I have spent the last two days with Chris Shore (math projects journal) working with other math coaches exchanging ideas on how to strengthening our math programs.
One of our tasks was to create a vision statement. As a group of secondary math coaches we come up with this; A collaborative student-centered, tool enhanced, task-oriented, teacher-coached classroom where students productively discuss real world mathematics.
Here is the picture of all our ideas that lead us to this vision statement.
We shared ideas of things we need to do and work on over time to get out classrooms to look like this. We know it will take time but we have a vision for our math teachers and students, and we know we will get there as a team.
