1. LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics Teacher Leader Summit, June 2019

2. What’s in the curriculum?
What are the key components to the curriculum?
What’s digital and what’s print?
Does it support students with disabilities and ELLs and, if so, what does it look like?
Does the curriculum include opportunities for practice?
Does the curriculum include formative assessments?
What do the assessments look like and how do they work?
What sort of digital activities exist in the curriculum?
Does the curriculum include support for families?
Does the curriculum include student workbooks?
We’ve anticipated the questions that you likely have about the curriculum. Questions about what’s in the curriculum...

3. Why is it designed this way?
What are the design principles for the curriculum?
What does a lesson look like?
How does the curriculum balance conceptual understanding with fluency and application?
How is the curriculum different than others available?
How are the assessments designed?
Is there a set scope and sequence?
Can the curriculum be customized?
And how it’s designed…
I’m going to answer these questions but here’s what I’d like to do.

4. Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
Agenda
Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
What’s different about this curriculum?
What does it look like and how can it help you as teachers?
I’d like to introduce you to LZ so you know what we’re all about; so you know what makes us tick.
Then I’m going to show you what the curriculum looks like. That’s where you’ll start getting answers to all these questions. And I’ll encourage you to ask questions then so you make sure you’ve got what you need.
Then finally, i want to make sure you know where to go to answer more of your questions. We’ve set up a demo site for you where you can experience the curriculum and answer all your questions.

5. What is LearnZillion?
Company of educators Helping Teachers access and use high quality curriculum
Began with CCSS Instructional Videos
Expanded into Software to help teachers easily deliver content
Where did the idea for LearnZillion begin?
First of all we are a company full of educators with a focus on helping teachers gain access to and use the highest quality curriculum.
In the beginning, we started out helping teachers deliver Common Core state standards with Instructional Videos, but as we grew, began building out supplemental content and just as important, a software engine that helped teachers easily deliver content to their classrooms.

6. LearnZillion and Illustrative Mathematics teamed up.
Now, the highest rated curriculum is also the easiest to use.
Complete package
Top-rated curriculum
Platform
Assessments and data
Supports for all learners
LMS integration
As we fast forward, we understood the power of the software we had build, but also knew that partnerships with key providers of Core Content would impact teachers in the classroom and ultimately lead to stronger student achievement.
Recently that idea led to our amazing partnership with Illustrative Mathematics. As you are probably are aware, they have set the standard for top rated curriculum. Now, teamed up with LearnZillion, the complete package is really special.
The Top Rated Curriculum on Ed-Reports
A platform or software that makes it teacher friendly and easy to use
Built in digital assessments and data
Supports for all learners
And for Districts that use an LMS, full and seamless integration.

7. Traditional curriculum does not do this
Edweek asked District Leaders
Which phrases describe your curriculum?
Why was that? The more I looked into the research on curriculum, the more I realized there was a problem. This is from a recent research report conducted by Edweek. They surveyed district leaders across the country. They asked them which phrase best described their curriculum. The answers aren’t good. They don’t tend to lead to better instruction; they don’t drive engagement, and they’re not easy to use.

8. As a result, we have a Pinterest Problem
RAND asked teachers
What are your top online resources?
And the research is even more dim when its focused on teacher views. RAND did a study where they asked teachers what their top online resources were.
Where are teachers typically going? Google and Pinterest.
This is what is called the Pinterest Problem.
Why do teachers go to Pinterest? It’s simple, straightforward, and engaging. It’s easy to use. The curriculum that sits in the bookshelf and often comes with lots of extra bells and whistles in the software...that curriculum isn’t used.
But the problem is that the quality is all over the place. Too often it doesn’t focus on the key concept. And, it isn’t coherent.
Based on the need for high quality curriculum that is coherent and focuses on the key concept, we at LearnZillion believe in these 3 tenets:

9. 3. Keep it simple
3. Keep it simple. Unlike the curriculum that might be sitting at the back of your classroom, LearnZillion believes in providing curriculum with content that is simple and visual. No useless bells and whistles or endless call-outs or cartoons such as those that are in the margins of a textbook. Keep the curriculum simple, focusing on the concept and how to ensure that your students master it while making it easier for your students to use.

10. 2. Focus on the concept
2. Focus on the concept. Lessons shouldn’t focus on answer-getting. Lessons shouldn’t just be about giving a formula to get the answer and then providing lots of practice problems that require the formula. Lessons should focus on growing an understanding of a concept. That means that it is okay to make mistakes; it is okay to struggle and think of different approaches. Test and find out. All the while, focusing on the concept.

11. 1. Allow Students to do the heavy lifting
When I taught math, I’d followed the traditional model of I do, we do, and you do. With high quality curriculum such as Illustrative Math, we invert this. By letting students work on a compelling question on their own; then having them work in small groups and in a class discussion. At the end, have the students consolidate the learning into the key concept.

12. What happens with I do, we do, you do?
Why does this matter?
Well, when we follow the traditional approach we inadvertently create a problem for ourselves. We explain it and expect students to do it back. But what we discover is that when we release them, there are a few that dutifully succeed in parroting (though they may not understand why they’re doing it). But most end up in different places. They’ve gone off course and now we need to figure out all those different courses and try to get them back on track. We come up with endless interventions to bridge that gap. We start with the one and end with the many.

13. What happens when you invert it?
Launch
Work
Synthesize
What happens when we invert it? When we start with a great problem, a great question, we immediately allow students to enter into the math. They’ll start in different places but that’s okay. The problem let’s the work on it themselves, then share and compare with classmates, and then ultimately to see the connections between approaches and come to a conceptual understanding of the key point; the key concept. At the end of the class, we’re much less likely to have these intervention needs because different approaches were structured into the lesson from the beginning. Our job is reveal the different approaches, get students talking about those approaches, and then pull it together into the key concept.
This is hard if you’re doing it on your own.

14. Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
Agenda
Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
What’s different about this curriculum?
What does it look like and how can it help you as teachers?
So that gives you context for how we see the world. Now I want to dive into the curriculum and explain how it’s unique….and how it differs from what you have been using with IM through OUR, but before we dive into LearnZillion’s Illustrative Mathematics curriculum, I would like to talk a little bit about what materials you will work with in using LearnZillion’s IM curriculum.

15. We created software to support lessons that were
simple, conceptual, and student-owned
We knew how critical it was to builder a container that was easy to use and amplified the three key tenets. It had to make deep guidance easy-to-access and easy-to-follow. It had to make visuals simple and compelling and scaffolded. We spent a lot of time working on making the software intuitive.

16. LearnZillion’s approach makes it more manageable to
prepare and focus on his students
What responses can
I anticipate?
How will I differentiate
to meet all students’ needs?

17. The teacher gets guidance inside the lesson

18. The teacher uses the digital assessments and practice
to see how students are doing
TEIs are integrated throughout every unit
Reports show patterns across their class
Drill downs enable analysis of student work

19. It supports students throughout the deep study
DNA
Invitation to the mathematics
Deep study of concepts
Consolidation &
application
Support for
all learners
Are you ready for more?

20. You can download performance data anytime.

21. Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
Agenda
Introduction to LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics
What’s different about this curriculum?
What does it look like and how can it help you as teachers?
I’d like to introduce you to LZ so you know what we’re all about; so you know what makes us tick.
Then I’m going to show you what the curriculum looks like. That’s where you’ll start getting answers to all these questions. And I’ll encourage you to ask questions then so you make sure you’ve got what you need.
Then finally, i want to make sure you know where to go to answer more of your questions. We’ve set up a demo site for you where you can experience the curriculum and answer all your questions.

22. Cloud-based software with customer support

23. 2. Student consumables to support classwork and homework

24. 3. Professional development

25. What’s in the curriculum?
What are the key components to the curriculum?
What’s digital and what’s print?
Does it support students with disabilities and ELLs and, if so, what does it look like?
Does the curriculum include opportunities for practice?
Does the curriculum include formative assessments?
What do the assessments look like and how do they work?
What sort of digital activities exist in the curriculum?
Does the curriculum include support for families?
Does the curriculum include student workbooks?
We’ve anticipated the questions that you likely have about the curriculum. Questions about what’s in the curriculum...

26. Why is it designed this way?
What are the design principles for the curriculum?
What does a lesson look like?
How does the curriculum balance conceptual understanding with fluency and application?
How is the curriculum different than others available?
How are the assessments designed?
Is there a set scope and sequence?
Can the curriculum be customized?
And how it’s designed…
I’m going to answer these questions but here’s what I’d like to do.

27. Farrah Lemoine, Regional Account Director
Questions?
Thank you!
Farrah Lemoine, Regional Account Director
In conclusion, I’d like to say that LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics is not for everyone. We have a particular approach and you may decide, that’s not us.
Regardless, what I hope you’ve taken from this presentation is:
First, What makes LZ tick. The three tenets and, and, in particular, this idea of letting go.
Second, How the IM curriculum supports a full year of 6 apple lessons.
Finally, How LZ makes it possible for teachers like Andrew to consistently support a task-based approach that keeps it simple, focuses on the concept, and gives students ownership.
Thank you for your time today.