Official Github for all Teaching Lab software development, dashboards, data, images, and more.
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About The Project
The Challenge: America’s teaching force needs better support.
New college- and career -ready standards and the accelerating demands of the knowledge economy require students to have access to engaging and rigorous instruction every day. Teachers work hard to meet these demands, but accountability efforts place pressure on them without the support they need.
Meanwhile, inequities persist: students of color, students from low-income families, English language learners, and students with disabilities are the least likely to benefit from access to engaging and rigorous instruction.
A large body of research shows that teachers are our most important resource. Despite spending $18 billion a year on teacher professional development, however, the vast majority of these efforts do not improve teacher practice. Most teachers agree, voicing frustration and lack of support from traditional “one and done” professional development.
Our teachers and our nation’s children deserve better. We know that teachers want to inspire students to learn and grow. And we believe teachers deserve to lead their own learning.
Teaching Lab seeks to dramatically improve instruction through teacher professional learning based in great instructional materials, teacher-led communities, and ongoing structures for learning and improvement.
Getting Started
This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.
Organization
- analysis: Sets of analyses, reports, and visualizations code organized primarily by year
- dashboards: A set of dashboards that have been used to visualize and analyze Teaching Lab data over time, most are deprecated.
- data: All read-in data that should be stored
- data_scripts: ongoing data scripts that run daily
- html: html template building files
- inst: Rmd template building files
- man: Internal package documentation
- R: Internal package development .R files for Teaching Lab
- tests: tests to ensure package integrity
Roadmap
See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributing
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
Contact
Your Name - @teachinglabHQ - contact@teachinglab.org
Project Link: https://github.com/TeachingLabHQ/TeachingLab