Cross-Team Projects

Project Description
The purpose of this project is to put practice partners at the center of the Collaboratory conversations, support them to take an active role in shaping the Collaboratory and their individual projects, and to eventually help practitioners who are not in AIMS RPPs benefit from Collaboratory learning and possibly seek opportunities to participate in RPPs. Since practitioners have the closest connection with students, this is also an opportunity to bring student voice into the discussions.

The project establishes an Educator Collaboratory within the AIMS Collaboratory to provide a platform for practitioners to inform the Collaboratory’s work, given their expertise around priority students’ needs as well as issues of classroom implementation, and to support practitioners to maximize the benefit of the research.

The Translating Learning project also creates opportunities for partners to learn how to engage students in their work through a partnership with BUILD. Partners have been invited to observe a student panel engaged in a design sprint, engage with students at convenings and to receive technical assistance from BUILD to develop their own student panel.

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Project Description
Culturally responsive pedagogy is a core strategy for meaningfully engaging students and nurturing their learning and development of positive learner identity. In mathematics, culturally responsive approaches to instruction and curriculum are emerging as key drivers in improving the learning experiences and outcomes for students of color and who experience poverty.

This Collaboratory project aims to develop a set of resources for teams in their efforts to center identity, culture, and equity in their educational products and practices.

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Research-Practice partnerships (RPPs) hold great promise for integrating the voices of diverse constituent groups and responding to the needs of those in practice. Within the AIMS Collaboratory, the intent of these partnerships is to ensure that a) technologies and instruction are responsive to the learning challenges, experiences, and outcomes for students of color and who experience poverty and b) the research conducted by teams addresses critical problems of practice, informing the teams and the broader field. Moreover, within AIMS, RPPs are critical to the careful and strategic development of R&D infrastructure that respects and answers to students, families, teachers, and school and district leaders, the ultimate consumers of all of the endeavors of the Collaboratory.

However, RPPs are challenging to launch and sustain. The purpose of this project is to support partnership development (initial and long-term) within AIMS project teams to ensure that they are effectively supported in pursuing their goals, especially in developing approaches to teaching and learning that prioritize the learning challenges of priority students. Participating teams will learn, within and across projects, how variation in the implementation of tools and instructional practices can more or less effectively encourage priority students' learning. Understanding this variation will inform scaling strategies relevant to all of the AIMS Collaboratory project teams.

This Collaboratory project aims to support AIMS RPPs develop a set of resources for teams as they initiate and deepen existing partnerships.

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The ability to share data securely and efficiently across research projects is essential to the ongoing work of the Collaboratory. However, accomplishing this goal is challenging because most districts require specific, exclusive arrangements with their research partner(s). These relationships take a great deal of trust and time to develop. This project pilots initial ideas and processes to set the stage for data sharing within, across and ultimately beyond the Collaboratory for research and development.

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