Hi, we’re the Long-View Team.

We are math teachers, school leaders, and consultants. We’ve taught in public and private, started our own innovative micro school, and worked with educators and leaders across the world in workshops and coaching sessions.

In Math for the Long-View, a group of innovative teachers tackle changing the experience their students have in elementary and middle school math. They thought deeply about the shifts in content and practice that are needed in order to create a learning experience that is authentic to the discipline of mathematics — one based on deep understanding of concepts where reasoning, proof, and justification are a daily part of the class experience  — and conceived of a framework of Connective Ideas that allows learners to take a critical approach to their work, increasing their ability to think flexibly and offer mathematically sound justifications of their thinking.

The team of teachers also recognized the inherent link between classroom culture and school culture, and confronted the fact that to bring their vision to life they would have to start a new school. Long-View Micro School was born from this push against the status quo, with a desire to thoughtfully tie the assumptions this group of educators had about children to the learning environment in all classes, but especially mathematics. As you read this book, you will be immersed in a study of numerous mathematical conversations and artifacts of Long-View learning experiences. You’ll get a clear sense of the distinct ways Long-View learners engage as a community to construct mathematical knowledge as well as the assumptions and practices of the Long-View teachers that make such learning possible.