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.

 

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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
Dean Ballard

Director of Mathematics | CORE Learning

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 Ackerman
Cyndia Acker-Ramirez

Director, Professional Learning | CORE Learning

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.

Tatiana Mirzaian
Tatiana Mirzaian

Program Manager | CORE Learning

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.

Dr. Katie Kaskasky
Katie Laskasky

Program Manager | CORE Learning

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.

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Contact CORE to learn more about CORE Learning’s Onsite Math Academy.