Indiana University - Indiana Mathematics Initiative Partnership

该项目是由印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校和九个城市学校公司（印第安纳倡议数学联盟）合作提出的。这些地区共有126所小学（57所一级学校）、36所初中和24所高中，学生人数超过11.5万人。主要有两个重点：(i)为教师和校长的领导干部提供全面的专业发展；（ii）确保所有IMI地区都将从大学对小学和高中教师职前培训的重大改革中获得永久利益。具体来说，合作伙伴关系是在IU的职前计划和IMI地区之间建立联系，以提高地区吸引和留住合格数学教师的能力。该项目的一个组成部分是确定一名领导干部（390名小学教师和60名中学教师），以有效地试点数学课程，由合作伙伴选择，以使其与国家学术数学标准保持一致，以提高学生的成绩。该项目将使用学生在州ISTEP评估考试中的表现数据作为初级试点项目有效性的主要衡量标准。第二个组成部分是高中计划，其中有90名高中数学教师和30名八年级数学教师的领导干部的认同。这些教师将在他们的课堂上试点选定的单元，以便使当前的课程更好地符合州标准和ISTEP。

The project is proposed by a partnership formed between Indiana University-Bloomington and nine urban school corporations, (the Indiana Initiative Mathematics Consortium.). There are a total of 126 elementary schools (57 Title I), 36 middle schools and 24 high schools in the districts serving over 115,000 students. There are two major foci (i) providing comprehensive professional development for leadership cadres of teachers and principals; and (ii) insuring that all IMI districts will derive permanent benefit from a major overhaul of the preservice preparation of elementary and high school teachers by the university. Specifically the partnership is to establish linkages between IU's preservice program and IMI districts to enhance the ability of the districts to both attract and retain qualified mathematics teachers.One component of the project is the identification of a leadership cadre (390 elementary and 60 middle grades teachers) to effectively pilot a mathematics curriculum, selected by the partners for its alignment with state academic mathematics standards, in order to improve student achievement. The project will use student performance data on the state ISTEP assessment examinations as a major measure of the effectiveness of the elementary pilot project. A second component is the high school plan with the identification of a leadership cadre of 90 high school mathematics teachers and 30 eighth grade mathematics teachers. These teachers are to pilot selected units in their classrooms in order that the current curriculum is better aligned with state standards and ISTEP.