We call it Streaming!! North Americans call it Tracking

 Jo Boaler and team "YouCubians" latest news letter has links to research about the benfits of removing Streaming in schools.

I encourage all teachers to take time to read the research.

I was encouraged to see the emphasis on Inservice support for teachers, something I believe here in NZ we have diminished over the years

Dear youcubians,
 
I hope you are having, or have had, a good summer break. With a new school year starting, I'd like to highlight an important question for education: how we group students so that they can have the opportunity to go forward in mathematics and take any classes they want. Traditional systems of tracking have not served our students well and have resulted in significant inequities in the school system. The new proposed California Framework, for which I am one of the authors, sets out different approaches that have been shown to be more successful.
 
To help educators with this complex issue we have –

1. Released an updated new paper that I co-authored with David Foster, which shares the evidence from multiple school districts engaged in de-tracking of middle school classrooms. Study 2, the new addition to the paper, shares significant student achievement increases, from across the achievement range, after a de-tracking initiative involving over 16,000 students. The paper also discusses the reasons for parent opposition and strategies to educate those who oppose such changes.
2. Designed new professional development to support teachers who are teaching mathematics to groups of students that are heterogenous, or “mixed ability,” a description that fits all classrooms!  We have planned an intensive one-day workshop to help teachers learn the different research-based options available to them, and the ways they work in classrooms.  We will also consider examples from teachers who work with heterogenous groups in schools without mathematics “tracks."  We are offering this workshop with two different formats and dates:

• On October 18 we will host the workshop in-person at Stanford
• On October 25 we will conduct a live, online version of the workshop

We hope these scheduling options, created at the request of many teachers who cannot travel to California, give you the flexibility to consider joining us this fall!  The cost for each session is the same— $595 per person— and you can register online by clicking on the dates above.  If you have questions, would like to enroll a group of more than 6, or cannot register right away and would like us to hold space for you, please email us at pdinfo@youcubed.org.

In our next newsletter we will be sharing the new Week of Inspirational Maths (WIM)! For those of you who are already back at school or planning lessons, the WIM lessons and mindset videos are always available for you to choose and use and can be accessed here.
 
As always, keep in touch, on social media, we always love to hear from you.
 
Viva La Maths Revolution!
Jo