If you are seeking to challenge your students’ thinking and build their conceptual understanding, Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, Grades 6–12 is a must-have resource. Open Middle Math will provide you with engaging, student-focused tasks, practical implementation strategies, and a wealth of support resources. Open middle seats could reduce Covid exposure of maskless air travelers, CDC study shows Published Wed, Apr 14 2021 3:07 PM EDT Updated Wed, Apr 14 2021 6:14 PM EDT Leslie Josephs @lesliejosephs.
Our nonprofit’s mission: to increase equity in K–12 education by making excellent, top-rated curricula openly accessible to districts and schools.
Our core curricula are all:
Authored by experts
Foremost math and ELA leaders design curricula rooted in the standards.
Designed for diverse classrooms
We incorporate advanced support for ELLs and students with disabilities.
Supported by PL & services
A full-service professional learning suite supports meaningful shifts in teacher practice.
Refined by teachers
Programs are polished through extensive in-classroom experience.
Offered openly, as OER
Our openly-licensed curricula foster equal access to excellent materials.
Available in digital & print
Suitable for 1:1 and non-digital classrooms, our materials meet you where you are.
Learn more about our core programs:
Save the Date: HIVE 2021
Our annual professional learning event went virtual in 2020. Due to the overwhelming response, HIVE 2021 will also be virtual. Tickets go on sale January 2021.
Open Middle Task
At HIVE, educators learn from curriculum authors and facilitators in an intimate, immersive environment with optional flex sessions to customize their experience.
Math Pathways: July 12 – 16
ELA Pathways: July 19 – 23
We provide end-to-end adoption support.
Our materials have been designed for use as core curricula, and we understand that districts seek support with effective and easy implementation.
Robert Kaplinsky Open Middle
Customized professional learning
We tailor PL plans to focus on supporting teams—teachers and/or your own coaches and trainers—with all necessary shifts in practice.
Flexible classroom deployment
Whether you need low-cost printing services or LMS integration, we are prepared to support many technology scenarios.
Innovative teacher supports
Remote support gives teachers timely assistance, and national professional learning communities foster peer support.
Open Middle Math
Digital Curriculum powered by Kiddom
With our digital partner, Kiddom, we are making digital curriculum work for educators—rather than the other way around.
Kiddom fully supports Open Up 6–8 Math and K–8 EL Education core curricula and Reading with Relevance SEL supplemental curricula in addition to giving teachers tools to: edit the curriculum, grade, provide personalized instruction, support differentiation, deliver synchronous instruction and more.
“While the exceptional quality of these materials is our primary focus, we are also drawn to the potential of materials that marry superior standards-alignment with affordability, as Open Educational Resources.”
Open Middle Integers
Steve Holmes
Superintendent, Sunnyside Unified School District, AZ
Governor Abbott Lifts Mask Mandate, Opens Texas 100 Percent
Governor Greg Abbott has issued an Executive Order (GA-34) lifting the mask mandate in Texas and increasing capacity of all businesses and facilities in the state to 100 percent.
This executive order rescinds most of the Governor's earlier Executive Orders related to COVID-19. Effective Wednesday, March 10, 2021, all businesses of any type may open to 100% capacity. Additionally, this order ends the statewide mask mandate in Texas. Businesses may still limit capacity or implement additional safety protocols at their own discretion.
If COVID-19 hospitalizations in any of the 22 hospital regions in Texas get above 15% of the hospital bed capacity in that region for seven straight days, a County Judge in that region may use COVID-19 mitigation strategies. However, County Judges may not impose criminal penalties for not following COVID-19 orders nor may penalties be imposed for failing to wear a face mask. If restrictions are imposed at a County level, those restrictions may not include reducing capacity to less than 50% for any type of entity.
Read the Press Release.