Bringing The Map Classroom Challenges To Scale: A Promising Partnership Strategy

Authors

Inverness Research

Purpose

The collaboration among three distinct but closely aligned groups offers a promising implementation strategy for bringing MAP Classroom Challenges to scale. It also serves as an illustration of how innovative curricular materials such as the Classroom Challenges can play a pivotal role in furthering the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's goal of having 80% of low-income and minority students ready for college by 2025.

The cooperating groups included: 1) the Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) that developed innovative curricular materials, the Classroom Challenges (CCs), centered on the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice, 2) the Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) that provided teachers and administrators in selected districts in Colorado and Louisiana with professional development focused on the CCs, and 3) the school districts that created supportive contexts for instructional improvement.

In July 2013, Inverness Research conducted a survey of teachers and administrators in Colorado and Louisiana who participated in the professional activities centered on the MAP Classroom Challenges and provided by the Mathematics Design Collaborative. These survey results, bolstered by interviews with key project leaders, show the efficacy of a particular large-scale implementation strategy aimed at helping teachers understand and practice rigorous new state standards, similar to and including the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).

Intended Audience

Math Reform Leaders, Foundations, and general public.

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Date published

Feb 2015

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