Equity Maps - Premium

• Elevate the voices in your classroom -- help students to reflect & grow!
• Provide Instant Feedback – Nurture Reflection – Ignite Collaboration – Promote Equity
• Created by teachers, for teachers & their students.

Animated discussion maps & feedback frames are ideal for Socratic seminars, Spider Web™ & Harkness®(*) discussions, Literature Circles, Dialogic lesson designs, or anytime students interact.

Effortlessly chart & record students’ interactions to graphically illustrate levels & types of participation. The discussion maps, instant analytics & animated playback at multiple speeds spur deeper reflection!

What gets measured, gets improved. Create space for all voices to be heard!

PREMIUM FEATURES:

• Up to 40 participants / group with unlimited seating options
• Quick edit feature- now on one screen
• Playback the discussion maps in real time or in fast forward
• Select & listen to any speaker & view notes linked to their participation
• Track student contributions with enhanced Checknotes & notations
• Access to 17 Checknote templates or customize them for yourself
• Individual / Group analytics – Include / Exclude participants from the data to see how the dynamics change
• Save classes & groups for easy access or import from .txt file
• Export data to CSV files to track data over time
• Easy Zoom integration for Virtual lessons

NEW FEATURES:

• Debrief w/students individually! Review contributions of any one student in the improved participant analytics: see each time the student spoke & playback what they said, or play from the person who spoke before/after, review notations for that student, participation data, or Checknotes… all on one screen!

• Give better student feedback! Take notes or write comments during the discussion that link to the speaker.

• Identify Markers: customize the groups w/n your class that you’d like to measure such as grade level, language level, race, seating area, or anything you’d like to see.

• Quick Edit Feature to set up your class much faster!
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REFLECTIVE DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:

• Simply tap on the participants’ icons when they speak & Equity Maps will do the rest by visually charting the interactions & calculating levels of participation.

• Track the nature of each participants' contributions with Checknotes, choose among the 17 templates or create your own, or take notes during the discussion that attach to the speaker for review after.

• The “Feedback Frames” provide key statistics for teachers, students or group members: time spoken, times spoken, gender equity, or customize anything you’d like to measure.

TEACHERS:

• Enhance your Socratic Seminars, Literature Circles, Harkness®(*) discussions, or full classroom discussions
• Monitor & assess Common Core Speaking & Listening Standards, ATL, Dialogic lessons, or seminar criteria
• Promote student involvement & self-reflection
• Perfect for schools with VPP for 50% discount

FACILITATORS & GROUP LEADERS:

• Encourage deeper reflection of your group’s goals, norms & processes
• Give your boss an Equity Check & share how equitable your last meeting was
• Critical Friends Group® coaches & facilitators (CFG work) or in PLCs

ADMINISTRATORS & INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES:

• Provide teachers an “image” of their classroom instruction like they’ve never seen before!
• Revitalize reflective practices for teachers, while reducing anxiety of post-observation meetings
• Make your classroom observations more meaningful & reflective

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EquityMaps® is a registered trademark at the USPTO / U.S. Pat. No 10,553,129

*EquityMaps has been developed completely independent of Phillips Exeter Academy & is not affiliated in any way with the academy.

Critical Friends Group® is a registered trademark of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF®)