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The EF+Math Community is made up of both the EF+Math team and the awardees they support. The EF+Math team consists of the Programmatic Support teams who support awardees in areas of EF, Math, Equity, and Inclusive R&D, and the Program Team who actively coordinates the work. EF+Math Awardees consist of funded teams that collectively build math learning approaches that strengthen EF skills: Applied Research teams build technical capacities to make learning visible and actionable, and Prototyping teams and District Co-Design Partners build math learning prototypes together.
Awardees
Awardees
EF+Math funds bold approaches to dramatically improve math outcomes for students in grades 3–8 by building executive function skills, with a focus on students who have been traditionally underserved through the following tracks:
Prototyping Track: Teams funded under the Prototyping Track design and develop learning systems that embed executive function skill-building opportunities within equitable, high-quality math content and instruction. Prototyping Track Teams will co-design these learning systems with EF+Math District Co-Design Partners or existing district partners.
Designing for Use Track (District Co-Design Partners): School districts are critical partners at every stage of EF+Math’s discovery and development process, co-creating approaches that are useful, usable, effective and designed to support students’ learning in historically under-resourced schools. EF+Math District Co-Design Partners collaborate closely with researchers and developers in the Prototyping Track to co-design, develop, implement and iteratively improve prototype learning systems that integrate executive function-building activities into high-quality, evidence-based, equitable math instruction.
Applied Research Track: EF+Math works directly with educators to understand what they need to know about how their students learn so they can provide equitable differentiated instruction to individual students, especially in large classes. The goal of the Applied Research track is to develop approaches that meet those needs and integrate them into the learning systems developed under the Prototyping track.
You can read more about our awarded projects here.
EF+Math Team
EF+Math Team
The EF+Math team is a diverse, multi-disciplinary group who bring extensive experience in education, learning science, math equity and math learning, digital technology and innovation. Our team consists of the Program team and our Programmatic Support teams who, together, support our awardees.
Program Team
Program Team
The EF+Math Program team actively coordinates the funded work to ensure the approaches center equity and privacy by design, is grounded in the science of learning, is piloted and improved in real classrooms and is useful and usable to teachers and students. You can read more about our program team and find their contact information here.
Programmatic Support Teams
Programmatic Support Teams
Educator Leadership Council: The Educator Leadership Council is a cornerstone of our inclusive R&D model. The Council is a diverse group of 20 educators who work at the classroom, school and district level. Council members provide critical expertise in middle year (grades 3–8) math curriculum and instruction and deep experience working in districts that serve Black and Latinx students and students living in poverty.
Equity Research Advisory: The Equity Research Advisory Board (ERA) is a panel of equity researchers of mathematics education, educational technology, critical race theory in mathematics and systemic inequities in education. ERA members provide crucial perspectives to the program team and funded teams along a variety of equity dimensions, including mathematics education, technology, Black and Latinx learners, mathematics identity, student advocacy, learning in high- poverty schools and understanding structural and systemic racism. They support the EF+Math community in understanding and implementing ways to create long-lasting, equity-centered changes at classroom and systemic levels.
Methods & Measures Team (ETS + Mathematica): ETS’s mission is to advance quality and equity in education for all people worldwide. Mathematica’s mission is to improve public wellbeing by bringing quality, objectivity and excellence to information collection and analysis for their clients. Together, ETS and Mathematica bring deep expertise in assessment and evaluation, research methods, educational technology, neuroscience, cognitive science, mathematics instruction, equity and rapid cycle evaluation.
Digital Promise: Digital Promise’s mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn. Through their Inclusive Innovation model, Digital Promise creates and catalyzes equitable opportunities for under resourced and represented communities to lead, participate in and benefit from education innovation through equity-centered R&D. The Digital Promise team brings expertise in co-design, community and school district engagement in R&D, program and product development, math learning science and professional development.
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