The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform
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The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform is an alliance of over 60 educators, researchers, national associations, and officers of professional organizations and foundations committed to promoting the academic performance and healthy development of young adolescents. The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle-grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle-grades education. All agreed that nothing short of collective and concerted action could result in high-performing middle-grades schools and students.
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With the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, Collaborative serves as advisor on online tool and technology development. The Forum sought out Collaborative’s knowledge and expertise to develop an online toolkit dedicated to improving mathematics instruction for early adolescent learners.
The toolkit, produced by Collaborative, organizes resources developed by four partner organizations, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of mathematics teaching and learning. Tools focus on high level mathematics instruction for English language learners and students with special needs, as well as mathematics instruction in rural settings.
Collaborative worked hand-in-hand with the Forum and partner organizations to create the online navigation and architecture of the overall toolkit. Collaborative also provided design and content for the toolkit, as well as working with the partner organizations to create Web-specific presentations of their individual tools.
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