Join us for the fifth session of our webinar series, Where the Evidence Leads: Preliminary Findings From IES-Funded English Learner Research Studies, hosted by the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners.
Researchers are developing, testing, and refining a three-week math summer bridge program—“Reimagining and Amplifying Mathematical Participation, Understanding, and Practices,” or RAMP-UP—for rising 9th grade English Learners.
The curriculum is centered around mathematics concepts that cut across algebra, geometry, and statistics—the major domains of high school math—and incorporates the learning of academic English that is needed to engage in mathematical practices.
In this webinar, you will learn about the impact of the RAMP-UP curriculum on English Learner math achievement and see real examples of student language growth and teacher experiences observed during the study.
Who Should Attend?
- School and District Administrators
- Teachers
Registration is required. Participation in past sessions in the series is not required to benefit from the current offering. Recordings will be available following the live events.
Presenter
Haiwen Chu
Co-Principal Investigator
Haiwen Chu serves as the Co-Principal Investigator on the Educative Math Curriculum Materials study. He is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd and specializes in secondary mathematics education. In this role, he designs educative curriculum materials that expand the expertise of mathematics teachers to support their English Learners. Chu has expertise in mixed-methods research design, research-practice partnerships, and longitudinal data analysis. He publishes widely in venues that reach both practitioners and researchers in mathematics education. Chu holds a PhD from the City University of New York.
About the Center
Since 2020, the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners has sought to significantly advance the capacity of educators, policymakers, and researchers to serve students who are classified in school as English Learners by bridging research and practice bidirectionally.
Funded by a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, the Center consists of a world-class research team from WestEd; the University of Oregon; Oregon State University; and the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Center seeks to (a) identify and describe the systemic barriers that prevent secondary English Learner students from successfully accessing the general curriculum and (b) develop and test innovative, educative curriculum materials that enable these students to reach their full potential in community, college, and career.