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Written intentionally for school leaders, board members, and charter school authorizers, this report and accompanying video share Perry Street Preparatory Public Charter School's story of comprehensive improvement and describes the necessary conditions for turnaround success.
This report presents the findings from an assessment of mathematics outcomes in elementary schools across multiple states that were provided with the ST Math program.
This paper offers lessons learned from California State University teacher preparation programs engaged in using data to inform improvements in how they prepare teachers for the profession.
This report describes some of the more common roadblocks that Math in Common districts faced in their early years of CCSS-M implementation, along with the routes that the districts took around those roadblocks in order to support teacher and student learning.
This report describes the trajectory of the Math in Common (MiC) Community of Practice (CoP), including both its missteps and its successes, in the hope that designers or participants of other formal or informal CoPs can leverage the MiC experience and make progress more quickly in their own...
This report describes how teachers participating in the Math in Common initiative made significant shifts in their instruction to help students master the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.