The Dana Center/Agile Mind programs, authored by the Dana Center and delivered via the web in collaboration with educational technology company Agile Mind, Inc., are designed for a blended model of instruction.

Each program encompasses teacher professional development and support, classroom instruction, practice and homework, formative assessment, embedded test prep, and real-time reporting on student effort and performance.

The Dana Center builds honest, open, two-way bridges of communication, collaboration, and partnership with other leading organizations in the field. We prioritize collaborations that strengthen our vision and contribute to making our work visible, understood, valued and adopted as normative practice across the country.

We work closely with major professional associations of mathematicians and higher education leaders to advance the goals of the Dana Center. We also convene stakeholders across disciplines to influence the field and advance reform efforts in tangible ways.

Course Materials for Daily Instruction

The Dana Center collaborates with practitioners and other experts from around the nation to develop consistent, coherent tools for instruction in mathematics and science.

Mathematics course materials

The careful design of curriculum and pedagogy has the power to change students’ lives. The Dana Center’s current higher education curricular resources serve three aligned mathematics pathways: quantitative reasoning, introductory statistics, and the path to calculus.

Every year, millions of students enroll in community colleges with the goal of transferring to a 4-year university and completing a bachelor’s degree. In fact, 80% of community college students identify transfer as an academic goal. However, only 33% of community college students ever end up transferring and only 14% of an entering community college cohort completes a bachelor’s degree within six years (Jenkins & Fink 2016).