It’s been a busy summer doing work we love: supporting teachers and school leaders to engage in high-quality mathematics and equity-driven instruction. Coherent Math had the pleasure of facilitating learning in more than 15 professional learning engagements of 1-2 days each in North Carolina and… Read More »Summer 2024: Teachers are Ready!
Over the past 2 years, Coherent Math has had the pleasure of partnering with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) to support 8 high schools in their implementation of Math 1. This partnership has included coaching, unpacking lessons, co-planning PLC meetings, co-teaching, and visiting classrooms in an overall… Read More »Moving the Needle: Student-Centered Instruction at CMS
October 25, 2023 – Coherent Math Consulting, LLC is excited to announce an innovative collaboration with Denver Public Schools (DPS) to co-develop a problem-based, student-centered, culturally and linguistically sustaining curriculum for Integrated Mathematics 1, 2, and 3. Knowing that students thrive when their mathematical identity… Read More »Coherent Math Announces Revolutionary Partnership to Co-Design New Math Curriculum for Denver Public Schools
Coherent Math was represented in November at two amazing state math conferences – CMC-South in Palm Springs, CA and NCCTM in Winston-Salem, NC. At both conferences, we were able to share how the curriculum we’ve created is student-centered, standards-aligned, and personalized to meet the districts’… Read More »From Sea to Shining Sea – Almost
Coherent Math spent the summer of 2022 in Charlotte, NC facilitating four Math 1 and Foundations of Math 1 Summer Institutes for nearly 200 teachers and coaches. We are inspired by Charlotte Mecklenburg School’s commitment to purposeful, authentic, and collaborative professional learning. We are honored… Read More »CMS Summer Institute
Loved having the opportunity to pause and talk with Chrissy Allison, from the Mindful Math Coach, about math and what I’ve been up to. Chrissy loves digging into the Shifts of Focus, Coherence and Rigor and it was nice to revisit those with the lens… Read More »Talking High School Math on the Mindful Math Podcast
In the spring of 2022, Barbara, Jess, and Tiayana Marks- the lead vetter for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) project- had the opportunity to travel to North Carolina to participate in year one Implementation Walks at CMS. Wonderful to be in schools again and see classrooms… Read More »Implementation Walks at CMS
Thomas B. Fordham Institute hosts an annual “Wonkathon” on their blog to generate substantive conversation around key issues in education reform. When they asked “What’s the best way to help students who are several grade levels behind?” Jessica Varavice from Mastery Charter schools shared this… Read More »Bridging Unfinished Learning with Mastery Charter Schools