Equity Maps – Classrooms, Groups, & Meetings

Chart & record the interaction of students or colleagues to measure & graphically illustrate levels of participation. The instant analytics & animated playback at multiple speeds will help spur discussion & engage participants in deeper reflection!

Classroom discussions, meeting debriefs, & post-observations will never be the same again!

With Equity Maps, you can promote wider collaboration, engage students, and nurture reflection of teachers and students alike.

REFLECTIVE DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:

• Simply tap on the participants’ icons when they speak and Equity Maps will do the rest by visually charting the interactions and calculating levels of participation for your group or class.

• “Playback” the diagram of interactions among participants in real time or in fast forward mode at various speeds.

• Use the record audio function and access selectable playback of individual participants to review your class or meeting—powerful for taking audio notes, or for reflecting on the dialogue of the group.

• The “Feedback Frames” provide key statistics for teachers, students or group members:
-Display statistics of total time and frequency spoken for all participants.
-Measure involvement based on gender within the class or group.
-View statistics of shared time and involvement.


TEACHERS:

• Enhance your Socratic Seminars, Literature Circles, group discussions, Harkness discussions, or full classroom discussions.
• Promote student involvement and self-reflection.
• Easily assess student participation.

FACILITATORS AND GROUP LEADERS:

• Encourage deeper reflection of your group’s goals, norms and processes.
• Equity Maps is ideal for your collaborative work:
- Critical Friends Group® coaches & facilitators (CFG work)
- Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
- Collaborative groups and committees

ADMINISTRATORS AND INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES:

• Provide teachers with a visual perspective of their classroom instruction like they’ve never seen before!
• Revitalize reflective practices for teachers, present objective data to improve the scope and reduce anxiety of post-observation meetings.
• Make your classroom observations truly more meaningful and reflective.
• Gather objective data and access the “Feedback Frames” for deeper discussions about instructional practices, student involvement and classroom equity.

FEATURES:

• Quickly set-up your class or meeting.
• Add up to 40 participants in each group!
• Customize your own class layout in “class mode”—circles or semicircles.
• Show participants the flow of the meeting, discussion, or lesson.
• Select from a variety of table arrangements.
• Save classes and groups for easy access.

“It was like looking into the mirror, except the image was my lesson and it showed me more than words could tell.” –High School Teacher

At Equity Maps we believe that true collaboration is possible only when diverse groups of people come together in dialogue to inquire, create, problem solve, and innovate!

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