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.

Prior to joining CORE, Cyndia was a Professional Learning Specialist at WestEd and a Math Instructional and Systems Specialist with the Math Leadership Corps for Loyola Marymount University. In both roles, she supported schools and districts in using a framework for collaborative problem solving to impact student math identity and achievement through facilitation of teacher and instructional leadership collaborations.

Cyndia holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from California State University Long Beach and a master’s degree in Cross-Cultural Teaching from National University.