How to Support Students’ Unfinished Learning in Math

Build your understanding of how to support students with unfinished learning in math. Gain insight about key actions you can take to accelerate unfinished learning at the year-long, unit, and lesson levels. Identify concrete actions and leverage existing resources to increase access to grade-level content while strengthening critical prerequisite skills and conceptual understanding.

Module 1: Making Space to Address Unfinished Learning in Math

• Connect the instructional shift of focus to planning and pacing across the entire school year.
• Understand a key belief that’s necessary to “make space” to address unfinished learning.
• Identify who is responsible for adjusting the scope and sequence at your school or district.
• Consider how you will communicate information and invest key stakeholders. 

Module 2: How To Balance Grade-Level Content & Prerequisite Skills

• Understand why it’s necessary to start the school year teaching grade-level content.
• Distinguish prerequisites that prevent access to grade-level content from those that do not.
• Empower teachers to make decisions about planning and pacing at the unit level.
• Consider how you will communicate information and invest key stakeholders. 

Module 3: Shifting the Cognitive Lift to Students (even if they have unfinished learning)

• Understand the role math identity plays in supporting students’ with unfinished learning.
• Introduce differentiation strategies that can be used to meet students where they are while engaging in grade-level content.
• Consider how you will provide professional development and coaching to help teachers adopt equitable teaching practices.