Rocky Mountain Middle School Math Science Partnership RMMSMSP

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Rocky Mountain Middle School Math Science
Partnership (RM-MSMSP)

• April 20, 2004
• Reverse Site Visit
• National Science Foundation

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Presenters

• Doris Kimbrough, Principal Investigator,
  Associate Professor and Chair of Chemistry
  CU-Denver
• Barbara Bath, Project Director, Associate
  Professor Emerita in Mathematics, Colorado School
  of Mines
• Linda Morris, Co-Principal Investigator, Science
  Curriculum Specialist, Jefferson County Schools
• Lynn Rhodes, Dean, School of Education, CU-Denver
• Barbara Heath, Evaluator, University of North
  Carolina East Main Educational Consulting

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Higher Education Partners

• Core Partner
• University of Colorado at Denver (CU-Denver)
• Supporting Partners
• University of Denver (DU)
• Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD)
• Colorado State University, Ft. Collins (CSU)
• Ft. Lewis College

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School District Partners

• Core Partners (Total enrollment/MS enrollment)
• Brighton (8,265/1,965)
• Jefferson County (87,180/20,647)
• Mapleton (5,721/1,272)
• Supporting Partners
• Adams 14 (6,528/1,466)
• Englewood (4,085/849)
• Elizabeth (2,867/733)
• Gilpin County (421/76)

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Other Support

• Front Range Board of Cooperative Education
  Services (BOCES)
• Colorado Institute of Technology
• Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation
  (CO-AMP)
• Colorado Department of Education

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Vision

• The RM-MSMSP will increase middle school student
  achievement in high quality mathematics and
  science coursework by implementation of
  challenging curriculum taught by highly qualified
  and diverse teachers.
• Motto 15 Months to Highly Qualified.

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Goals

• Enhanced teacher quality through implementation
  of content-rich professional development
  coursework taught by higher education math and
  science faculty with structured follow up
• Increased access to challenging curriculum of
  middle school students through implementation of
  research-based curriculum in mathematics and
  science
• Improved diversity in the teacher pipeline
  coupled with enhanced preparation in mathematics
  and science.

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Project Context Overview

• Colorado and No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
• Student achievement

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Context Colorado and NCLB

• Colorado currently has no licensure at middle
  school level
• Middle school teachers have elementary or
  secondary licensure
• Colorado under NCLB
• 24 credit hours in core subject area highly
  qualified
• 30 of middle school teachers currently not in
  compliance statewide
• Noncompliance percentage higher in mathematics
  and science and for smaller districts
• Pre-service shortage of numbers of math/science
  teachers

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Context Student Achievement

• 2003 Colorado State Assessment Program (CSAP)
• History
• Four levels
• Unsatisfactory ? Partially Proficient ?
  Proficient ? Advanced
• Most partner districts gt 50 partially proficient
  or unsatisfactory
• Smaller districts struggling, partnership fosters
  strength, economies of scale

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2003 CSAP Performance in partner districts
age of students Unsatisfactory or Partially
Proficient
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Context Student Achievement

• 2004 CSAP
• Grades 4 10 in mathematics
• Grade 8 in science
• 2005 CSAP (full implementation)
• Grades 3 10 in mathematics
• Grades 5, 8, and 10 in science
• More stringent college admissions requirements
  (2008)

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RM-MSMSP Action Plan Overview

• Teachers
• Interventions
• Closing the achievement gap
• Institutional change

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RM-MSMSP Action PlanTeachers

• In-Service 15 months to HQ
• Pre-assessment (Teacher Content Inventory)
• Summer Academies Academic Year Coursework in
  Math and/or Science
• Structured Follow-Up
• Pre-Service
• Individually Structured Science Major towards
  baccalaureate degree
• Pre-teaching career advisors in math and science
  departments at higher ed institutions
• Teaching assistants, camp counselors, tutors in
  enrichment labs to gain experience and insight
• Both groups working towards CU-Denver certificate
  in middle school math or science teaching

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RM-MSMSP Action PlanInterventions

• Differentiated Instruction pilot in Jeffco
• Math and Science Enrichment Labs for all students
• Summer Science Camps
• Pilot camps, summer 2005
• CSU Ft. Lewis residential MSCD day camp
• Target traditionally under-represented groups in
  STEM through CO-AMP model (Hispanic, Native
  American, African American)
• Teacher/parental involvement
• Integral part of teacher professional
  development, providing project-based teaching
  opportunity for pre- and in-service

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RM-MSMSP Action Plan

• Closing the Achievement Gap Research into
  Interventions
• Differentiated Instruction
• Science and mathematics enrichment laboratories
• Summer camp effectiveness, w/ and w/o teacher
  involvement
• Institutional Change
• Coursework part of Arts Sciences regular
  offerings for all students
• Certificate program ? Statewide Endorsement,
  similar coursework at other higher education
  institutions in the state
• Enhanced teacher content knowledge resulting in
  increased achievement driving force to change
  expectations in teacher workforce
• Change in the perspective about middle school
  teaching

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Outcomes

• Increased numbers of diverse, highly qualified
  teachers,
• Significant growth in mathematics and science
  learning by middle school students and beyond,
• Closing of the achievement gap in math and
  science,
• Institutional change at higher education and
  district levels
• Research results to inform project and
  dissemination efforts, and
• Statewide endorsements in mathematics and science
  teaching at the middle school level.

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RM-MSMSP Evaluation Plan

• Formative
• Will focus on several overarching questions that
  directly assess the projected outcomes
• Baseline data collection will occur prior to the
  implementation
• Data will be continuously collected in each year
  of the project
• Annual reports will be provided to the management
  team

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RM-MSMSP Evaluation Plan

• Data sources
• District baseline data
• Teacher reporting
• Participation records
• Teacher/Student content exams
• Records of practice
• Field notes
• Portfolios
• Documents
• University course materials
• University records

• Collection Methods
• Teacher Content Inventory (TCI)
• Exam aggregation
• Web-based database
• Observation
• Interviews or focus groups
• Standards checklists
• Surveys (traditional online)
• Embedded assessments
• Document archiving

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RM-MSMSP Evaluation Plan

• Analysis Methods
• Quantitative
• Will be used to analyze data such as exam scores
  and records of practice
• Data will be disaggregated to determine impact on
  achievement gap
• Qualitative
• Will be used to analyze portions of the data
• Results will describe project progress and
  potential cause and effect relationships

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RM-MSMSP Evaluation Plan

• Summative
• Will consider the evaluation data that is
  produced over the course of the proposed project
• Will report on impacts that are evident as a
  result of analyzing the entire data set
• teacher outcomes
• student outcomes
• institutional change

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Rocky Mountain Middle School Math Science
Partnership (RM-MSMSP)

• April 20, 2004
• Reverse Site Visit
• National Science Foundation