept
10th: assign 9-12 algebraic concept
SPED: Selected problems assigned based
on identified math level
11th: Geometric concepts + algebraic
concepts
*Encourage students to use calculators for
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achieve

Discuss incentive for completion of Achieve 3000 Math Assign as part of classwork: work at least 3
● How is it graded? problems
1 independent practice
1 group work
1 exit ticket

Review and discuss Data Tracking of STAR and Achieve Individual Tracking of student data
3000 results through Achieve 3000 Math system.
● What kind of data tracking are we using?

Questions, Comments, Concerns:

***Remind students about hints and video in Achieve
3000 Math