Math Add+VantageMR is a unique approach to professional development, assessment and teaching in mathematics. The Math Add+VantageMR Program is designed to provide teachers with efficient and effective assessment tools to recognize their students current understandings of number concepts, and to support data-driven instruction. The focus of the program is informed assessment. Instead of providing teachers with a large bank of activities, teachers utilize the resources they currently have. Add+VantageMR is not a curriculum; Add+VantageMR supports K-5 mathematics assessment and teaching through professional development and innovative approaches to understanding children´s mathematical thinking. Participating teachers will be expected to use the training provided to provide math intervention at their school with in their grade level. Your training will provide you with the tools to be able to diagnose gaps in a student’s mathematical learning as well as how to instruct to close those gaps so students will be able to move towards proficiency quickly. The third day of the workshop is devoted to assessing students. In the morning, students will be selected from the identified site to be assessed by the participants. In the afternoon, the class will reconvene to score and discuss the assessments. All assessments will be videotaped for reflection purposes. Further questions please call Cathy Ferris, Executive Director of Elementary Curriculum & Instruction.

This committee will be developing a reading framework for the elementary grades. One person per elementary campus will be designated by the building prinicpal to participate.