COMPASS: Positive School Climate Strategies to Improve Attendance and Engagement

This series will support leaders in improving student attendance through building strong school climate engagement practices.

COMPASS: Tier 1 Instructional Observation for Improvement

This condensed virtual learning series is designed for districts seeking to strengthen Tier 1 Instruction inmathematics and literacy through the use of the COMPASS Tier 1 Observation Tool. The series supports district and school leaders in developing a shared understanding of high-quality Tier 1 instructional practices. Participants will learn how to use the COMPASS Tier 1 Observation Tool to identify instructional strengths and areas for growth and connect observation data to district instructional priorities.

COMPASS Math - Implementing The Math Teaching Practices: Tasks that Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving

Join this virtual professional learning session designed for district, school, and math teacher leaders. Participants will explore Effective Mathematics Teaching Practice #2: Implement Tasks that Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving, with a focus on selecting and implementing high-level tasks that encourage deep thinking, multiple entry points, and a variety of solution strategies. The session will connect this teaching practice to the Student Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, provide practical implementation tools and resources, and introduce the Implementing Tasks Practice Guide. Participants will also reflect on their district's current implementation and identify next steps for strengthening teacher knowledge and instructional practice.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Establish Math Goals

This professional learning experience is designed for district, school, and teacher leaders and focuses on Effective Teaching Practice 1: Establish Mathematics Goals to Focus Learning. Participants will explore how clear, standards-aligned learning goals guide instruction and support student learning, examine connections to the Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Mathematics Standards, and learn tools to support implementation. Leaders will reflect on current practices, identify opportunities to strengthen teacher capacity, and use the Establish Mathematics Goals Practice Guide to support and monitor implementation.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.govPrerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.

Compass: Growing in Instructional Feedback

Leaders will engage in culturally responsive instructional leadership learning, specifically "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" (FMF) of:• Centering Relationships• Connecting Relevant Evidence• Posing Transformative Questions• Prompting ActionAll sessions will include concepts of critical self-reflection and family and community-engaged leadership. Participants will utilize "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" rubrics and scenario-based learning with choice areas to apply the learning to their context.

Secondary Math Network 2026-27

The Secondary Math Network brings middle and high school math educators together to collaborate, share ideas, and support one another in strengthening secondary mathematics instruction. Participants will explore the implementation of the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, discuss sequencing and bundling of benchmarks, and examine evidence-based teaching practices. The network provides a space to problem-solve common challenges, exchange resources, and build connections with colleagues across the region.

COMPASS: Trauma Informed Practices for Safe and Supportive Schools

This professional learning series is designed to support educators and leaders in the systemic implementation of trauma-informed practices. Participants will deepen their understanding of the impact of trauma on students, families, and staff while building a shared foundation for creating safe, supportive learning environments. Through practical tools and proactive strategies, leaders and educators will strengthen their capacity to respond with empathy, foster resilience, and embed trauma-informed approaches into everyday systems, structures, and decision-making.

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Build Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding

This professional learning experience is designed for district, school, and teacher leaders and focuses on Effective Teaching Practice 6: Build Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding. Participants will explore how conceptual understanding supports the development of flexible and efficient procedural fluency, examine connections to the Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Mathematics Standards, and learn tools to support implementation. Leaders will reflect on current instructional practices, identify opportunities to strengthen teacher capacity, and use the Procedural Fluency from Conceptual Understanding Practice Guide to support and monitor implementation.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.govPrerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.

COMPASS: Supporting Diagnostic Literacy Instruction (Diagnostic Instruction - Lit 21)

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Pose Purposeful Questions

Join this virtual professional learning session designed for district, school, and math teacher leaders. Participants will explore Effective Mathematics Teaching Practice #5: Pose Purposeful Questions, focusing on how strategic questioning uncovers student thinking, promotes mathematical reasoning, and advances learning. The session will connect this teaching practice to the Student Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, provide practical implementation tools and resources, and introduce the Pose Purposeful Questions Practice Guide. Participants will also reflect on their district's current implementation and identify next steps for strengthening teacher knowledge and instructional practice.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS: Literacy Instructional Coaching in Community of Practice (LIT04)

COMPASS: High Quality Tier 1 Instruction within the MnMTSS Framework

This year-long virtual course is designed for districts that have completed the Introduction to MnMTSS Pathway and identified Tier 1 as an area of need through the Self-Evaluation of MnMTSS for District Leadership Teams (SEMI-DLT). This learning experience will support district teams to define a shared vision for Tier 1 instruction; assess their current instructional landscape; and develop a clear, actionable strategy to accelerate leaning in math or literacy. Each session is grounded in evidence-based practices, with focused attention on curriculum, professional learning, and progress monitoring. By the end of the course, leaders will be equipped to implement, refine, and sustain coherent instructional improvement efforts.

COMPASS: Cultivating Genius: Deep Dive

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Use and Connect Math Representations

Join this virtual professional learning session designed for district, school, and math teacher leaders. Participants will explore Effective Mathematics Teaching Practice #3: Use and Connect Mathematical Representations, focusing on how visual, symbolic, contextual, and verbal representations support student understanding and how making connections among representations deepens mathematical learning. The session will connect this teaching practice to the Student Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, provide practical implementation tools and resources, and introduce the Math Representations Practice Guide. Participants will also reflect on their district's current implementation and identify next steps for building teacher knowledge and strengthening instructional practice.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Facilitate Meaningful Math Discourse

Join this virtual professional learning session designed for district, school, and math teacher leaders. Participants will explore Effective Mathematics Teaching Practice #4: Facilitate Meaningful Math Discourse, focusing on how to create structured opportunities for students to explain their thinking, listen to the ideas of others, and engage in meaningful mathematical reasoning and discussion. The session will connect this teaching practice to the Student Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, provide practical implementation tools and resources, and introduce the Facilitate Meaningful Math Discourse Practice Guide. Participants will reflect on their district’s current implementation and identify next steps for building teacher knowledge and capacity.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS: Introduction to MnMTSS

This course is foundational to MnMTSSImplementation. Teams will unpack thefive components of the MnMTSSFramework and begin to get a clear pictureof their own system in relation to eachcomponent and subcomponent. To do this,teams complete the Self Evaluation ofMnMTSS for District Leadership Teams(SEMI-DLT). Finally, teams use their SEMI-DLT results and the MnMTSS ActionPlanning Guide to create a focused plan forsystem improvement.

COMPASS Math -Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Thinking

This professional learning experience is designed for district, school, and teacher leaders and focuses on Effective Teaching Practice 8: Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Thinking. Participants will explore how gathering and responding to evidence of student understanding can inform instructional decisions, examine connections to the Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Mathematics Standards, and learn tools to support implementation. Leaders will reflect on current practices, identify opportunities to strengthen teacher capacity, and use the Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Thinking Practice Guide to support and monitor implementation.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS Math - Implementing the Math Teaching Practices: Support Productive Struggle in Learning Mathematics

Join this virtual professional learning session designed for district, school, and math teacher leaders. Participants will explore Effective Mathematics Teaching Practice #7: Support Productive Struggle in Learning Mathematics, focusing on how to maintain high cognitive demand while providing appropriate supports that help students persevere through challenging mathematical tasks. The session will connect this teaching practice to the Student Mathematical Practices in the 2022 Minnesota Math Standards, provide practical implementation tools and resources, and introduce the Support Productive Struggle in Learning Mathematics Practice Guide. Participants will also reflect on their district's current implementation and identify next steps for strengthening teacher knowledge and instructional practice.Prerequisites: Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning Pathway or approval from regional math team.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

COMPASS: Implementing Minnesotas Early Indicator Response System (MEIRS)

As part of the MnMTSS framework,Minnesota’s Early Indicator Response System(MEIRS) serves as a universal screening tointervention process that is used in secondarysystems to determine the effectiveness of Tier1, identify students in need of additionalsupport, and provide high-quality Tier 2/Tier 3support matched to student needs. This eight-session course will support secondary schoolteams to implement the MEIRS.

COMPASS: Universal Design for Learning

COMPASS: School Climate Improvement Process

This cohort will guide participants through a full year of the school climate improvement process grounded in implementation science. Participants will work to articulate their district vision for school climate, determine their building and district school climate needs, based on data, and capacity to implement school climate improvements, as well as draft a school climate improvement plan.

COMPASS: Supporting Staff Wellbeing

This professional learning series will support leaders in identifying solutions, barriers, and sustainability of educator well-being, resilience, and retention practices.

COMPASS: Creating a District Adopted Literacy Scope and Sequence (Sequential Instruction - Lit 15)

COMPASS: Social Emotional Learning

This series will support leaders in building foundational knowledge of social-emotional learning and guiding indicators for district and school-wide systemic implementation.Through this Pathway, participants will define Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and understand the importance of its systemic implementation; establish a process for systemic implementation of SEL in their school or district; identify ways to center equity in their SEL practice; articulate ways to “speak up for SEL” while explaining what SEL is and is not; and plan next steps for continuous improvement using various data.

COMPASS: District Literacy Lead (DLL) Community of Practice (LIT03)

Compass:Designing Learner-Centered Literacy Instruction (Systematic Instruction - Lit 18)

Gifted & Talented Network 2026-27

COMPASS: Sustaining a District Literacy Scope and Sequence (Sequential Instruction- Lit 16)

COMPASS Math - Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching & Learning

COMPASS: Designing Connected and Cumulative Literacy Instruction (Systematic Instruction- Lit 17)

COMPASS: Delivering Responsive Literacy Instruction (Explicit Instruction- Lit 19)

COMPASS Math - Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning

This pathway helps leadership teams develop a shared mathematics vision aligned to the 2022 Minnesota Mathematics Standards. Participants explore mathematical rigor, instructional shifts, and the Mathematical Practices to build a common understanding of high-quality mathematics instruction. Teams use this learning to create or refine a mathematics vision statement, with support to strengthen and finalize their work. This foundational pathway serves as a prerequisite for all other math pathways and provides the essential understanding needed for deeper engagement in mathematics improvement efforts.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mindy Strom. mstrom@resourcecoop-mn.gov

Compass: Growing in Instructional Feedback

Leaders will engage in culturally responsive instructional leadership learning, specifically "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" (FMF) of:• Centering Relationships• Connecting Relevant Evidence• Posing Transformative Questions• Prompting ActionAll sessions will include concepts of critical self-reflection and family and community-engaged leadership. Participants will utilize "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" rubrics and scenario-based learning with choice areas to apply the learning to their context.

COMPASS: Supportive Discipline Practices

This series will support leaders in deepening their understanding of how to create welcoming school environments that foster a strong sense of belonging. Participants will explore supportive and equitable discipline practices to create safe, inclusive school environments.

COMPASS: Equitable Access: A Data-Informed Approach

Problem of Practice Summit 2026-2027: Group 2

Join us for a two-day collaborative event designed for district leaders to identify, analyze, and develop actionable solutions to a key problem of practice in their schools or districts. Through guided discussions, expert insights, and peer collaboration, participants will leave with a clear action plan and the tools needed for meaningful change.

Problem of Practice Summit 2026-2027: Group 1

Join us for a two-day collaborative event designed for district leaders to identify, analyze, and develop actionable solutions to a key problem of practice in their schools or districts. Through guided discussions, expert insights, and peer collaboration, participants will leave with a clear action plan and the tools needed for meaningful change.

Math Standards Professional Development (Statewide)

COMPASS: Cultivating Genius: Train the Trainer

COMPASS Math - Creating the Vision: Foundations of Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Compass: Growing in Instructional Feedback

Leaders will engage in culturally responsive instructional leadership learning, specifically "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" (FMF) of:• Centering Relationships• Connecting Relevant Evidence• Posing Transformative Questions• Prompting ActionAll sessions will include concepts of critical self-reflection and family and community-engaged leadership. Participants will utilize "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" rubrics and scenario-based learning with choice areas to apply the learning to their context.

COMPASS: Code of Conduct Review and Revision

In a four-part series building teams will investigate a toolkit to review and revise the student code of conduct to align with current practices, incorporate nonexclusionary discipline practices and become more accessible to families and students. Participants will be given the opportunity to reimagine their discipline practices and improve school climate. The goal of this Pathway is to ensure all districts have the capacity to develop robust procedural guidance that firmly centers discipline practices that are restorative, supportive, and non-exclusionary.

Compass: Growing in Instructional Feedback

Leaders will engage in culturally responsive instructional leadership learning, specifically "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" (FMF) of:• Centering Relationships• Connecting Relevant Evidence• Posing Transformative Questions• Prompting ActionAll sessions will include concepts of critical self-reflection and family and community-engaged leadership. Participants will utilize "Facilitating Meaningful Feedback" rubrics and scenario-based learning with choice areas to apply the learning to their context.

Math Standards Professional Development (Statewide)