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DiME Project Staff Pair with District Math Teachers

November 26, 2007

More than 220 Madison Metropolitan School District mathematics teachers have attended professional development inservice sessions with support from WCER’s project Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME). The Board of Education has set the goal of all students completing algebra by the beginning of 10th grade and geometry by the beginning of 11th grade. While Madison's minority student subgroups have improved their performance, an achievement gap remains among minority students and white students. At each school level – elementary, middle, and secondary – DiME faculty pair with an school district mathematics specialist. District director of Teaching & Learning Lisa Wachtel says that changes in teaching practices result in significant changes in the achievement of the district’s most emergent learners.