What is ACCESS?

ACCESS professional development is a research-based, data-informed, equity-focused, continuous improvement model. Through collaboration with teachers, diagnostic data are collected, analyzed and used formatively to support teacher practice to address student learning needs.

The ACCESS Team works collaboratively with leadership teams that includes district and site administrators, counselors, teachers and staff to build an equity-based mathematics program. The yearly schedule is shown in the table below.

ACCESS Content Collaborators (Coaches) co-create, with teachers, standards-based, learning materials for mathematics to address unmet student needs identified through informal, diagnostic, and summative assessments. The coaching process follows a Responsive Teaching Cycle (RTC) model. RTC is a form of collaborative planning driven by an immediate need to produce the next few days’ learning activities to accelerate learning in order to access grade level content.