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We are currently recruiting district partners for the study “Improving Teachers’ Equitable Mathematics Instruction Through Automated Feedback and Coaching." Contact Hannah Rosenstein at hrosenst@umd.edu

What Do Districts and Teachers Get?

Districts will receive aggregated, de-identified, diagnostic information about mathematics instruction in participating schools.
Districts will receive open-source tools that can be used to assess how mathematics improvement initiatives affect classroom mathematics instruction.
Teachers will receive diagnostic information and improvement tips about their recorded lessons. This information will be delivered privately via an automated email or via a web app.
Teachers will receive coaching from Harvard-trained instructional coaches focused on their automated feedback. The research team can also train district coaches to provide ongoing support with automated feedback.
Support staff such as special educators and classroom aides working in participating teachers’ classrooms will also be invited to participate in the study.
Mathematics teachers and support staff will be compensated for participating in the study.

What Do We Need?

We ask district partners to:

Allow video and audio recordings of mathematics instruction and short teacher and student surveys about that instruction.
Share administrative data the district collects (e.g., student demographics and test data). Data will be de-identified and stored in a secure, encrypted environment following FERPA protections and will eventually be completely de-identified for public use.
Enable researchers to link students' classroom contributions to administrative data for better measures of equitable instruction.
Facilitate recruitment of grades 4-8 mathematics teachers and support staff within the district.

Eligible Districts:

are midsize or large population
hae a racially and/or socioeconomically diverse student population
use high-quality instructional materials

If your district does not meet the eligibility requirements for this study, you can still sign up to use the M-Powering Teachers app for free.

If your district is interested in participating in this study, please contact Research Project Manager Hannah Rosenstein at hrosenst@umd.edu or Principal Investigator Jing Liu at jliu28@umd.edu and we can set up a time to share more information!