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Welcome to My Personal Resource Library!
Here I have gathered resources I have used throughout my first year intern teaching. A lot of these resources were shown to me from my courses, from the teachers I have worked with, and from my own research. Most of these works are centered around my content area math to help me have easy access to a lot of my sources and to share sources I have found. I organized my library as math activities, math curriculum, support for English Language Learners, Technology supports, and research. I would like to add more about supporting English Language learners, making math more accessible to all students, and find more supportive technology. I would like to keep adding more sources as I continue teaching and make more categories and organize this library.

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This is a resource to help refer to when understanding ELPAC scores. Certain websites allow teachers to have access to ELPAC scores, and understanding what these scores mean can help us structure accommodations and supports into our instruction, assignments, and assessments.

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Program Overview

The English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC) is the required state test for English language proficiency (ELP) that must be given to students whose primary language is a language other than English. State and federal law require that local educational agencies administer a state test of ELP to eligible students in kindergarten through grade twelve. The California Department of Education (CDE) transitioned from the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) to the ELPAC as the state ELP assessment in 2018. The ELPAC is aligned with the 2012 California English Language Development Standards. It consists of two separate ELP assessments: one for the initial identification of students as English learners (ELs), and a second for the annual summative assessment to measure a student's progress in learning English and to identify the student's level of ELP.

The following links provide additional information about the program:

ELPAC - CalEdFacts web page provides a more detailed overview of the test.

California Assessment Timeline (PDF) presents the assessment administration timeline for the 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23 school years.

Assessment System Chart (PDF) lists the tests of the 2020-21 California assessment system by subject content, test name, test type, student participant groups, grade levels, and testing window timeframe.

Assessment Spotlight web page contains archives of all previous Assessment Spotlight emails. Send a blank email to subscribe-caaspp@mlist.cde.ca.gov to receive regular updates on the latest information about the statewide assessment system.

Assessments

Resources and Communication Materials
2020-21 ELPAC Information Guide (PDF) Talking to Parents About the ELPAC (PPTX; 3MB) Charla con los padres acerca de las ELPAC (PPTX; 15MB) ELPAC Resources for Parents Quick Reference Guides ELPAC Overview Video: English (Video; 16:06) Video en español de reseña de las ELPAC (Video; 18:28) Available ELPAC Resources flyer (PDF) Practice test flyer (PDF) Talking to Educators About the ELPAC (PPTX; 13MB) 2020-2021 COVID-19 Guidance for Reclassification (PDF)
English-Spanish Education and Assessment Glossary
Translation glossary for assessment-related communications prepared by the CDE.

Accessibility Resources
ELPAC Accessibility Resources Video (Video; 17:58)
California Assessment Assessibility Resources Matrix
The matrix displays the embedded and non-embedded universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations (UDAs) allowed as part of the CAASPP and ELPAC for 2020-21. Also used in conjunction with the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California Accessibility for Operational Testing (DOCX) .
ELPAC Administration Student Accessibility Checklist (PDF) ELPAC Administration Guidance and Governing Definitions for Student Accessibility Discussions (PDF)
Test Administration
ELPAC Administration Research Files Test Administration Coordination website
Scores and Results Reporting
ELPAC Results website
Starting Smarter
Now families have a new website for resources to support their child's learning. The Starting Smarter website includes information on student score reports, sample test questions, parent-teacher conferences, and other no-cost resources in English and Spanish.

Technical Documents

Questions: English Language Proficiency and Spanish Assessments Office | elpac@cde.ca.gov | 916-319-0784

Last Reviewed: Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC)

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The English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC) is the required state test for English language proficiency (ELP) that must be given to students whose primary language is a language other than English. State and federal law require that local educational agencies administer a state test of ELP to eligible students in kindergarten through grade twelve.

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This is a great resource for math education and supporting students of Latino/Latina and Hispanic backgrounds. They provide a lot of resources for professional development.

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Featured Resource

The Math and Parent Partnership (MAPPS) is a project developed at the University of Arizona, seeks to support children and families in their learning and enjoyment of mathematics. To accomplish this, they enlist the support of children, families, teachers, and schools. Please check them out at http://mappsua.wordpress.com/ .

TODOS Resources are for everyone, including parents and families. These resources help to advance the mission of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, which is to advocate for equity and high-quality mathematics education for all students- in particular, Latina/o students.

The TODOS' Resource Page for Parents, Guardians, and Families provides parents, guardians, and families with useful information that hope to answer these questions:

What is going on in my child's mathematics classes?

Why is everybody talking about the "Common Core"?

What do the teachers mean by "Mathematical Practices"?

What can we do to help our children learn and enjoy learning mathematics?

In this section you will find resources in Spanish for parents / families; teachers and students in bilingual classrooms; teacher educators and preservice teachers in bilingual teacher preparation programs.

En esta sección encontrará recursos en español para padres / familias; profesores/as y alumnos/as en aulas bilingües; formadores de docentes y estudiantes para profesor/a en programas bilingües de formación de docentes.

This is a collection of data and links to sources of data regarding Latino/Hispanic issues in education.

There are many organizations dedicated to providing an equitable education for students. Many of them also support parents and families and advocate the important role of families in their children's education, especially in the mathematics area. On this page, we will provide links to those organizations and groups.

TODOS welcomes suggestions to add to these resource pages. Please use this form to add or suggest a new resource!

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The Math and Parent Partnership (MAPPS) is a project developed at the University of Arizona, seeks to support children and families in their learning and enjoyment of mathematics. To accomplish this, they enlist the support of children, families, teachers, and schools. Please check them out at http://mappsua.wordpress.com/ .

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This is a website and extension on Google that helps make Google Slides and lessons more interactive. This is something I want to use more because you can also have students interact with the slides and showcase student work on the front board.

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Pear Deck is on a mission to help teachers create powerful learning moments for every student, every day - using the tools you already know and love.

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This is a great tool to help organize information and share with students when making presentations. This site offers a lot of free templates for teachers and students to utilize.

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This is an article published by Edutopia written by Sarah Schwartz that describes UDL and shares useful strategies about applying UDL. This resource is helpful to reference when learning more about UDL and gives ideas on how to implement it.

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4 Principles of a Universal Design for Learning Approach

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Teachers can encourage high school students’ success by focusing on learner variability and creating customizable learning experiences.

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This is helpful research from Harmon, Hedrick, and Wood (2005) that outlines what literacy looks like in all subjects and strategies to support literacy. There is a great section in math that is useful for me to reference as I design instruction and how to support students in developing language for math.

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YouCubed is a website rich of rigorous activities to support all students in math. It has activities to support student learning and also activities to support fostering a growth mindset. It is free and there is easy downloadable content that can be printed for use.

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At youcubed, we inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on mathematics learning into accessible and practical forms.

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This is a really helpful resource that gives free curriculum based on middle school math. They have teacher and student materials and workbooks and are easy to download and ready to print. They also include assessments and explain the purpose for each unit, which is extremely useful.

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The Utah Middle School Math Project | A University of Utah Partnership Project for 7th and 8th Grade Math

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A University of Utah Partnership Project for 7th and 8th Grade Math

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Making Number Talks Matter by Cathy Humphreys & Ruth Parker

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Making Number Talks Matter by Cathy Humphreys & Ruth Parker

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This is a book by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker that outline a math strategy called Number Talks that are an engaging way for students to discuss math. This can be small everyday activities. They are easy to showcase on Google Slides or print them out for use.

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Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl

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Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl

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This is a book written by Peter Liljedhal that gives 14 strategies for teaching math to make math more engaging. This book is very visual and applicable making it easy to reference while teaching throughout the year.

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This is a website that provides problems for students to do ranging from all different grades and different topics in math. These problems are great discussion questions, allow for teamwork, and can be used as warm ups. They also have already created Google Slides that can be inserted if using Google Slides in the classroom.

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This resource provides research and best practices for math. This is a great reference when designing curriculum to understand why we should plan what we do and how to support students in learning math.

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This is an online curriculum that showcases many grades and different lessons for each grade. A school can get membership, but there are also a lot of free lessons that all educators, students, and families can have access to. This source has lesson plans, worksheets, and writes about how make the curriculum accessible. This is a great reference when designing curriculum.

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The IM K-5 curriculum provides teachers with coherently sequenced materials based on the standards and research-based learning trajectories to support students' learning in these early years. IM K-5 Math is rigorous, problem-based, and fully aligned to the standards, with coherence across grade bands.

Launch Curriculum

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The IM K-5 curriculum provides teachers with coherently sequenced materials based on the standards and research-based learning trajectories to support students' learning in these early years. IM K-5 Math is rigorous, problem-based, and fully aligned to the standards, with coherence across grade bands. Launch Curriculum

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YouTube has a lot of online educational videos such as Ted Talks that can be inserted in Google Slides and shown in the classroom.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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This resource is from Dan Meyer who put together a Google Sheet with a list of 3-Act-Tasks. Here there is the link to any videos or images for the 3- Act Tasks, along with the standards the 3 Act Tasks support. This is a great reference when making activities and varying up learning activities. These activities allow for student driven and inquiry based learning.

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This allows for easy access of the common core standards that I follow for teaching math. It is important to always refer to the standards to ensure our curriculum supports the standards.

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This resource is based on the Which one Doesn't Belong concept where different submissions are posted based on the topic of math being taught. This is a great tool when planning warm ups, closing activities, intro activities to promote student critical thinking and discussions in the class.

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

Which One Doesn't Belong?

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

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This online resource has a lot of free online activities that allows students with a phone/laptop to connect. There is also a graphing calculator and other calculator tools to aid in representing math in real time. There are tools like pacing where the teacher can allow students to work at their own pace, work together as a class, and share answers and have discussions. This is a great tool for math and can be added to Google Classroom.

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Desmos offers best-in-class calculators, digital math activities, and curriculum to help every student love math and love learning math.

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This is a website that showcases lessons and practice activities for a few different subjects. This is a great tool to practice procedural fluency and to track student practice. It gives direct feedback and students can watch videos to learn more. There is some free practice activities, but schools may need to have access.

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This is a link to the Mathematicians Project that showcases mathematicians from different backgrounds to help expose people to mathematicians out there. This would be a great resource to design activities around math identity and representation in the field.

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This was the original blog post. I'm no longer updating this page, but absolutely still updating the list. The most up to date list is here. Resource list here.

The Short Version:

We as math teachers tend to only talk about white male mathematicians.

Most of my students don't look like that, and thus, they have few mathematical role models they can identify with.

Take 10-15 minutes a week to research (read Wikipedia, that's all you need) a not-old-dead-white-dude mathematician, and then take 5 minutes in class to tell your students about them. Include a picture. It's worth it, I swear.

Here is the presentation from NCTM Regionals in Chicago
Here is a SEARCHABLE SPREADSHEET LIST of mathematicians
Explanatory Blogs

I've blogged at MTMS about this project in far more detail than I have here. Check out those four posts below.
Post #1 The Mathematician Project Post #2 How to Enact the Mathematician Project Post #3 What I Learned About My Students Post #4 Extensions of the Mathematician Project
For the super excited, you can read the paper I wrote about the project below.
Mathematicians Paper
List of Mathematicians (Or use this spreadsheet)
Men (alphabetical by last name) Women (alphabetical by last name)
This book is a great resource for many of these women.
Trans Mathematicians FYI, I should say that I cringed to use the labels "Men" and "Women" because of a former student who has graciously educated me more about transgender and non-binary people, but I recognize that those labels are still helpful as categories.
General Resources for Researching Mathematicians
Lego NASA Women Women of NASA to be Immortilized in Lego Form Biographies of Women Mathematicians Black Heroes of Mathematics Black Mathematical Excellence Grandma Got STEM Intersections - Poetry and Mathematics Math Mentoring Project Mathematically Gifted and Black
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (h/t Keith Devlin)
Macarthur Fellows
Mathematicians Born/Died on this Day This has a huge number of mathematicians. You'll have to seek a bit for the non-white-male ones, but you can look at the Birthplace Index to help out. (h/t Andrew Thomas)

Math History Course Notes courtesy of commenter below. Includes Sophie Germain.
"On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race" NYTimes
Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence by Erica N Walker
African American Registry Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Special Articles
I have no good visuals for this project. The best I've got is this map that 1) Is scaled to accurately represent area 2) Gets pins for the location of each mathematician we introduce to class.

I also have added a Hidden Figures poster with tags on each of the women.

Each of which I like and students enjoy. But Brian (on twitter @_b_p and blogging at https://lazyocho.com/) has made some excellent printable posters to put up and he's been kind enough to share them here! What a nice guy!
Beyond_White_Dudes_Mathematicians

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The Mathematicians Project: Mathematicians Are Not Just White Dudes

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This was the original blog post. I'm no longer updating this page, but absolutely still updating the list. The most up to date list is here. Resource list here. What is the Mathematicians Project? The Short Version: We as math teachers tend to only talk about white male mathematicians.