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A Framework for Equity Centered Co-Design
(2022-03-04) DePiro, Allison; Winger, Aris; Rhodes, Sam; Sethuraman, Sheela
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AFG Caregiver Deck
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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AFG Kickoff Call
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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AFG Learner Deck
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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AFG Onboarding Plan
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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AFG Onsite Data Collection Checklist
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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Assessment for Good Innovation Playbook: Lessons from an Advanced Inclusive R&D Program
(2024-09) Assessment for Good
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Building Research Programs on a Foundation of Equity
(2022-09-23) Tiu, Michelle; Smith, Adam; Lindo, Debbra; Franklin, Jeannette; Bradbury, Jenny; Lange, Karin
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Centering Student and Educator Voice and Expertise in Inclusive, Equity-Centered Research and Development
(2023-04-13) Francisco, Aubrey; Lange, Karin; Smith, Adam; Benzon, Maria; DePiro, Allison; Hornburg, Caroline; Mayes, Amanda; Diaz, Audrey; Letts, Danielle; Kunze, Sandra
Inclusive R&D is an equity-centered, inclusive process for developing innovative research programs in partnership with students, educators, families, and communities. This symposium will showcase specific results of two R&D projects - CueThinkEF+ and Our Mathematical World - and an analysis of six projects actively engaging students and educators in Inclusive R&D. The CueThinkEF+ team will share the process and outcomes of deeply integrating teacher expertise as they sought to develop and improve a web-based learning system focused on rich mathematics problem solving and discourse. Then, the Our Mathematical World team will share their journey in the development of a mathematics curriculum overlay in which 3rd-5th grade students design stories that center themselves as strong mathematical problem solvers.
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Community Garden for Advanced Inclusive R&D Report Opportunity Studies 2023
(2024) Hillaire, Garron; Liang-Vergara, Chris; Gomez, Marisa; Mumby, Yasmene; Bhagwat, Malvika; Casillas, Alex; Cardenas Rico, Tadria; Carroll, Dan; Christy, Leona; Goffney, Imani; Robinson, Lacey; Rodriguez, Awilda; Sanina, Elena; Smith, Brian K. ; Goodall, Maya V.; Vasudeva, Ash; Yoo, Jaya; Ball, Deborah; Buli, Tarik; Chao, Theodore; Flores, Lisa; Ford, Donna Y.; Freeland Fisher, Julia; Hebbar, Nidhi; Hinds, Owen; Hudson, Kevin; Iraheta, Xiomara; Jacobs, Madison; Julien, Dawan; Lebioda, Katherine; Lee, Dallas; Lijana, Kim; Maloney, Tanya; McQuillen, Matt; McKinney de Royston, Maxine; Ortiz McCormick, Norma; Pooler, Dennis; Rivera, Gabriela; Turner, Jennifer; Vilson, Jose; Bee, Jessica; Davis, Hodari; Hofmann, Holly; Kayode, Joy; Lopez, Nathalie; Nunley, Kourtnie; Oviedo, Alan; Scheiner, Elena; Schell, Harrison; Skvirsky, Sara; Taylor, Jittaun; West, Anissia; Uncapher, Melina
Students who are Black and Latino and all students who are experiencing poverty are disproportionately impacted by educational inequity. For every student to emerge as a global leader, educational research and development (R&D) must follow new and boldly transformative practices. Greater transparency for pre-funded research ideas would make funding decisions more equitable, reduce redundant efforts, break down silos, and increase collaboration. Inclusive educational R&D can develop underrepresented leaders, protect their intellectual property, and help them pursue breakthrough ideas, which often emerge from uncommon conversations. When supported by community evaluation, Advanced Inclusive R&D can demonstrate promising levels of quality, craft, and potential impact. We gathered a passionate community of experts who are committed to reshaping education over the next 10 to 20 years. They became the AERDF Community Garden. Using our Advanced Inclusive R&D process, we uncovered research opportunities connected to three focus areas that affect educational inequity: income inequality, sustainable teaching, and student-centered learning. This report explains the process we used to identify fundable initiatives and includes six example Opportunity Studies. Knowledge is powerful. Advanced Inclusive R&D is a call to coordinate research efforts and expand our collective knowledge. We must work collaboratively to support all youth and the future of our nation.
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Conceptual Understanding, Executive Functions, and Equity: 3 Areas for Big Change in the Classroom
(2023-10-25) Smith, Adam; Ivory, Kai; Brunner, Megan; Francisco, Aubrey
Deep conceptual understanding and complex problem solving skills are important for students’ math success. Learn how equity-centered practices infused with strategies to strengthen and support students’ Executive Function skills come together to support powerful math learning for all students. Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how to develop students’ conceptual understanding and complex problem solving skills through infusing equity-centered practices and strengthening and supporting their executive function (EF) skills. This session will dig deep into equity-centered practices designed to support a classroom culture that honors and is responsive to students’ backgrounds, experiences, cultures and knowledge, and centers the ways in which we can specifically attend to ensuring that that all students attain high levels of mathematics achievement. This session posits that Centering complex problem solving and deep conceptual understanding is an equitable practice often unafforded to historically marginalized students. Additionally, this session will help teachers see all of their students as capable learners and build strategies to strengthen and build their students’ Executive Function skills as means to build student confidence and agency.
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Creating Tools for Equitable Research and Development
(2022-09-24) Uncapher, Melina; Baker, Ryan; Liu, Yun-En; Prather, Richard; Ramani, Geetha B.; Smith, Adam
The EF+Math Program supports four Applied Research teams developing new tools for assessing and monitoring executive functioning and math skills for use in the field. Technical innovations developed by the Applied Research teams are meant to be modular solutions that can work across multiple learning systems and make student learning visible to guide actionable next steps for learning. Further, these innovations are specifically designed to increase the capacity of developers to provide reliable and useful data for Black students, Latinx students, and all students experiencing poverty. This panel discussion at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference features a moderator from the EF+Math Program, researchers from the four Applied Research teams, and the EF+Math Program’s Designing for Equity Manager, as they share their process in designing these new tools through an equity lens.
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Cultivating Mathematicians: When DEI Drives Design
(2022-09-30) Skaggs, Kelsey
MIND Research Institute blogs highlight best practices in math education, blended learning and innovative learning strategies that inspire students at all ages. The blog Cultivating Mathematicians: When DEI Drives Design features the work we are doing with MathicSTEAM.
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Developing Education Products with Equity at the Center: Learnings from the EF+Math Program
(2021) EF+Math Program
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EF+Math Collection of Resources
(2021) EF+Math Program
In this document, the EF+Math team shares readings and resources provided to participants in the Facilitated Team Development process (a track we created to allow individual participants to find team members and co-create multi-disciplinary EF+Math proposals together).The lists are not meant to be exhaustive but rather help provide relevant perspectives and background materials for you to generate big ideas at the intersection of equity, executive functions, and mathematics. Please also see our recently published primer for a consolidated perspective on relevant research findings.
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Elevating Effective Mathematics Teaching Strategies to Support Executive Function Skills via Equity Approaches
(2023-07-18) Ivory, Kai; Brunner, Megan
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Embedding an Equity Orientation in Pursuit of Evidence of Educational Improvement
(2023-09-30) Brunner, Megan; Tiu, Michelle; Smith, Adam; Douglas, Karen; Resch, Alexandra
This EF+Math presentation from the Society of Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2023 conference focuses on how to determine what counts as equitable evidence of educational improvement. EF+Math shares its efforts to create an environment in which evidence is contextualized in ways that align with commitments to equity.
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Equity-Focused Programs to Measure and Promote Math Learning and Executive Functioning
(2023-06-05) Ramani, Geetha B. ; Guo, Siling; Pahor, Anja; Buschkuehl, Martin; Mayes, Amanda
Disparities found in children’s mathematical achievement are often due to unequal access to opportunities and resources. Therefore, providing rich, challenging, and evidence-based approaches for all students is critical for reducing differences in math outcomes. Targeting foundational underlying skills, such as executive functioning (EF), also could assist in reducing these inequalities found in math performance. This symposium includes four projects that are a part of the EF+Math Program, which supports multidisciplinary teams to develop methods and tools to measure and promote math learning by strengthening EF skills. The program centers students in grades 3-8, with a particular focus on Black and Latine students experiencing poverty in the United States. The symposium will present innovative methods and tools designed with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion to test and promote mathematical learning and executive functioning. In the first presentation, Guo will discuss an active and playful learning approach to promote children’s rational number learning and emotions. In the second presentation, Pahor will present a novel set of tools to measure and visualize math and EF skills using mobile app technology. In the third presentation, Buschkuehl will present findings from a novel web-based program to promote math fact fluency and EF skills simultaneously. Finally, Mayes will discuss a curriculum overlay for 3rd-5th grade students to improve EF skills, math identity, and math outcomes for Black and Latine students. Together, the symposium will present innovative approaches that could be used as resources and opportunities to enhance students’ mathematical outcomes.
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Evidence-based Designs for Physically Active and Playful Math Learning
(Theory into Practice, Taylor & Francis, 2023-05-08) Alvarez-Vargas, Daniela; Lopez Perez, Jessica Paola; Bermudez, Vanessa N.; Beltrán-Grimm, Susana; Santana, Evelyn; Begolli, Kreshnik N.; Bustamante, Andres S.
In this article, we demonstrate how playful learning serves to provide optimal learning opportunities through teacher-guided play. First, we describe the theoretical design principles that can be leveraged to support mathematical learning for students that have been underserved. Then, we provide concrete examples of evidence-based games that can be directly applied by teachers within their classrooms and beyond the classrooms into the schoolyard. Lastly, we conclude with a detailed graphical tutorial showcasing how the research literature and evidence-based classroom learning activities inform the development of 2 different mathematics games that supplement classroom instruction. We share the design of whole number and rational number basketball games to emphasize how teachers, administrators, and policymakers can replicate these games in their own context. Overall, this work can inform administrators and policymakers on supporting math and physical education by developing guided activities that incorporate the principles of the science of learning, motivation, and physical education science to provide students with optimal math learning opportunities.
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Executive Functions, Mathematics, and Equity: A Primer
(2021) EF+Math Program