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High-Impact Mathematics Tutor Practice Credential

Founding cohort, Fall 2026. The Four Practices of High-Impact Mathematics Tutoring, demonstrated with one real learner across two tutoring encounters. 15 hours, live online.

  • 15 hours

    Professional learning

  • 5 live sessions

    Thursdays, 7:00 to 8:30 pm ET

  • 2 encounters

    With one real learner

  • Dec 11

    Credential issued

    Upcoming events

    Every learner arrives mathematically gifted. Become the tutor who can see it.

    Tutoring is now one of the most important layers of mathematics support in schools, programs, and families. Most of the people doing it were never prepared for it. A script cannot tell a tutor what a learner's half-working strategy means, what it will open or block in the years ahead, or when to stop explaining and hand the mathematics back. That judgment is the profession. This credential teaches it, coaches it, and certifies it.

    Humanizing Connection. Connect deeply with learners, their communities, and their mathematical worlds.

    Adaptive Mathematical Trajectories. Adapt and design evidence-based pathways that build strengths, address challenges, and open what comes next.

    Responsive Mathematical Coaching. Notice, interpret, guide, challenge, support, and adjust in the live mathematical experience.


    Mobilizing Mathematical Agency.     Build confidence, autonomy, voice, purpose, and mathematical power for successful action in the world.

    HOW IT WORKS

    15 professional learning hours, built around practice

    Learn the four practices

    Participate in four 90-minute Professional Studios built around the Four Practices of High-Impact Mathematics Tutoring.

    Put them into practice

    Work with an authentic learner across two tutoring encounters. Apply what you are learning in a real mathematical relationship, not a simulation alone.

    Coach and demonstrate

    Bring your evidence into two Clinical Coaching Studios, one with your cohort and one individual 30-minute session with Dr. Matthews. Then demonstrate competency across the Four Practices and earn the credential.

    Dr. Lou Edward Matthews

    Founder of the Inspire Institute for Mathematics and Science and InspireMath Academy. More than twenty years coaching mathematics learners and educators; led national mathematics strategy work in Bermuda; co-author of the Corwin volumes Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks (K–5 and 6–12); has spoken at the White House on hope, heart, and humanity in STEM.
    Founder, Inspire Institute for Mathematics and Science