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Math Empowered Professional Development
Spend the year empowering thinking. Every student. Every day.
Math Empowered’s year-long cohort pathways give K–12 teachers the routines, resources, and coaching to shift from Teacher-Start to Student-Start learning, so every student engages with grade-level mathematics. Teachers learn alongside educators across districts and states, drawing on one another’s experience as much as ours.
We are not a curriculum. Engagement is instruction-based, not curriculum-based, and the Math Empowered Core Four™ works within any math curriculum your district has adopted. Every kit and tool we provide is sequenced to your approved materials, so the daily routines land inside the teaching you are already doing. The work is grounded in Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics.
Math Empowered's year-long cohort pathways give K–12 teachers the routines, resources, and coaching to shift from Teacher-Start to Student-Start learning, so every student engages with grade-level mathematics. Teachers learn alongside educators across districts and states, drawing on one another's experience as much as ours.
We are not a curriculum. Engagement is instruction-based, not curriculum-based, and the Math Empowered Core Four™ works within any math curriculum your district has adopted. Every kit and tool we provide is sequenced to your approved materials, so the daily routines land inside the teaching you are already doing. The work is grounded in Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics.
Instructional coaches and school leaders join the same year teachers join, with everything a teacher receives, plus monthly sessions built around your actual job and a day with us inside your own building.
Enroll a coach and a leader together and both attend for $3,295 each.
Bringing a whole team? District Partnerships cover private cohorts, school-wide coaching, and leadership work, scoped to your schools on a single invoice. Groups of 15+ always get a custom quote.
Four daily routines. One shift: from watching math to doing it.
Every cohort, kit, and digital tool we make is built around the same four routines, used every day, inside the curriculum your district has already adopted. Together they move a classroom from Teacher-Start to Student-Start learning, where students do the noticing, the reasoning, and the proving. This is the work, whichever rung you choose.
Routine 1
Math Talks
Notice and wonder, out loud, before the lesson begins. Every voice gets into the mathematics, including the students who have learned to stay quiet.
Routine 2
Partner Sorts
Randomized partners, a set of cards, and one question that cannot be answered without defending a choice. Visible daily pairing lowers the social risk and raises how many students talk.
Routine 3
DARE-ing Application Problems™
Discuss, Agree, Record, Edit. Protected minutes on one real application problem, every day, where the reasoning is the product and the answer is the byproduct.
Routine 4
Thinking Pathway Tasks and Proof Games
Building fluency through collaboration and proof: students work through tasks, catch mistakes together, and play games where a move only counts once it is justified. Speed becomes the byproduct of understanding.
These four routines are the through-line of everything above. The rungs differ only in how much of the year we learn them side by side.
Included in every cohort
The Digital Math Empowered Suite
Eight tools, included with every paid cohort. This is what teachers open between sessions.
The Suite carries the Core Four between live sessions: the sorts, games, talks, and pacing tools teachers open the next morning. Included in every paid cohort, never a separate purchase.
One Grade 2 class's NWEA MAP Growth math averages: fall, winter, spring.
This class began the year at 174, level with the national fall average for Grade 2. NWEA's 2025 norms put typical fall-to-spring growth for a Grade 2 class at 14 points. This class gained 27, and finished above the national spring average for the end of Grade 3. One classroom is not a controlled study and we present it as one classroom. What the numbers show is what the teacher described: students who could talk about their thinking and carry it from one day to the next.
“Math Empowered has changed the way I teach math and I will never return to reading out of the book.”
B.D., Grade 2 Teacher
Testimonials
What Our Educators Are Saying
“This is the best PD that I've been a part of yet as an educator (and math isn't even my favorite subject).”
E.M., Grade 5 Teacher
“I noticed that students were able to talk about their learning and transfer their learning from day to day. All my students' test scores went up exponentially.”
B.D., Grade 2 Teacher
“I loved the Math Empowered Cohort! Students loved the sorts and games. Most liked the math talks, and those discussions sparked their thinking.”
