Professional Learning | Coaching | Leadership Training | Mentoring Support
Promote more powerful and productive mathematics conversations and instruction in your schools
Collaborate in planning for instruction, leading mathematically intense conversations, and using video to develop a keen eye for the essence of the mathematics in lessons.
Be Present, Nurture the Community, Create Space and Energy for Change & Transformation, Encourage Others in the Act of Self-Discovery
Our Mission
The Delaware Mathematics Coalition’s mission is to identify, endorse, and design high quality synergistic professional learning opportunities and experiences that support the actualization of research-based norms for teaching and learning mathematics.
As an organization, the Coalition advocates and supports at the state and district levels for the implementation of these practices in every classroom so that all students gain the mathematics proficiency necessary to graduate having successfully completed a rigorous, meaningful twenty-first century education that prepares them for careers, college, and citizenship.
Our Impact in Numbers
Delaware Desmos Champions
12.8.21
The Desmos Champions project is a statewide collaboration aimed at advancing the content-focused tech skills and knowledge of secondary teachers in Delaware school districts. The project engages cohorts of teachers in both face-to-face and virtual professional learning experiences with a goal of supporting them in translating their understandings to visible actions in the classroom.
Keen Eye Coaching Workshop
12.8.21
Keen Eye Video Analysis Coaching workshops are purposefully designed to help coaches, connectors, and instructional leaders of mathematics develop the skills and knowledge to support their teachers in achieving more ambitious mathematics teaching by maximizing the impact of their pre and post-lesson conversations around their high quality instructional materials.
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Professional Learning & Leadership
Be Present, Nurture the Community, Create Space and Energy for Change & Transformation, Encourage Others in the Act of Self-Discovery.
What Educators are saying about our programs.
Leadership Coaching Lab Project
The promise of Leadership Coaching Lab is to build a robust mathematics community in which the role of coaches, specialists, and teacher leaders is public and itself the focus of study among colleagues. We will emphasize our role in engaging colleagues in planning for instruction, leading mathematically intense conversations, and using video to develop a keen eye for the essence of the math in lessons.
New Normal PBL Academy [Math Camp!]
Led by experienced mathematics professional developers and teachers with expertise in problem-based learning, the New Normal professional learning academy supports the evolving content and pedagogical needs of the problem-based enthusiasts in secondary and post-secondary schools.
Latest News | Stay Informed
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UD & DMC Launch New NSF Grant to Support Math Teachers
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CONTENT-FOCUSED MENTORING FINDINGS
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