Based on feedback following our 2007 Institute, and as TMP enters its third and final year of Phase II, we've started planning a 2008 Institute that focuses on results, data collection, product dissemination, and project sustainability. An apt title for this Institute is "Leveraging Systems and People."

Leveraged collaborative work has helped the TMP from the beginning to maximize limited resources, and we've reaped the benefits of a wide range of experience, expertise, and energy from the broader community. The opportunities to leverage resources and information will only increase as a result of the Statewide Professional Development Plan under development now. OSPI has been meeting with cross-sector teams to craft a plan that will better ensure a cohesive and collaborative system of teacher professional development around math. This, along with many other resources, products, and innovative models will be reviewed and discussed at this year's Institute.

Local project teams will once again gather in Leavenworth for a week-long Transition Math Project (TMP) Institute to share products, resources, innovative ideas and promising efforts. Showcased at the Institute will be current TMP projects and a mix of teams from across Washington state, including teachers, faculty, math coaches, principals, curriculum specialists and still others. Participants of the 2008 TMP Summer Institute can expect opportunities to leverage and extend the reach of their local work. In addition, this year's Institute will give teams a solid, hands-on sense of ways to create and maintain math communities of practice, principally focused on how such communities can promote solid professional development efforts around standards-based teaching and sharing good instructional practices.

As in past years, the Institute's agenda will mix both plenary and concurrent sessions with formal sessions and work time for teams. Plenary and concurrent sessions will be delivered by such state and national resource experts as UW's Lani Horn, TMP regular Kurt Kreith, Ruth Tsu, trainer for the Center for Educational Leadership, the Dana Center's Susan Hudson Hull, and Dan Teague of the US National Commission on Mathematics Education. Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Terry Bergeson, will be our keynote speaker. As other resource experts come on board, we'll update you through this website.

A draft of the 2008 agenda is now available.

To get a better sense of what to expect at a TMP Institute, refer to our 2007 Institute summary and agenda.

Some examples of Institute topics include:

• Measuring results
• Implementing model curricula
• Distributing products and models statewide
• Assessment and course placement
• Data collection that drives instructional change
• AgileMind and Academic Youth Development
• Math outreach and communication
• And much more

Teams interested in attending and presenting are encouraged to contact TMP Coordinator, John House (jhouse@highline.edu) for additional information.

An online application will be available on the TMP website by March 3, 2008 with a submission deadline of  5pm, May 5, 2008.

Notification of acceptance of teams and presenters will come May 23, 2008.
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TMP is looking for your ideas on resources and resource experts to include. In addition, your thoughts on the format and structure of the five-day event are always welcome. As TMP enters year three of its three-year project, the shift to product dissemination and implementation, impact assessment and sustainability will take center stage.

We invite you to share your ideas with us by filling out our Ideas and Input Form

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