Walter Leite

The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of Prime Online, an online teacher professional development (PD) intervention to improve teachers' knowledge and practice and students' mathematics achievement. Research suggests that a substantial portion of the variability in students' mathematics achievement is related to the quality of teachers' instruction. However, little is known about effective ways to improve teachers' mathematics teaching, especially with students who struggle wit...

The Virtual Learning Lab will bring together expertise in informatics (the study of information processing in the context of computer systems), mathematics education, and teacher professional development to launch the emerging field of precision education, in which prior students' data are used to support decisions about the learning opportunities provided to future students. Precision education is now becoming possible due to the availability of large data sets accumulated as students work ...

This postdoctoral program trained five fellows in research focused on improving developmental outcomes and school readiness of infants, toddlers, and young children with or at risk for disabilities. The program supported the acquisition and mastery of the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct early childhood special education research. The program emphasized a situated learning and cognitive apprenticeship approach in which there was an experienced mentorship team for each fellow.