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Our North Star
Our North Star
We create approaches to challenge the way people think about how students learn. We want every student to know their innate abilities, know how to use them to take control of their own learning, and be given every opportunity to learn rigorous math.
Our Objective
Our Objective
EF+Math funds and supports bold R&D approaches that promise to dramatically improve math outcomes for students in grades 3–8, with a focus on Black and Latinx students and students experiencing poverty, by strengthening executive function skills.
Our Approach: Inclusive R&D
Our Approach: Inclusive R&D
Inclusive R&D is an equity-centered and inclusive process for developing innovative programs, which utilizes a set of principles and practices to center students, educators, families, and communities that are often left out of other human-centered design methods. Inclusive R&D brings researchers, educators, and developers together to work collaboratively and to iterate together in an ongoing feedback loop that removes the silos between discovery, development, and commercialization.
Program Impact & Outcomes
Program Impact & Outcomes
Our theory of action is that, through Inclusive R&D, equitable processes and teams of equity-centered and engaged people will develop innovative prototypes that create transformative gains in outcomes for Black and Latinx students and students living in poverty, and ultimately all students. The EF+Math community is testing the hypothesis that this type of inclusive approach will produce game-changing products and programs, designed for our priority students but improving math outcomes for all students. Over the five-year EF+Math program, we aim to develop (1) mature prototypes that support equitable, accelerated math learning by strengthening executive function skills, (2) a tested model for how to do inclusive, equity-centered R&D, and (3) a community of advocates that model Inclusive R&D and demonstrate the value of centering equity and embedding executive function strengthening within math learning.
Active Management Model
Active Management Model
The collaborative, multidisciplinary nature of EF+Math’s bold (and barely attainable) work requires a different program management approach, which we call Active Management. Through Active Management, the EF+Math management team partners closely with each funded team to provide coaching and directional guidance to facilitate successful progress towards individual project and collective program goals. In addition, EF+Math managers work with funded teams to ensure EF+Math’s equity guiding principles are centered in every aspect of the research and development process, and that educators have an elevated voice in the Inclusive R&D process.
Active Management aims to continually align community member’s goals and efforts, and to promote more frequent, transparent, and fluid communications between key stakeholders throughout the program. EF+Math’s management model involves a higher level of engagement, support, and accountability than traditional philanthropic management. Through Active Management, EF+Math supports progress towards program goals by measuring progress and identifying needs, providing support and guidance aligned with those needs, and facilitating community learning.
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