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，制定加强K-16数学教学的长期计划，以及缩小不同学生群体之间的成绩差距。该项目通过两个阶段来实现这一点，这两个阶段涉及第一阶段的需求评估。对于第二阶段，五个工作组正在设计研究项目，以解决第一阶段确定的问题，分享研究结果，并在工作组之间进行沟通。该项目的智力价值在于全面而雄心勃勃的计划，以改善整个K-16连续体及以后的数学教与学。这项工作的更广泛影响是巨大的，解决了成绩差距、培训高素质的新教师和支助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K-12学校系统和参与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，并为其他地区树立了榜样。该项目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.