My Goals for the 2024-2025 School Year & the TRU Framework

For the past five years I have used an idea from Math Equals Love and have written out teacher goals for myself before the start of the school year. Seeing as we are officially halfway through this school year,  wanted to share mine for this year. This year I have six big goals & tried to align them to the TRU Framework which is "a framework for characterizing powerful learning environments in crisp and actionable ways. It provides a straightforward and accessible language for discussing what happens (and should happen) in classrooms... TRU is consistent with what we know to be good practice; and it focuses classroom and administrative attention on what counts in learning."

My Goals for the 2024-2025 School Year

1. I want all of my students to feel welcome in our class community. (TRU: Agency, Authority & Identity)
   
   
2. I want to get better at using the Desmos curriculum (pacing, individual/pairs/pairs sharing…) so that we maximize our class time & all students feel appropriately engaged and engage in productive struggle. (TRU: The Content)
3. I want to use equitable grading practices (TRU: Equitable Access to Content & Formative Assessment)
4. I want to use authentic, engaging math tasks that promote inquiry and problem solving so that all students engage in math in a way that pushes their thinking and deepens their understanding and makes them curious & motivated to learn more. (TRU: Cognitive Demand)
5. I want to incorporate some computer science practices into my classes and have students do at least one cross-curricular project.
6. I want to continue to use Class Dojo to share with families the work that students are doing in class.

You can check out all of my goals and action steps here. Now that I have shared them, I would love to do a formal check-in about how they are going and how I plan to revise or recommit to them for the last twenty weeks of the school year.