Equity Maps - Premium

Elevate the voices in your classroom and help your students to reflect and grow!
Provide Instant Feedback – Nurture Reflection – Ignite Collaboration – Promote Equity

The animated discussion maps and feedback frames are ideal for Socratic seminars, Spider Web Discussions™, Harkness®* discussions, Literature Circles, or anytime students interact.

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

What gets measured, gets improved. Let your students see for themselves!

FEATURES: Full Premium Version

• Up to 40 participants per group
• Playback the discussion maps in real time or in fast forward
• Select and listen to any speaker from the discussion and view notes linked to their participation
• Track contributions of your students during the discussion with enhanced Checknotes
• Access to 17 Checknote Templates / create custom templates too!
• Customize the class layout in “class mode” with circles or semicircles
• Select from a variety of table arrangements
• Save classes & groups for easy access
• Export data to CSV files to track data over time
• Access to all future premium updates through at least v4.0

NEW FEATURES:

• Measure participation of groups within your class w/ customizable Identity Markers such as grade level, language level, race, seating area, or anything you’d like to see.

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

• Improved Group Analytics – Include / exclude any participant from the data to see how the dynamics change.

• Import student names from .txt file for even faster set-up.

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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.

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

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

TEACHERS:

• Enhance your Socratic Seminars, Literature Circles, Harkness®(*) discussions, or full classroom discussions
• Monitor & assess Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards, ATL, or seminar criteria
• Promote student involvement & self-reflection
• Easily assess student participation
• Perfect for schools with VPP or for users who don't want to mess with in-app purchases!

FACILITATORS & GROUP LEADERS:

• Encourage deeper reflection of your group’s goals, norms & processes.
• Give your boss an Equity Check and share how equitable your last meeting was.
• Critical Friends Group® coaches & facilitators (CFG work)
• Professional Learning Communities (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 truly more meaningful & reflective.

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EquityMaps® is a registered trademark at the USPTO and has been created by teacher for teachers & their students.
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®)