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March 26, 2014 Proposal to the School Board for Purchase of Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt GO Math! Grades K-5 April 7, 2014

Why a new program? 1. Every Day Math is not meeting the level of rigor and relevance necessary for today’s students, which does not support the RRR initiative. 2. Students are not gaining strong skills in standard algorithms and basic facts with Every Day Math and are not prepared for secondary math. 3. Instruction is difficult to differentiate and isn’t working well with our current transient population. 4. The technology is outdated and insufficient for 21 st century best practices. 5. The current version of Every Day Math is not aligned to PA Standards. It is 13 years old.

Selection Process • Math Curriculum Committee selected two programs from a number of presentations by various vendors. • Selection Committee chose Go Math! after detailed presentations by the vendors. • Go Math! was presented to the District Curriculum Committee on March 26, 2014.

Selection Committee : Go Math! • Administrators: – Dr. Carol Johnson, Superintendent – Dr. Shirley Hunter, Director of Curriculum, Instruction,& Assessment – Ms. Christa Snyder, School Improvement Specialist – Mrs. Barbara Lamond, Principal Tri-Community Elementary School – Mrs. Erika Willis, Principal E. H. Phillips Elementary School

Selection Committee Go Math! • Teachers: – Michelle Bangert, Middle Paxton Elementary – Daniel Bogrette, Paxtonia Elementary – Janice Butz, E.H. Phillips Elementary – Melanie Grissinger, Tri-Community Elementary – Brian Longo, Math, North Side Elementary – Georgia Smee, Tri-Community Elementary – Erika Strout, Linglestown Elementary – Kristin Treaster, Mountain View Elementary – Janelle Wolpert, South Side Elementary – Amanda Zimmerman, Rutherford Elementary

How does Go Math! address the main concerns of our current program?

1 st Concern: Every Day Math does not meet the level of rigor and relevance necessary for today’s students, which does not support the RRR initiative. Go Math! emphasizes instruction centered on: • – Depth of Understanding – Problem Solving – Application of Knowledge – Real World, Relevant Performance Tasks Go Math! allows for coherent and rigorous instruction through • blended learning…strong technology. Go Math! prepares students for common and high-stakes tests. • Go Math! stresses vocabulary. • Go Math! includes a major writing component in each unit which • addresses CD’s initiative of literacy across the curriculum .

Students are taught using the 5 Es ¡ • Engagement -What should students know? • Exploration -What will students do to use the concepts? • Explanation -How will students construct meaning of new concepts? • Elaboration -How will students demonstrate mastery of concepts? • Evaluation -How will student learning be assessed?

2 nd Concern: Students do not gain strong skills in standard algorithms and basic facts with Every Day Math . ¡ • Standard Algorithms and basic facts are integral in GO Math! Each lesson reviews prerequisite skills. • Practice Books provide students with additional, daily practice to ensure that they achieve fluency, speed, and confidence. They include: • A full page of practice for each lesson • A full page of spiral review every day • Special Getting Ready lessons that reinforce critical prerequisites for the following grade level • Multi-day projects for each Critical Area (RRR Performance tasks)

3 rd Concern Instruction is difficult to differentiate and does not work well with our current transient population. • Students moving in and out of the District should adjust well with GoMath! – Teaches standard algorithms – Follows State standards • Grab and Go Differentiated Centers Kits • Interactive interventions for RtII (Response to Instruction and Intervention) • ELL strategies • Diagnostic Assessment to meet each child’s level • Three levels of support in each lesson – Extra support – On level – Enrichment ¡

4 th Concern: The EDM technology is outdated and insufficient for 21 st century best practices. • GO Math! Has multiple 2015 technology features: • Math on the Spot videos • Interactive Student Edition on-line, which is accessible on all devices (meeting BYOD needs) – E-Glossary – i-tools (ex. base 10 blocks) – Homework – Interventions • GO Math! Apps • QR codes for students to access math videos on cell phones • Teacher Digital Management System

Personal Math Trainer • Adaptive Assessments • Personalized learning system • Aligns assignments to individual need • Used for daily intervention, enrichment, and test-based intervention • Profile travels from grade to grade giving teachers insight into individual student learning each year

5 th Concern: The current version of Everyday Math is not aligned to PA Standards. It is 13 years old. ¡ • GO Math! Is developed around Content Standards (which define what students should understand and be able to do by each grade level): – Counting and Cardinality K – Operations and Algebraic thinking K-5 – Number and Operations in Base Ten K-5 – Measurement and Data K-5 – Geometry K-5 – Number and Operations with Fractions 3-5

Emphasis on Mathematical Practices Critical for Rigor (Describe habits of mind required to reach a level of math proficiency) • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Benefits of Go Math! • Rigorous content • Writing rich activities • Quality teacher planning features • Differentiated Instruction resources • Engaging teaching tools • Variety of assessments to drive instruction • Tools for 21 st century learners • Real world applications • At home support

Most importantly…. • It has the tools to help Central Dauphin meet the three Rs goals of: • Rigor through strong content • Relevance through application and real world activities • Relationships through student and home connections and reaching every student at his/her own level

Every Day Math: Current Costs • Average $90,000 per year in journal costs • Additional shipping cost~3%=$16,000 • Additional copy costs • 6 year cost = ~$556,000+ copies

Go Math! Costs • Proposed 6 year bundles • Includes: – Complimentary materials valued at $126,800.00 – New student books for 6 years – Technology resources – Teaching manuals for regular and special education teachers – Grab and Go Bags, ELL, Intervention books – Training – Shipping • No added copy costs (with exception of assessments) • $552,999.62

Three Payment Proposal • $184,333.21 2013-2014 • $184,333.21 2014-2015 • $184,333.20 2015-2016

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