District leaders often need to balance two goals: aligning instruction to district priorities while giving schools and teachers support that reflects their specific needs. M2's rubric structure …
How M2 delivers coherence and customization: Sites within a team
School and district leaders constantly balance the big picture with on the ground details. Across the organization, it's important to get everyone working towards higher quality instruction, and to …
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Beyond the video submission: Why M2 is a system for National Board success
If you've been through the National Board process, or supported someone who has, you know the scope of the commitment. It’s an exhausting, rewarding marathon of recording lessons, rewatching them, and …
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Why 1-2 observations aren’t enough: The case for continuous feedback in pre-service teacher training
Picture a student teacher the morning of their first formal observation. They've prepared for days. The formal observations feels high stakes because in a sense it is: observations are rare. Not …
How M2’s AI rubric scoring aligns with expert human evaluators
For AI rubric scoring to be useful in a school or district, it has to be trustworthy. That means it needs to score the way a trained evaluator would score: consistently, accurately, and in a way that …
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Supporting multilingual learners beyond language: How M2 connects English development and academic learning
There are over 5 million English Language Learners (ELL) in U.S. public schools, and they face a challenge most of their peers don't: learning English and academic content at the same time. This …
The M2 score: what it measures and why it matters
The M2 score measures participation as the foundational condition for learning. It captures whether a classroom consistently creates, sustains, and distributes opportunities for thinking—moment by …
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Turning district priorities into consistent classroom feedback: M2’s Rubric Builder
We built M2 with a feedback focus on engagement, questioning, and pacing. Why? Because insights in these three areas make a difference for every teacher we know. Many districts have also …
Whole Group Guides: A new way to move the whole class forward
M2’s purpose has always been simple: to support great teachers in the work they do every day. Since then, we’ve seen the same pattern in classrooms across the country: teachers are resourceful, …
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Product update: January 6, 2025
We’re excited to announce the latest MirrorTalk update, specifically for M2 hardware. This release features improvements that expand the ways you can engage, reflect, and learn across M2, as well as …