Quantitative Reasoning Corequisite Learning Community (Fall 2025)

Faculty Learning Community

October 13 – December 5, 2025

NED + Math Pathways

The NED has partnered with Math Pathways staff to offer educational development opportunities tailored to support Minnesota State mathematics and statistics faculty.

Quantitative Reasoning Corequisite Learning Community

This learning community is designed to explore the implementation of corequisite support courses. Participants will share insights on course structure, grading schemes, alignment, student engagement, and both cognitive and non-cognitive support strategies, as well as best practices. We will also discuss our struggles and successes.

Module 1 answers the question “Why Corequisites?” We’ll start with the definition of what a corequisite is and what it isn’t then focus on the evidence supporting corequisite implementation.

Module 2 focuses on Corequisite Design.  We’ll work our way through topics such as Course outcomes, Credits, Comingled vs. Cohort, Class size, Staffing, Placement, Grading, Scaling, Modes, Scheduling, Withdrawal/drop policies, Syllabus policies.

Module 3 is all about the Corequisite Classroom Experience. What do you actually do during a corequisite class period? How can you incorporate student voice? What  opportunities are there for specific, actionable feedback? How do we feature good mistakes, scaffold, provide low stakes collaborative practice, facilitate active learning? How can we make separate homework, purposeful, intentional, and valuable?

Module 4 works with Aligning the Corequisite Support Course to the College-Level Course.

Module 5 moves beyond prerequisite content and focuses on Support Activities, these may include previewing upcoming topics, reviewing past topics, spending more time/diving more deeply into current topics, scaffolding the learning, trouble-shooting the common trouble spots, etc.

Module 6 is on the Basics of Non-Cognitive Supports. We’ll define what they are, investigate why they are important, and highlight the most relevant supports for our students.

Module 7 will focus on Implementing Non-Cognitive Supports in the corequisite classroom. This is the “How” of non-cognitive supports.

Module 8 aims to Connect Students to Support Services available at your campus. We’ll work on identifying students who have particular needs and identifying the appropriate resource(s).

Outcomes

After the community, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the purpose of corequisite support courses.
• Explore effective strategies to align corequisites with college-level coursework.
• Identify evidence-based best practices for implementing corequisite support courses.
• Identify nonacademic services to support corequisite students.
• Share examples, resources, experiences, and suggestions for teaching the college corequisite to enhance student learning.
• Foster connections among faculty across the system to build a collaborative community for shared engagement.

Schedule

Learning communities will run October 13 – December 5, 2025 and include a mix of asynchronous activities and synchronous collaboration meetings.

Participants should expect to join synchronous monthly Zoom meetings held from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on the following dates:

• 10/23
• 11/6
• 11/20
• 12/4

Audience

This learning community is intended for Minnesota State math faculty who are currently teaching or planning to teach a Statistics course with corequisite.

Compensation

The Math Pathways grant will pay first come first serve Minnesota State mathematics faculty participants to register a stipend of $1050 (including fringe) for successful completion of the learning community in fall 2025.

Course Location 

In addition to Zoom meetings, this course is hosted and facilitated using the D2L Brightspace instance of Minnesota State called, MnSite. 

Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.

Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.

Questions?  

Contact the Network for Educational Development.

Registration Required

Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite will be sent to you as a reminder of the event start date.