Full Description
Empowering All Leaders to be Math Leaders helps school leaders ensure that their math teachers are prepared to deliver excellent instruction each week of the school year. This exciting guide provides essential context on the challenges and obstacles facing math education along with actionable strategies and tools for overcoming them and facilitating positive change in classrooms. Each chapter includes practice-based tasks, reflection questions, and supporting resources that leaders can put toward building the math classrooms that teachers and students deserve. Written by an award-winning math teacher and nationally recognized high school principal, this book offers a unique perspective and expertise tailored to the needs of leaders—whether they have a math background or not. Through these inspiring tools, school leaders will be ready to improve math instruction, increase student achievement outcomes, and foster a more math-literate learning environment.
Contents
Foreword (by T.J. Vari)
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: High Quality Tasks and Standards Alignment
Chapter 2: The Brain Science Behind Learning Math
Chapter 3: Independent Practice, Independent Thinkers
Chapter 4: Forming Your Math Team
Chapter 5: Using Observations to Improve Math Instruction
Chapter 6: Coaching for First Period Readiness
Chapter 7: Selecting Technology for the Classroom
Chapter 8: Effective Use of Technology in the Classroom
Chapter 9: First There Were Calculators, Now We Have AI
Chapter 10: Increasing Engagement by Planning Discourse
Chapter 11: Precise Language Leads to Mastery
Chapter 12: Integrating Financial Literacy
Chapter 13: Building a School-Wide Culture of Math Achievement
Chapter 14: The Empowered Math Leader Action Plan
Chapter 15: Unobstructed
Appendices
