Brandywine School District
Wilmington, DE
Illustrative Math
March 29, 2022 - March 30, 2022
07/07/2022
06/23/2022
05/04/2022
“The work on my part is very minimal. I am just going through the lesson and seeing what improvements I am going to make.”
03/30/2022
“She has gone from being a passenger in the math class to an active participant.”
03/30/2022
“There is a lot of investment, not just money—time, energy—committed to this program.”
03/30/2022
“The beautiful thing about IM is it’s built around the things we look for in effective and highly effective teachers.”
03/30/2022
“Whether it is an honors class or a grade-level class – they are all getting the same level of care. They are all getting the same education.”
03/30/2022
“Our classrooms are all together….We are always talking about what we just taught or what we are going to teach.”
03/30/2022
03/30/2022
“There is an entry point for them that they are able to access the curriculum…Every student has the right to learn at their grade level standards.”
03/29/2022
“Students are invited into mathematical argumentation by the open-ended nature of the problems… It opens the doors to conversations for students.”
03/29/2022
“[PLC] has been ongoing, but it’s been more effective with this curriculum.”
03/29/2022
“The curriculum encourages kids to find different methods to do the same problem.”
03/29/2022
“I can work with other people and see ‘oh yeah, that might be different from what I’m doing.’ I might be right but they are also right too.”
03/29/2022
“This year I actually enjoy math…I have definitely improved. Grades have shown it. Not just grades, but actually understanding it.”
03/29/2022
“I really see the students argue about math in a good way. Really having those deep conversations and really diving full force into the math.”
03/29/2022
“Letting them talk and discuss and share their thinking actually helped keep them in the classroom a little more.”
03/29/2022
“I was against the curriculum from the beginning. The thing that really turned me around was the amount of lightbulbs that went off over kids’ heads.”
03/29/2022
03/14/2022