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When You Need to Know
We are excited to launch Virtual Coaching, a new web-based tool that allows you to focus on the things that matter most to you.
Lynne Munson
President and Executive Director, Great Minds
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Get Custom Support with Virtual Coaching
To address the unique needs of individual districts, schools, and classrooms, we now offer Virtual Coaching, a series of five or more single-hour sessions in which a Eureka writer provides up to ten administrators, instructional coaches, or teachers inquiry-based support via a web-based platform. Get direct advice from a Eureka writer about how to address specific knowledge gaps, to shorten modules, to effectively train other educators, or to help parents help their kids. Flexible and responsive, Virtual Coaching is a collaboration with attendees to focus on specific school or district needs while building sustainable processes that extend beyond the coaching experience. To find out more about Virtual Coaching, please reach out to us.
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Great Minds Wins Another Exemplar Rating--in English!
A sample module of our new and as-of-yet unnamed English curriculum has been dubbed an exemplar by EQuIP (Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products), an evaluation body that has also deemed seven Eureka Math modules exemplar. Available for free download, this sample module is "well-thought out and put together," noted EQuIP reviewers, adding, "The designer's expertise of moving students through the progression of simple to complex texts and skills is evident." The 5th grade English module, titled Cultures in Conflict, asks students to consider how cultural factors can guide the actions of a people, using Native American and European American societies as its guide. In reviewers' eyes, the module, "allows students to have authentic learning opportunities with scaffolds and extensions in place."
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Ohio District Gets High Marks for Math Results
Schools in Shelby, Ohio, had a strong showing on end-of-year state assessments, particularly in middle school math. Eighty-eight percent of 5th grade math students scored proficient or above-38 percent above the state indicator of 68 percent. Seventh and 8th grade math scores were also well above the state indicator. The district implemented Eureka Math last year because the teachers liked its design and coherence, said Assistant Superintendent and Director of Curriculum Paul Walker. "The coherence has given us that progression you always want. I was watching a teacher yesterday using the vertical number line in a 3rd-grade classroom for rounding. Well, it comes back around in 5th grade with decimals. The writers of the curriculum must have been constantly communicating with each other around the progressions and where these things fall vertically to help districts become aligned," Walker said. Indeed! We're particularly proud of the care with which our writers attended to the progressions to produce the coherence he noticed. Walker added that Eureka Math helped ensure Shelby students were ready for the end-of-year test: "The rigor the assessments are requiring mirrors the rigor of the Eureka curriculum."
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Instructional Coach Todorow Says Eureka Prep Is Vital
Training in Eureka Math is "essential," says Sally Todorow, Math Instructional Coach at Kuumba Academy Charter School in Wilmington, DE. "For teachers who've had training and/or more than a year teaching the curriculum, their students do very well." According to Todorow, a Eureka Math Champion, 3rd grade students at Kuumba outperformed state averages, and Grades 4 and 7 also "rocked it on the Smarter Balanced test." Kuumba Academy, which serves high numbers of low-income students, is in its third year of implementing Eureka in Grades K-8. Read the entire Q&A with Todorow here.
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