A New Four-Part Professional Learning Webinar Series for California Educators
Across California, K–8 math educators are working to build language-rich, accessible classrooms where all students can reason, communicate, and confidently explore grade-level content. As multilingual learners become a growing part of our student population, the need for instructional materials, classroom structures, and intentional language development has never been greater.
This winter and spring, Open Up Resources is proud to launch California Math in Action: Building Language-Rich, Accessible K–8 Classrooms, a four-session, free professional learning series designed specifically for California educators. Whether you are a teacher, instructional coach, school leader, or district math specialist, this series will deepen your understanding of how to support simultaneous language and content development, promote discourse, and strengthen access to high-quality math instruction for multilingual learners.
This webinar series features four highly interactive, expert-led sessions that showcase the instructional features, scaffolds, pedagogy, and curriculum supports within the Open Up Resources K–8 Math California Standards. The curriculum is openly accessible to all California educators and intentionally designed to support multilingual learners, promote equitable discourse, and build deep conceptual understanding.
Each webinar highlights strategies that teachers can use immediately, including:
- Lesson-level language objectives
- Embedded digital math tools
- Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs)
- Equity-based math practices
- Performance tasks focused on data, financial, and environmental literacy
- Strategies for dual-language and multilingual classrooms
- Opportunities to strengthen student reasoning, communication, and academic language
Session 1 — Getting Started with CA Math
January 15, 2026 | 3:00 PM PST (60 minutes)
Facilitators: Ally Lewis & Dr. Jessica Hunter
In Session 1, educators will explore the full Open Up Resources K–8 Math California Standards curriculum and learn how it supports both language and content development. Participants will take a close look at new additions to the resource, including embedded digital math tools, lesson-level language objectives, equity-based math practices, and performance tasks that connect math to real-world applications such as data analysis, financial literacy, and environmental literacy.
Session 2 — Leveraging Language Objectives to Promote Math Vocabulary & Understanding
February 5, 2026 | 3:00 PM PST
Facilitator: Ally Lewis
In the mathematics classroom, language development and content development should occur simultaneously. Session 2 focuses on understanding what effective language objectives include and how they support multilingual learners in accessing grade-level content, academic vocabulary, and opportunities for structured discourse.
Participants will learn how embedded language objectives in the Open Up Resources K–8 Math California Standards curriculum empower students to communicate mathematically, reason with precision, and strengthen language through meaningful tasks and discussions.
Session 3 — Promoting Discourse with Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs)
March 5, 2026 | 3:00 PM PST
Facilitators: Ally Lewis & Michelle Lo
The Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs) are powerful instructional structures that support multilingual learners—and all students—with mathematical discourse, conceptual understanding, and productive struggle. In this session, educators will view real classroom artifacts of MLRs in action, learn where to find these routines within the curriculum, and explore how to structure them in their own classrooms to promote deeper thinking, precision, and peer-to-peer collaboration.
Session 4 — Strategies for Supporting Dual Language Classrooms & Multilingual Learners
April 2, 2026 | 3:00 PM PST
Facilitators: Mayra Velazquez & Ally Lewis
If you work in a dual language classroom or support multilingual learners, this session is designed for you. Participants will explore translanguaging strategies, embedded language objectives, the MLRs, and other supports that give multilingual learners access to rigorous grade-level math while strengthening language development. Practical ideas and structures will help educators meaningfully scaffold instruction without reducing conceptual depth.
Join us for California Math in Action!
Whether you attend one session or the entire four-part experience, you’ll leave with ready-to-implement strategies, practical tools, and a deeper understanding of how to create equitable, language-rich mathematics classrooms.
All sessions are free, virtual, and open to all California educators.