[Simtrainer-l] Math programs recs

[edwin ellis]

Hi everyone, 

I’m currently assisting a ‘failing elementary (k-5) school, as well as an ’about to fail’ middle school in an effort to turn things around. About 7 years ago, the school district was cursing along with B+/A- performance levels when its leadership made a series of truly bonehead decisions that resulted in a steep and rapid decline in performance.

 Basically, the district abandoned all commercial programs, textbooks, etc. and attempted to educate its children via tablets and ipads and teacher-invented curricula.  As you might guess, math performance outcomes are about as low as they can get (e.g., roughly 80% of the middle school students’ math skills are 2nd grade level).

 Due to turnover over the years, few of the teachers have any experience using evidence-based programs and their pedagogical skills are quite limited, to say the least.

 Thus, I’m looking for recommendations for evidence-based math programs that are highly structured, systematic, and incorporate on-going progress monitoring for formative assessment… more or less synonymous with what might be used as Tier 3 intervention for math. Can you recommend any commercial evidence-based math programs that might fit this need? If not Tier 3 in nature, then can you recommend a really good Tier 1 evidence-based math program?

 Thanks for your advice, 

Ed
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