RETA: Distributed Leadership for Middle School Mathematics Education: Content Area Leadership Expertise in Practice

研究者提出了一种混合方法（定量和定性）研究中学数学分布式内容领导。关于领导者必须具备什么样的内容、教学和诊断知识才能有效地帮助教师实现严格的数学教学和学生学习的要求，很少有研究。本研究建立在先前调查人员在小学阶段对分布式领导进行调查的基础上。然而，这项研究将更深入地定义和理解领导者及其所扮演的角色。该项目主要致力于开发测量中学数学内容领导力的工具。具体来说，该团队建议开发、测试和验证内容领导实践和知识的测量工具，并研究内容领导如何影响教师的教学方式。他们还提议测试内容领导是否可以学习。所有这些工作都将在数学与科学伙伴关系（MSP） 21世纪教师研究所的背景下进行。智力价值：拟议的工作计划填补了知识库中的一个主要空白，通过生成有关内容领导知识和实践的新信息和证据，因为它们与数学教育的改进有关。高级研究团队汇集了来自数学、数学教育、教师学习、领导、政策、统计等领域的资深学者和教师。本研究主要分为两个部分。第一部分将着重于开发、试点和验证用于识别和记录中学数学内容领域领导实践的工具。第二部分将研究中学数学内容领域领导实践的性质（即，什么，如何和为什么）及其与(a)领导力发展和(b)课堂教师和教学的关系。更广泛的影响：这项工作通过产生可用的知识和方法工具可能产生重大的广泛影响，这些知识和方法工具将对msp和研究所伙伴关系以及全国各地的学校系统产生相当大的兴趣。通过关注城市学校的内容领导力，这项工作将有助于改善城市青少年的数学教育，这些学生历来受到许多学校系统的服务不足。

The investigators propose a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative)study of distributed content leadership in middle school mathematics.There is little research on what content, pedagogical, and diagnosticknowledge leaders must have to effectively assist teachers inimplementing demands of rigorous mathematics instruction and studentlearning. This research builds on prior research of the investigatorswho examined distributed leadership at the elementary school level.However, this research will go much deeper into defining andunderstanding the leaders and the roles they play. Much of the project is devoted to developing instruments to measuremathematics content leadership as distributed in middle schools.Specifically, the team proposes to develop, test, and validatemeasurement instruments of content leadership practice and knowledge andto examine how content leadership affects how teachers teach. They alsopropose to test whether content leadership can be learned. All of thiswork will be conducted in the context of a Mathematics and SciencePartnership (MSP) Teacher Institute for the 21sth Century site. Intellectual Merit: The proposed program of work fills a major gap in the knowledge base bygenerating new information and evidence about content leadershipknowledge and practices as they relate to improvement in mathematicseducation. The senior research team brings together experienced scholarsand teachers from mathematics, mathematics education, teacher learning,leadership, policy, and statistics. The research is divided into two main parts. The first will focus onthe development, piloting, and validation of instrumentation foridentifying and documenting content area leadership practice for middleschool mathematics. The second part will study the nature (i.e., thewhat, the how and the why) of content area leadership practice formiddle school mathematics and its relations to (a) leadershipdevelopment and (b) classroom teachers and teaching. Broader Impact: This work may have significant broad impact by generating usableknowledge and methodological tools that will be of considerable interestto MSPs and Institute Partnerships and to the school systems around thenation. By focusing on content leadership in urban schools, this workwill contribute to improving mathematics education for urban youth, whohave historically been underserved by many school systems.