The following statements describe the Fresno Pacific University Center for Professional Development workshops. Further inquiries may be directed to the Center for Professional Development office at 1-800-372-5505 or 559-453-3673.
Fresno Pacific University is accredited by the Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and colleges and authorized to offer coursework through the Center for Professional Development. The FPU Center for Professional Development courses serve a distinct audience consisting of practicing preschool through grade fourteen teachers and administrators. The primary goal of the Center is to meet the needs of school districts and provide courses that will strengthen the teachers, the school district, and the students they serve.
CPM course offerings fall into the 1000 series, which are professional development workshops and conferences primarily designed for students who have baccalaureate degrees and appropriate teaching credentials. These courses are post-baccalaureate, professional development units that are not part of a degree program, but are designed in collaboration with school districts to meet specific staff development needs. Students should seek approval of appropriate district or college officials before enrolling in these courses to satisfy any degree, state credential, or local school district requirements.
The FPU transcript legend reads as follows for workshops:
| Course Number | Course Category |
|---|---|
| 1000-1999 | Graduate-level university credit offered through the Center for Professional Development for workshops and conferences, and not part of a degree program. |
FPU General Enrollment Procedures & Policies:
Enrollment: Enrollment in workshops for which Fresno Pacific University Center for Professional Development units are offered is possible during the first two class sessions. Students must complete an Online Registration (see instructions below).
Refunds: A full refund for tuition, less a $40 handling fee, will be granted if a course is dropped before the course is 50% completed. After the halfway point, no tuition refund will be issued. Grades: A grade of Credit/No Credit (CR or NC) will be issued for all coursework. Credit is equivalent to a B grade or better. Letter grades are not issued.
Transcripts: Official Transcripts may be obtained from the Registrar’s Office of Fresno Pacific University AFTER the grade has been posted by the CPD Office. Login/create an account on our CPD website at https://ce.fresno.edu/create-account?redirectUrl=%2f and click on View My Classes, Final Grade Report and/or Order Transcripts.
CPM Professional Learning Course Registration
Credit is available at $80 per semester unit, payable to Fresno Pacific University by the participant. Students wishing to obtain university credit for a CPM Professional Learning course must enroll with CPM first, and then register with FPU to earn credit. Students MUST register with FPU within ONE WEEK of the last workshop meeting (either in person or online synchronous).
Please follow these instructions to enroll and register:
Go to the CPM Professional Learning Portal event catalog https://professionallearning.cpm.org/events/ to log in and/or create an account and enroll in a CPM Professional Learning course.
Go to https://ce.fresno.edu/educator-workshops/open-enrollment-workshops/cpm-educational-program to access all CPM courses that are offered for credit.
Click on the course name/course number for which you’d like to register and ‘Add to cart’.
Complete the ‘create account’ registration/payment process as directed. If you already have an online account with Continuing Education proceed with the course payment as directed. NOTE: Please indicate the location of the CPM workshop (City, State) in the comments field of the registration form. Upon successful submission, you will receive an email response confirming receipt of the registration/payment.
Upon receipt of the registration/payment, Fresno Pacific Center for Professional Development will register each student and return a course roster to CPM to assign grades. The grades are Credit/No Credit (CR or NC). Credit is equivalent to a B grade or above; letter grades are not issued.
Upon receipt of the assigned grades from CPM, Fresno Pacific Center for Professional Development will post the grades and notify each student by email. Please note that it could take 2-4 weeks after the end of the course for the grades to be submitted to FPU.
Students may request a transcript after receiving a grade notification email from FPU. Sign in to the CE website, click on ‘My Account’ then ‘Final Grade Report’ or ‘Order Transcript.’
We are delighted that you have decided to attend a CPM Professional Learning course. To maximize your learning experience, please take a few minutes to read the CPM Participant Handbook. The handbook provides an overview of the CPM curricular program, details regarding academic policies, and an outline of additional educational services provided.
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Who are my classmates?
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How do I work collaboratively?
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What questions can I ask?
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How can I categorize my words?
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How can I communicate my ideas?
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How can the team build this together?
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1.1 Numbers and Data
1.1.1 How should data be placed on this line?
1.1.2 Where do these numbers belong on this line?
1.1.3 How can I use two lines to solve problems?
1.1.4 How can data be used to answer a question?
1.1.5 How are histograms helpful?
1.1.6 How else can data be displayed?
1.2 Shapes and Area,
1.2.1 How can I write equivalent expressions in area and perimeter?
1.2.2 What shapes make up the polygon?
1.2.3 How can I make it a rectangle?
1.3 Expressions
1.3.1 How can I describe it using symbols?
1.3.2 What are the parts of an expression?
1.3.3 How do I work with decimals?
1.3.4 How do I multiply multi-digit decimals?
1.3.5 How can I represent the arrangement?
2.1 Ratio Language
2.1.1 How can I compare two quantities?
2.1.2 How can I write ratios?
2.1.3 How can I see ratios in data representations?
2.2 Equivalent Ratios
2.2.1 How can I visualize ratios?
2.2.2 How can I see equivalent ratios in a table?
2.2.3 How can I see equivalent ratios in a double number line?
2.2.4 How can I see equivalent ratios in tape diagrams?
2.2.5 How can I use equivalent ratios?
2.2.6 What do these represent?
2.3 Measurement
2.3.1 What are the measurements?
2.3.2 What are the units?
2.3.3 How can I convert units
3.1 Measures of Center
3.1.1 How can I measure the center?
3.1.2 How else can I measure the center?
3.1.3 Which is the better measure of center?
3.1.4 What happens when I change the data?
3.2 Integers
3.2.1 What numbers do I see?
3.2.2 What number is this?
3.2.3 What does a number line say about a number?
3.2.4 How do I compare different types of numbers?
3.3 Absolute Value
3.3.1 How do I describe the location?
3.3.2 How far do I walk?
3.3.3 Which one is greater?
3.3.4 How do I communicate mathematically?
3.4 Coordinate Plane
3.4.1 How can you precisely indicate a location?
3.4.2 What is the correct order?
3.4.3bWhat symbol represents me?
4.1 Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
4.1.1 How can I tell if the ratios are equal?
4.1.2 What does “percent” mean?
4.1.3 How can I convert a fraction?
4.1.4 How can I convert a percent?
4.1.5 How can I convert a decimal?
5.1 Variation in Data
5.1.1 How do I ask a statistical question?
5.1.2 What does each representation say about the data?
5.1.3 What does the box in a box plot represent?
5.1.4 How else can I describe data?
5.2 Area
5.2.1 What is the height?
5.2.2 Can I reconfigure a parallelogram into a rectangle?
5.2.3 How do I calculate the area?
5.2.4 How many triangles do I need?
5.2.5 What is my perspective?
5.2.6 Is it fair to play by the rules?
5.2.7 What shapes do I see?
5.3 Fractions
5.3.1 How can I represent fraction multiplication?
5.3.2 How can I multiply fractions?
5.3.3 How can I multiply mixed numbers?
6.1 Rules of Operations
6.1.1 What does it mean?
6.1.2 What do mathematicians call this?
6.1.3 How much should I ask for?
6.1.4 How can I write mathematical expressions?
6.1.5 How do mathematicians abbreviate?
6.1.6 In what order should I evaluate?
6.2 Multiples and Factors
6.2.1 When will they be the same?
6.2.2 What are multiples?
6.2.3 What do they have in common?
6.2.4 Who is your secret valentine?
6.2.5 How can I understand products?
6.2.6 How can I rewrite expressions?
6.2.7 Which method do I use?
7.1 Whole Number and Decimal Division
7.1.1 How can I share equally?
7.1.2 Which strategy is the most efficient?
7.1.3 How can I write the number sentence?
7.1.4 How can I divide decimals?
7.1.5 How should the problem be arranged?
7.2 Fraction Division
7.2.1 What if the divisor is a fraction?
7.2.2 How many fit?
7.2.3 How can I visualize this?
7.2.4 What is common about this?
7.2.5 How can I use a Giant One?
7.2.6 Which method is most efficient?
8.1. Algebra Tiles
8.1.1 What do these shapes represent?
8.1.2 What does a group of tiles represent?
8.1.3 What is an equivalent expression?
8.1.4 Which terms can be combined?
8.1.5 What do the numbers mean?
8.1.6 What can a variable represent?
8.2 Expressions
8.2.1 How can I count it?
8.2.2 What if the size of the pool is unknown?
8.2.3 How can I use an algebraic expression?
8.3 Equations and Inequalities
8.3.1 Which values make the equation true?
8.3.2 How can patterns be represented?
8.3.3 What is the equation?
8.3.4 How many could there be?
1.1 Data and Graphs
1.1.1 How can I represent data?
1.1.2 How can I use data to solve a problem?
1.1.3 Is the roller coaster safe?
1.1.4 Is there a relationship?
1.1.5 What is the relationship?
| 8.1 | Introduction to Functions | |
| 8.1.1 | How can you (de)code the message? |
| 8.1.2 | How can a graph tell a story? |
| 8.1.3 | What can you predict? |
| 8.1.4 | Which prediction is best? |
| 8.1.5 | How does the output change based on the input? |
| 8.1.6 | How do you see the relationship? |
8.2 | Characteristics of Functions | |
| 8.2.1 | What is a function? |
| 8.2.2 | How can you describe the relationship? |
| 8.2.3 | How do I sketch it? |
| 8.2.4 | How many relationships are there? |
8.3 | Linear and Nonlinear Functions | |
| 8.3.1 | Is it linear or nonlinear? |
| 8.3.2 | What clues do ordered pairs reveal about a relationship? |
| 8.3.3 | What other functions might you encounter? |
| 9.1 | Volume | |
| 9.1.1 | Given the volume of a cube, how long is the side? |
| 9.1.2 | What if the base is not a polygon? |
| 9.1.3 | What if the layers are not the same? |
| 9.1.4 | What if it is oblique? |
| 9.1.5 | What if it is a three-dimensional circle? |
9.2 | Scientific Notation | |
| 9.2.1 | How can I write very large or very small numbers? |
| 9.2.2 | How do I compare very large numbers? |
| 9.2.3 | How do I multiply and divide numbers written in scientific notation? |
| 9.2.4 | How do I add and subtract numbers written in scientific notation? |
| 9.2.5 | How do I compute it? |
9.3 | Applications of Volume | |
| 9.3.1 | What does a volume function look like? |
| 9.3.2 | What is the biggest cone? |
| 9.3.3 | How do all the items fit together? |
| 10.1 | Explorations and Investigations | |
| 10.1.1 | How close can I get? |
| 10.1.2 | Can you make them all? |
| 10.1.3 | How many triangles will there be? |
| 10.1.4 | What’s my angle? |
| 10.1.5 | Function-function, what’s your function? |
| 10.1.6 | Is it always true? |
| 10.1.7 | What’s right? |
| 10.1.8 | What’s your story? |
This professional learning is designed for teachers as they begin their implementation of CPM. This series contains multiple components and is grounded in multiple active experiences delivered over the first year. This learning experience will encourage teachers to adjust their instructional practices, expand their content knowledge, and challenge their beliefs about teaching and learning. Teachers and leaders will gain first-hand experience with CPM with emphasis on what they will be teaching. Throughout this series educators will experience the mathematics, consider instructional practices, and learn about the classroom environment necessary for a successful implementation of CPM curriculum resources.
Page 2 of the Professional Learning Progression (PDF) describes all of the components of this learning event and the additional support available. Teachers new to a course, but have previously attended Foundations for Implementation, can choose to engage in the course Content Modules in the Professional Learning Portal rather than attending the entire series of learning events again.
