Teachers can use these routines to seamlessly integrate SEL into math instruction to boost students’ proficiency and encourage a positive math identity.

Some of the supporters of the phonics curriculum California adopted last year are now urging statewide math screening for young students.

Primary-grade students in Lebanon are showing significant gains in their math skills so far this winter, and both math and reading scores are strengthening across the district.

Math scores across the board have risen in the years after the pandemic, but a stubborn gap remains between poor schools and the state average.