Contact Information:
Mathematics Leadership Program
c/o Kay Caruso
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458
Tel: 617-969-7100
kcaruso@edc.org
SummerMath for Teachers
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075-1441
Tel: 413-538-2063
Fax: 413-538-2002
jpaquett@mtholyoke.edu
About Us
The Mathematics Leadership Program (MLP) was established in 2007 to help schools, school systems, and other institutions provide coordinated professional development to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. MLP leverages three different professional-development curricula, all based on the same underlying principles, each addressing a different aspect of the system.
- Developing Mathematical Ideas focuses on the knowledge and skills required of teachers to support the learning of mathematics for understanding.
- Lenses on Learning addresses the role of administrators in improving mathematics programs in their school or school system.
- Cultivating a Mathematics Coaching Practice attends to the learning needs of mathematics coaches whose role is to help teachers develop a practice that supports student understanding.
The major authors of Developing Mathematical Ideas, Lenses on Learning, and Cultivating a Mathematics Coaching Practice direct the efforts of MLP.
Developing Mathematical Ideas
Deborah Schifter is a principal research scientist at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). She has worked as an applied mathematician; has taught elementary, secondary, and college level mathematics; and, since 1985, has been a mathematics teacher educator. She wrote the book Reconstructing Mathematics Education, edited a two-volume anthology of teachers' writing titled What's Happening in Math Class?, coauthored The Mathematical Education of Teachers, and coedited A Research Companion to the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. In 1996, she received the AERA Professional Service Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution relating research to practice.
Virginia Bastable has been the director of the SummerMath for Teachers program at Mount Holyoke College since 1993, after working as a secondary mathematics teacher for more than 20 years. Dr. Bastable designs and conducts programs examining the learning and teaching of mathematics for varied populations: in-service teachers, school administrators, pre-service teachers, and teacher-leaders. Current research efforts focus on algebraic reasoning in the elementary and middle school. She is an author of the Developing Mathematical Ideas Professional Development Curriculum and of the second edition of Investigations in Number Data and Space.
Susan Jo Russell is a principal scientist at the Education Research Collaborative at TERC. After 10 years of classroom teaching and staff development in elementary schools, Dr. Russell became involved in research and development, directing projects that have focused on computer education, mathematics for special needs students, professional development in mathematics for elementary and middle school teachers, research on students' and teachers' understanding of mathematics, and curriculum design for elementary students. She co-directed the development and revision of the NSF-funded elementary curriculum Investigations in Number, Data and Space. She was a member of the grades 3-5 writing group for the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Lenses on Learning
Catherine Miles Grant is a senior research and development associate at Education Development Center (EDC). She has worked as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, mathematics coordinator, and curriculum developer; and, since 1998, her work has centered on research and development to support the instructional leadership of principals and other school and district leaders. Grant directs the NSF-funded Secondary Lenses on Learning project, coordinates EDC's Lenses on Learning outreach initiatives, and also works to strengthen the quality of principal preparation programs to better serve the needs of schools through the Wallace-funded School Leadership Project. She is primary author of Secondary Lenses on Learning: Team leadership for mathematics in middle and high schools; Lenses on Learning: Instructional leadership in mathematics; and Lenses on Learning-Supervision: Focusing on mathematical thinking.
Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice
Amy Morse is a project director at the Education Development Center, Newton, MA. She has worked as a classroom teacher and as a professional developer for teachers and for math coaches. She has a B.A. in education from Hamilton College, and an M.S. from Boston University. In 1997, Amy joined EDC where she works on teacher and coach development projects. For many years, she worked as a consultant to the Boston Public Schools Elementary Math Department primarily to design and facilitate the professional development for the district's elementary math coaches. Now Amy travels extensively, working as a consultant to school districts in various stages of implementing a math coaching strategy and is the Director of the Center for the Professional Development of Coaching and Math Leadership at EDC. In addition, she directs the PDMC institutes for the Math Leadership program. Based on her work with math coaches since 2000, Amy has created a set of professional development materials for math coaches, Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice. The book is a compilation of coach-authored cases, math activities, planning-for-coaching activities, and focus questions designed to strengthen a reflective math-centered coaching practice.
Mathematics Leadership Program Summer 2010 Staff
The authors work with a larger staff to facilitate the MLP summer institutes as well as workshops and retreats at various sites through the year. Additional staff members who will be teaching in the 2009 MLP summer institute are:
- Janelle Bradshaw, Principal, Cambridge (MA) Public Schools
- Christopher Fraley, Teacher, Eastside Catholic Middle School (WA)
- Keith Cochran, Co-director of the Investigations Implementation Center, TERC
- Marta Garcia, National Board Certified Teacher, Buncombe County (NC) Public Schools
- Scott Hendrickson, Assistant Teaching Professor, Brigham Young University
- Barbara Kuehl, Mathematics Supervisor, Salt Lake City (UT) Public Schools
- Jill Bodner Lester, Assistant Director of SummerMath for Teachers, Mount Holyoke College
- Hetal Patel, Mathematics Coach, New York City Public Schools
- Darlene Ratliff, Mathematics Coach/Mathematics Specialist, Boston (MA) Public Schools
- Bert Speelpenning, President, Foundation for Learning
- Gini Stimpson, Research Associate, University of Washington
- Karyna Tejeda, Assistant Principal, New York City Public Schools
- Polly Wagner, Mathematics Coach Coordinator, Amherst (MA) Public Schools
- Dee Watson, Teacher, Boston (MA) Public Schools