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.

 

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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 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.

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.

Dr. Katie Kaskasky
Katie Laskasky

Program Manager | CORE Learning

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.

Tatiana Mirzaian
Tatiana Mirzaian

Program Manager | CORE Learning

Tatiana Mirzaian works collaboratively to develop and support the implementation of CORE’s Collaborative Inquiry model with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning.

Get in touch

Contact CORE to learn more about CORE Learning’s Rise in Math services.