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Carraig Hegi and Simon Morgan are also on the instructional team for the 2003-04 Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) project, which is funded by the MN Higher Education Services Office and implemented by ITCEP. The ITQ project is the second year of ITCEP's Mathematics Within initiative. This professional development initiative for grade 3-6 teachers aims to deepen teacher mathematics knowledge, to increase understanding of the connections among math topics, to explore how best practices in teaching literacy enhance student performance in math, and to build leadership capacity. To date, 57 elementary school teachers have benefited from participation in the initiative. In 2003, 31 practicing teachers, 7 teacher leaders and 24 classroom teachers participated, and in 2002, 26 classroom teachers were actively engaged. In the third year of the Mathematics Within initiative, we intend to continue strengthening teachers' mathematics knowledge and leadership capacity as a means of effecting high quality math instruction for all students. The Anoka-Hennepin, St. Paul, White Bear Lake, and Forest Lake public school districts have again agreed to be partners in 2004-05. A new partner, the Higher Ground Academy, is an urban charter school where 90% of 437 students are low income and 99% are of African American heritage. With this partner we expect to gain new insights about effective approaches to math instruction for high-need students. For
second consecutive year, a former
UMTYMP student was named a Rhodes
Scholar. The new Rhodes Scholar
is Allison Gilmore, who is now
a math major at Washington University
in St. Louis. |