The OKMath Podcast – OKMath Teachers

June 20, 2016 The #OKMath community on Facebook, now 3,000+ strong, began having an idea about sharing and collaborating on curriculum maps and pacing guides that could be used by teachers statewide. The first step in that process was to launch the collaboration with a game planning meeting, which we held and recorded on June […]

March 31, 2016 The new Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics have been officially approved! In this episode, Robbyn Glinsmann and Levi Patrick talk about where we are with the new standards, discuss assessments, textbooks, and implementation strategies. You can listen to the podcast and follow along with the slides below. Links from Podcast: OSDE Standards Page […]

February 22, 2016: The new Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics have been adopted by the State Board of Education and certified by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as college- and career-ready standards! Robbyn and Levi talk briefly about the current status, the legislative options defined in House Bill 3399, and some of the exciting […]

July 7, 2015: The draft of the new Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics are live! Find out more about them and take the survey at http://sde.ok.gov/newstandards. Also, this week is the launch of the new Oklahoma summer conference, EngageOK! Get an idea of what the survey looks like, what things are happening at EngageOK, and […]

On July 1, 2015 40 math educators from across Oklahoma spent an entire day reviewing the July Draft of the new Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics. A few of them were kind enough to tell about their experience. Special thanks to all of our special guests and to the amazing educators who gave up their […]

Josh Flores (@mrjoshflores), Director of Secondary ELA at the OSDE, and I have been talking about doing a podcast together for a while now and we finally did! As many know, we are well underway in the development of new math and English standards for Oklahoma (Read about HB3399 here). This process is going wonderfully, […]

What is perseverance? The first of the Mathematics Practices from the Common Core State Standards placed this buzzword front and center in our consideration. As it turns out, it is quite easy to agree that perseverance is essential in students’ approach to mathematics. The harder question is how do we teach it. The National Research […]

March 7 , 2014: Levi Patrick gives a brief overview of the goings on at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. topics discussed include the REAC3H Regional Summit in Norman, the missed regional meeting in Broken Bow, how you can easily access some of the OKMath Presentations on Prezi.com by searching “OKMath”, and the Item Specification […]

Feb. 10 , 2014: Levi Patrick gives a brief overview of the goings on at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Topics discussed include the REAC3H Regional Meetings in Stillwater and Ardmore and an interview with National Board Certified, Presidential Award for Excellence WInner, Elementary Teacher Paige Bergin about Nicole Shobert’s Friday Round-Up, “7 Quick […]

Jan. 31 , 2014: Levi Patrick gives a brief overview of the goings on at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Topics discussed include the REAC3H Regional Meeting in Stillwater and Ardmore and an interview with Sammie Marshall about her Friday Round-Up, “5 Ways to Reinforce MP.1 – Make sense of problems and persevere in […]