Math Professional Learning Services

In addition to our onsite professional learning services, CORE now offers a full suite of  services remotely including customized professional learning workshops, courses, and coaching and flexible consulting services to help you and your team address the changes and challenges of this time.

Dive deep into the critical components of effective math instruction.

Build your team’s knowledge of essential mathematics content and their skills with high-leverage, evidence-based math instructional techniques for all learners.

Bring a CORE Instructional Implementation Expert to your site for a two to five session Academy that will build a foundation for improving math instruction and learning.

CORE offers many more services, workshops and publications to support your math professional learning. Take a look at our services overview to see which offerings align with your current goals for your students’ mathematics achievement. CORE professional learning experts are available to help you assess your needs and develop a long-term and sustained professional learning program that will help all learners succeed.

A new instructional decision-making framework from CORE that centers teachers in their own learning

CORE Collaborative Inquiry is a curriculum-aligned professional learning model that puts teachers at the center of decision-making, pairing an asset-focused approach with effective and engaging instructional resources.

Together, teachers and school leaders will grow student belonging, academic identity, and achievement.

Knowledgeable and skillful leadership is critical to ensuring math instructional effectiveness, teacher satisfaction and student achievement.

CORE’s approach to instructional change starts with building leadership skills and institutional capacity. Over multiple site visits, a CORE Instructional Implementation Expert works side by side with site leaders to:

• Share knowledge
• Mentor
• Implement MTSS
• Integrate high-leverage teaching practices
• Facilitate data-study
• Develop plans to ensure ongoing professional learning and sustained academic achievement
• Conduct learning walks to see instruction

Equip your staff with the knowledge and skills they need to redeliver CORE professional development events so that essential knowledge and proven instructional practices can be shared and implemented effectively across your school or district. This model will ensure long-term and sustained impact over time. Training and certifications are available for the elementary, middle school or high school CORE Math Academies.

Many special education teachers are not adequately prepared to teach math. Until they are, the gap between general education and special education students will remain. CORE works with special education teachers and paraprofessionals to build their instructional skills so that they have the same expertise in evidence-based math practices as general education teachers.

Our on-site, job-embedded professional learning provides:

• Personalized training in the science of how to teach math and reading, particularly to students with learning difficulties, including dyslexia
• Instruction on integrating high-leverage practices (HLPs) into instruction
• Assistance identifying and implementing evidence-based curricula, appropriate materials and assessments
• Coaching, including modeling lessons, analyzing data, reviewing IEPs, and setting goals for robust student outcomes
• Guidance to establish processes to reduce the over-identification of students in need of special education services and the over-representation of English learners and children of color

Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) are designed to improve academic, behavioral and social-emotional outcomes for all students, whether they are struggling or have advanced learning needs. CORE helps educators develop the knowledge and skills to implement sustainable MTSS frameworks.

MTSS offer a framework in which to provide high quality instruction and interventions matched to student need. Implementing MTSS requires knowledge at all levels, resources, and organizational structures. CORE supports schools and districts with the design of effective MTSS frameworks and the necessary changes to processes and practices needed for MTSS to truly impact student achievement.

CORE MTSS experts work with:

• Leadership teams to implement a coordinated system of prevention and intervention designed to prevent academic failure and to proactively intervene when students are at risk
• Teachers to coach them on how to identify student need, monitor student progress, and adjust interventions using data-driven decision-making