The Western Massachusetts Mathematics Partnership (WMMP)

该项目侧重于三个主要目标，包括：建立有效的专业学习社区，制定长期计划以加强K-16数学教学，缩小不同学生群体之间的成绩差距。该项目通过两个阶段完成，其中包括在第一阶段进行需求评估。在第二阶段，五个工作小组正在设计研究项目，以解决第一阶段确定的问题，分享发现，并在工作小组之间进行沟通。这个项目的智力价值在于全面和雄心勃勃的计划，以改善K-16连续统一体及以后的数学教学。这项工作的广泛影响是巨大的，并解决了成绩差距、培训高素质新教师和支持在职教师以及为所有学生提供适当和具有挑战性的课程等长期存在的问题。正在创建的专业学习社区将对马萨诸塞州西部的K-12学校系统和参与该伙伴关系的高等教育机构的数学教学产生直接影响，因为它们在许多地区的教师和管理人员以及大学教职员工之间建立了联系，并成为其他地区的典范。该项目的第二阶段的研究项目将对马萨诸塞州西部和全国的数学教育产生更长期和实质性的影响。

This project focuses on three primary objectives, including: establishing effective professional learning communities, developing a long term plan to enhance mathematics teaching K-16, and closing achievement gaps among diverse student populations. The project accomplishes this via two phases involving a needs assessment during the first phase. For the second phase, the five working groups are designing the research project to address the issues identified during phase one, sharing findings, and communicating across working groups. The intellectual merit of this project lies in the comprehensive and ambitious plan to improve mathematics teaching and learning across the K-16 continuum and beyond. The broader impacts of the work are substantial and address the persistent problems of achievement gaps, of training highly-qualified new teachers and supporting in-service teachers, and of providing appropriate and challenging curricula for all students. The Professional Learning Communities that are being created will have an immediate effect on the teaching and learning of mathematics in both the K-12 school systems in Western Massachusetts and the higher education institutions participating in the Partnership as they build connections among teachers and administrators in many districts and college faculty and serve as a model for other regions. The research project in the second phase of the project will have a longer and substantial impact on mathematics education in western Massachusetts and the nation.