SRI International
Project Title
For a project to evaluate the effectiveness of Zearn’s professional learning model to support their elementary math curriculum
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Zearn Math is a highly-rated, standards-aligned K-5 mathematics curriculum. Zearn has designed a year-long professional learning experience called Curriculum Study to provide implementation support for teachers. Curriculum Study builds teachers’ math content knowledge and helps develop pedagogical content knowledge through the successful implementation of Zearn’s curriculum. Through this grant, SRI International, a research organization with a division that focuses on designing, researching, and evaluating curriculum and professional learning will design and conduct a study to identify strengths and areas for improvement of Zearn’s Curriculum Study. SRI will (a) create a logic model of Zearn’s Curriculum Study to hypothesize the connections between professional learning, teacher knowledge, and classroom instruction, (b) design and write six case studies of teachers to explore how their pedagogical content knowledge changes over the course of a year’s engagement in Curriculum Study, and a (3) write recommendations to improve Zearn’s Curriculum Study materials and resources.