Research / talk to teachers to understand how they use Bootstrap and how we can improve

[schanzer]

Here is a link to the Teacher Research Brainstorm google doc that came out of our August 7 meeting

Here is the google sheet where we are brainstorming a list of "diehard" Bootstrap adopters from which to select about 20 for our preliminary round of interviews this fall, which will ideally represent a diverse pool from various states who old a range of positions in "the bootstrap ecosystem at their school"

---- prior issue description is here

• [x] Make a Plan (Summer), distribute to Kathi and JoJo and Emmanuel
• JoJo wants to know: -- Who is actually using our curriculum? -- And what is motivating them to do that? -- Are there other things they’d like to see us offer? -- What barriers did they face? -- Tell me more? Why is that?
• Draft an email (our emails get about a 30% click rate and have an email list that reaches about 2400 people.) -- offer them a gift card for participation or the opportunity to be entered into a raffle -- invite them to sign up for a 30-minute slot on calendly (how can we accommodate for the fact that teachers might be available 10:13 - 10:53 which puts them out of commission for both a 10-10:30 slot and a 10:30-11 slot?) -- let them know that we will be using firefly to record sessions -- When someone signs up for an interview slot, send them a link to the google form we are currently asking all workshop attendees to complete (let's review it and make sure we don't want to modify it for this audience)
• Draft a google form we can complete during interviews. -- It should include questions about curriculum in the works. -- Perhaps we could test run our interview guide on a list of people that Rachel, Joy and Emmanuel know are actually implementing?
• QUESTIONS TO RESOLVE: -- What is the budget for compensating participants? -- How much time do we actually want to allocate to this this fall - what's our target number of interviews? (If half of the people who open the email sign up for an interview we'd be at 200 hours) -- Do we want to interview everyone or collect different kinds of information from different kinds of people?
• [ ] Execute (Fall)
• [ ] Present Findings and Recommendations (Fall)
• [ ] Update:
• PD
• Algebra Materials
• DS Materials
• Coaching
• Discourse

[JoJoBahnam]

Thank you so much for taking the time to have the conversation and to put this plan together! Let's feed this into our conversation with Kathi + Joy (August TBD).

[schanzer]

@flannery-denny and @retabak reminder that what you come up with here needs to be ready to present at our August meeting

[schanzer]

@flannery-denny and @retabak nevermind - JoJo says you've already drafted a plan!

[flannery-denny]

reopening this because we haven't interviewed any teachers yet ;) @retabak @joystraub @kfisler @JoJoBahnam and I met today and decided to create two brainstorming documents:

• research framing brainstorm google doc
• candidate brainstorm sheet from which to select about 20 people representing a diverse pool from various states who hold a range of positions in "the bootstrap ecosystem at their school" for a preliminary round of interviews this fall

@schanzer we are counting on you to propose a number of potential teachers for us to interview.

• Please add any columns to the sheet that seem relevant and useful!
• Ideally, by the time you've finished, we will have as much info about these candidates as you do that would be relevant in helping us to decide which people to work with

[schanzer]

@flannery-denny The columns look good to me. I took a pass at adding folks - let me know if you want me to add more?

[flannery-denny]

@Schanzer @retabak looks like our list only includes type 2 and 4 and there are many states unrepresented.

If there are people who we think would talk to us from other geographies or we would consider to be type 1 [They were sent by admin (school or district) ] or type 3 [They had prior experience with teaching [TOPIC] a different way and wanted to try something different (in which case we want to know what the issue was] we should add them even if they only have one year of bs teaching experience or are running trainings.

I'd love to also add a column for what we know about their school / math department / student demographic to make sure we have some diversity there.