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    BUILDING A MATHEMATICS EDUCATION COMMUNITY THAT FACILITATES TEACHER SHARING IN AN URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    (Proceedings of theTwenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004-10) White, Dorothy Y.; Sztajn, Paola; Hackenberg, Amy; Alexsaht-Snider, Martha
    This paper describes how teachers, as members of a mathematics education community, interpret their professional development experiences designed to facilitate teacher sharing. Project SIPS (Support and Ideas for Planning and Sharing in Mathematics Education) is a school-based professional development project designed to help teachers improve the quality of their mathematics instruction by establishing a mathematics education community within their school. Analysis of data from focus group interviews revealed that SIPS enabled teachers to learn from and support each other and helped them to collectively think about mathematics teaching and learning. Through their interpretations we learned that developing a community creates several possibilities and tensions.
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    SCHOOL-BASED COMMUNITY OF TEACHERS AND OUTCOMES FOR STUDENTS
    (Proceedings of 28th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004) Sztajn, Paola; Alexsaht-Snider, Martha; White, Dorothy Y.; Hackenberg, Amy
    This paper describes a school-based professional development project for elementary teachers where all teachers from the school and university mathematics educators regularly met to share and plan mathematics teaching strategies for the school’s diverse student body. Analysis of data from focus group interviews with participating teachers revealed that the establishment of a mathematics education community in the school impacted students’ motivation for learning mathematics. From the teachers’ point of view, their own participation in a mathematics education learning community made their students more interested in learning mathematics. The project underscored the importance of considering school communities as unit of change in mathematics education professional development.