CLTPI Meeting

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• CLT-PI Meeting
• February 11-13, 2004

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To advance the research base and leadership
capacity supporting K-12 mathematics curriculum
design, analysis, implementation, and evaluation.

Mission
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Center Partners

• Michigan State University
• University of Missouri
• Western Michigan University

• Battle Creek Public Schools
• Columbia Public Schools
• Kalamazoo Public Schools
• Novi Public Schools

• Horizon Research, Inc.
• University of Chicago (UCSMP)

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Principles underlying the work of CSMC

• A well-articulated, coherent, and comprehensive
  set of K-12 mathematics learning goals/standards
  is necessary to large-scale improvement of school
  mathematics.

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Principles underlying the work of CSMC
2. Mathematics curriculum materials play a
central role in any effort to improve school
mathematics and their development is a scholarly
process involving a continual cycle of
research-based design, field-testing, evidence
gathering, and revision.
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Principles underlying the work of CSMC

• 3. Teaching and curriculum materials are highly
  interdependent and increasing opportunities for
  student learning rests on better understanding
  the relationship between curriculum and
  instruction.

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Principles underlying the work of CSMC

• 4. Research addressing mathematics curriculum
  can inform policy and practice and in so doing
  narrow the gap between the ideal and the achieved
  curriculum.

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Major areas of Work

• Understand the influence and potential of
  mathematics curriculum materials Research
• Develop and study models for enabling teacher
  learning through curriculum material
  investigation and implementation. Teacher
  Learning
• Build capacity for developing, implementing, and
  studying the impact of mathematics curriculum
  materials. Leadership Development

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Goals

• Leadership Development
• Teacher Learning
• Research

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Goals

• Leadership Development
• Teacher Learning
• Research

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Leadership Development

• The CSMC focus
• Specialization in mathematics curriculum
  research, analysis, design, implementation, and
  evaluation.

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Leadership Development

• Develop and offer graduate programs to promote
  curriculum leadership.
• Revise current doctoral and specialist programs
• Develop graduate curriculum courses
• Develop and evaluate planned experiences with
  curriculum research, development, and
  implementation
• Elaborate opportunities and mechanisms for
  across-site courses, seminars, and intern
  experiences

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Leadership Development

• Develop and offer programs to promote curriculum
  leadership at the school, district, state and
  university levels.
• Establish CSMC Curriculum Internships
• Facilitate summer Curriculum Leadership
  Institutes
• Mentor curriculum leaders in partner schools

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Leadership Development

• Recruitment
• Establish CSMC Curriculum Fellowships and
  Internships
• Prepare brochures describing programs
• Disseminate information through curriculum
  networks, professional journal ads and conference
  talks, university faculty, etc.

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Leadership Development

• Study our leadership development
• programs and activities
• Share what we are learning
• Share research strategies, methodologies, and
  instruments with the field

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Goals

• Leadership Development
• Teacher Learning
• Research

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Teacher Learning

• Design and study a professional development
  continuum
• utilizing curriculum investigation and
  implementation as vehicles
• to enhance teachers mathematical and
  pedagogical content knowledge.

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School-University Partnerships

• These partnerships provide a unique opportunity
  for four groups of teaching professionals to work
  and learn together - preservice teachers,
  practicing teachers, doctoral students, and
  university faculty.

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Partner Schools

• Diverse settings and demographics
• Battle Creek Public Schools
• Columbia Public Schools
• Kalamazoo Public Schools
• Novi Public Schools
• Represent various positions along curriculum
  implementation continuum, and thus various
  positions along the teacher learning continuum
• Beginning process of curriculum adoption
• Beginning process of curriculum implementation
• Sustaining ongoing efforts to utilize and study
  curricula

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Practicing Teachers

• Professional development in the context of
• Curriculum study and implementation
• Reflecting on practice
• Lesson studies
• Assessment of student learning

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Preservice Teachers

• Design and study of mathematics content courses
  where mathematics is directly connected to K-12
  mathematics
• Design and study of mathematics field experiences
  utilizing K-12 curricula that support
  sense-making
• Classroom-based interaction with curricular
  materials in partner schools via preservice
  teacher field experiences

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Teacher Educators

• Collaborate with school partnership
  administrative personnel to focus district work
  on key questions/ issues around curriculum
  adoption and implementation
• Develop cadre of teacher leaders to support and
  sustain efforts in districts
• Involve teacher leaders and other district
  administrative personnel in Center internships

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Goals

• Leadership Development
• Teacher Learning
• Research

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Research

• It is not simply a question of whether
  mathematics curriculum materials enhance learning
  opportunities but rather, under what conditions
  do curriculum materials matter and what is the
  nature of curriculum materials that do promote
  increased student learning?

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Research

• CSMCs research agenda will be
• guided by a set of central questions
• in three areas
• Curriculum Design
• Curriculum Implementation
• Curriculum Evaluation

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Research

• Curriculum Design
• What principles for the design of curriculum
  materials can be drawn from contemporary research
  and theory on learning?
• How can mathematics curriculum materials be
  designed to better serve the learning needs of
  students from diverse cultural backgrounds and
  help to reduce the achievement gap among various
  populations of students?
• How might mathematics curriculum materials be
  designed to capitalize on continued advances in
  mathematics and/or computing technologies?
• How can the knowledge gained from experienced
  mathematics curriculum developers be used to
  inform and prepare future writers of curriculum
  materials?

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Research

• Curriculum Implementation
• What are the key factors involved in adopting and
  successfully implementing high quality
  mathematics curriculum materials?
• To what extent and under what conditions can
  mathematics curriculum investigation and
  implementation serve as vehicles for professional
  development and teacher learning?
• To what extent and under what conditions can
  mathematics curriculum materials promote teacher
  learning and effective teaching?

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Research

• Curriculum Evaluation
• What are some of the critical features of
  mathematics curriculum materials that support
  teacher and student learning?
• What is the relationship among local or state
  curriculum standards, curriculum materials, and
  high stakes assessments?
• What evaluation tools are most effective when
  studying curriculum? What information do they
  yield for various purposes? What are their
  limitations?
• In what ways is evaluation information used to
  make school-based mathematics curriculum
  decisions?

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