PD for ME (Professional Development for Math Educators)

Thank you for your tremendous response to the Powerful Practice: Evidence-Informed Math Teaching course. Due to the overwhelming interest, online registration for the 2024-25 school year is now closed. If you would like to be the first to know when registration reopens for July 2025, please subscribe for CDE's CoMath Newsletter by sending an email to listserv@cdelist.cde.state.co.us with the single line "subscribe comath firstname lastname" in the body (without the quotes), replacing "firstname lastname" with your name.

As part of House Bill 23-1231 : Improving Mathematics Outcomes in K-12, CDE partnered with TNTP to provide a no-cost professional development course covering high quality, evidence-informed math instructional practices. Colorado educators, school administrators, out-of-school time professionals and other supporting professionals can pre-register to participate in the asynchronous course, Powerful Practice: Evidence-Informed Math Teaching. Once registered, TNTP will enroll registrants beginning July 2025.

Who’s it for?

All Colorado Math educators and those who support them, including:

All Pre-K and elementary teachers
Secondary Math teachers
Administrators supporting elementary or math teachers
Paraprofessionals
Out-of-school time professionals
Math tutors
Tribal Education Agencies
District and BOCES personnel
Charter school instructional staff

When is it?

The course launched in June 2024 and is at capacity until enrollment reopens in July 2025. Once registered, participants will have access to all course material for 12 months. There will be additional opportunities for schools, districts, BOCES or other educational organizations to organize cohorts, with assistance from CDE, to help support participants with online meetings and discussion guides to structure deep discussions that can lead to greater impact on practice in the classroom.

Sounds great, where can I register?

Subscribe to CDE's CoMath Update to be the first to know when the course reopens for registration!

What’s in it?

The course supports educators to develop an understanding of evidence-informed instructional methods to teach math to students in grades K-12, with particular attention paid to teaching students who are below grade level or struggling in math, children with disabilities and students who are English language learners. The online curriculum allows participants to work independently or with a cohort supported by regular discussions. The titles of the 14, 1-hour modules are below with detailed descriptions of specific module objectives found on the table of contents for the course.

How the Brain Learns Math: An Overview
Rigor: Let your standards be your guide
Procedural Fluency and Conceptual Understanding: Two sides of the same coin
Fluency: It’s more than speed
Learning Goals: Focus on the math not the trick
Learning Goals: What’s language got to do with it?
Math Tasks: What’s in a task?
Representations: Opening the doors to mathematical ideas
Word Problems: The problem with key words
Discourse: Look who’s talking now
Questioning: Assessing and Advancing Student Understanding
Expectations: Power of asset-based language
Just in Time Supports: Moving beyond remediation to accelerate learning
Putting it all together

Additional Related Resources:

Improving Mathematics Outcomes in Grades K-12
Math Assessment and Curriculum Review Database
Definition of "Below Grade Level" or "Struggling in Math"
Supporting Struggling Learners in Math
Intervention Rubrics to Improve Math Outcomes
CDE's fact sheet for HB23-1231 (PDF)
Subscribe to the CoMath Listserv for information to support quality mathematics education in Colorado and updates regarding House Bill 23-1231.

For further assistance, please contact mathacceleration@cde.state.co.us.