Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Overview: Dr. Miriam Leiva will present a dynamic discussion giving specific strategies to help your students read, reason, and solve problems including applications and non-routine problem solving.

Dr. Leiva has been a teacher of mathematics for over 30 years at all levels, K-12 and university. She says, "What I consider most important about myself is that I AM A TEACHER. I love my profession and my students. I have dedicated my professional life to mathematics education and to the professional development of teachers, in-service and preservice."

Dr. Leiva is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics (Emerita) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she directs MATHink and Project Excel MATH, nationally funded programs that link teachers to improve teaching and learning K through -12 and the universities where teachers are prepared.

Dr. Leiva has served as Director of the Teacher Preparation Program at the National Science Foundation, on the Board of Directors at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, on the US National Committee on Mathematics Instruction, and on the Committee on the Mathematics Education of Teachers of the Mathematics Association of America. She has lead NC Mathematics Curriculum Committee since 1980, and she currently chairs the NCTM Professional Development Academy Services. Miriam's work has been widely recognized, and she has received the Rankin Award for contributions to mathematics education in North Carolina and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award.

She edited and co-authored 11 books of the NCTM ADDENDA Project, to illustrate the NCTM Standards. Miriam has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally, and she has written for publication both in journals and books. She is senior author of both an elementary (HM Mathematics) and a secondary mathematics textbook series (McDougal Little Explorations and Applications)
 

NSDC Standards for Staff Development

Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district. (Learning Communities)

• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership)

• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources)

Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact. (Evaluation)

• Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based)

• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (Design)

• Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (Learning)

• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration)

Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement. (Equity)

• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality Teaching)

• Provides educators with knowledge and skills to involve families and other stakeholders appropriately. (Family Involvement)

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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