Summit View Consulting

SVL Consulting draws on the expertise of each member of our team to provide tailored supports for schools and districts. We have extensive experience with:

Curriculum Design

  • Backward Planning

  • Alignment to the Common Core State Standards (for content and mathematical practices)

  • Vertical alignment across grade levels and courses

Administration

  • Using nationally normed assessment data effectively

  • Evaluating math teachers

  • Math coaching cycles

  • Math leadership

Instruction

  • Early Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, and High School Math

  • Research-based instructional practices

  • Developing high-quality summative assessments that are aligned with unit goals and state standards

  • Development of a tiered intervention system to support all students

    • Title 1 and other regular education interventions

    • Individual and small-group supports for students that qualify for special education services

How can SVL Consulting Help Initiate Meaningful Change?

  • Full program reviews/audits

    • Onsite observations, interviews, and presentations

    • Offsite review of resources, documents, and supporting data

    • Comprehensive Findings & Recommendations Report upon completion

  • Design and implementation of a long-term program improvement plan

    • Recommendations around institutional structures to support systemic instructional improvement

    • Support with Curriculum Maps and backwards designed Unit Plans/Assessments that ensure effective implementation of curriculum resources

    • Math Coach development at the school or District level

  • Evaluation of individual program components

    • Written Curriculum

    • Curriculum Resources

    • Assessment

    • Intervention

    • Institutional structures

  • Customizable Professional Development

    • One-off seminars for full faculty or any potential sub-groupings around curriculum, assessment, and/or instruction

    • On-going PD tailored to a school or districts needs and aligned to whatever curriculum resources is being used

    • Research-based courses to build Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching

What People Are Saying

"Our district needed a coordinated preK-12, student-centered mathematics curriculum that clearly defined what students would know, be able to do, and understand at every level. Mike definitely delivered. Through skillfully collaborating with building administrators and curriculum leaders, Mike developed an actionable long-term plan that included thoughtful, deliberate teacher professional development resulting in increased teacher confidence in understanding/teaching mathematics that transferred to our students and their achievement."

— Susan Quick; Former Assistant Superintendent, Bourne MA

Developing mathematical knowledge for teaching through rich math tasks.

Making sense of NCTM’s Effective Math Teaching Practices