Valley of Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The fall V2CTM Conference will be on Tuesday, October 7, at Skyline Middle School in Harrisonburg from 4:30 – 8:00.  The keynote speaker is Dr. John Almarode from JMU.  Other breakout sessions will be presented by Dr. Kateri Thunder, JMU, Kara Velez, Pence Middle School, and Amanda Rickard, East Rockingham High School.  As always, there will be a delicious dinner, door prizes, lots of comraderie, and good professional development.  More details will be posted here soon.

JMU is now offering a Master’s of Education in Mathematics online.  The program, aimed at secondary teachers, includes a minimum of 34 credit hours of course work which are organized with 13 hours of educational development and 21 hours of mathematics.  All the course work for this program is offered online. Click here to download a brochure which describes the program.

For more information, contact the program’s director:

Dr. Anthony Tongen, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
James Madison University
MSC 1911; Roop 109
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
phone:  (540)568-7328
fax:       (540)568-6857
web:   http://educ.jmu.edu/~tongenal/:

or

Outreach & Engagement
www.jmu.edu/outreach
540.568.4253
[email protected]

The 2014 Fall meeting of the Valley of Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics will be on Tuesday, October 7.  It will be held at Skyline Middle School in Harrisonburg.  The keynote speaker will be Dr. John Almarode, Assistant Professor of Education and Professional Development Associate at the Leadership and Learning Center at James Madison University.  Breakout sessions will include a session about “flipping” your classroom by Kara Velez, Wilbur S. Pence Middle School, and Amanda Rickard, East Rockingham High School plus an Elementary Session by Dr. Kateri Thunder from JMU.  Other conference details will be posted later.

The annual spring VCTM Conference hosted by V2CTM at JMU on  March 14, 15 was a huge success.  Nearly 1,000 teachers attended the conference including approximately 500 from the V2CTM region.   Program chairman Kyle Schultz had arranged for over 150 excellent sessions for teachers to choose from.

The conference ran extremely smoothly thanks to the excellent planning by Kyle and Conference chairman LouAnn Lovin and the many hard working volunteers who assisted them.  LouAnn sent a thank you note to the many V2CTM volunteers that included this message:

I was approached Thursday, Friday, and Saturday by many people who expressed how much they were enjoying the conference and their appreciation for the work the local group was doing to host the conference. It is a pleasure to work with people who jump right in and do tasks that need to be done and then come back to do more. Your hard manual labor, positive attitudes, and good humor were much appreciated by many but most of all by me.

V2CTM is especially grateful to the hospitality provided by James Madison University.  The facilities in the ISAT/HHS complex were superb and widely appreciated by conference attendees.  The JMU food service provided tasty food a’plenty for those in attendance.  The vendors seemed as pleased as the conference attendees.

Below are a few photos taken:

Nearly 100 teachers and administrators enjoyed the Fall 2013 V2CTM Conference  held on November 7, 2013 at Clymore Elementary School.  Dr. Jennifer Suh from George Mason University presented a thought-provoking opening session including a discussion of the Five Strands of Mathematics Proficiency which was followed up by three breakout sessions presented by Zig Siegfried from James Madison University, Katy Ulrich from Virginia Tech, and Pat Gabriel from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

At the business meeting, President Jenny Gibson led a discussion of the spring VCTM conference to be held at JMU, March 14-15, and hosted by V2CTM.  Jenny announced that there would be no spring V2CTM meeting due to the VCTM conference.  Numerous door prizes were presented thanks to Kara Velez’s efforts.

White Hill Catering’s Italian dinner was enjoyed by all.