All Learners Network (ALN) is a community of educators who are committed to improving math instruction for all students. We provide professional development that will improve pedagogy, which in turn affects learning outcomes for students. ALN seeks to provide equitable access to quality math instruction by supporting and improving teachers’ pedagogical skill.
Most schools in the U.S. only support math achievement for a minority of their students. Nationally, less than half of fourth graders and 25% of 11th graders are math proficient. The demographic composition of students who are successful overwhelmingly represents the race and socioeconomic status of the teachers who serve them. Our work is to address this disparity by improving teacher pedagogy to serve all students regardless of ability or circumstance.
ALN is fueled by a deep desire to provide math equity to all students so that all students can be successful with learning mathematics. We work to achieve this equity by improving the pedagogical skill of all teachers of mathematics, particularly around accessibility of Tier 1 instruction to all students, appropriate and effective intervention, and acceleration of learning to close achievement gaps. Although our greatest impact happens with systemic work within a school/district, we also provide in-person and virtual workshops supporting educators in developing pedagogical skills that promote learning success for all students. ALN also has an online, self-paced professional learning and resource platform, All Learners Online (ALO). ALO resources assist teachers in making mathematics accessible and differentiated for all students within the ALN Lesson Structure. In addition to immediately applicable, downloadable resources, ALO also has self-paced coursework to guide and inform instruction.
Our Five Key Components serve as our North Star in all of our work and they are:
At ALN, we know that through a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), all students feel a sense of belonging and are actively included in rigorous and engaging learning opportunities related to grade level content. Our ALN Lesson Structure serves as a guide on how to provide MTSS within a math block. The structure starts with a Launch for purposeful discussion-rich number sense routines, moves to an inclusive Main Lesson, brings in differentiation with Math Menu, and ends with Closure - an opportunity for student discourse and formative assessment. Students’ social-emotional needs as well as their executive functioning skills are considered and impact the planning of the first layer of instruction. Some students receive additional support in a second-layer of instruction to build on that first layer through a Math Menu structure and quality small group intervention focused on moving students along the learning progression of grade level content. Finally, a few students receive an additional third layer of instruction that we consider specialized instruction that is supported by quality, engaging, rich thinking tasks that build student understanding.
ALN’s mission, which guides all professional development we facilitate, is to change math instruction so all students have opportunities to learn rich mathematics. This is at our core. This is what drives us in our embedded professional development, our workshops, and our online platform.
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All Learners Network is committed to a new type of math instruction. We focus on supporting pedagogy so that all students can access quality math instruction. We do this through our online platform, free resources, events, and embedded professional development. Learn more about how we work with schools and districts here.