Our projects range from short-term to multi-year programs, from one school to networks of schools. We offer teacher education online as well as intensive and in-person. Each year, we work directly with over 700 teachers and facilitators, impacting over 12,000 children around the US and the world.
The purpose of Measuring Math is to develop a reliable and valid, video-based measure of preschool mathematics teaching quality. This tool would then be used to identify high-quality math teaching and, ultimately, to strengthen teacher-child interactions around math through coaching.
Learn More: Measuring Math | Erikson’s Early Math Collaborative to develop new research tool
In partnership with the Department of Family Support and Services (DFSS), SRI International, and funded by the National Science Foundation, the goal of the project is to narrow the achievement gap and improve early math learning in Head Start programs throughout the Chicago area.
Learn More: NCQTL’s Real to Reel Research Presents the Early Math Collaborative
We work with a number of individual schools in Chicago Public Schools, each one with catered and intensive work to improve early math teaching in classrooms.
Learn More: School Event Engages Families in Early Math Learning | Collaborative Highlights CPS Work at National Math Teacher Conference
Funded by the Golden Apple Foundation, Golden Apple Summer Institutes aim to provide educators with instructional best practices, pedagogy, and teaching techniques to ensure they are ready to teach starting on day one of their first teaching placement in a school-of-need in the state of Illinois. It is a multi-year project that involves Collaborative staff beginning in 2017.
Big Shoulders works with the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools and the Collaborative to develop teacher leaders who are strong in math. The goal is to create a cohort of classroom teachers who can provide math professional development to their peers based on the Collaborative’s approach.
Learn More: Intentional Teaching Comes to Life with Big Shoulders Project | Counting Collections Builds Strong Counting Knowledge | Teachers as Knowledgeable Others in the Spotlight at Math Conference
In partnership with Denver Great Kids Head Start (DGKHS), professional development services are conducted with a goal to increase the academic achievement of children. This is accomplished through learning labs, group facilitation, and ongoing remote support to the centers involved.
Beginning in 2015 and funded by the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation, a partnership with the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) and the Chaminade University of Honolulu allows 25 Hawaii preschool teachers to learn approaches and content designed by Erikson instructors.
Learn More: Collaborative Takes Math Approach to Hawaii’s Center for Early Education and Development
Affectionally titled MAAM (Math All Around Me), this multi-year program with preschool centers in the Chicago area provides professional development services for caregivers of children ages 0-3, introducing them to Precursor Concepts of Early Mathematics.
Learn More: Precursor Concepts
DFSS Collaborative Math
Innovations
CPS P-5 Initiative
North Chicago
Latin School of Chicago
Iowa Department of Education
AUSL
Kohl Children’s Museum
Seix Academy
Educare
Kentucky Center for Mathematics
MDRC
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