Rise in Math
Rise in Math is a coaching and inquiry-based professional learning model that helps educators create active learning classrooms where students are engaged, empowered, and successful doers of mathematics.
CORE’s Rise in Math services provide educators with curriculum-aligned, classroom-tested, evidence-based practices and strategies that promote problem-solving, mathematical thinking, and foster students’ joy of learning.
Our Services
Seminars + Coaching
Teachers engage in a 3-part seminar going deep on a strand of learning accompanied by teacher coaching sessions
Instructional Rounds + Coaching
Site-based teams work to create a shared vision and study their own classrooms, paired with teacher coaching and instructional leadership collaborations
Rise in Math Supports School Teams to:
Maximize student learning through classroom interactions
Deepen students’ mathematical knowledge and skills, and develop ownership of learning
Lead a culture of co-learning and continuous improvement
Implement practical instructional strategies and tools
Get in touch
The CORE Learning team is here to share information, answer any questions you may have, and partner to meet your educators’ and students’ needs.
Seminars + Coaching
Current Strands of Learning
Equity and Access in the Math Classroom
Position students as powerful mathematical thinkers by building on their math knowledge
Social-Emotional Learning in the Math Classroom
Grow students as problem solvers and self-regulated learners through embedded approaches to social-emotional learning
Engaging Multilingual Learners in Math
Encourage discourse while simultaneously developing mathematical thinking and academic language
Upcoming Strands of Learning
Designing Active Math Learning Classrooms
Plan experiences for students to interact with each other, the mathematics, and themselves within the instructional core
Scaling Active Math Learning Classrooms
Integrate routines to engage students in thinking mathematically and problem-solving to apply and transfer knowledge
Each strand of learning includes three 60-minute group seminars and three 45-minute coaching sessions.
Instructional Rounds + Coaching
Teachers
Step 1: Conceptualize the Ideal
Workshop – 90 mins Develop student-centered goals
Step 2: Analyze Evidence to Focus Direction
Instructional Rounds – 3 hrs Observe classrooms to refine collective student-centered goals
Step 3: Choose Solutions
Workshop – 60 mins 1-on-1 Coaching – 45 mins
Step 4: Adjust Implementation
Instructional Rounds (×3) – 3 hrs 1-on-1 Coaching (×2) – 45 mins
School Leaders
Step 1: Conceptualize the Ideal
Network #1 – 90 mins Launch of Rise in Math
Step 2: Analyze Evidence to Focus Direction
Network #2 – 60 mins Analyze current professional learning resources
Step 3: Choose Solutions
Network #3 – 60 mins Monitor and give feedback to attain student-centered goals
Step 4: Adjust Implementation
Network #4 – 60 mins Plan for professional learning and sustainability for the next year
Meet Our Math Experts
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.
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.
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.
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.
