R&D Designs Cutting Edge Programs

ASSET’s progress in improving classroom instruction is facilitated through teacher-driven research and development (R&D) resulting in new products and services that empower teachers to continuously improve the teaching and learning process.

With support from corporations and foundations, ASSET undertakes R&D projects that assist teachers in incorporating research-based teaching strategies aligned with standards-based instructional materials across academic disciplines. The resulting products and services - including Writing to Learn through Science Notebooks, Environment and Ecology Toolboxes, the Science and Literacy Institute and Foundations for Teaching Inquiry Math - are
fundamentally changing the way teachers teach and students learn.

ASSET 4 Math and ASSET Literacy Program

Utilizing ASSET’s successful science education program as a catalyst, the organization will create two new programs – ASSET 4 Math and the ASSET Literacy Program – to provide standards-aligned, hands-on curriculum materials and rigorous teacher professional development to improve student achievement in mathematics and literacy. ASSET will
employ its successful teacher-driven R&D process as a means to identify curriculum materials and design research-based professional development to help teachers improve the teaching and learning of mathematics and literacy. R&D for ASSET 4 Math and the ASSET Literacy Program will begin in 2009-10.