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.
In partnership with the Department of Family Support and Services (DFSS), the goal of the project is to narrow the achievement gap and improve early math learning in Head Start programs throughout the Chicago area.
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.
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 2019.
Big Shoulders works with the Catholic Archdiocese 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.
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 2014 and funded by the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, a partnership with the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) and the Chaminde University of Honolulu allows 25 Hawaii preschool teachers to learn approaches and content designed by Erikson instructors.
Affectionally titled MAAM (Math All Around Me), a collaboration with the Ounce of Prevention and Educare Chicago, 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.
With a three-year project to develop a meaningful, research-based approach to teaching concepts, strategies, and skills in the interrelated areas of mathematics, computational thinking, and computer science, Erikson Institute will help enable Latin School of Chicago students to become logical thinkers who can use math ideas and tech tools to solve problems and make sense of the world.
In coordination with the Early Childhood State Leadership Team, over 30 educators undergo ongoing professional development that builds understanding of the Big Ideas of mathematics through adult learning activities, video analysis, children’s literature, as well as role-playing and discussion with colleagues.
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.
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CPS P-5 Initiative
North Chicago
AUSL
Kohl Children’s Museum
Seix Academy
Educare
Kentucky Center for Mathematics
MDRC
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