Partner Profile
Teaching Matters
Empower teachers to reach full potential through effective professional development.
Teaching Matters was approved for the PLPG in February 2022.
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OUR TEAM
51+ facilitators/coaches
51-75% are non-white
WHERE WE WORK
We have worked here
We are also willing to work here
WHO WE ARE
Since 1994, Teaching Matters’ instructional coaches have worked in partnership with teachers, schools and district leaders to ensure that all students, especially those who face hardships due to poverty and racial injustice, have equitable access to great teaching.
TYPES OF SUPPORT WE OFFER
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- Adopting an ELA curriculum
- Adopting a math curriculum
- Adopting a science curriculum
- Initial implementation
- Ongoing implementation support for teachers
- Educator Coaching
- Collaborative Planning
- Ongoing implementation support for leaders
What are these phases?
Types of districts that we have experience working with
- Traditional District
- Charter
- Private
- Parochial
- Urban
- Suburban
- Rural
- Fewer than 2,500 students
- 2,500 to 10,000 students
- 10,000 to 50,000 students
- 50,000 to 100,000 students
- More than 100,000 students
- Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
- Greater than 20% of English language learners
- Greater than 20% of students with disability
- Greater than 80% students of color
Why is this important?
OUR CURRICULUM EXPERTISE
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ELA
- EL Education Grades 6-8 Language Arts Curriculum (Second Edition) (2019)
- EL Education K-5 Language Arts (2017)
- Expeditionary Learning (2016)
- Imagine Learning EL Education 6-8 Language Arts (2020)
- Imagine Learning EL Education K-5 Language Arts (2019)
- Into Reading (2020)
Math
- enVision Mathematics Common Core (2020)
- Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math (2019)
- Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics 9-12 (2019)
- Kendall Hunt's Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math (2019)
- Kendall Hunt's Illustrative Mathematics Traditional (2019)
- Open Up Resources 6-8 Math (2017)
What is a high quality curriculum?
This partner's approach and services
How we address equity
At Teaching Matters we envision a nation where every student has equitable access to excellent teaching. Our mission is to close the opportunity gap of a radically unequal education system for underserved and historically marginalized children. We are committed to pursuing diversity, equity, and inclusion in all our work. By developing our own critical consciousness and examining and confronting our biases, we demonstrate our commitment to pursuing an equitable and inclusive organization and building those values and skills in our team, practices, and policies. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) anchors all of our professional development and partnerships with districts and schools.
Why is this important?
How we build district capacity
Highly successful curriculum adoption is characterized by three features: Compelling vision, process clarity, and trusting partnerships among stakeholders.
We believe in structured collaboration at all levels of the system, including central leadership, district leadership, and school-based teams. District level collaboration will include district level planning in order to differentiate support based on each school’s strengths and areas of growth. Throughout the partnership, we will also support district level data analysis and reflection in order to monitor progress of curriculum adoption and its impact on teacher practice and student learning. Additionally, we will offer professional learning sessions that serve to socialize high expectations, review feedback, reinforce a common language of instruction, review data and student work products, and set collaborative next steps to achieve shared goals.
Why is this important?
