The IMET is a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of the CCSS. While alignment to standards in literacy and mathematics is a critical and necessary feature of instructional materials, and the IMET is a useful tool for understanding this alignment, instructional materials can and should do more. Instructional materials play a role in disrupting racist systems that continue to devalue, ignore, and fail to recognize the inherent brilliance of Black students, students who are English learners, and others. Materials must attend to:

Observe high-quality, standards-aligned instruction in action. The Instructional Practice Guide (IPG) is designed around Core Actions that encompass the Shifts in instructional practice required by the college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core.

This toolkit aims to support educators in the process of selecting and analyzing texts based on complexity and cultural relevance. The resources focus on tools for reflecting on the identities of educators and the students they serve, analyzing texts with multiple lenses, and considering implications for use in their specific context. The resources here may support your process of text selection, or they may be embedded into your lesson preparation process for pre-selected texts (with or without instructional materials). You’ll look at each text as it stands alone, but should also think about how the text fits into the unit you are teaching and how this text may impact instructional decisions across the year. 

Mistake Literacy is a conceptual framework that equips schools and students with the capacity and capability to recognize, react to, and repair their mistakes. This session will help educators and school leaders create the learning conditions wherein students can make the most of what is natural and unavoidable to the learning process – the process itself.

In this session, participants will learn:

• What the research tells us about how to optimize learning from mistakes
• Why learning from mistakes matters, and why it matters now
• How to foster a classroom/school culture that embraces and learns from mistakes
• How to apply this research to suit their unique classroom/school contexts

This webinar offers a certificate verifying professional learning time on the topic. To receive this certificate, select the “Access On-Demand” option and complete the webinar as a registered participant. If you’re accessing this page on a mobile device, the recording and resources from the webinar are available under “files.”

This webinar shares about the development of a new resource, Math Milestones Asset Maps™. Math Milestones Asset Maps™ can be used to interpret and leverage assets in students' thinking towards understanding grade-level mathematics.

Hear from team members who have played a role in developing and using the Math Milestones Asset Maps™. Participants will understand what the Math Milestones Asset Maps™ are and what problems they might help solve. Educators will also share about their experience using the Math Milestones Asset Maps™ in their classrooms and what this work has meant to them.