Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership

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Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership

• School Based Partnerships Using Social Network
  Analysis to Measure Progress Towards Distributed
  Leadership
• Carl Hanssen
• Hanssen Consulting, LLC
• DeAnn Huinker
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• MSP Learning Network Conference
• Washington, DC
• January 2008

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Agenda

• Context
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

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Evaluation Goals

• Help the MMP better serve its constituents and
  improve its effectiveness
• Serve the broader mathematics education community
  through documentation and dissemination of MMP
  activities

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MMP Evaluation Logic Model
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Focus for this study
Student Achievement
Classroom Practice
Teacher Involvement
Distributed Leadership
Learning Team Efforts
School Buy-in
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Method

• 20 Schools from 2006 2007
• Purposefully selected for diversity in
• School Type
• Geography
• Student Achievement
• MMP Involvement

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SNA Survey

• Open survey approach
• Teachers administrators
• Provide names of individuals with whom you
  communicated with about mathematics
• Demographics
• Other data
• School staff lists
• Student achievement resultsin terms of
  proficient

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Analysis

• Maps identify
• MTL
• MTS
• Teachers
• Principal
• Literacy Coach
• Others in school
• Others outside

• Statistics
• Network density ()
• In-Degree(z-score)

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1a.
2006
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1b.
2007
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2a.
2006
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2b.
2007
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3a.
2006
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3b.
2007
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4a.
2006
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4b.
2007
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5.
2007
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MMP Distributed Leadership Continuum
Low
High
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Tight Network MTL Central Many Links to MTL MTS
Inside Many Links to MTS
Loose Network MTL Not Central Few Links to
MTL MTS Outside Few Links to MTS
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Distributed Leadership Student Achievement
This is the same school 2 years in a row!
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Overall Conclusions

• There is support for the argument that schools
  that have more fully adopted MMP principles are
  demonstrating stronger outcomes distributed
  leadership is one manifestation of MMP adoption.
• Creating distributed leadership in a school takes
  timeand communication is critical
• There is tremendous variabilityacross MPS in the
  extent to which schools have adopted
  MMPprinciples and ideas

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Conclusion

• No single factore.g., distributed leadership,
  teacher MKT, learning team performanceis
  sufficient for success, but all may be necessary
• Schools that are performing well do many of the
  things MMP promotes well, andrealize synergy
  between manyof these activities and principles