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    - The sender is interested in doing a trial of the ALEKS program with their Algebra I class to help fill gaps, and is hopeful the adaptive assignments will motivate honors students. - No other teachers volunteered for the ALEKS trial due to concerns about implementation time and students not completing other assigned work. - The sender is interested in attending a meeting about Khan Academy but it may not be possible due to a scheduling conflict. - Teachers discussed that having Geometry between Algebra I and II causes much learning loss, and suggested switching back to the previous course sequence or using Geometry class to review forgotten Algebra I skills. - For Algebra I, the group agreed to move exponents and exponential functions to the end

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    - The sender is interested in doing a trial of the ALEKS program with their Algebra I class to help fill gaps, and is hopeful the adaptive assignments will motivate honors students. - No other teachers volunteered for the ALEKS trial due to concerns about implementation time and students not completing other assigned work. - The sender is interested in attending a meeting about Khan Academy but it may not be possible due to a scheduling conflict. - Teachers discussed that having Geometry between Algebra I and II causes much learning loss, and suggested switching back to the previous course sequence or using Geometry class to review forgotten Algebra I skills. - For Algebra I, the group agreed to move exponents and exponential functions to the end

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    Jacqueline Hawkins <jacqueline.hawkins@garrettcountyschools.

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    Algebra I Meeting Follow-up


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    Jacqueline Hawkins <jacqueline.hawkins@garrettcountyschools.org> Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:16 PM


    To: Brian Schilpp <brian.schilpp@garrettcountyschools.org>

    Brian,

    Items for follow-up from your conversation with us:

    - I am interested in completing the ALEKS trial, but only with my Algebra class. I checked out ALEKS online and if I am envisioning
    it correctly, I could assign 30 minutes on ALEKS on an asynchronous day or give something students to work on if they have
    downtime in the classroom. I am hopeful it will fill gaps as the Algebra group seems to have a lot as they jumped from part of
    7th grade math to Algebra I.  

    - We had no other volunteers for the ALEKS trial. Overall, teachers felt they needed more information and that the time to
    implement it may not be there. Also, students are not completing work for the course and since adaptive assignments are not
    dealing with current content, they were not looking to throw more work in there. I am hopeful my honors group would be more
    motivated.

    -Khan Meeting- I am interested in attending. However, Dave is holding a staff meeting in the afternoon, so it may not be possible.
    I would like to see what they can offer. We all shared much frustration with Khan Academy mostly due to students lacking
    motivation. It was shared that Gregg Hostetler uses it in Trig/Calc with online learning. He may be a good person to talk to about
    it. 

    - Algebra II gaps- It was noted that having Geometry between the Algebra courses causes much learning loss. Before Common
    Core and PARCC testing we had the course order as Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry. At the time we felt this was very successful.
    However, we had to switch the order as some Geometry appears on the Algebra II PARCC/ MCAP.  It was suggested that we look at
    the possibility of switching the order back again, or look at using the Geometry class to review Algebra skills that are forgotten
    by Algebra II.

    Algebra I
    After much discussion, we agreed to:
    - Move chapter 7 (Exponents and Exponential Functions) to the end of the course. We hope to get there, but many of the topics
    in this chapter are taught more extensively in Algebra 2 and not as much needed in Algebra I.

    - MCAP is typically heavy in quadratics (Chapter 9), so we want to comfortably teach this content.

    Thank you,
    --
    Jacqueline Hawkins
    Mathematics Teacher
    Northern Middle School

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