When Kellyann Campbell was asked just after Thanksgiving last year to return to the classroom at Yearling Middle School in Okeechobee County to teach 8th grade Pre-Algebra due to a teacher shortage, she was understandably nervous.  Even though she has been an educator for more than a decade, Kellyann had been out of the classroom […]

There are only three ways to improve student learning at scale: You can raise the level of the content that students are taught. You can increase the skill and knowledge that teachers bring to the teaching of that content. And you can increase the level of students’ active learning of the content. That’s it…everything that’s […]

Tiana Pitts is a former math teacher and coach with the New Teacher Center. In spring 2022, she served as a coach for teachers in Impact Florida’s Solving with Students Cadre, which piloted an innovative approach to professional learning based on student feedback. Tiana led regular virtual coaching sessions with each teacher who opted to […]

The summer after the nationwide move to remote learning in March 2020, Impact Florida brought together academic leaders from four Florida districts to ask what they were most concerned about, heading back into a school year none of us had envisioned. Before the COVID pandemic, each of these districts had been involved in one of […]

Anna Stewart grew up with great teachers, so she knew early on that teaching was in her future. Her first experience was substitute teaching in college, nearly 20 years ago, and she taught initially in first, third, and fifth grades. Now, she teaches sixth grade math and is the math lead at Yulee Middle School […]

Katrice Dixon, a 6th grade math teacher at Crystal Lake Middle School, first heard about the Solving with Students Cadre from her “teacher bestie,” Tawanna Rowe. The cadre seemed like an ideal enhancement for their classroom teaching styles, so they both immediately applied.  “I really liked the idea of the cadre from the beginning and […]

Tia Geivet-Colon, a math teacher at Eau Gallie High School in Brevard County, is a self-described introvert. During her eight years teaching, she has found that being an introvert makes her an extremely good listener, which helps her get to know her students. When she heard about a new opportunity to hear student feedback through […]

Teachers participating in Impact Florida’s Solving with Students Cadre made substantial gains in student experience this spring through a unique professional learning opportunity for secondary math teachers, new research shows. The cadre piloted an innovative approach to professional learning based on student feedback about their classroom experiences. The cadre included 49 teachers from across the […]