Nondegree Course Descriptions

Mount Holyoke College Graduate Programs offers intensive credit and non-credit options for many of our courses. While both options provide you with valuable skills for career advancement and the opportunity to network with other professionals, they are geared towards learners with different goals and needs.

Read more about the differences here: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/professional-and-non-degree/coursework-fees

Important Note: After a class begins, it is not possible to switch between the non-credit and credit options. If you need additional guidance, please call 413-538-3478 or email graduateadmissions@mtholyoke.edu.

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Mathematics Education

Teacher Leadership

January 2026

Professional Development for Coaching Mathematics

Description: This course is designed for elementary math specialists with responsibilities for supporting teachers in the development of strong mathematics education programs. Participants explore issues related to: learning mathematics while in the context of teaching; facilitating the professional development of colleagues; teachers' and students' ideas about mathematics and learning; and fostering a stance of collaborative investigation. By way of a central theme of mathematics learning, the institute will offer coaches opportunities to explore, through the coaching perspective, ideas of number and geometry in the elementary grades.
Faculty: Polly Wagner and Lachanda Garrison
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: January 6, 8, 13, 15, 22, 24.
Meeting times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5-8 pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1860 for 2 credits. Scholarships available for for-credit course

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Data Informed Tiered II Numeracy Instruction
Description: Implement math interview assessments and instructional techniques. Unpack a learning trajectory that best fits your students' needs. Analyze data from interview assessments and receive support as you implement and design strengths-based instruction for your students.
Pre-Requisite: Early Numeracy I or Add+VantageMR Course 1 Professional Development course.
Faculty: Dina Mendola
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: January 7, 14 and 21.
Meeting times: Wednesdays, 6:30 - 9:00pm ET.
Credit cost: $930 for 1 credit. Scholarships available.

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Spring 2026

Early Numeracy Assessment and Instruction I
Description: Identify and address challenges students are having with K-2 math skills. Learn and practice interview assessments that help you develop strategies to monitor and support progress in number words and numerals, structuring numbers, and addition and subtraction. Provides Add+VantageMR (AVMR) certification.
Faculty: Marria Carrington
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: Jan 28, Feb 4, 25, March 11, April 1, 8, 29.
Meeting times: Wednesdays, 6:30 - 9:00pm ET.
Credit cost: $2010 (includes $150 materials fee). Scholarships available.

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Developing Mathematical Ideas: Making Meaning for Operations
Description: Examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The course will begin with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.
Format: Live online via Zoom.
Meeting dates: March 26 - May 7.
Meeting times: Thursdays, 6:30 - 9:00pm ET.
Noncredit cost: $895.
Credit cost: $1860 for 2 credits. Scholarships available.

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