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Research Office
Title: CMP Supporting Teachers to Increase Retention (CMP STIR)
Principal Investigator: Julian Weissglass
Total Project Amount: $234,020
Agency: UC Los Angeles
Project Dates: 08/01/2006 – 05/31/2009
Abstract:
This program is designed to respond to the high attrition rate of teachers who are in their first five years of teaching. In particular, it addresses the critical need for retention of competent secondary (grades 6-12) mathematics teachers in California.
The primary goal of CMP STIR is to provide a coherent and comprehensive support program for teachers of mathematics that will retain competent beginning 6-12 teachers in the teaching profession while increasing their ability to teach mathematics effectively.
In addition to the broad CMP STIR Goals, this project will support the development of a professional learning community among the members of the mathematics departments in the Oxnard Union High School District and the mathematics teachers in their feeder junior high and high schools.
Activities supported by this grant comprise a coherent and comprehensive induction and support program for mathematics teachers in their first five years of teaching. Activities include intensive mathematics institutes in summers, academic year mathematics seminars, development of site-based professional learning communities, and opportunities for teachers to conduct lesson study in their classrooms. In addition, is supports the research activities of the master grantee, the California Mathematics Project.