Onsite Math Academy
CORE’s Math Academy for Elementary Schools and middle schools is designed to enable students to become mathematically proficient and meet the Common Core and other State Standards.
About CORE's Onsite Math Academy
CORE’s Math Academy is designed to increase mathematical content understanding and evidence-based practices to enable students to become mathematically proficient and meet the Common Core and other State Standards. Based on the current research and findings from the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, the National Research Council and other prominent mathematics researchers, the CORE Math Academy focuses on the critical topics that pose challenges for many students, particularly those who are behind in mathematics achievement.
Participant Outcomes:
Connect algebraic and conceptual thinking during K-12 instruction
Strengthen students’ fluency in applying mathematical relationships
Develop students’ perseverance and flexibility as problem solvers
CORE Math Academy Includes:
Big Ideas & Conceptual Domains
Orient student learning around connected concepts and relationships
Concrete-Representational-Abstract Models
Develop students’ flexible use of representations and strategies when doing math
Evidence-Based Practices
Learn instructional strategies grounded in how students learn math
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Course Overview
Deepen Math Knowledge
CORE Math Academy knowledge courses build educators’ content and pedagogical content knowledge to strengthen math teaching and learning.
This course covers:
- Place value, addition, and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
For: 2-5 Educators
Time: 1-2 Days
This course covers:
- Rational number sense
- Ratio and proportional thinking
- Working with expressions and equations
- Modeling with functions
For: 6-8 Educators
Time: 1-4 Days
Build the Foundations for Math Teaching
CORE Math Academy foundations courses equip educators to foster student mindsets and practices that lead to success with math.
This course covers:
- The importance of fluency and number sense
- Experiencing, exploring, and adapting activities that build both fluency and number sense
- Reflecting on and planning for implementation
For: K-12 Educators
Time: 1 Day
This course covers:
- Igniting engagement with problem-solving
- Understanding the problem
- Developing tools for problem-solving
- Processes and plans for problem-solving
For: K-12 Educators
Time: 1 Day
This course covers:
- Benefits and challenges with discourse
- Inviting math conversations
- Managing math conversations
- Deepening math conversations
For: K-12 Educators
Time: 1 Day
Meet Our Experts
Dean Ballard is the Director of Mathematics for CORE. Dean has developed CORE’s math trainings, overseen CORE’s expert math team and services, and worked extensively with schools, teachers, and consultants on effective instruction and implementation of rigorous standards through their core and intervention programs.
Cyndia Acker-Ramirez partners with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning, with a focus on the instructional core, instructional decision-making, and leveraging curricular materials to deepen students’ mathematical understanding. As part of these efforts, Cyndia is leading the development and scale of CORE’s collaborative inquiry model that aims to support growth in student belonging, academic identity, and achievement while fostering teacher collective efficacy and individual agency in instructional decision-making.
As Program Manager, Tatiana Mirzaian works collaboratively to develop and support the implementation of CORE’s CORE’s Collaborative Inquiry model with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning. In doing so, Tatiana works to create experiences with partnering schools and districts to deepen teacher pedagogical content knowledge and develop their capacity in instructional decision-making.
As Program Manager, Katie Laskasky works to collaboratively develop and support the implementation of CORE’s professional learning and coaching model with schools and districts to include developing teacher capacity in instructional decision making and integrating job-embedded curriculum implementation support. Katie also revises CORE’s professional learning curriculum to deepen teacher pedagogical content knowledge in providing math instruction aligned to the CA Mathematics Framework.
