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Elementary Math Vision
Elementary Math Vision
In Oakland Unified, elementary mathematics is a humanizing, intellectually courageous practice that prepares every learner to graduate college, career, and community ready. Grounded in the California Mathematics Framework and taught through coherent, high-quality materials such as Eureka Math², our classrooms invite students —especially those furthest from opportunity— into rich problem-solving, purposeful discourse, and real-world modeling. In these joyful spaces, learners build on one another’s ideas, see multiple ways of knowing, and experience productive struggle supported by UDL and language scaffolds. Students leave each lesson as critical thinkers and collaborative sense-makers who leverage mathematics to expand their futures and uplift their communities.
Elementary Math Instructional Guide 2026-2027
Elementary Math Instructional Guide 2026-2027
Every Student. Every Classroom. Every Day.
Every Student. Every Classroom. Every Day.
In 2026–27, STEM work shifts from content delivery to capacity development. Coaching, professional learning, and data structures are designed to build teacher and leader ownership of student outcomes. Every work stream in this plan serves one end: students experiencing rigorous, joyful, and grade-level math and science learning.
To ensure all of our students have the same rigorous math opportunities, we must organize ourselves as leaders within a Coherent Instructional System — six gears that will help us connect district-based practices to site-based leadership to teacher practice to student outcomes.
Coaching is one gear in that system, not the whole machine. It works when it is aligned with curriculum/instruction, assessment/data-driven instruction, tiered supports, Professional Learning, and family partnership.
Coaching in 2026–27 will concentrate on two high-leverage instructional priorities from Domain 3 of the Oakland Effective Teaching Framework (OETF), with 3C.3 Student Communication and Collaboration as the anchor look-for for walkthroughs, coaching cycles, and PLCs:
3A.1 Planning: Teachers plan and prepare rigorous, standards-aligned lessons.
3B.1 Meaningful Tasks: Students engage in tasks that require ownership, reasoning, and productive struggle.
3C.2 Questioning: Teachers use questioning strategies that require evidence and elaboration.
3C.3 Student Communication and Collaboration: Students use discourse to share thinking and engage in grade-level, scaffolded learning. Students demonstrate ownership of mathematical reasoning during tasks.
The Eureka Math² California Edition enhancements — including Data Talks, Science investigations, and Performance Tasks — are the curriculum vehicle for these practices. TSAs use CA Edition materials to deepen discourse and student ownership, not to add a separate layer of PD.
OUSD Math Framework
OUSD Math Framework
In OUSD, we believe every student deserves access to math instruction that challenges, affirms, and empowers. Our framework for high-quality math instruction is grounded in equity practices—deliberate, culturally responsive strategies that affirm students’ identities, disrupt deficit narratives, and leverage the brilliance our students bring into the classroom.
At the core of this framework are standards-based tasks—rich, grade-level-aligned problems that push students to think deeply, reason flexibly, and apply their learning in meaningful ways. These tasks live at the intersection of four essential dimensions:
Mathematical Rigor: Tasks reflect the balance of conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Students are expected to engage with ideas, not just get the right answer.
Positive Math Identities & Agency: Classrooms foster student confidence, voice, and persistence by treating struggle as part of the learning process and math as something every student can and should own.
Equitable Access to Language & Mathematics: Rather than simplifying content, we create entry points through intentional scaffolds—especially Math Language Routines—that support all students in accessing, discussing, and making meaning of mathematics.
Formative Assessment: We use data to listen to students—identifying what they know, what they’re ready for, and what support they need to move forward.
Eureka Math2 California meets the California Mathematics Framework by centering instruction around Big Ideas so students see math as an interconnected story, embedding the Framework's five pillars of equitable teaching so all students experience themselves as mathematicians, providing language supports and culturally responsive practices for multilingual learners, engaging students in real-world data science inquiry, and offering multiple pathways for every learner through CAST-certified Universal Design for Learning.
Pacing Guide
Pacing Guide
Grade-Level Module Maps
Grade-Level Module Maps
The 2026–27 Module Maps serve as your school’s daily strategic compass for math instruction, providing a cohesive, day-by-day pacing guide aligned directly with the OUSD school calendar and Eureka Math² California Edition. Structured with one dedicated tab per module and a clear row for every single school day, these maps lay out the exact trajectory of learning—guiding teachers through the essential daily components of Fluency, Launch, Learn, and Land. As instructional leaders, you should leverage these maps not merely as compliance checklists, but as foundational tools for collaborative planning, data-driven coaching, and progress monitoring. Use them during professional learning communities (PLCs) to unpack upcoming Data Talks, Performance Tasks, and Investigations, and to ensure that teaching teams are leveraging the embedded flex days and multi-day assessment blocks to target student needs effectively. By anchoring your classroom walkthroughs and planning support in these maps, you can guarantee equitable, rigorous, and highly coherent math experiences for every student across your site.
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