Insider Tips on Picking a New Core Math Curriculum with Ellen Edmonds

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Session Description

Whatever the standards are for your school, diocese, or state, educators agree that a core math program must contain certain elements to propel student achievement. Ellen Edmonds offers a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes considerations beyond what publishers want you to know. She provides more than a checklist of basics and shares her experience in how to navigate a crowded field of good programs so that school leaders can discern what components and support will be most valuable. As a former district administrator, Ellen shares how to spot potentially competing interests so that the needs of your school, your teachers, and your students come first.

About the Presenter

Ellen Edmonds is Executive Director of Professional Development for Sadlier School and has extensive experience supporting professional learning for classroom educators and administrators nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics. Once a teacher, intervention specialist, and administrator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, she has since provided leadership in reading and mathematics instruction and intervention, fidelity of implementation of curricula, implementation of assessment systems, educational technology implementation, professional development, and early childhood education.