Design Principles for Accelerating Student Learning with High-Impact Tutoring (updated June 2024)
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
The Culturally Ambitious Teaching Practices in Mathematics (CATP) is a classroom observation and instructional framework designed to help educators understand and strengthen culturally relevant teaching within mathematics classrooms. It outlines specific teaching practices that merge the core principles of culturally relevant pedagogy—academic achievement, cultural competence, and critical consciousness—with the expectations of ambitious mathematics instruction. The tool provides a rubric-style set of practices that describe what it looks like when teachers draw on students’ prior knowledge, support inquiry-based problem solving, and use mathematics as a space for questioning ideas and connecting learning to students’ lived experiences.
CATP is intended for use in middle and high school mathematics settings, particularly in urban schools. Districts can use it to guide professional learning, coaching, curriculum conversations, and reflective practice among teachers and school leaders. By offering concrete instructional practices rather than broad principles, CATP helps educators design math classrooms that are rigorous, inclusive, and responsive to the backgrounds and strengths of all students.
Organization
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Schooling ; Teaching ; Culturally Responsive Teaching
Languages
English
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Price
Free
Contact
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Classroom
