BFF Summer Series Institute
Four days. Fact fluency, built to last.
Fluency and thinking classrooms are not rivals, and the BFF Series is the proof. Across four summer days, educators work through the Build Fact Fluency strategy progressions, from Make Ten through Integers, and leave with ready-to-teach curricular materials, daily fluency routines, and a plan for developing fluency across a school year. Built on reasoning and proof rather than timed drills, and designed for the Tier 2 intervention work our year-long cohorts don't cover.
Who this is for
Interventionists and Tier 2 teams
The fluency work our year-long cohorts do not cover, in one concentrated stretch.
K-8 classroom teachers
Daily fluency routines that fit inside the time you already have.
Coaches and specialists
A full view of the strategy progressions, Make Ten through Integers.
What’s included
Four days. Fact fluency, built to last.
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Four days, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Concord Audubon Center. Dates announced each spring.
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The strategy progressions
Make Ten, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Expressions and Equations, and Integers.
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Ready-to-teach materials
Curricular materials, daily fluency routines, and a year-long fluency plan you leave with.
Built on the Core Four™
The Core Four, daily
Math Talks, Partner Sorts, DARE-ing Application Problems, and Thinking Pathway Tasks and Proof Games, used as everyday routines rather than special occasions.
Teacher-Start to Student-Start
Shift the thinking to students: they notice, try, defend, and revise, while you facilitate the conversation that follows.
Embedded differentiation
Open grade-level access with representations and entry points already built into the task, so more students can join the same mathematics.
Intervention in the moment
Read student thinking as it happens and respond during the lesson, instead of waiting for the next unit or the next assessment.
174 → 188 → 201
One Grade 2 class's NWEA MAP Growth math averages: fall, winter, spring.
This class began the year at 174, level with the national fall average for Grade 2. NWEA's 2025 norms put typical fall-to-spring growth for a Grade 2 class at 14 points. This class gained 27, and finished above the national spring average for the end of Grade 3. One classroom is not a controlled study and we present it as one classroom. What the numbers show is what the teacher described: students who could talk about their thinking and carry it from one day to the next.
“Very helpful when you are looking to incorporate more hands-on games.”
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$795
The Suite, your new 2026 Version 2 Kit, and the learning library, on your schedule.
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Full Cohort · In-Person
$2,495
27 live hours, with a coach modeling lessons in real classrooms.
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District Partnerships
Custom
Private cohorts, school-wide coaching, and leadership work.
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