Support educators in understanding how to integrate the instructional routines and resources embedded in the Open Up Resources K-8 Math Curriculum.
Focus Area
BetterLesson partners with both digital and print publishers of green-rated curriculum to support all educators with the implementation and adoption resources needed to effectively improve outcomes for all students.
Integrate the instructional routines and resources embedded in the OUR K-8 Math curriculum published by Open Up Resources.
Support educators implementing high-quality digital OUR curriculum delivered on the Kiddom platform, creating flexibility for teachers and students.
Implementing and supporting a successful adoption of the OUR K-8 Math Curriculum requires alignment across your district, support for those leading the change, differentiated training for your teachers, and, most of all, an actionable plan for success. Our OUR K-8 Math Curriculum professional learning programs include distinct phases of implementation to support the successful integration and use of the curriculum across your district.
The BL Lab serves as the central hub of your OUR K-8 Math curriculum implementation and other professional learning programs. Teachers can access curriculum resources, work with their coach, and track their progress towards achieving outcomes that have a direct impact on students in their math classrooms.
Instructional leaders have access to bite-sized OUR K-8 Math self-directed courses to drive ongoing professional learning in specific groups of educators or to support new teachers with a full library of research-backed strategies and lesson plans that provide differentiated curriculum support any time throughout the school year.
Administrators have a complete view of their professional learning programs and easy access to learning progress across various professional learning communities.
Launch experiences are designed to be comprehensive support for using the OUR K-8 Math Curriculum and are separated by grade bands to differentiate content. These learning experiences begin as in-person workshops in year 1 to ensure understanding and alignment to support a successful launch for both teachers and leaders across the district. In years 2 and 3 of implementation, we support new teachers to launch the curriculum virtually through a collaborative Virtual Workshop Series to build their knowledge of the curriculum.
Workshop Series Outcome: I can successfully launch the curriculum by navigating the resources, understanding the structure, and facilitating problem-based activities learning.
Year 1
Launching OUR K-5 Math | In-Person
Year 2-3 New Teacher Support
Launching OUR K-5 Math Series | Virtual
Year 1
Launching OUR 6-8 Math | In-Person
Year 2-3 New Teacher Support
Launching OUR 6-8 Math Series | Virtual
Planning support is a critical step in supporting teachers to build rigor into their lesson plans. To support a long-standing change in practice, we guide instructional leaders and help build their capacity to support the adoption of the curriculum through one-to-one coaching. Teachers come together to learn how to develop impactful lesson plans.
Workshop Series Outcome: I leverage the curriculum’s problem-based structures to plan meaningful learning experiences for my students.
Curriculum Leadership Coaching for OUR K-5
Leaders learn to support curriculum adoption as teachers build the necessary skills.
Year 1
Designing Strategic Unit and Lesson Plans | In-Person
Curriculum Leadership Coaching for OUR 6-8
Leaders learn to support curriculum adoption as teachers build the necessary skills.
Year 1
Designing Plans for Mathematical Discourse | In-Person
Year 2-3
Leaders can better support teachers using the OUR K-8 Math Curriculum when they know what positive outcomes look like in the classroom and can make informed, data-driven decisions about their professional learning programs. Learning Walks are a guided non-evaluative experience that helps leaders observe math classrooms, identify trends in practice and create a continuous learning plan, providing differentiated support based on need.
Learning Walk Cycle | In-Person
Leaders can identify evidence of the target outcomes in the classroom and in student learning.
Small group Virtual Workshops and self-directed courses provide differentiated support driven by the needs identified in your leadership Learning Walks. Virtual Workshops are a space for teachers to collaborate, identify specific outcomes to work towards, and create actionable plans for success in the classroom. Teachers will also be matched with an online curriculum coach in order to plan lessons, try strategies, and measure the impact for students.
1:1 Job-Embedded Curriculum Coaching for Teachers (OUR K-5) | Virtual
Teachers use the Try-Measure-Learn framework with their coach as they work to achieve target outcomes.
1:1 Job-Embedded Curriculum Coaching for Teachers (OUR 6-8) | Virtual
Teachers use the Try-Measure-Learn framework with their coach as they work to achieve target outcomes.
Workshop Series Outcome: I integrate supports that enable all students to access key math concepts.
Designing a Plan to Get the Most out of Curriculum Supports (OUR Math K-5) | Virtual
Using Instructional Routines to Support All Learners (OUR Math K-5) | Virtual
Using Centers to Build Fluency (OUR Math K-5) | Virtual
Using Scaffolds to Support Sense-Making (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
Designing Plans for Using Math Language Routines (OUR Math 6-8) | In-Person
Using Routines to Support All Learners (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
Getting Started with Math Language Routines (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
Facilitating Math Language Routines 2 and 3 (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
Facilitating Math Language Routines 4 and 5 (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
Facilitating Math Language Routines 6, 7, and 8 (OUR Math 6-8) | Virtual
The typical arc to successfully implement the OUR K-8 Math Curriculum is up to three years, depending on your district’s size. Our comprehensive curriculum programs incorporate in-person, virtual, group, and individual learning experiences to provide many measures of support and guidance throughout the school year. Our team will create a learning plan that is tailored to your district’s strategic plan, and includes a mix of learning experiences backed by research and focused on measurable outcomes.
Outcomes are the connecting thread for all of our learning experiences. Each experience is tied to an outcome that makes the change in practice tangible and impactful for students and teachers. For implementation and adoption of the OUR K-8 Curriculum, we focus on helping educators achieve the below outcomes.
Outcome: I leverage the curriculum’s problem-based structures to plan meaningful learning experiences for my students.
Outcome: I integrate supports that enable all students to access key math concepts.
Outcome: I create an environment that supports students to collaborate and communicate about their math thinking.
Outcome: I use the curriculum resources and structures to teach math with a problem-based approach.
Outcome: I systematically support teachers to use the curriculum’s problem-based structures to support student learning.
Support students to reason mathematically by determining which figure, diagram, graph, or expression does not belong.
Help students enter the content and activate knowledge in a low-stakes way using the Notice and Wonder protocol.
Use number talks to increase fluency by discussing and critiquing structure, patterns, and mathematical properties.
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