Deepening Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge in Mathematics

July 20, 2017

To support student learning in mathematics as well as provide ongoing, content-specific professional development (PD) opportunities for elementary math teachers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided funding for DreamBox Learning® to leverage its Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ engine, realtime student data, and Professional Development On Demand platform to create an innovative prototype environment for teacher professional learning. Over several months, DreamBox Learning researched the usage and impact of this prototype focused on deepening mathematics understanding for elementary teachers.

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