This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET / 7:00 am - 9:00 am PT on January 18, 2025 for a total of 2 credit hours.
For those who cannot attend the live webinar on January 18, a recording of the webinar will be available for 7 days following the live webinar, beginning the following Monday.
CE credit is only available for live attendance.
Math instruction is often not optimal and may include tactics and philosophies that are at odds with the research evidence on how children actually learn and what constitutes effective instruction. Much like the science of reading has raised the bar for instructional stewardship in reading, math must follow suit so that more children have stable access to the effective math instruction needed to open doors to their future lives including college enrollment and completion. This session will ground attendees in the science of math and articulate the effective ingredients of evidence-based math instruction including what to look for in core curricula and how to supplement your core to maximize learning gains. Attendees will take away tactics to try right away in their own settings and directed to web-based resources to start their own work to adopt science-based math instruction within their MTSS (Multi-tiered system of support) structures. How-to details and examples will be provided for screening in math, delivering classwide math intervention, and supporting systemic changes to cultivate math gains in classrooms. Free print and digital resources will be provided.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will be able to:
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Identify the key ingredients of effective core instruction in mathematics and where to find guidance on evidence-based instructional practices in math as well as which common beliefs are actually unsupported by scientific evidence
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Discover how to screen for proficiency in math and to identify classwide learning problems
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Learn how to use classwide math intervention to improve performance and skill mastery of all students and to close opportunity gaps
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Understand the necessary components of implementation support for MTSS
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This seminar is applicable to K-12 teachers, leaders, coaches, and school psychologists. Parents are also an important audience group and are welcome to attend even though some technical terms and content will be used which may be less familiar to parents who are not also educators.
WORKSHOP LEADER
Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden is a policy adviser and thought leader who actively conducts research focused on improving learning outcomes for students. She is credited with developing models of academic screening that are widely used in schools, conducting innovative research in mathematics screening and progress monitoring using mastery measurement, and the creation of SpringMath. She has published ten books, over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, and is a frequent presenter.
