Partners

Our Partners. Our Pride.

A measure of our reputation is the partners we have attracted. Their research and expertise help shape and inform approach to professional learning. We are proud to call these organizations partners.

Algebra/Geometry Consortium
More than 100 school sites across the nation are participating in the Teachscape Algebra/Geometry Consortium. The Consortium provides math educators with the opportunity to better serve students through an instructional management system, resources, and high-impact teaching strategies acquired through professional development and professional assessment. This system consistently produces measurable results in schools regardless of size or bell schedule.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT), AFL-CIO
Building an education network that addresses the real-life needs and concerns of classroom teachers requires the support and collaboration of teachers' organizations. Since its inception, Teachscape has worked closely with the American Federation of Teachers to develop and implement professional development programs that effectively support teachers working in AFT school districts.

The AFT and Teachscape have also teamed up to co-develop a curriculum of professional development support for new teachers seeking specific guidance in highly effective strategies for classroom management.

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)
Teachscape addresses the vital need for high-quality, standards-based teacher professional development in elementary science with a program created in partnership with Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. BSCS is a nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs that develops science curricula for grades K-16 and provides professional development opportunities for science teachers at all levels.

Dr. Rodger Bybee, Executive Director of BSCS, helped to develop the National Science Education Standards (NSES) in his prior position at the National Research Council. Under Dr. Bybee's leadership, BSCS science content specialists selected the teachers and lessons featured in the Teachscape professional development science courses. They also worked closely with Teachscape production staff to produce video-based case studies and wrote the accompanying commentary and resource materials, including the course activities. The late Susan Loucks-Horsley, who was Associate Director of BSCS and a nationally recognized expert in professional development for science and mathematics, provided direction and advice in shaping the Teachscape science program.

Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE)
Teachscape works with Dr. Susan Landry and CIRCLE in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to develop online courses supporting the professional development of teachers of early literacy and language development in preschool and Head Start. One of the center's overall goals is to improve teacher professional development in the area of early child development, including pre-literacy, social/behavioral competence, and parent involvement. The center currently runs a major new initiative to enhance the quality of preschool education in the state of Texas.

Dr. Landry is a Developmental Psychologist and the Michael Matthew Knight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is also Chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics and Director of CIRCLE.

The Concord Consortium
Teachscape produced its first set of elementary mathematics courses teacher professional development of teachers in partnership with The Concord Consortium as part of the Seeing Math Telecommunications Project (funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement). The project included the dissemination, research, and evaluation of these courses.

The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development group that assists schools internationally to realize the educational promise of technology. The Concord Consortium has become a leader in the development and delivery of online courses, as well as the development of curriculum and new approaches to science and mathematics instruction.

Information Infrastructure System (University of Chicago, Ohio State University, Leslie University)
Information Infrastructure System (IIS) is a partnership of university researchers, educational practitioners, and commercial developers whose goal is to build technology tools capable of supporting more ambitious instruction for every student. The organization designs new tools and social practices to address core problems of practice in schools, gathers diverse expertise to take their designs to scale, and studies the implementation of the designs to improve them and advance knowledge.

Teachscape has been working closely with IIS on their Professional Development Support System project (PDS2), a project that responds to the increased demand for high-quality professional development in literacy instruction. A web-based system of video cases, related resources, and communication tools, PDS2 allows school-based professional developers to flexibly plan, implement, and support professional learning opportunities for teachers. When integrated with the STEP Literacy Assessment and STEPTool, a data analysis tool, PDS2 can further enhance the ability of professional developers to strategically address the needs of teachers and their students. In addition to Teachscape, the development of PDS2 is a collaborative effort of the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University of Chicago, Literacy Collaborative at The Ohio State University and Lesley University.

KUCRL (The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning)
In the mid-1970s, passage of a federal education law required that special education services be delivered to all students who needed them from kindergarten through high school. That law changed the education landscape and planted the seed for what is now the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas. Today, with the passage of No Child Left Behind, the work of the center's Strategic Instruction Model™ in Adolescent and Content Literacy has become even more important. To scale the work, and provide another level of fidelity and consistency, KUCRL turned to a development and training partnership with Teachscape to disseminate their successful adolescent literacy model.

Marygrove College
Marygrove College partners with Teachscape to provide three semester hours of graduate credit for online courses taken by teachers in Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Washington. Marygrove is fully accredited by NCATE and NCA and is approved by the Michigan State Department of Education.

McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)
Based in Denver, Colorado, McREL was incorporated in 1966 as Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, a nonprofit organization created to help educators in the nation's heartland bridge the gap between research and practice. Now known as Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, McREL's research and development work provides teachers and administrators with valuable information about proven, effective approaches to the challenges in education today. By building on research to solve specific problems, McREL develops widely acclaimed pre-K-16 educational products that are used in classrooms nationally and internationally to help educators maximize student learning. McREL has worked with Teachscape on the creation of the online video-based Classroom Instruction That Works series; partnered with Teachscape on the Success in Sight 2006: Learning, Leading, and the Future conference; and is looking to expand its overall development relationship with Teachscape.

SRA/McGraw-Hil
SRA/McGraw-Hill, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has partnered with Teachscape to provide a new online teacher training program tailored for SRA (Science Research Associates) products. The user-friendly training program provides another level of support to educators who teach reading using SRA's Open Court Reading program at the elementary school level. Our Internet-based program allows teachers to receive continuous training and support for McGraw-Hill programs, at home and at school.

The SRA/McGraw-Hill/Teachscape online product enables teachers to:

• Review video-based case studies of exemplary teaching using SRA/McGraw-Hill curricula
• Access lesson plans, assessment strategies, and samples of student work to help incorporate the teaching strategies set forth in the video case studies into their daily teaching
• Develop a deeper understanding of the research base for SRA/McGraw-Hill curricula through interviews with experts and content authors.
• Interact with teachers who have taught SRA/McGraw Hill curricula
• Share ideas and have questions answered by experts online

As part of its ongoing commitment to develop new interactive educational products across all its businesses, including professional development, The McGraw-Hill Companies has made an equity investment in Teachscape.

SRI International
Teachscape's innovative and highly interactive web site was developed in partnership with SRI International (formerly known as the Stanford Research Institute), which has one of the world's most renowned centers for the design and implementation of learning technologies. Dr. Roy Pea, now Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University and Executive Director of Stanford University's new Stanford Institute for Learning Sciences and Technology, led the SRI team working with Teachscape. As a member of the Teachscape Board of Directors, Dr. Pea continues to serve as Chief Scientist at SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning.

Stanford University
Stanford University has partnered with Teachscape to deliver Web-based professional development for teachers who work with English language learners (ELLs). Teachscape has produced courses that offer specific strategies to support ELLs. These courses are authored by Dr. Kenji Hakuta, Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Hakuta teaches courses on language development, bilingual education, and research methods. His research is in the areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, language shift, and the acquisition of English in immigrant students. He chaired the National Academy of Sciences committee on developing a research agenda on the education of limited-English-proficient and bilingual students. Dr. Hakuta is the author and editor of several books, including Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism (1986) and In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (1994). He recently chaired a committee of the National Research Council, which issued the report, Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda, published by the National Academy Press.