Transition Mathematics Project

Keynote Speaker

Uri Treisman is a longtime friend to math in Washington State and a collaborative partner in the Transition Math Project since its inception.

Professor Treisman is actively engaged in designing programs that strengthen the teaching and learning of mathematics and science from elementary to graduate school. He serves on the Carnegie–Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, launched in 2007. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Mathematical Sciences Education Board and on its Coordinating Council for Mathematics, Science and Engineering Education. He now serves on the Leadership Team of the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), a nonprofit organization created by the National Academy of Sciences whose mission is to create new knowledge to solve urgent problems of American education. Treisman chairs the design teams of two SERP laboratories, one focused on academic language development in the middle school years, and the other on strategies for engaging students in rigorous mathematics instruction in schools serving ethnically diverse populations.

For more information on Dr. Treisman and his work, visit the Charles A. Dana Center website here.

Session Description:

Building and Sustaining Effective Coalitions Around Mathematics in Two-Year Colleges

• Session Powerpoint

 

Additional Expertise:

Helen Burn, Math Instructor and Chair, Pure and Applied Sciences Division at Highline Community College and Project Lead on the Highline RPM Project

 

 

Session Description:

 

• Session Powerpoint
• Student Achievement Database

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Dr. Michael Davis is a lead research specialist at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley. He earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in educational psychology. He has taught students of all age groups and from a wide array of racial/ethnic, linguistic, and social backgrounds. Dr. Davis is devoted to helping schools meet the learning needs of all of their students. Because of the role mathematics and science education plays in future education and career opportunities, he has focused his work on these content areas. His research interests include identity, social/emotional functioning, perceptions of learning, and how these areas relate to each other and academic achievement.  

 

Session Description:

 

• Session Powerpoint

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Bill Moore, Policy Associate, State Board for Community & Technical Colleges and Project Director, Re-thinking Pre-College Math in Washington State (RPM)

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Emily Lardner & Gillies Malnarich, Co-Directors of the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, at Evergreen State College
and member of the RPM Management Team

Session Description:

 

• Intro Powerpoint
• Complex Ecology Powerpoint
• What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand About Mathematics, by James W. Stigler
• Stigler Team Exercise

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