NJ Partnership for Excellence in Middle School Mathematics

新泽西中学数学卓越伙伴关系（NJ-PEMSM）是罗格斯大学与新泽西州七个学区之间的伙伴关系。该伙伴关系正在发展教师在数学，教学法和领导力方面的专业知识，以提高学生的数学成绩，并进一步分享他们作为首席教师，数学教练和地区资源的专业知识。NJ-PEMSM包括面临美国公立学校最严重教育挑战的一个横截面的学区：家庭和社区环境中的经济压力，社会文化背景的多样性，以及全州范围内数学评估的部分学生能力。NJ-PEMSM研究所，夏季和学年组成部分，正在招收100名活跃的中学数学教师，在五年内分四批，作为伙伴关系研究员。研究员进行一项计划，开发深入的数学内容知识和基于研究的教学策略，让学生参与学习。数学领域包括数字和运算、代数、几何、概率和离散数学。教学策略包括关注儿童的数学推理过程、情感和动机。该研究所正在发展领导技能，使参与者能够将他们的专业知识传达给同事，并积极影响他们的学区。研究员可以获得数学教育硕士学位和/或高级许可证。现有的支助结构旨在维持一个专家实践社区。 一项严格的研究工作正在记录该项目的成果，以便向更广泛的社区传播。一个特别的重点是放在有特殊需要的学生的数学成绩。 NJ-PEMSM期望取得以下成果：1）培养一支具有较强数学内容、教学法和领导技能和知识的中学数学教师骨干队伍。2)为中学数学教师提供更深入、更灵活的数学内容知识，使他们能够有效地教授概念上具有挑战性的数学。3）通过更好地吸引和激励来自经济弱势群体、种族、民族和文化多样性群体的学生，使他们选择学习更高级的数学课程，从而改变中学数学教育。4)回答有关中学教师获得数学知识和教学发展的具体研究问题，学生学习的后果，包括特殊教育学生，以及教师领导力发展对参与学区的影响。

The New Jersey Partnership for Excellence in Middle School Mathematics (NJ-PEMSM) is a partnership between Rutgers University and seven school districts in the state of New Jersey. The partnership is developing the expertise of teachers in mathematics, pedagogy, and leadership to enhance the mathematical achievement of their students and to share their expertise further as lead teachers, mathematics coaches, and district resources. NJ-PEMSM includes school districts facing a cross-section of the most serious educational challenges for American public schools: economic stresses in the home and community environments, a diversity of socio-cultural contexts, and partial student proficiency on statewide mathematics assessments. The NJ-PEMSM Institute, with summer and academic year components, is enrolling 100 active middle school mathematics teachers, in four cohorts over five years, as Partnership Fellows. Fellows undertake a program that develops deep mathematical content knowledge and research-based pedagogical strategies to engage students in learning. The mathematical domains include numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, probability, and discrete mathematics. Teaching strategies include attention to children's mathematical reasoning processes, affect and motivation. The Institute is developing leadership skills that empower participants to communicate their expertise to colleagues, and to positively influence their school districts. Fellows can earn a Master's of Education in Mathematics Education, and/or advanced licensures. Ongoing support structures are designed to sustain a community of expert practice. A rigorous research effort is documenting the outcomes of the project for dissemination to the broader community. A special focus is being placed on the mathematical achievement of special-needs students. NJ-PEMSM expects the following outcomes:1) To develop a cadre of middle school math teachers who have strong mathematical content, pedagogy and leadership skills and knowledge. 2) To provide middle school mathematics teachers with a deeper and more flexible mathematical content knowledge so that they can effectively teach conceptually challenging mathematics.3) To transform middle school mathematics education by better engaging and motivating students from economically disadvantaged, and racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations so that they choose to pursue more advanced mathematics courses. 4) To answer specific research questions regarding middle school teachers' acquisition of mathematical knowledge and pedagogical development, consequences for students' learning, including special education students, and the impact of teacher leadership development on participating school districts.