Fontana Unified School District
We build tools districts use to observe the fidelity and impact of teachers practice on student achievement. We use the best practice protocols and make them available online , on a phone or on a pad. Teachers can review results and build better practice through professional development and PLCs (professional learning communities) . We help schools and districts align goals and target to actual practice data to paint a more complete picture of what it takes to education our students.
Observing Teachers' Practice
Here are some of our projects:
Measuring the Impact of Teacher Effectiveness in Douglas County Colorado
The Calculus Roundtable is committed to data driven decision making. What makes an effective teacher? What can't measure the person but we can measure the conditions of success. We work with district's to gather data on what assessments, teaching methods and pedagogy leads to the successful learners. For each district this maybe different, depending on the resources, staffing strategies and professional development offerings.
Currently, we're working with Douglas County School District in Colorado to help measure the impact of teacher effectiveness by creating a professional development network that allows teachers to measure what assessments work best with their students and then share those successes with similar teachers in the district.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
The Los Angeles County Office of Education was awarded an EETT grant to evaluate the use of technology in several districts across the Los Angeles Basin. Our Technology Usage
We built and currently manage a network over 200 classroom observation tools for principals of California private schools that all principals to observe classroom activities based on multiple best practice protocols like Blooms and Syops. Principals review a set of aggregated reports that reveal trends and impact of particular teaching practices.