Teacher Advisor is an IBM Watson-powered web tool designed in partnership with educators that is intended to save teachers valuable time as they plan highly effective lessons, with the end goal of raising student achievement. This philanthropic resource has over 8,000 quality lesson plans, student-facing activities, and classroom strategies, all vetted by high performing educators and math coaches.

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Back to School Overview
August 2018

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Background & Overview
• Philanthropic Initiative from the IBM International
Foundation
• Collaboration between the Foundation, leaders in
education, teachers, and funding partners:
– Content curated by 3rd-party former educators
– Partnership with the American Federation of
Teachers
– Ongoing usage and feedback informs future
functionality

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ü It will always be 100% free
ü Only high-quality, vetted, and diverse content from the best OER
providers in K-8 math
ü Watson-powered search provides more targeted resource
recommendations aligned to teacher needs
ü Helps with understanding standards alignment and enables
more informed differentiation and remediation
ü Non-judgmental, supportive tool without any teacher
assessment component or student data collection
Why Use Teacher Advisor?
Teacher Advisor With Watson helps teachers more efficiently plan and deliver
quality instructional resources aligned to 21st century standards, enabling them to
better meet the needs of every student in the classroom.

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Resources and Content Partnerships
• Across k-8:
• Just under 2,000 Lesson Plans
• Over 5,000 Student-Facing Activities
• Over 500 Tasks
• Over 100 Instructional Videos and Pedagogical
Documents
• Content Sources and Partners:
- Achieve
- America Achieves
- CPALMS
- EngageNY
- Hunt Institute
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Inside Mathematics
- Louisiana Believes
- Massachusetts DOE
- National Center for Learning
Disabilities (NCLD)
- North Carolina Department of
Instruction
- Open Up Resources
- Share My Lesson (AFT)
- Student Achievement Partners
- UnboundEd

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Primary Use Cases
1. Supplementary lesson planning resource
2. Primary lesson planning resource (EngageNY in K-8; OUR
in 6-8)
3. Remediation and re-teaching
4. Targeted student practice
5. Boosting teacher content knowledge

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August 2018 Release
Highlights

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Key Features and Additions
1. Adding full curriculum for grades 6, 7, and 8
– Open-Up Resources
– EngageNY
2. Adding strategy documents in grades k-5 from NCLD
3. Providing personalized recommendations for content
related to supporting students with learning and attention
issues, and students who are English Language Learners
4. Watson custom-language model added to accommodate
middle school searches involving hands-on activities and
lessons

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Watson Functionality

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Sign Up at www.TeacherAdvisor.org

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Demo

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Teacher Usage and
Feedback

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Overview of Partners and Current Users
• Over 11,000 registered teachers
• Top 5 States:
1. North Carolina
2. New York
3. Virginia
4. Texas
5. Florida
• Over 600 teachers using the tool outside the U.S.
• Partners:
– NSBA, AFT, NBPTS, ECS, CCSSO, Achieve, Student
Achievement Partners, CSA, Education First, NCLD,
EdReports

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Feedback from Educators
• “My teachers LOVE this! They feel like everything is
there for them, and its really easy to use.”
– Katherine Shack, Math Curriculum Director
• "Teacher Advisor makes me feel like somebody is
thinking about my needs for support. Unless you have
taught day after day, year after year, you really can't
know how much this means to me. Thanks for
listening.” – Betsy Vogel
• "The lessons are challenging and really push my
students to think critically about the math standards
they address." – Amber Bailey

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2018-19 Priorities and
Next Steps

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December Release Priorities (In Process)
How can we encourage teachers to
provide more comments and best
practices on content they find
within Teacher Advisor?
+Community Feel
How can teachers search for
content that emphasizes the MP
standards, and use TA for PD?
+Mathematical Practices
How can teachers manipulate
content in Teacher Advisor to
differentiate and facilitate
instruction more effectively?
+Content Flexibility

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Next Steps Suggestions
1. (New Users) Sign up for a free account at
teacheradvisor.org
2. Help us share on social!
• @IBMEducation on Twitter and @CitizenIBM on FB
• #TeacherAdvisor
3. (Teachers and Coaches) As you download resources that
you use in your classroom this year, make sure to “Leave
a Review” and share insights with other users.
4. Contact Teacher Advisor team at tahelp@us.ibm.com for
any feedback or requests for more detailed engagements.

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Q & A