Curriculum and Instruction Action Item |
DATE: Tuesday, October 16, 2007
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Duties of the district liaison include, but are not limited to, serving as the primary contact with the Impact Study Team for all aspects of the project; coordinating the scheduling of institutes, seminars, and coaching professional development sessions; and assisting the study team with data collection (including identifying local staff to be trained as classroom observers, collecting student rosters in advance of each test administration, and working with schools to distribute required notices to parents of students who will be tested, identifying rooms within each school in which to administer the student test, observing individual student data from district records and including scores on accountability).
The Impact Study will evaluate whether a comprehensive content-based inservice professional development program can substantially improve 7th grade mathematics instruction in rational numbers and thereby improve students’ mathematics achievement.
The four middle schools receiving professional development are Buchanan, Pierce, Progress Village and Shields. The four control group middle schools are Adams, Burnett, Madison, and Williams. The study provides professional development to approximately 20 seventh-grade mathematics teachers at no cost to the district.
ANNUAL DISTRICT GOAL(S) AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S)
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes)
EVALUATION
SUBMITTED BY:
Josie Sanders, General Director, Middle School Education
Janet Boatman, Supervisor, Middle School Mathematics
Michael A. Grego, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction (813) 272-4221 |
Gretchen Saunders
Chief Business Officer (813) 272-4270 |
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Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20071016_268 * Section A Item# 5.22 |