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

研究者提出了一种中学数学分布式内容领导的混合研究方法(定量和定性)，但很少有研究表明，领导必须具备什么样的内容、教学方法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。这项研究建立在研究者对小学分布式领导的先前研究的基础上，但是，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。该项目致力于开发测量中学数学内容领导力的工具。具体地说，该团队建议开发、测试和验证内容领导力实践和知识的测量工具，并检查内容领导力如何影响教师的教学方式。他们还建议测试内容领导力是否可以后天习得。所有这些工作都将在21世纪数学与科学伙伴关系(MSP)师范学院的背景下进行。智力价值：拟议的工作计划通过产生关于内容、领导、知识和实践的新信息和证据来填补知识库中的一个主要空白，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、领导力、政策和统计的经验丰富的学者和教师。本研究分为两个主要部分。第一个将集中于工具的开发、试验和验证，以识别和记录中学数学的内容领域领导实践。第二部分将研究中学数学内容领域领导实践的性质(即内容领域领导实践的内容、方式和原因)及其与(A)领导发展和(B)课堂教师和教学的关系。更广泛的影响：这项工作可能会产生重大的广泛影响，产生可用的知识和方法工具，这些知识和方法工具将对MSP和研究所伙伴关系以及国家周围的学校系统产生相当大的兴趣。通过将重点放在城市学校的内容领导力上，这项工作将有助于改善城市青年的数学教育，许多学校系统历来没有为他们提供足够的服务。

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.