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Practicum is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to work intensively with a small group of students from the host classroom by assessing and analyzing data as well as planning and teaching data-driven lessons. Participants will progress monitor students over the course of the 12+ weeks of small group instruction. The primary goal of the practicum experience is to increase student academic performance. A secondary goal is to provide participants with sufficient opportunities to enact the pedagogy of highly effective mathematics teachers. For mathematics practicum, participants will maintain a working group of 3–4 students across the entire semester, five days a week, and for 30–45 minutes per day, utilizing the Do the Math Now! intervention program. Do the Math NOW! focuses on mathematics topics that are typically taught at grades 6–8 and which—if not mastered—can later interfere with success in secondary mathematics at grades 7–12.