Math Fellows
The Fellows are a growing network of Washington state educational leaders who expand their capacity to improve student learning through ongoing professional learning and leadership development within their local context and in partnership with school districts, educational service districts, and community agencies and state organizations.
PSESD Math Fellows meet four times a year, and our learning focuses on:
- Leading with racial equity
- Learning pedagogy and content knowledge that Fellows can take back to their districts, buildings, or teams
- Developing as teacher leaders
- Creating and enacting an Action Plan
Some of the PSESD Math Fellows Action Plans include:
- Implement Routines for Reasoning in my own classroom as a first step and then invite colleagues to learn with me
- Lead book studies in my building/district on Number Talks or Routines for Reasoning
- Facilitating a district-wide Fellows cohort in my district
- Work with colleague(s) to plan together and to support them in unpacking individual lessons, identify learning targets, modify lessons to fit a Launch, Explore, Summarize model, and include high-leverage tasks in each lesson
- Work with grade level colleagues to use Number Talks and Routines for Reasoning to improve math teaching practices and support student learning Focus on attendance, collect and analyze data and find ways to increase student attendance.
Math Fellows is a three-year commitment requiring school &/or district leader sponsorship. Fellows can choose to meet at the PSESD in person for a full day four times a year and/or meet virtually in 2-hour afterschool sessions via Zoom.
Math Fellows applications open in the spring of each year and are open through the early fall.
Apply to Join Fellows
Emeritus Math Fellows
Math teacher leaders who have participated in the Washington State Math Fellows program for three or more years are welcome to join the PSESD Emeritus Math Fellows.
Emeritus Math Fellows is a new group of dedicated math leaders who want to continue to advance their knowledge and skills as math leaders. The group co-plans and co-facilitates their meetings which focus on the same topics as Fellows, but at a deeper level. We meet four times a year for a full day. Participating in the Emeritus Math Fellows is a yearly commitment requiring school &/or district leader sponsorship.
If you are a Washington State Emeritus Math Fellow, you are welcome to join us. For more information, please contact Leslie Nielsen and complete the Emeritus Math Fellows Survey.
Emeritus Math Fellows Survey