Math Specialist - Ridgeland
Welcome to the 2024 - 2025 School Year!
Welcome to the 2024 - 2025 school year! This year is going to be an exciting one for math. We are looking forward to supporting you as we work together to make math a positive and enriching experience for all students and teachers. Here's to a fantastic year of mathematical growth and success!
Math Support Documents
The SC Department of Education provides math support documents to assist with planning and instruction. All support documents have a suggested scope and sequence. JCSD's curriculum documents are slightly different, but the standards are still the same. Use the support documents to get additional support with making sense of the standards, get ideas on how to teach the standards, and tasks/activities to support student learning.
To access your grade level, scroll down to "SCCCR-M." Click on your grade level support document. The standards at the top of the page are the new standards that we're not using this school year. The link to the page is below.
South Carolina
Test Blueprints for the 2024 - 2025 School Year
According to the SC Department of Education,
"The test blueprint for each subject specifies the total number of points on each grade-level test, as well as the approximate number of points per reporting category or domain. Reporting categories group similar standards within each content area. Each reporting category classifies a student’s performance as “Low,” “Middle,” or “High.” This classification is based on the subset of items that assesses the reporting category. The possible number of items for each reporting category can be found in the test blueprint." Retrieved from Test Blueprints - South Carolina Department of Education - 09/22/2023 10:02 AM (sc.gov)
Click the links below to see the mathematics blueprints by test and grade levels.
SC Ready Grades 3 - 5 SC READY 3-5 Mathematics Test Blueprint
SC Ready Grades 6 - 8 SC READY 6-8 Mathematics Test Blueprint
End of Course Algebra 1 EOCEP Algebra 1 Test Blueprint (sc.gov)
Math Strategies for Multilingual Learners (MLLs)
To support our MLL students, the OIS team created a list of researched-based strategies to support students in their math classrooms. To access the document and additional links in the document, click the pdf below. Mrs. Dawn Thayer, the Multilingual Learner Coordinator, provides monthly professional development on supporting ML students in the classroom. For more information regarding our ESOL program, MLL students, and strategies to support MLLs, visit her page at ESOL – ESOL – Jasper County School District (jcsd.net).
The 2025 Math Standards Transition Plan
Below is a copy of the district-approved transition plan to the 2025 math standards. For the 2024 - 2025 school year, early learning (K - 2nd grades) will implement the 2025 math standards. For testing purposes, 3rd - high school will continue to teach the 2015 standards.
Full implementation of the math standards with testing occurs during the 2025 - 2026 school year.
Safari Montage - The Instruction Hub
The Instruction Hub, South Carolina's Learning Object Repository (LOR), is a central comprehensive digital library for all teachers to access high-quality, effective resources aligned to the SC College-and-Career Readiness Standards. The Hub will be populated with lesson plans and units that will be made available to teachers next school year and for years to come.
Plan of Action Overview
The goal of the Digital Platform Specialist is to introduce, provide support, and ensure JCSD is actively engaged with The South Carolina Department of Education's implementation of the state-wide SAFARI Montage - Learning Object Repository (LOR) – Instruction Hub which will provide resources for improved teaching and learning and increased rigor. Our foci for the year will be to:
◆ Use the Impact Cycle as a model for digging into the Instruction Hub with teachers ◆ Plan for implementation with a team (1st Quarter and 2nd Quarters), schoolwide (3rd and 4th Quarters), and district-wide (4th Quarter) ◆ Explore resources to aid in small group instruction, usage of the rotational model, cooperative learning, and to increase rigor [thinking] within daily lessons ◆ Learn the Chalk Talk Protocol and other 21st Century engagement activities to process and network
Steps to Success
- Review each school's improvement plan with an emphasis on instruction and infusion of technology by July 2023 to determine individual schools' needs.
- Review each school's State report card (upon release)
- Meet with Principals and then their administrative teams to plan a course of action for each school's implementation for the 2023-2024 school year
- Observe each school's pilot group of teachers and provide feedback throughout the 1st Quarter; Develop CIQ sessions for the pilot groups to present to their colleagues for schoolwide implementation for 2nd and 3rd Quarter
- Observe each school's implementation and provide feedback provided to administrators throughout the 2nd and 3rd Quarters. Recommendations will be provided for implementation with fidelity.
- During the 4th Quarter, update and finalize the district strategic plan for the 24-25 school year for continued implementation.
- Provide digital platform coaching services based on school needs throughout the 2023 – 2024 school year.
Important Documents