The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking educator insights to inform the Foundation’s K-12 education strategy. As part of the Foundation’s strategic planning process, The Educator Collective has been selected to lead a regional focus group to delve into the formal and informal networks educators leverage to inform their practice and those that educators rely upon to influence decisions regionally or statewide.

TEC is seeking focus group participants who are teachers or administrators in the following roles:

• Mathematics Teachers,

• Mathematics Instructional Coaches,

• Principals,

• Assistant Principals

• District Mathematics Leads,

• Chief Academic Officers,

• Similar roles instructing or overseeing mathematics education

Participants will engage in up to three hours of activities from May 4-24 to provide insights for the study and earn up to $150.

See full details of the schedule and requirements below. To participate, please complete the brief eligibility application below by Wednesday, May 3.

Application deadline: 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3.

See below for full participation requirements.

Activities & Timeline:

• May 3 - Deadline to complete application; selection notifications sent 5/4

• May 4-10 - Selected participants complete Educator Networks Insights Survey

  • Approximately one hour

  • Earn $50

• May 13-16 - Selected participants engage in virtual focus group on preferred date

  • 90 minutes

  • Earn $75

  • Three options (participants select one):

    • Saturday, 5/13 from 8:00-9:30 a.m.

    • Monday, 5/15 from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

    • Tuesday, 5/16 from 6:30-8:00 p.m.

• May 14-23 - Optional 1:1 / small group interviews for select participants (by invitation)

  • 30 minutes

  • Earn $25

Payments will be distributed at the completion of the study based on the activities in which you participated.