Math Assessments & Professional Development for California educators
We help California educators pinpoint why students are struggling in Math and build Mathematical Strategic Thinking skills into their instruction.
Learn how to develop students into strategic mathematical thinkers, while ensuring they can demonstrate their knowledge on high-stakes exams.
We are proud to work on Strategic Thinking with forward-thinking educators at:
Compton
Palm Springs
Desert Sands
Beverly Hills
Ontario-Montclair
Fontana
Paramount
Riverside
Lennox
South Fork
Your Challenge: Students Master Standards but Struggle on the CAASPP
You’ve taught the Math standards well, but when it comes to exams like the CAASPP, students often freeze on complex, unfamiliar problems. It’s not that they don’t know the math, it’s that they haven’t had enough practice applying it strategically.
Our Solution
Our standards-aligned content delivers real-time insights, instantly identifying whether students are struggling with basic content, unfamiliar tech types, or specific Strategic Thinking skills. With this clarity, you can adapt instruction throughout the year and give students the exact support they need, before testing season hits.
Your Challenge: The CAASPP Demands Skills the Curriculum Doesn’t Cover
Even high-quality curriculum don’t always prepare students for the specific demands of the CAASPP. Without exposure to strategic thinking students are caught off guard on exam day.
Our Solution
Based on the 8 Standards of Mathematical Practice, we have identified 16 types of Strategic Thinking that show up on high stakes exams like the CAASPP. In our training, we help you maximize the impact of your existing curriculum by incorporating the types of thinking students are struggling with the most.
Your Challenge: Your Time is Stretched Thin
Between planning, grading, interventions, and district assessments, your time is already maxed out. Building strategic practice tasks or analyzing detailed data can feel out of reach.
Our Solution
We do the heavy lifting. Our platform provides ready-to-use, high-rigor CAASPP-aligned materials, auto-grading, and detailed reports. In our training, we work at each grade level to give you the personalized support you need. This allows you to focus on teaching while still driving the outcomes that matter.
Strategic Thinking Assessments: Our formative assessments and performance tasks cover every CCSS and NGSS standard for grades 1-12. These assessments are designed to evaluate students' understanding and strategic thinking capabilities in Math, ELA, and Science.
Actionable Insights: Our assessment platform immediately reports data on why students are struggling. This allows teachers to make timely interventions and adjustments to their instructional strategies.
Math: Sessions are delivered in person or online, with an introduction to Strategic Thinking in Math. Our Math professional development sessions are designed to inform educators on:
- A thorough understanding of the 16 Strategic Thinking Types and their importance in learning math.
- How to analyze questions to determine appropriate Strategic Thinking Types.
- Using the Classtime assessment platform and its specific features.
- Modeling activities that promote various Strategic Thinking Types.
ELA: Our ELA professional development trains teachers to help students recognize and use strategies to help them with CAASPP ELA item types and performance tasks. This allows students to feel more confident and focus on ELA content and less on the format of the question.
Science: Our Science professional development helps teachers with strategies to improve student performance on the CAST.
Our kick-off training at Ontario-Montclair School District. We introduced educators to techniques for identifying why students miss questions and integrating Strategic Thinking into their instruction.
At our training with Century Community Charter School, we broke down real data that demonstrates the common mistakes students make on CAASPP question types such as checkboxes and free text.
Our kick-off training day involved analyzing test-released questions, identifying thinking patterns within each question, and devising strategies to tackle them to ensure the district reaches its CAASPP Math goals.
Our training with the educators of College School District was all about introducing Mathematical Strategic Thinking. We’re working on grade-specific strategies to target the types of mathematical thinking needed to successfully tackle each CAASPP Math question.
Classtime's technology and methodology is supported by rigorous research from independent organizations, demonstrating strong evidence on student outcomes (ESSA Level IV and III).
WestEd
LXD Research