About Collaborative Solution Discovery

Collaborative Solution Discovery (CSD) is a model for school and district educators to collaboratively understand and solve complex problems that impact instruction, ultimately grow all students as problem solvers, self-regulated learners, and critical thinkers.

CSD.WestEd.org was designed and developed by WestEd —in collaboration with Math Leadership Corp—to make the Collaborative Solution Discovery problem-solving model freely and widely accessible to school leaders everywhere.

About WestEd

WestEd — a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency — works with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults.

About Math Leadership Corp

MLC envisions a future where all students have the mathematical reasoning and procedural skills to design creative solutions to complex problems.

MLC partners with district leadership to apply a systems thinking approach to solve complex math education problems by:

Rethinking problem solving: shifting how the district approaches solving system-wide complex problems in math education.

Maximizing the system: utilizing a districts’ existing time, talent, effort, and dollars.

Defining the goal of the system: finding sustainable & adaptable solutions for increasing the number of students who are mathematical thinkers, problem solvers, and self-regulated learners.

In turn, the system grows ALL students’ positive math identity.