Open Up Resources
OUR professional learning is designed to inspire and push teachers to adopt a growth-oriented perspective, foster resilience, and embrace change. Through a blend of workshops and resources, we cultivate a culture where teachers become agents of change, seeking new approaches to education. We support teachers in redefining education by reshaping the way teachers think, learn, and inspire to enrich student experiences and elevate learning outcomes.
About Our Team
We have ~28 facilitators, 68% diverse background or underserved populations.
Service Overview
The Teacher Leader In Residence (TLIR) will provide fully customizable professional learning (PL) experiences. The TLIR will meet teachers where they are in their implementation journey to identify and address specific areas of need and work collaboratively with teachers to develop solutions to ensure long-term implementation success.
- Virtual
- On-site
- Asynchronous courses
- Free monthly PLC’s
- Webinars
- Social Communities
For Open Up High School Math, the authors of the curriculum, Mathematics Vision Project deliver professional learning for your teachers and leaders for the High School Math curriculum. Their deep knowledge will help guide your teachers through a successful implementation.
Building District Capacity
Open Up Resources addresses the needs of school-level and district-level leaders in the implementation of the curriculum. These structures may be in virtual or on-site formats and include initial training, coaching, and Learning Walk Support. Here are some learning objectives for leadership support:
Unpack the research-based design of the curriculum, as well as the critical shifts in pedagogy
Discuss common implementation challenges & ways to support teachers
Develop and use a district-aligned EL Education K-8 Language Arts learning walk tool to formatively assess the implementation of the curriculum.
Identify trends across classrooms, teacher strengths, and high-impact next steps for implementation
Addressing Equity
OUR’s Professional Learning (PL) promotes language development and equity in education, ensuring all students access a curriculum that values their voices.
It incorporates the Science of Reading, emphasizing phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Instruction is differentiated to honor diverse backgrounds and prior knowledge.
An asset-based approach celebrates the strengths students bring.
Evidence-based strategies like Language Dives and Conversation Cues scaffold learning.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ensures multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression.
Lessons include “Supporting Multilingual Learners” and “Meeting Students’ Needs.”
Instruction is guided by WIDA ELD Standards, fostering meaningful, inclusive, and accessible learning for every student.
Message Vendor
Approved Content Areas
ELA
- EL Education Language Arts (K-5)
- EL Education Language Arts (6-8)
Math
- Open Up Resources (K-5, 6-8)
- Open Up Resources High School Mathematics (AGA, Integrated)
Professional Learning
Initial Implementation Supports
Ongoing Implementation: Support for Teachers
Ongoing Implementation: Support for Leaders
Experience
Systems experience
- Traditional District
- Charter
- Private
- Parochial
- Urban
- Suburban
- Rural
- Fewer than 2,500 students
- 2,500 to 10,000 students
- 10,000 to 50,000 students
- 50,000 to 100,000 students
- More than 100,000 students
- Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
- Greater than 20% of English language learners
- Greater than 20% of students with disability
- Greater than 80% students of color
DE districts or charters vendor has worked for
- Laurel School District
- Academy of Dover Charter School
Other states vendor has worked for
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island
