Event Archive

What: We will collectively reflect on the progress made towards People, Process, and Prototype goals, and together share Inclusive R&D learnings that can support one another in the year to come.

Why: You are a vital part of this progress! We highly encourage as many of your team members to attend as possible.

The construct matrix is a library of measures/assessments being used by the EF+Math community, and was created to foster common understanding of the measurement plans and support constructive conversations about opportunities for awardees to build on each other’s work. The Methods & Measures (M&M) Team created an Excel file from the most current version of Prototyping Track team measurement plans. It should be viewed as a living document (as with all of our work!) that will evolve over time. We recognize that the prototyping track teams are at different stages in working with district partners and therefore some of the measurement information in the matrix is based on the preliminary plan submitted with the proposal. Teams that are earlier in their development may especially find value in this information as they are selecting measures.

Alex Resch, the Research and Evaluation Lead for the Methods and Measures Team, will lead this interactive session to talk about different research approaches in rapid-cycle development studies and approaches to studying the utility of components, usability, feasibility, accessibility and early indicators of positive effects in student learning. What components of your learning system do you need to test first? How will you gather evidence to support your next step in developing the learning system? Have you identified the best measures to evaluate efficacy when you are ready for your pilot study? Several scenarios will be presented as examples, and then participants will work in smaller groups to design a rapid cycle R&D plan for a hypothetical scenario.

In this kick-off event, we reground ourselves in our next phase of EF+Math work by participating in a creative workshop led by Dr. Imani Goffney. Leveraging the context of Wakanda from Marvel’s Black Panther movie, this session connects features of Wakanda to equitable and ambitious mathematics teaching and learning. Strategies include connecting math tasks to problems of social justice, looking for and leveraging students’ strengths and assets, and valuing and making space for students’ cultural identities and interests.

Speakers: Prof. Imani Goffney & Dr. Lawrence Ke Xu

As Covid-19 continues to impact our education communities in ever changing ways, we invite all members of our community together to explore the complexities of this pandemic while staying focused on serving Black and Brown students and students experiencing poverty. During this session, participants will hear from panelists about the realities of Covid in various communities and how they have found hope and innovation to continue serving students and educators. Together, we can create actionable strategies for reimagining math learning that serves students as the pandemic continues.

Speakers: Dr. Karin Lange & Adam Smith

In this session, we will be introduced to practical and strategic ways to improve the equity of data projects. We All Count will share examples, build tools, and provide training and education aimed at better understanding data to make it more transparent and fairer to everyone. The session is structured around the We All Count Data Equity Framework, which is a seven-step process that addresses equity issues systematically in each step of a data project. The tools and checklists in each step of the Data Equity Framework have equity impacts and interactions in other steps and your project as a whole. By the end of the session you will be familiar with the steps, understand some of the basic tools and checklists at each step, and have a set of stories and examples you can use to ground the ideas in your work.

Speaker: Heather Krause, We All Count

This session will spotlight the intersection of executive function skills and equity in teaching and learning, with an application to math classrooms; and what educators can do to optimize the roles of executive function skills and equity in students’ math practice and math-related success.

Speakers: Dr. Miriam Rosenberg-Lee & Dr. Luis Rivera

For this event, we hear from four of our Equity Research Advisory Board members, serving as panelists: Drs. Stephen Aguilar, Kari Kokka, Crystal Menzies, and Teya Rutherford. Each panelist brings their deep equity knowledge and expertise in a diversity of topics around educational equity, and will speak to topics relevant to the EF+Math community. 

Topics that panelists will present include:

Design and Analytic Considerations for Equitable Learning Analytics (Stephen Aguilar and Teya Rutherford)

Healing Informed Social Justice Approaches (Kari Kokka)

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) Toolkit: A Pathway Towards Equity-Centered Collaboration (Crystal Menzies)

We present this event in response to the diverse and innumerable ways in which equity shows up in our daily work in the EF+Math community. For us, equity is an ethos, and to ground our work in this ethos is to continually unearth the multitude of considerations we must identify and address in order to center our endeavors. The topics our panelists bring will allow us to probe into some of these considerations in ways that will help us to both expand our lens and to refine our toolbox of approaches as we design products for our Black students, Latinx students, and students experiencing poverty with a truly Inclusive Research and Design approach.

During this 90-minute interactive learning session, a panel of educators will share their experiences on how various products have either helped or inhibited their attempts to create equity within the math classroom, followed by breakout rooms that will allow for deeper conversation.

 Panelists will share both positive intentions and unintended consequences of components within math classroom products that incorporate equity.  

Panelists and participants will then discuss guiding questions that help them reflect on equity in curriculum and products that they utilize in the classroom. This event is intended to provide a space for shared learning and development across the entire EF+Math community, and we especially welcome educators to speak about their own experiences in breakout rooms after the panelists present. Through this conversation, we aim to gain a greater understanding of how to reflect on equity in curriculum and products in order to design equitable products and classrooms for Black and Latinx students. 

The event recording is accessible at this link with the following passcode: =K=9i8h3

The Agncy team of design researchers will share a wealth of learning after completing 63 one-on-one teacher interviews, 41 classroom observations, and 20 virtual classroom deep dives with a total of 18 teachers from our EF+Math partner districts, with the goal of providing teams with contextual understanding of teachers, their practices, classrooms, and students.  

During this presentation and discussion, they will bring to life specific moments in teachers’ classrooms and explore multiple ways teachers may approach planning and instruction. Through discussion of the Cycle of Practice and teacher modes, you will have the opportunity to explore some design prompts that can help keep the multiple perspectives and various experiences of our educators and students at the center of our work.  

You can access the Cycle of Practice report by clicking on the link below and entering the following username and password. Please note that this website is password-protected, and it will be shared within the EF+Math community only. It is not intended to be viewed by the public. 

Cycle of Practice Report: http://observationalinsights.org/ 

username: ef-math password: 8trr2hba

The event recording is accessible at this link with the following passcode: z2P*cVT7

During this 90-minute interactive learning session, teams will share and discuss successes and challenges in implementing Inclusive R&D in practice through their projects. This event is intended to provide a space for shared learning and development across the entire EF+Math community. Through this conversation, we aim to develop and refine our collective understanding of equity centered, Inclusive R&D, particularly in the ways in which it is unique relative to other human-centered design approaches. 

Learning Objectives:

• Develop and refine understanding of equity-centered inclusive R&D, particularly in the ways in which it departs from traditional R&D conceptions.

• Share successes and challenges around understanding and practice of Inclusive R&D.

• Adopt actionable elements to more intentionally examine and improve how we collectively engage in Inclusive R&D practices through a more refined equity lens.

The event recording is accessible at this link with the following passcode: z2P*cVT7