Math Pathways Professional Development & Implementation
For academic year 2026 (AY26), the Kansas Board of Regents will continue to sponsor a statewide professional development series focused on Math Pathways.
A list of professional development sessions from academic year 2025 (AY25) is available, with recordings provided when available in the Professional Development Resource Bank below.
This series is designed to offer targeted support to key stakeholders during the systemwide rollout of Math Pathways initiatives.
The table below outlines upcoming professional development opportunities, organized by intended audience. Registration links are included where applicable. Please check back regularly for updates and new additions to the series.
| Stakeholder | Date & Time | Presenters / Format |
Registration (if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advisors |
Sep 19, 2025 9:40 a.m. KAAN Conference |
Facilitated by Sam Christy-Dangermond & Dr. Jenn Bonds-Raacke via in person meeting September 19 Presentation Slides (pdf) |
https://kansasadvising.org/events-and-programs/annual-state-conference/2025-kaan-annual-conference/ |
| Registrar & Admission Teams |
2025 KACRAO Conference |
Facilitated by Sam Christy-Dangermond & Dr. Jenn Bonds-Raacke via in person meeting KACRAO Conference Presentation Slides (pdf) | https://www.kacrao.org/kacrao-annual-conference |
|
Oct 15, 2025 Registrar Affinity Group |
Facilitated by Sam Christy-Dangermond & Dr. Jenn Bonds-Raacke via in Zoom meeting | Calendar invites sent to registrars | |
| Executive Implementation Teams (invited by CAOs) |
Oct 17, 2025 Fall Meeting |
Facilitated by Drs. Jenn Bonds-Raacke (KBOR) & Connie Richardson (Dana Center) via Zoom Meeting |
Calendar invites sent to members
|
| Math Pathways Task Force | Monthly Meetings | Facilitated by Keith Dreiling (Faculty Member, FHSU) & Whitney Turner (Faculty Member, JCCC) via Zoom Meeting | Calendar invites sent to members |
Professional Development Resource Bank
Resources from various professional development trainings will be listed in the table below as they become available. Please check back regularly for updates!
Reports
- Strategic Plan
- 2026 Blueprint for Literacy Progress Report
- 2026 Blueprint for Literacy Study: Advancing literacy excellence across Kansas
- Literacy Study Recap Video
- Progress Report Kansas ELA Assessment (December 2025)
- Appendix: ELA Assessment Reports 2023-2025
- 2025 Blueprint for Literacy Progress Report
- 2025 Curriculum Mapping Report
- 2025 Balanced Assessment Report
Infographics
Learn more about the literacy challenges facing Kansas and the Blueprint's work by clicking on the infographics below.
Literacy is the number one workforce, economic and social imperative. It improves quality of life, leads to better health outcomes and creates opportunities for individuals. Basic literacy skills are a requirement for most good jobs. By 2030, Kansas will add 54,000 new jobs that require education beyond high school.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signs SB 438 establishing the Blueprint for Literacy.Yet a third of Kansas students read below grade level. Recognizing that this number must improve, Kansas is implementing a bold new initiative to change the trajectory of literacy in our state and help all students reach their potential - the Blueprint for Literacy.
In February of 2024, the Kansas Board of Regents adopted the Blueprint for Literacy. Subsequently, the Kansas Legislature passed the Blueprint in SB 438, which was signed into law by the Governor on April 25, 2024. The Blueprint makes literacy a state-level priority, establishes a framework for increasing literacy, and creates a structure to implement and oversee the initiative through the Regents’ new Office of Literacy, the Director of Literacy and the Literacy Advisory Committee.
The Blueprint provides Kansas with a framework to improve literacy rates and establishes two important goals for the state.
- 100% of the elementary teacher workforce achieve a credential in the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy by 2030, leading to
- 90% of students reading at Level 2 on the English language arts assessment and 50% of students in each grade level reading at a Level 3 and 4.
The Blueprint will utilize developments in the Science of Reading to ensure that all teachers are equipped with and practiced in proven methods of literacy instruction. This will be achieved through new applied learning courses that are being implemented across the state's public higher education system to incorporate the Science of Reading into teacher education. In addition, the Office of Literacy will launch a series of courses for teachers in the classroom and school leaders that will lead to micro-credentials.
The strategies and actions outlined in the Blueprint for Literacy Strategic Plan are a set of practical actions to advance educators’ knowledge and skills in the application of Structured Literacy. Investing literacy as an economic imperative in an investment in educators leading to every child learning to read. There is no stronger or more important return on investment that opening the door to literacy for every Kansan.
View the Blueprint for Literacy Strategic Plan.
View the Strategic Plan Executive Summary.
