Who We Are
Each and every child deserves a great teacher. As a nonprofit, we collaborate with schools, districts, legislators, and communities nationwide to recruit, train, develop and support educators who, in turn, support learners at all levels.
What We Do
We prepare outstanding new teachers, support good teachers and leaders to become exceptional, and shape systems and policies that foster vibrant growth and lasting success for all students and teachers.
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How We Do It
The experts at PEBC are lifelong learners who celebrate independent thinking and work to foster agency for both teachers and students, culminating in deep understanding. Our Teaching Framework is based on 30 years’ learning alongside teachers – the approaches are not new, and yet they are not outdated. Educators at all levels can adapt this Framework to their own context and effectively strengthen students’ confidence and competence as problem solvers and makers of meaning.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Foundations of Numeracy Institute (April 2026)
Foundations of Numeracy Institute April 8th-9th, 2026 $519 Early Bird / $569 General REGISTER NOW April 8-9, 2026 Location Adams 12 Conference Center1500 E 128th Ave, Thornton, CO 80241 Pricing $519 Early Bird* / $569 General*Early Bird pricing ends March 8, 2026 Groups of 6 or more receive a 10% discount REGISTER NOW We believe […]
Phenomenal Teaching Institute (Spring 2026)
In this institute, educators will learn how to explicitly teach, support, and plan for deeper thinking with the thinking strategies within in the context of instructional best practices.
Minds on Math Institute (May 2026)
In this institute you will learn how to address all eight of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice within workshop model instruction.
PEBC BLOG
Santa Cruz County Math Initiative with PEBC
A room full of teachers clusters in small groups over half sheets of colored paper, pointing and reaching, talking and gesticulating as they analyze data and sketch lines on maps, striving to ensure that a representative democracy’s election outcomes match that of the popular vote. The task, though fictional, invites participants to make sense of […]
Road Trip to Westmoreland
Earlier this week, I decided to take a trip to upstate New York while Dana Sorensen, PEBC Sr. Director of Client and System Services, was in town coaching at Westmoreland Central School District and the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES. The trip is roughly a five hour drive through some of the most beautiful and rural landscape the […]
Facilitating Groups is Really Hard
In schools we have asked people to coach and mentor individuals. We work with one person and support her growth through coaching conversations and collaboration. We wield these skills of pausing, probing, paraphrasing. We listen and ask really effective questions. We do this with just one person and it is hard. In schools we have […]
All Minds on Math
All Minds on Math (excerpted from Wendy Ward Hoffer’s newest book, All Minds on Mathematics, coming spring 2026 from Heinemann) “I see you, I believe in you. You are safe to grow and thrive here. I want to hear your voice.” – Jamila Dugan and Shane Safir A couple of years ago, I entered an […]
Latest Podcast
In what ways might Math Workshop foster a joyful scuffle and a thinking rally that develops capable and agentic mathematicians? Join Wendy Ward Hoffer as she sits down with Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss her newest book, All Minds on Mathematics, and the intricacies of Math Workshop. In this episode, […]