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Professional Learning for Mathematics Coaches and Educators
This partnership engages staff from the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to develop and implement an evaluation plan for the Mathematics Achievement Fund (MAF) grant program. The MAF program was established by the Kentucky legislature to support teacher training and implementation of intervention services for primary school students struggling to meet grade-level expectations in mathematics; the latest grant cycle of the MAF program began in July 2022 and funds training for school-based mathematics coaches in 13 elementary schools during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 school years. The evaluation will provide both periodic formative assessment of progress toward MAF program goals as well as annual summative reporting to KDE leaders and the Kentucky legislature. As part of this evaluation plan, REL Appalachia staff are also collaborating with the KDE partners and other leaders involved in the MAF program to develop a coaching conversation observation rubric to assess the quality of instructional coaching and fidelity to program expectations. These activities will contribute to the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes described in the partnership logic model below.Current Projects
This TCTS project is building the capacity of Kentucky Department of Education staff to collect and use data to inform MAF program planning, support MAF coaches, and evaluate outcomes. The project also builds the capacity of MAF coaches to reflect on their practice and use data to improve their support for teachers. To accomplish these objectives, the project includes two interrelated phases: developing the MAF coaching rubric, and designing and implementing an evaluation of the MAF program.
No past projects at this time.
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
December 18, 2023
This blog post describes a new rubric to evaluate mathematics instructional coaches, co-developed by REL Appalachia and our partners at the Kentucky Department of Education. The rubric can also be adapted to assess coaches in other states or coaches who...
Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date:
October 31, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Districts invest millions annually to support full-time instructional coaching positions, yet research offers little systematic information about what effective coaches do when they collaborate with teachers or...
Product Type: Resource | Publication Date:
September 2023
The Kentucky Mathematics Achievement Fund (MAF) Coaching Conversation Observation Rubric was co-developed by REL Appalachia staff, our partners at the Kentucky Department of Education, and other mathematics instructional coaching experts in Kentucky....
Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date:
December 01, 2022
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Description: During this 75 minute workshop at the 2022 Annual Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Conference, REL Appalachia staff build K-12 math educators’ understanding of how social-emotional...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
November 30, 2022
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs), and you’ve seen invitations to partner and connect, but you aren’t sure what that might entail. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how REL Appalachia joins forces with...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
September 27, 2022
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) provides a framework for understanding SEL as individual competencies across five domains..
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
August 03, 2022
As the director of REL Appalachia, I regularly learn about some of the most pressing educational challenges in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
July 12, 2022 - July 13, 2022
Date: July 12-13, 2022 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm ET both days Location: Frankfort, KY Description: REL Appalachia, in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) provides a two-day workshop for K–12 educators to support the integration of...
REL Appalachia Logic Model (File pending)
