Hey everybody, it's Cheri Dotterer from Tier One Interventions Today.
Jonily is gonna uncover some new material.
She didn't even tell me what this time, so take it away,
Jonily and let's get started.
Mission accomplished.
We are gonna unpack exactly what that means in our first segment
here of our live session today.
Success in reading, reading achievement is going to improve.
See, we're implementing that, but a rim has never been some
kind of research project.
So I just, I need you to hear what I'm saying.
And the reason I'm saying this is the reason I'm saying this
is you can't use the excuse.
I can't use the novel model as our structure and instruction delivery
system because it's not research based.
So I'm eliminating that excuse for you because I'm proving other things that
we've been required to do that have not been through the research model.
Now, research based doesn't mean the actual thing that we're doing has been
through a, an experiment already before.
Research based means we take results of other research, of other models,
of other things, of other chunks and apply it to the new model.
And that's exactly what we've done in the novel model.
So it is research based.
It is all research, it is all science, and it is the science of
mathematics, which is different.
It's a different structure than the science of reading.
So let me back up.
I don't wanna keep going on and on about that, but I had to make those examples.
As you're having conversations, as as districts, those are all of the excuses
that you are gonna come up with, with why you're not going to use this model.
So let's back up the overarching essential question.
What story are you telling K 12?
What story are you telling for your school year?
What part of the story is your grade level supposed to be telling mathematically?
And the first step to answering these questions is at a district
level deciding what is the ultimate goal of success you're going to use.
Now, just for the purpose of our examples today, I am going to use algebra one
as the ultimate indicator of school district math story success because
that's the class that I'm teaching this year that I am teacher of record
of, that I have been experimenting with, if you wanna call it that way.
And at the end of the year, at the end of course exam, we're gonna
look and see what my results are.
Now I'm gonna tell you right now, I have put myself out there this year.
I am being very vulnerable.
I may not get the results I desire, and I'll come on and tell you that.
But guess what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna make some tweaks.
I'm gonna try it again next year.
That's what action research is.
That's what research based, that, that's how we get research
based products is by experiment.
And that's exactly what I'm doing deliberately and intentionally.
And I'm using Algebra one as my ultimate achievement goal
for my district as I'm helping.
So yesterday I met with grade two teachers for our planning meeting.
And this is, this is ultimate goal algebra one success.
So in every planning meeting with second grade teachers, we talk about the part
of the story that they have to tell with their content standards that are going to
lead to this ultimate goal of achievement.
So what does Algebra One success look like in second grade?
And that's some other steps of the model.
But I give you that example to say why this ultimate goal is
so important to establish first.
So for our purposes today, we're using algebra one.
So the second step, once we say, okay, algebra one,
the second step that we need to define, which in the novel model, this
is where that word chunks comes in,
the essential chunks.
Now, this is also multiple choice because the novel model has researched
for the last 20 years what some of these essential chunks are,
and we have that in spreadsheets.
We have that in structures, we have that in our mastery and exposure maps.
We have that actually, basically all of tier one interventions.
Level one, the mastery math method.
Hear this, if you're listening to this podcast, all of tier one interventions,
the Mastery Math Method, the course, the self-study course that each individual
teacher in your district needs to take.
So let me say that again.
Tier one Interventions, mastery Math Method is a self-study course that every
teacher in your district needs to take.
That is a training course with over a hundred contact hours that
will show you each of the essential chunks what they look like.
It gives you the resis resources for implementing them with your students.
It gives you the slide decks, it gives you the worksheets, it gives
you the adaptations of the worksheets.
It gives you the video training session recorded for every single essential chunk.
So the, so this is delivered in the novel model through tier one interventions,
level one, tier one interventions, level one Mastery Math method, which is
a self-study course that your district needs to purchase for every individual
math teacher at every grade level.
Not only math teacher, but intervention specialist, principal, curriculum
developer, special service provider, occupational therapist, speech therapist.
Every stakeholder that is supporting math education in your district
must have their own username and password to tier one interventions.
Level one Mastery Math method
self-study course, when the individual, this is why it's individually based,
but everybody in your district needs it.
Of that stakeholder type.
When you individually complete the The mastery math method, level one, tier
one interventions, level one, the.
You will get a certificate.
It's all digital.
So we track your project progress on the backend.
We also have some uplevel that you can get live coaching in that self-study course.
So we don't just leave you on your own if you want live coaching, but when you
complete that as an individual person, you will get a certificate for over a hundred
contact hours that you can turn into your district to transition those to CEUs.
And so there's lots of benefits for this.
Not only is it gonna completely transform math achievement in your school district,
you individually as a person that needs to license, renew, or move up on the
pay scale is going to generate over a hundred contact hours that can be
converted by your district to CEUs.
So the second step after your district has defined their ultimate
goal of success is to define the essential chunks that are gonna lead
to, in our example, algebra one.
What I'm telling you is we've already defined a lot of those for you, and
those chunks can be delivered every single year in less than 20 days.
Let me say that again.
These essential chunks.
Can be delivered every single school year in less than 20 days.
In less than 20 days.
So when you're like, yeah, but we have these textbooks.
Yeah, but we have this.
Yeah, but we have that.
Okay, you don't have time for needle moving, brain-based achievement,
scaling 20 days of mathematics,
then that's just sabotage.
You're just sabotaging student learning at this point.
Now can these be extended to more days?
Absolutely, for sure.
But the reason we minimize the time for it is so that you as a
district, you as a teacher, still have the autonomy and flexibility
to add your own flavor and spices.
So the first step is what is your goal?
The second step is defining the essential chunks.
And I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this right now because if you've
listened to any of the other tier one interventions podcasts, or you've been
to Saturday math, or you have interacted with Cheri or I in any capacity, you
know what some of those chunks are.
Matter of fact, put 'em on the, um, put 'em on school right now.
Put 'em on school for today's session in the comments on school.
Put 'em on school right now.
What are some of the essential chunks?
You guys know these.
If you're here live
now, as well as putting them on school.
Unmute and tell me what you're putting.
Locker problem.
Locker problem?
Yep.
Give us some more.
Let's just start listing 'em.
You as the listener.
You're not gonna know what these things are.
That's why your kids aren't achieving.
Okay, so it's not important right now to know what these are.
It's important to know the names and have the list of them.
Then we tell her how to figure them.
Number, shape.
Say it again.
Number S. Shape Number.
S. Shape.
What else?
Someone.
Janet.
Fractions.
I like all my F's.
Fractions factors.
Function.
Fractions.
Factors.
Function.
Fractions.
Factors function.
Say that 18 times fast.
No, don't really.
What else are they?
One chunk or those three separate chunks?
They're three separate chunks.
Okay.
I like my upwards separated.
I'd consider the one 20 chart.
One 20 chart.
Boom.
What else?
Jesse and kay, Jesse and Kay.
Making rectangles.
So you have an idea here.
There are three other chunks that are essential, and there are
already podcasts that we've recorded designing these three chunks.
And Cheri, let's remind each other that when this, this what I'm saying
right now, when this part of the podcast releases that maybe we put
in the comments or the show notes, the connection to the other podcasts.
Um, and I'll say it now and then somewhere, or you can comment to us.
If you're listening to this podcast, you can make a comment right now on, you know,
if you don't see the connecting podcast.
But three of the other essentials are the three math rules that never expire.
These are also three different chunks.
These are three math rules that never expire, and the podcasts teach you.
The podcasts are the training for these three rules.
These three rules are what we call transfer strategies.
And they are inspired by a couple of articles that were put out by some
other authors years ago, which were 12 math rules that never expire.
Or 12, sorry, I said that totally wrong.
12 math rules that expire, and 13 math rules that expire.
So there were some other, um, authors that put out two different articles
about math rules that do, do expire.
The podcast talks about those.
For example, one of the rules that expires that we teach in elementary
is when you subtract, you get a smaller number that expires.
That's not always true, but we ground this into kids' heads.
And then we create the misconceptions later on in seventh grade when
we're subtracting negative numbers.
So the other three chunks that are essential that we've
already created podcasts for, so you you have free training.
Free training.
Just go back to these podcasts.
The other three are math rules that never expire.
These are transferable strategies that we can pound into heads.
Number one, subtraction is distance.
Number two, division is counting.
And number three, multiplication is rectangle.
Subtraction is distance.
Division is counting.
Multiplication is rectangle.
We teach operations all wrong and we teach them in the wrong order.
We start with addition and we should be starting with division in kindergarten.
I'm not going to explain that.
I'm gonna leave you hanging because there are answers to that
on those other podcast episodes.
The point here is the second step to creating high math achievement
through this novel model of telling a story and designing your structure
and developing your instructional facilitation in your classroom.
The first step, my goal is algebra one for our district.
The second step is defining all of the essential chunks, and we've given
you some examples of those right now.
And the essential chunks can be delivered and exposed in less than 20 days.
Not mastered.
See, when you read, when you read chapter one of a novel, you don't
know the whole story yet, but you know most of the parts of the story.
And in each chapter later you find out more about what
was developed in chapter one.
Step number three,
step number three.
We are finally ready to map it.
And I've already kind of pre mentioned this
at Mines on math.
We structure our math year one school year in what we call seasons.
And this is exactly how we need to map the school year.
So from August to June, from August or May, let's say from August to May, in a
typical traditional pacing guide, scope and sequence, we do typical, traditional.
If you're following a check, uh, a textbook, chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, in your check, in your textbook.
But we've already said that this does not develop memory and retention of content.
This is not how the brain learns learning one thing at a time.
We have to be, we have to learn in chunks with everything delivered
all of the time and uplevel it in every season, but not everything.
Only the essentials.
Maybe it's not every part of our curriculum, like for example,
probability or statistics or data analysis or some of those pieces of
our curriculum may not be as essential.
Subtraction is actually not as essential as division.
So not all standards are created equal.
In another, uh, episode of mine in Saturday math, and you can request
this from us in the comments of this podcast, I talk about the
five fails of math instruction, the five fails of math instruction.
And maybe we should put this on the Tier one interventions podcast because
I've taught on this in a lot of different places, but maybe we just
make a podcast episode of it here.
The five fails of math instruction, one of them is teaching one thing at a time.
Can't do it.
That's the way a tr a traditional textbook is set up, and that's
not getting us achievement.
Another fail of math instruction is creating all standards equal.
They're not.
Some standards have more leverage and more essential impact than others.
And in tier one interventions and in the novel model, we tell
you what those essentials are.
Another fail.
Ooh, I'm just gonna put this one out there because it's fun.
Another fail of math instruction is finishing, answering and solving
everything by the end of the class period.
Ouch.
That's a fail.
Finishing, solving and answering every question and problem by the end of the
class period or by the end of the week.
That's a fail.
You get the idea.
These are targeting the things that we are doing, that we think we're
doing right, but it's what's causing our failure in math achievement.
So in the novel model, the way that we structure our book,
our math year, is in seasons.
Season one
is what we call first 15 days.
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