Eight teachers in navy blue polo UCSD shirts and sixteen middle school students in white summer academy t-shirts posing for a photo outside of a school.
Participating teachers and students from the 2024 Sweetwater Summer Academy

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Summer Academy 2025 at Bonita Vista MS
Summer Academy 2025 at Morse HS, San Diego
Summer Academy 2025 in Oceanside
Summer Academy Otay Elementary

The UC San Diego Mathematics Project hosts Summer Academies throughout the San Diego Region as labs where mathematics teachers deepen their content and pedagogical understandings with students.

Each Summer Academy site hosts:

1. A two-week experience with rising 6-8th grade students (sites will differ on targeted grade levels) where every teacher co-teaches collaborative mathematics lessons and then reflect and iterate on these lessons.

2. A professional development series for a limited number of participating teachers, led by experienced leaders in the fields of mathematics and mathematics education.

“Collaborating with other teachers and team teaching was awesome. I really enjoyed getting feedback from others in order to see the “strength” side of things.”

~ Teacher participant  in 2024 Summer Academy 

“Coaches were amazing and supportive throughout the entire program. Colleagues were great to lean on and learn from. One of the most beneficial PDs I have been to!”

~ Teacher participant  in 2024 Summer Academy

“I really enjoyed learning from other teachers’ strategies to get students to have an exploratory learning experience in a math classroom.” 

~ Teacher participant  in 2024 Summer Academy

“This gave me a toolkit that I can immediately use next year that will hopefully make an impact on student thinking and learning.”

~ Teacher participant  in 2024 Summer Academy

A group of eighteen teachers standing together outside at a school.
Teachers participating in the 2024 Summer Academy held at Morse High School
Previous Learning Themes Include:
Ratio and proportions
Groupwork with a focus on student strengths 
Building Thinking Classrooms
Duality, Intellectual Need, and Repeated Reasoning
Two students presenting their thinking on their group poster to the group of students and teachers.
Students presenting their group’s thinking
Thirty middle school students with six teachers together outside for the photo all in the white summer academy t-shirts.
Participating students and teachers from the 2024 Oceanside Summer Academy
Three students working together in a group on a math task with a teacher looking on and listening to their conversation. One girl is standing and leaning over the graph with cards they team is deciding where to place these.
Students working together on a math task while a teacher is looking and listening for students’ mathematical thinking.
Four students working together on a math task with tangram blocks. A teacher is looking on at their work.
Students working together on a math task with tangram blocks.