Teach to One recognizes that math is cumulative, and students must master foundational skills before progressing to more advanced topics. And the best path to proficiency in math is a personalized one.
Teach to One assesses students’ math skills to create a tailored pathway to learn those skills. Using skill-focused differentiated math resources and real-time data and analytics, teachers can meet students where they are to help get them to where they need to be. Serving students from grades 4 through Algebra 1, Teach to One helps build conceptual, procedural, and application-based knowledge using modalities that work best for them. Students demonstrate competency, progressing at their own pace, fostering a deeper understanding and mastery of mathematical concepts.
Teach to One’s legacy learning model, Teach to One 360, enabled personalized learning in core math classes. Adapted from Teach to One 360, Teach to One Roadmaps is the latest iteration that enables the same individualized approach using an adaptive platform. Teach to One Roadmaps is a supplemental program that supports core instruction and seamlessly integrates Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction, making it adaptable for a variety of learning environments, including intervention and tutoring.
Teach to One has reached more than 300 classrooms across 32 states. For schools seeking to adopt this program, Teach to One Roadmaps provides a comprehensive product solution that includes robust implementation support to ensure success.
What Makes This Model Innovative?
Rigorous Learning
High Expectations with Unlimited Opportunities
Customization
Goals
Teach to One’s personalized, competency-based approach enables students to gain confidence and raise their achievement level in math.
Math Knowledge and Skills
Students develop conceptual, procedural, and application-based skills and competencies aligned to college- and career-ready standards.
Engagement and Motivation
Students have multiple ways to engage in learning math and also understand its relevance and application to their lives.
Sense of Self and a Positive Mindset
Students develop self-awareness and confidence when instruction meets their needs and when they are put in charge of how they learn.
Experience
Teach to One’s tailored pathways with real-time data and analytics and blended instruction with multiple modalities enables relevant, personalized math learning for every student.
No two students are exactly alike, so no two students should have the same learning path. Teach to One customizes each student’s learning journey by identifying the skills they already know, the skills they still need to learn, and the skills they are ready for next. This individualized approach helps students progress at their own pace, fostering a deeper understanding and mastery of mathematical concepts.
When students begin, they take an adaptive diagnostic assessment on Teach to One Roadmaps to determine their current level of understanding. They are then placed on a personalized roadmap, guiding them on their unique path to proficiency. The student-facing roadmap shows students their learning plan trajectory so they know where they currently are in their learning and where they need to go to advance. Throughout their journey, students take exit-slip style formative assessments, called skills challenges, to demonstrate their knowledge and progress, moving them along their roadmap until they achieve the desired proficiency goal.
To master each skill on their personalized roadmap, students engage with real-life applications, related vocabulary, practice problems, videos of a worked practice problem, digital lessons, and collaborative activities for peer-to-peer or small group engagement. Teach to One believes students should be exposed to the beauty and complexity of math in a variety of different ways, or modalities. As such, each student’s day-to-day learning plan takes the form of a “playlist” of activities, which allows students more choice over their daily tasks. These can be curated by teachers alone or collaboratively with students two or three weeks in advance.
- Teacher-Led Modalities: Teachers guide students through the exploration of math concepts and skills. Students engage in hands-on exploration of mathematical constructs to build knowledge and apply their learning to solve complex problems using real-world examples.
- Student-Collaboration Modalities: Students work in pairs and small groups to discuss and solve engaging mathematical problems, dilemmas, or questions together.
- Independent Modalities: Students engage with virtual instruction and independent practice via high-quality digital lessons and work to build skills, develop conceptual understanding, and enhance procedural fluency.
Supporting Structures
Implementing Teach to One’s personalized, competency-based learning model will require shifts to the way most schools approach curriculum and instruction, adult roles and learning, use of time, and technology as described below.
Schools adopt Teach to One’s adaptive and highly personalized supplemental math curriculum.
It’s nearly impossible for a single teacher to create a unique lesson plan for each student, every day, all school year that
accommodates every student’s learning needs. Teach to One makes differentiation possible by equipping teachers with instructional resources and assessments to design learning experiences tailored to each student. Teach to One provides lessons they’ve designed, as well as high-quality lessons from Illustrative Math, Khan Academy, and others to ensure high standards for every student’s personalized roadmap. The math content can serve as supplemental to a school’s core math program for grade 4 through Algebra 1.
Students take Teach to One’s adaptive diagnostic assessment to determine their current level of understanding and take formative assessments, called skills challenges, throughout their journey to demonstrate mastery of new skills and progress on their personalized roadmap. Student Assessment Overview
Teach to One teachers receive implementation training and support.
Teach to One’s dedicated support team ensures each partner school receives the necessary technical assistance and professional development for a high-quality implementation. This includes onboarding support, virtual sessions, and custom training packages.
Schools can implement Teach to One in various ways to best meet their math goals.
Schools can select from various options (or a combination) to implement Teach to One. While most schools choose to use Teach to One as a supplement to their core math instruction or as an intervention class, schools can also use the model during out-of-school time.
- Supplement Core Instruction: Schools can integrate with and support core math instruction with Teach To One using 25–30 minutes of an extended math block. This involves using Teach to One’s daily assessments, Unit Views, and assignments to support daily planning.
- Intervention: Schools can implement Teach to One outside of core math class as a Tier II intervention to provide individualized support. This involves students engaging with Teach to One for 30–45 minutes two to three times a week, either during an intervention class or another block of time such as advisory.
- After-School High-Dosage Tutoring: Schools can provide high-dosage tutoring after school, in-person, or online, for 30–45 minutes three or more times a week.
- Homework and Summer Bridge: Schools can leverage Teach to One to support learning outside of school time, either as homework or as a Summer Bridge program. In this use case, students engage in the model 60 minutes a week, during which they practice and are assessed on two or more skills. Schools must ensure students have access to a computer and internet at home.
Schools leverage Teach to One’s digital platform, Teach to One Roadmaps, for data-driven personalized learning.
Teach to One Roadmaps ensures teachers and students have real-time access to data on students’ growth and progress. Teachers and students receive progress data through digital dashboards designed for their specific role.
Teacher Portal: The Teacher Portal includes a robust planning tool that provides access to differentiated resources, organized either by unit or skill to seamlessly integrate with core instruction or by discrete skill to target specific areas of need. Additionally, the portal features comprehensive progress-monitoring data, enabling teachers to track student performance and make informed instructional decisions. Teach to One Roadmaps Teacher Portal
Student Portal: The Student Portal is the central hub where students take their adaptive diagnostic assessment, which generates a personalized roadmap outlining their individualized path to proficiency. The portal also allows students to track their overall progress on their roadmap, ensuring they stay informed and motivated throughout their learning journey.
In addition, schools must have devices and consistent network connectivity to enable all students to engage in independent online learning simultaneously.
Schools would benefit from implementing clear and transparent communication systems so community members are kept informed of students’ academic progress and change over time.
School leadership and teachers should decide on the best communication strategies for their community. Teachers should consider how to deliver student progress reports, how to give parents access to the student portal, and how to clearly articulate the expectations of the program.
Schools adopt Teach to One’s adaptive and highly personalized supplemental math curriculum.
It’s nearly impossible for a single teacher to create a unique lesson plan for each student, every day, all school year that
accommodates every student’s learning needs. Teach to One makes differentiation possible by equipping teachers with instructional resources and assessments to design learning experiences tailored to each student. Teach to One provides lessons they’ve designed, as well as high-quality lessons from Illustrative Math, Khan Academy, and others to ensure high standards for every student’s personalized roadmap. The math content can serve as supplemental to a school’s core math program for grade 4 through Algebra 1.
Students take Teach to One’s adaptive diagnostic assessment to determine their current level of understanding and take formative assessments, called skills challenges, throughout their journey to demonstrate mastery of new skills and progress on their personalized roadmap. Student Assessment Overview
Teach to One teachers receive implementation training and support.
Teach to One’s dedicated support team ensures each partner school receives the necessary technical assistance and professional development for a high-quality implementation. This includes onboarding support, virtual sessions, and custom training packages.
Schools can implement Teach to One in various ways to best meet their math goals.
Schools can select from various options (or a combination) to implement Teach to One. While most schools choose to use Teach to One as a supplement to their core math instruction or as an intervention class, schools can also use the model during out-of-school time.
- Supplement Core Instruction: Schools can integrate with and support core math instruction with Teach To One using 25–30 minutes of an extended math block. This involves using Teach to One’s daily assessments, Unit Views, and assignments to support daily planning.
- Intervention: Schools can implement Teach to One outside of core math class as a Tier II intervention to provide individualized support. This involves students engaging with Teach to One for 30–45 minutes two to three times a week, either during an intervention class or another block of time such as advisory.
- After-School High-Dosage Tutoring: Schools can provide high-dosage tutoring after school, in-person, or online, for 30–45 minutes three or more times a week.
- Homework and Summer Bridge: Schools can leverage Teach to One to support learning outside of school time, either as homework or as a Summer Bridge program. In this use case, students engage in the model 60 minutes a week, during which they practice and are assessed on two or more skills. Schools must ensure students have access to a computer and internet at home.
Schools leverage Teach to One’s digital platform, Teach to One Roadmaps, for data-driven personalized learning.
Teach to One Roadmaps ensures teachers and students have real-time access to data on students’ growth and progress. Teachers and students receive progress data through digital dashboards designed for their specific role.
Teacher Portal: The Teacher Portal includes a robust planning tool that provides access to differentiated resources, organized either by unit or skill to seamlessly integrate with core instruction or by discrete skill to target specific areas of need. Additionally, the portal features comprehensive progress-monitoring data, enabling teachers to track student performance and make informed instructional decisions. Teach to One Roadmaps Teacher Portal
Student Portal: The Student Portal is the central hub where students take their adaptive diagnostic assessment, which generates a personalized roadmap outlining their individualized path to proficiency. The portal also allows students to track their overall progress on their roadmap, ensuring they stay informed and motivated throughout their learning journey.
In addition, schools must have devices and consistent network connectivity to enable all students to engage in independent online learning simultaneously.
Schools would benefit from implementing clear and transparent communication systems so community members are kept informed of students’ academic progress and change over time.
School leadership and teachers should decide on the best communication strategies for their community. Teachers should consider how to deliver student progress reports, how to give parents access to the student portal, and how to clearly articulate the expectations of the program.
Supports Offered
Teach to One offers the following supports to implement their model.
New Classrooms’ Outcomes Guarantee offers full refunds on license fees if students complete their personalized roadmaps and do not demonstrate proficiency on their end-of-year state assessment, provided the program’s guidelines are met.
Teach to One Roadmaps
Cost Associated
Teach to One Roadmaps is the digital platform to support implementation of their personalized, competency-based math model. It includes:
- An adaptive, diagnostic math assessment that pinpoints the specific skills each student must master to achieve proficiency
- An easy-to-use academic roadmap with access to instructional tools and curated content aligned to each student’s individualized roadmap
- Short-form assessments so students can master skills and teachers can track progress along the way
- A dedicated support team for a high-quality implementation
Impact
Students enrolled in Teach to One Roadmaps learned the equivalent to a semester and a half of what is expected for students to learn over one semester. Student Growth Using Teach to One Roadmaps
- Active Roadmaps users exhibited 5.6 RIT points of additional MAP growth in their winter assessments as compared to their matched peers.
Every student in the study who mastered all their assigned skills in Teach to One Roadmaps scored proficient on their state assessment. Evaluation of Teach to One Roadmaps
- Research completed by ACS Ventures, including five grade levels (5th–9th) across three states, found Teach to One Roadmaps provides each student with a valid, personalized path to proficiency that includes both grade-level skills and foundational skills not learned in prior years.
A study found statistically significant correlations between students who increased their pace of mastery in Teach to One Roadmaps and their improved scores on the PARCC math assessment. Problem Solving Math Education in the District (see page 19).
- Using data from Friendship Public Charter Schools’ implementation of Teach to One Roadmaps, researchers were able to predict students’ PARCC scores within 7 points and their growth percentile within 10 percentile points more than 95% of the time.
Students enrolled in Teach to One have shown more growth in math MAP scores than the national average. Three-Year MAP Growth at Schools Using Teach to One: Math
- Students consistently enrolled in Teach to One programs from 2015 to 2018 increased their score 12% more on the math MAP test than a national reference group.
- Teach to One schools with MAP-aligned external accountability systems showed 53% more growth on the math MAP test than the national average.