Articles Tagged with “Textbook-specific reflections and adaptations”
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enVisionmath 2.0: Focusing the K-5 Mathematics Curriculum
The process and the documents one district designed to support alignment of their curriculum to the standards.
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Three Ways You Can Improve Your Math Textbook Tomorrow
A mathematics specialist shares quick adaptations you can apply to any textbook to quickly improve it to better serve students.
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Creating Professional Learning for Eureka Math
Approaching year three of implementation, a math interventionist describes how her district has supported teachers in using the curriculum
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Students JUMP at the Opportunity to Learn
Building confidence with JUMP Math’s guided discovery approach.
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Designing content-infused, year-round professional learning in math
A math specialist illustrates the importance of providing ongoing professional development centered on quality programming.
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Finding Our Way in Fluency – A School’s Journey to Strengthen Math Fluency Instruction
A personal story of how educators built their knowledge of mathematics fluency from the ground up, and identified creative ways to help their students master fluency expectations
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Eureka Math – A View from Second Grade
An honest reflection on Eureka Math's strengths and challenges
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A Third Grade Teacher’s Perspective on Eureka Math
What does Eureka look like in the classroom?
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Empowering Primary Math Teachers
How one school moved from contention to ownership of their math curriculum
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Lessons Learned after Teaching without a Textbook
A high school teacher explores the lessons learned after moving away from a textbook-based curriculum.
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Math in Focus: The Search for an Aligned Math Program
One district’s implementation of a new elementary math program
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Navigating the Spiral in Mathematics Textbooks
A classroom teacher and curriculum coordinator describe how they used the spiral design of their textbook to help them focus on creating coherent instruction.
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Using an EdReports Review to Improve My Math Curriculum
A 5th grade teacher explains how she made small adjustments to improve the Everyday Math Curriculum after identifying its weaknesses.
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Everyday Math Kindergarten Tips
A kindergarten teacher explains how she adapted some of the Everyday Math Daily Routines to challenge her students more.
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Everyday Math: Small Routines Build Bigger Understanding
A Kindergarten teacher dives into Everyday Math and finds ways to make minor Routines into Major Work of the Grade practice
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Adapting Journeys Common Core
A veteran Journeys user shares recommendations to improve basal lessons and better support teachers and students.
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Choosing Alignment over Familiarity
How a district made the decision to select a new textbook provider instead of a long-used vendor
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A More Powerful Teacher’s Guide
How administrators can help teachers sort through the clutter in today’s math textbooks
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Top Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Math Materials
If you’re not satisfied with the quality and CCSS-alignment of your existing math materials, here are five tips to improve them.
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Reviewing Is a Journey and the Benefits Aren’t What We’d Expected
Educators from Granite Falls uncovered benefits to reviewing that they hadn’t anticipated
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How Reviewing Materials Changed My Classroom Practice
A teacher explains the unexpected connection she uncovered between materials reviews and the classroom
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When to Use the IMET
When is the right time to use the IMET? Whether you’re purchasing, supplementing, designing, or simply building capacity, the IMET can help.
Why Not Just Crosswalk?
Reviewing instructional materials for CCSS alignment means looking for evidence of the Standards and the Shifts
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Should We Bother with Other People’s Reviews?
As instructional materials reviews are made public, how should states and districts use that information?
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Building the Right Review Team
Today’s review teams will function differently than review teams of the past, requiring new skills and experience
