Criterion

Commitment

Compensation or Benefit

School and Administrator

Support

• Remain in the project for 5 years

• Identify and support the participation of up to 10 teachers using each textbook series:

  • CSISD: Connected Mathematics and Glencoe Mathematics

     

     

  • BISD: MathThematics

•   Opportunity to observe and document long-term effects in school and district teaching and student learning

•  Opportunity to participate in and affect project improvements over time

• Connected Mathematics textbooks purchased by the project

Teacher Staff Development

• Teachers participate in 10 days of professional development during summers 2002 to 2005

•  Teachers participate in about 5 days of professional development during the school years 2001-02 through 2005-06

•  Participation with other teachers in learning and discussing high quality mathematics teaching

•          Stipend of $100 per day for summers

•  Substitute pay for school year workshops

•  Lunches furnished at all workshops

•  Graduate credit available

Classroom Observations and Data Collection

•    Each teacher will be observed and/or video-taped about 20 times per school year

•     Teachers will be interviewed

•   Students will be pre- and post-tested, using a math assessment developed by the project

• Selected students from each class may be interviewed

• Available data will be collected (e.g., demographic info, grades, TAAS scores)

•  Opportunity for self-study of teaching

•  Opportunity to examine in-depth evidence of student mathematics learning

• Opportunity to track patterns and trajectories of student achievement over grades 6, 7, and 8

Reports and Presentations

• Participate in preparing reports and presentations at state and national conferences

• Writing for publication in professional journals

• Travel to NCTM and other conferences paid by the project

•  Opportunity to interact with and learn from nationally recognized math educators